Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME
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tay-bee asked you:(lets see if i can word this right haha) for the smaller speedlines that show fast movement of a certain limb/weapon/etc (not background speedlines) do you have any tips on knowing where to place them or ways to draw them to show the movement?
I’ll be using panels from my manga Carciphona to explain what I do. Like all tutorials or guides from me, please use with caution!! Everything I know is based on personal observation and some vague memory of things I’ve learned, so they are educated guesses at best and I am sorry if any of this is wrong to the point that makes people cringe. It’s unfortunate I get asked to give tips because I have no education to back it up but I hope this is more helpful than deceitful……….
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To start: speed line is pretty much motion blur, that blur you see in photos of moving things. In line art such as b/w comics, the blurring is achieved through lines too, and that’s where all the speed lines come from, it replaces the sharpness of hard shapes/edges (ie blocks of shadows and fine line) with less defined shapes that are achieved by lines. the slower the movement, the shorter the speed lines, the faster the longer/more dense the speed lines.
1. speed lines over outlines
I’ll use this panel as an example even though the speed lines here depict more of an impact tremour or whatever than motion.
1a. Light speed lines: I think it’s ok sometimes to just slap on speed lines after you draw a static figure but maybe it’s just my lazy standards…in this picture there is some of that, like on the tree trunks that are not really moving. I put very small speed lines in various parts of the line so that there is sort of a uneven but still balanced speed line texture on all of the trees:
I erased little gaps at some parts of the outlines to make it not look so ridiculously lazy, and at parts that are farther away (eg at the letter A) the lines disappear altogether in favour of simply speed lines because I think that place would be farther away/more obscured and therefore should not be well defined enough to even have a crisp lined edge.1b. Heavier speed lines: Sometimes speed lines over line art looks pretty bad, even if the width of the motion blur is small. It can be a quick movement, or it can be a not so solid object (clouds, dust, fabric, etc). In those cases, I replace the outlines entirely with speed lines:
The arcs in these parts are sort of explosive waves that radiate outwards from the explosion. It’s not really anything with a definite shape, so the blurring of the edges should be heavier than the previous case.Common mistake: mind the direction of movement. It is easy, especially when drawing background effects, to draw the long arcs, and then instinctively want to make the speed lines along those outlines. Despite the shape of the arcs, the movement is perpendicular to its shape, so the direction of the speed lines should reflect that, even if it takes you 10x as long to draw nicely.
2. Speed lines in shadows/blacks
I’ll use this panel as an example. the camera is zooming in, and the legs of the super close up foreground is in motion while being completely in shadow:
Blacks and shadowed areas are great places to lay speed lines. It’s like shading except with lines! It gives you lots of control over how the resulting shape will look like and lots of opportunities for texture.
2a. Shape distortion: the blur results from multiple images of a single thing being captured in the same frame, and the merge of those images sometimes result a distorted figure which most people perceive as movement. while it can be done with line drawings too, it’s a lot easier to do with shadowed shapes because you’d be thinking about the form rather than skipping straight to the contour of the distorted figure. In the picture above, because Kasga is running forward, I start the speed lines well inside the outlines of his legs because the light surround it bleeds into the figure of his legs. Similarly the speed lines extend beyond the outlines behind him.
For distortion over line drawing, pretty much picture if I had traced the shape of the shadow above and used that instead for Kaska’s legs. This sort of effect should be scarcely used and reserve for extremities of a figure or vast amount of movement, otherwise whatever you’re drawing is going to end up looking like jelly.
2b. Texture: while sometimes it is desirable to have perfectly parallel lines or lines that do not cross each other for speed lines, I feel like it’s situational and sometimes times that clean texture makes the comic look rigid and computed, or amateur (I don’t know why, it’s probably just a personal preference). While I do use a ruler to draw speed lines, I like to use it only to draw some guidelines so that I know the general direction at each given corner of the panel, and then freehand the rest. The result is texture at places where some freehand speed lines meet or cross:
You can tell which lines are done using a ruler and which ones are done freehand.extra: You can express depth by varying the amount of blur each object has. The closer to the camera obviously the larger the amount of movement, but also in the case of moving body parts, the farther away from a joint, the more movement that part of the limb is going to go through:
Combined examples of both uses of speed lines:
It’s easier to draw dashed lines by drawing a line then erasing parts of it, and the same logic applies to drawing gapped outlines in speed line situations. It’s easier to use white and draw some white lines on of the black outlines AFTER you’re done, than to try to achieve everything in one shot in your initial line drawing (In letter B)
sometimes the speed line effect can be done on screentones as well in combination with inking.
lol this is terrible BUT YEAH you get the point!
hope this was helpful! ;;
I said that I’d show some tutorials I have saved up to someone, but decided that I’d just go ahead and post most of what I have stored away and create a sort of masterpost out of it. (I figure it’ll help me just as much since, as of now, they’re all pretty scattered between my Tumblr and bookmarks)
A lot of these are hosted on my personal Tumblr, but I don’t change my url so it’s pretty safe to bookmark them there (and not have to worry about the url changing) if you don’t wish to reblog them yourself for whatever reason.
Feline tutorials:
- Basic domesticated cat tutorial
- The domestic cat body
- Improving upon (lion) anatomy
- Realistic lion faces tips
- Big cat paw tips
- Canine vs. feline - paws and legs
- Beginner feline tutorial
- Guide to big cats
- Feline comparison
- Canine vs. feline - facial anatomy
- Canine vs. feline - chest anatomy
- Guide to little cats
- Big cat eyes (could work for other eyes)
Canine tutorials:
- Basic wolf anatomy
- Skeleton notes on wolf legs
- The wolf skeleton as a whole
- The wolf skull and teeth
- Wolf paw tips
- Basic canine poses
- Canine ears and chest
- Drawing realistic wolves
- Basic wolf tutorial
- Wolf paw tutorial
- Paw pad tips
- Wolf skeleton and muscles
- Wolf fur direction
- Canine vs. feline - paws and legs
- Canine vs. feline - facial anatomy
- Canine vs. feline - chest anatomy
- And this is just an excellent DA for wolf reference images
Avian tutorials:
- Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
- Bird wing tutorial (lots of underrated tips)
- Varying bird wing structure
- Basic owl anatomy
- Bird wing vs. bat wing vs. pterodactyl wing vs. human arm
- Bird wings and flight
- Various bird wings
Human(oid) tutorials:
- Hand tips and reference
- Simplifying human anatomy
- Feet and shoes tutorial
- Bird wing anatomy applied on humanoids
- A guide to movement: flexibility
- A male shoulder study
- Altalamatox face tutorial
- Male legs reference
- The human hand
- Male vs. female waist
- Excellent expressions tut
- Understanding anatomy part 1 (follow desc. links for more)
- Painting skin
- Simplifying hands
- More simplified hands
- Pose tutorial
- Varying the female figure
- Profile proportions
- Expression tutorial
- Virtual lighting studio
- Breaking up the male torso
- Male torso anatomy in use
- Simplifying the human foot
- Various facial and body shapes reference
- Drawing the nose
- Female anatomy patterns
- Human mouths
- Breaking down the human nose
- How to draw the ear
- More hand(y) tips
- Neck and torso tut
- Jawline and kissing tip
- Yet another hands tutorial
- Male torso in motion
- The human head at various angles
- Variation of colour throughout the skin
- Excellent action and couple references
- Advice on eyes
- Feet reference drawings
- Nose shapes
- The human skull and face
- Facial features
- Portrait lighting cheat sheet
- Animating dialogue (mouth movement)
- A kissing tutorial
- The fist
- Various athletic builds
- Various types of hair
- Proportional height of different positions
- Expressions photo references
- The hand in motion
- Skintone palettes
- Semi-realistic eye tutorial
- Male muscle reference
- The human body in perspective
- The human head at various angles
- Painting a realistic eye
- Arm shape and muscles
- Animal feet on a human figure
- Hand poses
- The face in profile
- Skin tutorial
- Body type diversity
- Drawing hair
- Muscles in the neck and face
- A beginner’s guide to knees
- Another ladies tutorial
- Breakdown of lips
- Blocked out human faces
- Practice figure drawing (animals as well)
- A neat arm trick
- Excellent ear anatomy tutorial
- Fullbody proportions tutorial
- Over the shoulder poses
- Male torso photo reference
- Detailed arm muscle drawings
- Guide to human types
Dragon tutorials (and bat wings):
Equine tutorials:
- Basic horse (back) reference
- The equine skeleton
- Horse anatomy and pointers
- A good, large collection of horse stock references
- Skeleton of a horse and its rider
- Horse hooves
Cervine tutorials:
Ursine tutorials:
Miscellaneous animal tutorials:
Background and objects tutorials:
- Griffsnuff background tut part 1 (second in desc.)
- Tree tutorial
- Realistic gems tut
- Water tutorial
- General water tutorial
- Drawing crystals
- Drawing bows
- Painting rocks
Clothing tutorials:
- Fabric tutorial
- Clothing folds part 1 (second in desc.)
- Drawing hoods
- Drawing jeans
- Hat on human figure reference
- Armor
- More hat on figure references
- Different shirt collars
- Colour palette turtles
General painting, drawing, and style tips:
- Altalamatox digital painting walkthrough
- Simple fur tutorial
- Realism painting tutorial (human subject)
- Excellent colour tutorial
- Painting a wolf (good fur painting visual)
- Photoshop brushes tut
- Basics of Photoshop tutorial
- Another digital painting tutorial
- Common digital painting mistakes
- Colour and light
- Soft cel-shading tutorial
- Various types of hair
- Colour tips and the mood it expresses
- Composition tips
- Lighting and colour tips
- Shadows
- Another composition tut
- Simple colouring via overlay
- From paper to digital
- Painting gold
Hope these help!
time to become a better artist…
spark notes for j/e because idk
I haven’t played mass effect but GOD! Edi’s face in that last pic is so adorable!
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The other day I hit 610 followers, and regardless of whether or not all of them are active accounts and or actually pay attention to what I post that’s a pretty big number okay.to celebrate Imma give away THREE FREE SKETCHES WOOAAAAH.
your choice of traditional or digital and your choice of any character you want drawn WOW.
the rules are pretty simple:
1.) Like or reblog the fuq outta dis post okay.
2.)you must be following me since this is a giveaway for all those great ppl who put up with my shiet.
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this offer ends MAY 18th
SO A WEEK FROM NOW I WILL RANDOMLY GENERATE A NUMBER AND PICK THREE LUCKY WINNERS YAY.
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That’s a pretty shitty name.
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?????Lady, The Kid Chamomile Twin Dagger
i added a comma or else it’d look 12837912897x more stupid
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It’s baaack~!
This time, I’m Lady Jill Vanilla-Rose Chainsaw.Lord Booker Ginger Shotgun… nope
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A brief deviation from the SG character concept doodles to remind y’all about the Black Torch Kickstarter!
We’re in the final week now!!! Just 5 days left!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1187578829/black-torch-comic-anthology
Check it out! Spread the word~!
To all of you who already contributed, thank you so much for letting us hit our goal! I’ve seen the other entries, and I can guarantee that you are all in for a treat :9
We’ve got some great stretch goals too, including an awesome slip cover at 20k, if we are able to reach it.
Also, since some of the others did this- I figure it might be cool to show you guys a tiny preview of my comic~!
