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Red-Priest-Usada — Tutorial: Basic drawing tips
Published: 2010-02-25 19:29:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 161085; Favourites: 6347; Downloads: 3538
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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
thanks for the tips!It's always reat to read tutorials...you can learn a lot this way!
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Great job! I'm sure a lot of people will be happy to see this. It's very well explained and shows a lot of great tips! Thanks!
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wow thanks for the useful tips ^^ (i need it X3)
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Awesome tutorial for those common mistakes! Lovely work!
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Thank you so much. I love how you address obvious things we need to consider as artists while demonstratig them in a whole new way.
Keep up the ginormous work!
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Very awesome o.o I flipped a pic of mine before horizontally and it looked totally wrong, but I just now flipped some of my recent work and they look awesome mirrored.
Thanks for uploading
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Hi Red-Priest-Usada. ♥
Thanks for making this 'tutorial' so much, I haven't drawn for atleast five months due to lack of inspiration and anything original coming to mind. Also my lack of skills really gets me down at times, but with your tutorial I've suddenly found a bit more inspiration then I had before and I'm off to draw.
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I'm glad to hear my tutorial helped you to get some motivation and inspiration. Good luck :]
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Thanks a lot for this tut, I am one of those who uses up a lot of time re-drawing, so this should help!
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this is absolutely wonderful. very useful, thanks!
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Really nice guide^^ Even though the the guides are something almost every person who draw knows about it is still good to get it down as a reminder^^
Thanx for doing this^^
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These tips are awesome! Thanks so much for this tutorial!
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Amazing! I'm sure this will help me with PS.
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moje rysunki wyglądają strasznie jak się zrobi im lustrzane odbicie ;o; zawsze się tego okropnie wstydzę, ale jakoś nie potrafię tego jak na razie przezwyciężyć > < wszystko pozostaje zawsze kwestią ćwiczeń nawet jak się zna swoje błędy
bardzo mi się podoba ten trik z kolorem .o. nie załapałam go trochę na panelu, więc tym bardziej dziękować, że podzieliłaś się tą wiedzą z innymi
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No u mnie to jest czasami tak, ze lutrzane odbicie tez wyglada gorzej, lub na odwrot- lepiej nz oryginal XD. Tak bylo w przypadku mojej pracy Her warm World. To co jest na devie to lustrzanka XD''.
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Fantastic! Makes me want to do traditional art. I even have a light box for easy corrections, yet I never use it.
I have noticed it's easier for me to draw out my ideas in pencil then transfer them, this would save more time doing lines before I color. o:
And the coloring tip was awesome.
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łaaaa, dziękować~ 
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Ciesze się, ze pomogłam :]
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ohh yes I know the mirror trick! you see the mistakes right away. thanks for the tut! X3
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It's funny how awkward pictures can look with the "mirror trick.." awkward and RATHER horrifying..
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hahaha omg yea tell me about it. I also used it on my previous drawing and I was like; whut, you kidding? the eye's too high?XD
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The mirror image helps me to spot most mistakes 
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yea, faces can turn out so..weird. and scary sometimes xD but it's the fastest way to spot the mistakes yes :3 but also anoyying if you really thought you did it right xD
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Beautiful tutorial, and it is a good help! ^.^
Instead of making a mirror image with a software or asking someone to glance at the draw, we can just look at it from a real mirror. That works too.
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Yes but I wrote about it here, too
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OOHHHH!
Sorry! Didn't noticed!
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Interesting, I never would have thought about the whole color thing.
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This looks really helpful!^^ And especially the mirror thing, its a great idea!
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On the anatomy thing its possible though that people might have long arms like I knew this girl, she was 13 and her arms passed her knees lol
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Um.. .. I have never seen such a person.
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lol I swear its true and she used to draw a lot and she drew well but I never got why her arms were so out of proportion and she was like but they aren't, and me, where do you get your examples...then she just stood up and i realised that she really did have long arms lmao
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this might actaully help... i shall try it out soon!
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thanks. some of the tips are really interesting!
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I knew some of these things but what I found especially helpful was the 65-85% opacity trick for matching the background. That's very clever. Thanks for posting this, and taking your time out to teach
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Thanks so much! This'll really help me with positioning things...
(sometimes I go too far over on the page and am too lazy to remake it so I give up. bad habit, i know >< )
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Wow! this is super helpful accompanied with wonderful art!!
Mind if I ask what type of brush you use for rough drafts (also how you set it up for a tablet) and how they do you prepare them to be colored? ^^
*is nub at tablet stuff*
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Well, when I make a lineart with my pencil, I scan it and clean it in Photoshop. I presented the way I prepare my rough sketches for coloring in my previous tutorial: cleaning linearts. Next, I multiply the layer wih my lineart and set the mode into Multiply (the white color here is transparent now) and I start coloring on the new layers UNDER this layer with my lines. I usually use some soft round brushes. There is a tutorial about my digital coloring in my gallery folder.
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ahh thanks!!! You're a great help to the art world!! ; ;
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I like how different this tutorial is 
It's really helpful ^o^
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Jej, dzięki za tutoriala! Jest genialny. W życiu bym nie wpadła na niektóre rzeczy. Geez, a to takie proste! XD
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Uwah! Thank you very much for doing this!*^*
It's very helpfull, really, thanks for taking the time of doing this!^^
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I absolutely loved this tutorial it was worth reading everything. It really helped,thanks for making this easy and understandable to read!
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