Then, I use brush 3 to start laying out some lighter areas.
FIREALPACA LINEART TUTORIAL FULL
Usually, I’ll use a full opacity marker to color it all in with a dark, duller base color (Figure 4). Looking at a reference will mess with your process in this case.Īfter I’m happy enough with the lineart, I’ll start painting. If you think that you know what you’re doing, draw it organically. While you should use the references when you’re unsure of what exactly a certain feature looks like, don’t rely too heavily on it. I decrease the level and have the lineart be less specific for the areas where fur will go, since that won’t stay at all for the coloring stage. Now I increase the correction level/stabilizer a lot for the specific parts of the lineart (Figure 3), like eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, and ears. In this case, I didn’t do a basic sketch on top. I generally have my correction/stabilizer (which controls how slowly your brush moves) on a low level to keep it light.
This provides you with a fun color palette to try and base the piece on, and there are different controls you can use for different things.Īfter finishing the thumbnail, I’ll either do a basic sketch on top of the thumbnail, or use the thumbnail as the basic sketch (it depends on how detailed the thumbnail is).
If you’re feeling adventurous, try a website like Coolors ( ), which was recommended to me by a BlogClanner SEVERAL years ago. Next, I will do a general thumbnail-y sketchy piece (Figure 2) to work out where I want the body, where the light’s coming from, and, in some cases, what palette I want to use. Remember that your goal is not to imitate the reference it’s to help you better understand the proportions of what you’re drawing, so that you can best execute your own vision in your own style. Cat Colours is also super amazing because the user tries to collect amazing quality reference pictures of almost every single cat color/pattern to exist. I use Pinterest, Google images, Tumblr, and a particular Tumblr blog, Cat Colours ( ), to find good pictures. To the right (Figure 1), I have a screencap of all the references I collected. I like to see WindClan cats as reminiscent of Oriental cats, so a half-Oriental cat Darktail would need the aforementioned references. Before I start to draw, I collect some references for color, general vibe, and anatomy. The time that I started to look at existing pictures of what I wanted to draw and trying to understand WHY things look the way they do absolutely changed my art for the better. When I started drawing in 2012, I almost never used references. One of the first steps is also what I consider one of the most important steps: reference-gathering. Send In Your Birthday/Clanniversary Date.
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