• to improve
  • ✓⠀head shape
  • ▢⠀ears!!
  • ✓⠀eye size
  • ✓⠀body proportion
  • ▢⠀body language / poses
  • ▢⠀facial expressions
  • ✓⠀colour
  • ✓⠀painting style
  • ✓⠀speed
  • ▢⠀hands & thumbs

⸻⠀ what kind of art do i like to see?

• common body proportions
• dynamic & expressive body language
• super expressive expressions (can be exaggerated)
• subtle imperfections & colour variation
• subtle textures & indicators of realism
• a style of rendering similar to paiting
• lineless backgrounds that communicate implications
• clean lineart
• clear (not clean!) sketches
• specific examples: 𝔦.⠀𝔦𝔦.⠀𝔦𝔦𝔦.⠀𝔦𝔳.⠀𝔳.⠀𝔳𝔦.⠀𝔳𝔦𝔦.
• general examples

⸻⠀ legacy

• program: clip studio paint pro 2.0.6
• lineart brush: drawingpen
• sketch brush: standard round brush, standard chalk brush, waterpencil
• colouring brush: oil painting brushpack
• other brushes i use: pluto, thursday, hibipencil

• increase of 420% on canvas size
• initial canvas at B4 size in 300-350 dpi
• clipstudio pen pressure & output adjusted to positive y-axis (y ≥ 0; y = x²)
• tablet manual pen sensitivity adjusted to 2/7

⸻⠀ my step-by-step

• 1. rough sketch
• 2. super detailed sketch
• 3. (background*)
• 4. colour the sketch (define shading/light*)
• 5. check & adjust values
• 6. lineart
• 7. duplicate the colouring to adjust & refine it to the lineart
• 8. hard shading & light
• 9. colour adjustments
• 10. lineart refinements (colour & blur)
• 11. add texture (noise or paper)
• 12. sign

⸻⠀ inspiring & teacher artists

• en, lovelifedrawing, luckyqilin, lucy hoult, mogoon, kuroshiro, pako, sketches of shay, taka-ciao, ywwywwy

⸻⠀ videos that changed the way i draw

• colours will make sense after this video
• copying other's art to learn their secrets
• drawing with values
• learning art from the god of illustrations
• how to fix your lighting
• how to paint simple environments
• power in the greys
• understanding color composition and harmony for painters
• the most important colour to make your art beautiful
• working with gradient maps