A feature that had been in drafts for a very long time. Please give these artists some love!
Lovely Watchers Series: pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Colors Series: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Black & White | Black pt.1 . pt.2 | Feeling Fresh | Brown | Beige, Gold, Honey Hues | Green |Pink pt.1 . pt.2 | Purple | Yellow, Orange, Red | Blue pt.1 . pt.2 | White pt. 1 . pt. 2
Undiscovereddddss: Mayshare 25 | pt. 9 | pt. 8 | pt. 7 | pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Animals: Horses | Art of Hoofs! | Tigers and Orange & Blue | Foxes | Animals
Fanart Only: Asian Dramas | General Fanart | The Raven Cycle | Book Fanart | Sephiroth
Landscapes: Worlds to Travel | Landscapes & Places | The Sea
Photography Only: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Tools of the Trade | Still Life | Flowers & Plants
Other Themed Features: Jewelry | Colored Pencils | Watercolors | Lit by Twilight & Bathed in Moonlight | Soft & Feeling |Female & Flowers vol. 2 | Males in Art vol.2 | Cute & Lovely |Soothing Nature | Shapes & Shadows | Darkness Takes Over | Everyday Life | Lost in a Dream |Traditional 3D vol. 2 | Traditional 3D vol. 1 | Valentines for Friends |Segmented | Masquerade | Dreams Come True | Female & Flowers vol. 1 | Donuts | Food & Drink | Christmas | Art of Succulents | Artful Sketches | Tools of the Trade | Cute Stuff | Males in Art vol. 1 | Cute Halloween
General Features: Feature of Favs vol.5 | vol.4 | vol.3 | vol.2 | vol.1 | 2018 | 2017
Bonus: ⭐ Story Feature: Into the Realm of Fantasy⭐ | Cute Pears of Salamanca! | DD Highlights
Today's #mayshare2023 theme is "Underrated Art"
All of these artworks have under 50 faves Please give them some more love!
In addition, as far as I can tell, all of these are made by #HumanArtists 🏆
Thank you for looking! Please check out these artists' galleries and give them faves, comments, watches, etc.!
Check out and join the Mayshare challenge by TheKikkaKibaz here!
Lovely Watchers Series: pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Colors Series: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Black & White | Black pt.1 . pt.2 | Feeling Fresh | Brown | Beige, Gold, Honey Hues | Green |Pink pt.1 . pt.2 | Purple | Yellow, Orange, Red | Blue pt.1 . pt.2 | White pt. 1 . pt. 2
Undiscovereddddss: pt. 9 | pt. 8 | pt. 7 | pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Animals: Horses | Art of Hoofs! | Tigers and Orange & Blue | Foxes | Animals
Fanart Only: Asian Dramas | General Fanart | The Raven Cycle | Book Fanart | Sephiroth
Landscapes: Worlds to Travel | Landscapes & Places | The Sea
Photography Only: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Tools of the Trade | Still Life | Flowers & Plants
Other Themed Features: Colored Pencils | Watercolors | Lit by Twilight & Bathed in Moonlight | Soft & Feeling |Female & Flowers vol. 2 | Males in Art vol.2 | Cute & Lovely |Soothing Nature | Shapes & Shadows | Darkness Takes Over | Everyday Life | Lost in a Dream |Traditional 3D vol. 2 | Traditional 3D vol. 1 | Valentines for Friends |Segmented | Masquerade | Dreams Come True | Female & Flowers vol. 1 | Donuts | Food & Drink | Christmas | Art of Succulents | Artful Sketches | Tools of the Trade | Cute Stuff | Males in Art vol. 1 | Cute Halloween
General Features: Feature of Favs vol.5 | vol.4 | vol.3 | vol.2 | vol.1 | 2018 | 2017
Bonus: ⭐ Story Feature: Into the Realm of Fantasy⭐ | Cute Pears of Salamanca! | DD Highlights
I made a little tutorial for how I made the marble-like pattern on the sleeves in my "ChongZi and Mu Yu" chibi.
MEDIA: Both digital and traditional.
For digital, I made this with Gimp (but works for all software) and a Wacom tablet, using the hard round brush set to vary size and opacity with pen pressure, with a base opacity of 85+%
For traditional, you can use this method for graphite (additional, graphite-only notes marked with " ") as well as for wet media ("🎨") - I have experience with watercolor and acrylic, so I'm approaching this from that mindset for the latter.
STEP 1
Paint and shade the thing on which you'll be doing the marble pattern.
🎨 - For watercolor, wait for the paint to dry completely before moving on to the next step; that's at least 24hrs, even if it will seem dry before - you want the paint to set completely to avoid it being picked back up with water.
For acrylics, you can experiment using wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry for different effects.
STEP 2 - PATTERN
On a new layer in normal mode, draw trembly, squiggly lines (make sure to check that line stabilization is turned off). Make some parts thicker, and you can add some "splotches" for interest.
- Use a dark, soft lead (B-line) pencil and mark lightly, in layers, so you don't carve grooves into the paper, and to make the next step easier (because H-line pencils won't smudge as easily).
🎨 - Wet on dry technique. Try completing steps 2-4 by sections instead of each step all in one go, so your paint doesn't dry out.
STEP 3 - SMUDGE
Select your smudge tool, increase the brush size a little, and turn on jitter. Tap or nudge lightly along the lines to smudge them; drag lightly in some places to fade them. You can opt to smudge only one side of a splotch to create a fade effect. I still used the hard round brush for this.
- Using the side of the pencil, or drawing very, very lightly if you're using a mechanical pencil, draw some fade along the lines as described above. Then, smudge using a tortillion, Q-Tip, tissue, or finger.
🎨 - Paintbrush with just water. You can experiment letting the lines dry out more or less in different places to add variety.
STEP 4 - ERASER
Eraser tool at <50% opacity. Go over the lightest parts of your subject (the ones hit hardest by the light) and lightly erase a little of the lines to make them lighter, if necessary.
- Kneadable eraser or normal eraser using a patting motion.
🎨 - Pick the paint up with water on your brush, or with a tissue (only if watercolor), depending on how much water you have on your painting surface. If using acrylics and the paint has already dried enough that you can't pick it back up, apply a wash (very diluted paint) of the lighter color on top.
And that's it! It's pretty straight-forward, but if anyone finds it useful, here it is. :)
Please remember to visit these artists' galleries and give them faves and comments and love!
Lovely Watchers Series: pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Colors Series: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Black & White | Black pt.1 . pt.2 | Feeling Fresh | Brown | Beige, Gold, Honey Hues | Green |Pink pt.1 . pt.2 | Purple | Yellow, Orange, Red | Blue pt.1 . pt.2 | White pt. 1 . pt. 2
Undiscovereddddss: pt. 9 | pt. 8 | pt. 7 | pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Animals: Horses | Art of Hoofs! | Tigers and Orange & Blue | Foxes | Animals
Fanart Only: Asian Dramas | General Fanart | The Raven Cycle | Book Fanart | Sephiroth
Landscapes: Worlds to Travel | Landscapes & Places | The Sea
Photography Only: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Tools of the Trade | Still Life | Flowers & Plants
Other Themed Features: Watercolors | Lit by Twilight & Bathed in Moonlight | Soft & Feeling |Female & Flowers vol. 2 | Males in Art vol.2 | Cute & Lovely |Soothing Nature | Shapes & Shadows | Darkness Takes Over | Everyday Life | Lost in a Dream |Traditional 3D vol. 2 | Traditional 3D vol. 1 | Valentines for Friends |Segmented | Masquerade | Dreams Come True | Female & Flowers vol. 1 | Donuts | Food & Drink | Christmas | Art of Succulents | Artful Sketches | Tools of the Trade | Cute Stuff | Males in Art vol. 1 | Cute Halloween
General Features: Feature of Favs vol.5 | vol.4 | vol.3 | vol.2 | vol.1 | 2018 | 2017
Bonus: ⭐ Story Feature: Into the Realm of Fantasy⭐ | Cute Pears of Salamanca! | DD Highlights
After watching Word of Honor when it came out last year, I've been watching a lot of East Asian dramas. So, let's talk!
Do you watch dramas?
Which are you currently watching?
Which are your favorites?
Feel free to interact with other who like or are watching your faves in the comment section!
Please remember to give favs, comments, and love to the people in the feature; and have fun and read the comments and maybe you'll find some new fun thing to watch!
Lovely Watchers Series: pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Colors Series: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Black & White | Black pt.1 . pt.2 | Feeling Fresh | Brown | Beige, Gold, Honey Hues | Green |Pink pt.1 . pt.2 | Purple | Yellow, Orange, Red | Blue pt.1 . pt.2 | White pt. 1 . pt. 2
Undiscovereddddss: pt. 9 | pt. 8 | pt. 7 | pt. 6 | pt. 5 | pt. 4 | pt. 3 | pt. 2 | pt. 1
Animals: Horses | Art of Hoofs! | Tigers and Orange & Blue | Foxes | Animals
Fanart Only: General Fanart | The Raven Cycle | Book Fanart | Sephiroth
Landscapes: Worlds to Travel | Landscapes & Places | The Sea
Photography Only: Cozy Nature Photos in Green & Gold | Pastel Photos | Tools of the Trade | Still Life | Flowers & Plants
Other Themed Features: Watercolors | Lit by Twilight & Bathed in Moonlight | Soft & Feeling |Female & Flowers vol. 2 | Males in Art vol.2 | Cute & Lovely |Soothing Nature | Shapes & Shadows | Darkness Takes Over | Everyday Life | Lost in a Dream |Traditional 3D vol. 2 | Traditional 3D vol. 1 | Valentines for Friends |Segmented | Masquerade | Dreams Come True | Female & Flowers vol. 1 | Donuts | Food & Drink | Christmas | Art of Succulents | Artful Sketches | Tools of the Trade | Cute Stuff | Males in Art vol. 1 | Cute Halloween
General Features: Feature of Favs vol.5 | vol.4 | vol.3 | vol.2 | vol.1 | 2018 | 2017
Bonus: ⭐ Story Feature: Into the Realm of Fantasy⭐ | Cute Pears of Salamanca! | DD Highlights