Tolkien’s “actually None Of These Characters Are Speaking English And This Story Is A Translation

Comics are daunting but everything is easier broken into steps so I made this guide to help any artist get started! I love making comics because it combines my passions for drawing and storytelling. I recommend anyone interested to take a swing!

Jessica Chastain as Lady Lucille Sharp in Crimson peak

Gods help us all.

This was a tutorial funded by the Patreon folks~!  They have a new one coming soon so I thought I’d put this one up for everyone. :3

Lucerys Velaryon & Aemond Targaryen in 1.10 “The Black Queen”

Witches going to their Sabbath (Detail), 1878. By Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896)

John William Waterhouse + medieval and renaissance costumes

ingrid sundberg's colour dictionary - writing help

I don't know what I'm doing when I draw 90% of the time but here's how I make my paintings✨

a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.