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Published: 2020-03-12 17:27:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 49397; Favourites: 1376; Downloads: 0
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Previous tutorial:It's tutorial time!
This month's tutorial was sponsored by , and it revolves around drawing spots and other markings on characters! After 170+ pages of drawing nothing but leopards, you'd think I'd know enough as to be able to give some advice xD
Of course, this doesn't just apply to spots, but to virtually any markings/tattoos painted on the character's skin.
Tiger image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Leopard image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Cheetah image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
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I hope you find this tutorial helpful!
If you do, feel free to post the results in the comment section below! No credit required, I'm truly curious to see what you create with it!
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we generally do horses instead of cats and luckily horse spots are just random, but if we ever do zebras in the future then this has some good tips for paying attention to how the stripes flow over the body ( like in the tiger example ). even though horse markings are far different from a cat, this still has some good advice about paying attention to how the markings stretch and squish along with the coat as the animal moves.
I also liked the photo examples for comparison and how they were royalty-free with credit links, and the examples of bad ways of doing it and why they don't work as well. I honestly never noticed cat spots go in any kind of pattern like that and from now on I'll be paying closer attention to other animals with markings that may not be as random as they first appear.
I was hoping for shading/lighting tips on spots/etc when I clicked on it but I see how that would have to be its own separate tutorial and would make this way too long. this was easy to follow and had some humor and personality to it, though kind of got a little TLDR in some places. overall, very nice job.
-Roxafox
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Thank you so much for this. I do have a cheetah character and while I draw the spots symbolically, just to mark that they're there, this will be a huge help for me when I decide to go into detail with her.
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this is a bloody good tutorial on how the skin and fur moves and that markings arent always just random afterthought
thanks!
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This tutorial is so helpful! I'll definitely keep it in mind the next time I draw striped/spotted animals!
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Lol. Wing it. Welp that’s the end of the tutorial ;D
Love it!
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Oh this was so helpful 
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I love the way you explain things, really breaks it down into easily understandable parts without being too dry. look forward to any future tutorials you'd like to share!
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Part I: (step 1 & 2) It's easy!
Part II: (step 3) ...except it's a lot more complicated than that.
Part III: (step 4-end) Here's how it all comes together.
I really like how it's laid out, and it's pretty entertaining to read as well as informative.
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I have tons of difficulty getting markings to accept the same shading on the coat, whether putting them on their own layer with some kind of layer setting like overlay, or trying to submit them to the same lighting effects as the rest of it...
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uegrbuf THIS WAS SO SMART, I actually never draw the lines of how the fur texture would affect the design! I am literally dumb founded rn
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Very welcome!
That's actually pretty accurate! 
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Aw shoot, that would've been useful when I did my cat month T____T
Didn't know spots had an "order" like stripes 
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Oof sorry xP
From what I could observe, they do! They definitely have more of a randomness factor than stripes do, but they seem to follow along the skin just like stripes
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I'll use it for future artworks hehe
Never realized that. Now that you pointed it out, I can see it ^^ (especially on the cheetah)
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Wow! Thanks for the tutorial, I never through that he spots followed the skin. Thank you so much!
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You're very welcome, I'm glad it helped!
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I’m actually about to make a character with tiger stripes and this was super helpful! Thank you!
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I'm so glad it is! 
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I'm so so happy it is helpful!
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Gotta say I never thought of it like this before xD Great tutorial!
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Ahh thank you! So happy it helps ^_^
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