if you’re not familiar with the website, you choose a time & it will display a random image for the duration before changing to another one, making it a really great tool for practice & studying. it also has a class mode with slowly increasing durations & scheduled breaks!
Perfect use of the Golden Spiral in composition. Everything causes your eye to flow right to the main characters. It starts with the street sign, moving to the giraffe necks, the curve of the polar bear’s back, the cheeks of the cheetah, straight to the focal point. Even in a busy, complex scene, you can easily lead the eye to what you want it to rest on.
Co-worker and I were LITERALLY talking about this earlier and how it’s really well composed and that it seemed to follow the golden spiral. And bam guess what, it does! Well done poster designer.
important things for new or young digital artists to remember:
don’t shade colors with black
don’t overuse the airbrush tool, especially when it comes to shading
layers have different settings, explore them!
if your lines are wiggly when you draw, check your brush stability settings
if you find your lineart is looking too stiff/not like your sketch, try cleaning up the sketch instead of lining it. it helps keep fluidity and the feel of your original drawing
crop your pictures, don’t leave a ton of empty space unless you add some kind of background
make sure your canvas is set to at least 300dpi
draw on a large canvas ( i draw on a 3000x3000px canvas) it will be easier to line your work and everything will look much smoother even if you shrink it down
.jpeg files save space, but this file type may compress your art and sacrifice quality. when I post art I always use .png
Izzie’s tumblr archive 