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Red-Priest-Usada — Tutorial: Basic drawing tips

Published: 2010-02-25 19:29:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 161084; Favourites: 6347; Downloads: 3538
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Description First thing I'd like to explain: this tutorial absolutely doesn't include anatomy or digital coloring lessons. I think there are many good tutorials about it here on dA.
It' just the colllection of my basic tips which are helpful when we want to save some time. These are things I have learnt myself during the recent years and I'd like to share them with you. I hope it will help you to collect ideas, arrange composition of your drawings, and to avoid typical anatomy mistakes. Moreover, I presented some solutions for correcting mistakes or getting the balance of colors in a very quick way.

I'm aware they are very general tips but I think they can be helpful for the beginners.

Hope you will like this tutorial :]

Credits:
Thank you Dear for letting me use your artwork in the tutorial!
for the texture

[link] TUTORIAL: Cleaning Pencil Linearts
[link] TUTORIAL: Drawing Hair
[link] Editing Scanned Drawings
[link] Marker Tutorial- Part I
[link] Colouring Tutorial
[link] Drawing folds and frills in women's clothes
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Comments: 264

pisces-hilda [2010-11-07 02:15:29 +0000 UTC]

thanks for sharing ^^

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to pisces-hilda [2010-11-07 11:18:56 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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XfeatheredXmusicX [2010-11-05 23:58:02 +0000 UTC]

this is very helpful! thanks!

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to XfeatheredXmusicX [2010-11-07 11:18:45 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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XfeatheredXmusicX In reply to Red-Priest-Usada [2010-11-08 00:10:14 +0000 UTC]

^-^

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Aiko-ri [2010-10-24 01:55:41 +0000 UTC]

omg that's what I do!!
When I'm drawing, I always show the drawing in the mirror to sense mistakes!
Awesome tutorial

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Slayer-1412 [2010-10-15 21:59:06 +0000 UTC]

Very detailed

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DizDear [2010-10-15 14:21:42 +0000 UTC]

this is so helpful!

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WolfGunnerz In reply to ??? [2010-10-10 20:53:03 +0000 UTC]

awsome!

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MidnightRocker2 [2010-09-19 22:56:52 +0000 UTC]

WOW YOU HELPED ME SOOO MUCH !

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to MidnightRocker2 [2010-09-20 13:23:39 +0000 UTC]

^__^ I'm happy you find my tutorial helpful.

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Mintyeggnog [2010-09-19 01:11:33 +0000 UTC]

Very insightful I will try these tips sometime also awesome pic of C.C at the beginning

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to Mintyeggnog [2010-09-20 13:23:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you .

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WolfGunnerz [2010-08-15 21:32:59 +0000 UTC]

great tips they'll really help me when i draw. So thanks! btw loved your artwork

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to WolfGunnerz [2010-08-15 21:39:44 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome ^__^.

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WolfGunnerz In reply to Red-Priest-Usada [2010-08-15 21:41:41 +0000 UTC]

have you got anything for animals?

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to WolfGunnerz [2010-08-15 22:18:55 +0000 UTC]

Nope, sorry. I don't draw animals so I can't share my knowledge about drawing them.

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young-nozomi [2010-08-09 17:39:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I'm new to photoshop. ^_^

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AnimatorsUnited [2010-08-07 23:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful!

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raynarose [2010-07-22 17:18:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! This is very helpful!

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Donielle-Dee [2010-07-20 05:47:10 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful. I really liked how you talked about composition.

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to Donielle-Dee [2010-07-20 11:21:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you find it useful ^^. Thank you.

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Curreeus [2010-07-12 02:15:47 +0000 UTC]

VERY helpful indeed! Thankyou so much!

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VampShinobi [2010-06-30 06:28:29 +0000 UTC]

Uwah, thanks for the tutorial! <3 Now i can draw a bit better than before because of it.

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Haituva [2010-06-27 21:15:02 +0000 UTC]

This was very helpful, thanks!

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shadowlightmaker [2010-06-11 10:02:28 +0000 UTC]

nice tutorial sorry talk more later

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Magicxspell [2010-05-22 16:25:38 +0000 UTC]

Very good tutorial
I plan on using it

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mramarella In reply to ??? [2010-05-08 19:46:27 +0000 UTC]

Hey! Thanks for taking your time and making this tutorial . Beginner like me needs all the help he can get LOL! .

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hectorperezp In reply to ??? [2010-04-26 03:50:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very good advice

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Marcianek [2010-04-21 20:24:17 +0000 UTC]

Przeczytałam gdzieś bardzo ciekawą uwagę, że zbyt duże głowy mogą się brać stąd, że rysując widzimy kartkę pod kątem(lub tak też ustawiony jest monitor) i wychodzi na to, że rysowana głowa jest najdalej- nie bierzemy pod uwagę tego, że dochodzi w mniejszym lub większym stopniu perspektywa i rysujemy tak, jakby leżała zupełnie prostopadle do oczu. Więc żeby uniknąć tego należy od czasu do czasu sprawdzać rysunek podnosząc na wysokość wzroku, prostopadle do ziemi.
Dla mnie ma to sens- Grecy specjalnie deformowali posągi, żeby dla patrzącego z dołu wydawało się, że patrzy na wprost, poszerzali sztucznie ramiona, robili wodogłowia...U mnie był zonk, niby taka mała skala, ale faktycznie, im bardziej ku górze, tym bardziej wyolbrzymiałam odpowiednie elementy, myśląc że wyglądają ok.

btw. ech ten mirror, zazdroszczę ludziom, którym przy mirrorowaniu nie wychodzą żadne błędy ;3; U mnie zawsze coś jest, ale ja to w ogóle, rysuję bez lini pomocniczych, z przechyloną głową, przygarbiona i do góry nogami, więc co się dziwić xD

To bardzo dobry tutek, muszę przyznać :> Więcej wnosi niż takie typowe step-by-step.

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makiyasha [2010-04-20 07:55:53 +0000 UTC]

this really is alot of help thank you!!! T__T

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to makiyasha [2010-04-21 20:36:50 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome :]

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makiyasha In reply to Red-Priest-Usada [2010-04-22 06:19:21 +0000 UTC]

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windeh-daays [2010-04-14 11:05:13 +0000 UTC]

I thank you so much for making this tutorial!
It's so easy to understand and it's going to help me so much, I already know that much (:
Thankyou! An instant favourite!

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to windeh-daays [2010-04-18 16:39:59 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad to hear you like it : }.

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SStefan [2010-04-10 19:08:17 +0000 UTC]

Superzaste i przydatne porady. Zachęciłyby mnie nawet do rysowania, gdyby nie to, że jak wstanę za dziesięć minut i wezmnę kartkę, już nic nie przyjdzie mi do głowy, a to, co jednak przyjdzie, będzie ssało.
Ale naprawdę fajne podpatrzeć takie sztuczki, to tak, jak zaglądać rysującemu przez ramię (uwielbiam)

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to SStefan [2010-04-10 19:16:37 +0000 UTC]

Ciesze się w takim razie. Starałam się przekazać swoja kilkuletnia wiedzę. Ot po prostu zboczenie zawodowe: tłumaczyć wszystko zrozumiale krok po kroku.

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kamibito [2010-04-08 06:41:43 +0000 UTC]

This is just amazing. It helped med a lot, thanks.

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to kamibito [2010-04-09 21:30:44 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome :].

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eli-siempre In reply to ??? [2010-03-28 14:41:42 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the tutorials! <3

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LunarwingsArt In reply to ??? [2010-03-26 00:26:16 +0000 UTC]

Very useful info Proportion is very important I think.

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GingaHusky [2010-03-12 04:46:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow alot of things kinda make sense to me now thanks

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adixz20khn-raira [2010-03-11 08:49:00 +0000 UTC]

this was really helpful. thanks for sharing this wonderful tutorial! :>

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karinchiip In reply to ??? [2010-03-11 01:51:04 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the share :3

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to karinchiip [2010-03-11 14:33:45 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome :].

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amon-jell [2010-03-11 01:27:03 +0000 UTC]

I knew all of these tricks, but I really liked the tutorial. Very simple and polite. It's good to have reminders, so it's definitely going in my favourites folder. A job well done.

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to amon-jell [2010-03-11 14:33:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much <3. I'm happy to hear that.

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Kamikaze-Kaito [2010-03-10 20:17:00 +0000 UTC]

I especially find the last bit of this tutorial very helpful - the "colour adjusting"-things~ I always have problems with choosing nice colours, and very often the whole picture turns out very imbalanced. Thanks for all those tips~

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ACE-Angel-Kiari [2010-03-09 23:02:56 +0000 UTC]

8D Zomg... I think your my new best friend XD

Could you maybe explain in more detail the whole
"Take the head and re-size it" Thing you were talking about?

OuO i have a slight confusion there

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Red-Priest-Usada In reply to ACE-Angel-Kiari [2010-03-10 12:15:09 +0000 UTC]

When you scan your lineart and you spot the mistakes, for example that some parts are too big or too small, you can resize them digitally instead of redrawing the whole picture.The action of resizing things in Photoshop is called a free transformer.

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