- 10.23.2018 More Loose Redraws/ Fanart Of @notmusa’s Oc Ian, To Have Fun And Relax The Brain.

I see this kinda advice passed around all the time here is the thing: shading with black will indeed look bad if you don’t know what you are doing. However, telling people not to do things without explaining why is terrible advice.

Shadows are the opposite of light, this includes in colour.

This means that if you have light in one colour, the shadow will be of the opposing hue, saturation, and value.

Unless the object is white, it has its own local colour -  the object’s true colour, how it would appear if the light were pure white.

The colour of the light influences the local colour of the object. so if you had yourself a brown cube and a blue light, the colours would get bluer and pinker.

now the reason shadows do not tend to be black is because pure white light is hard to find in nature.

the closest you will get to pure white light is during a really overcast day and the sun is filtering through the clouds, but even then it’ll lean towards yellow so the shadows will be slightly blue.

During a clear day, the shadows will pick up a lot of bounce light from the blue sky and have a blue tinge. You can learn more about this in this tutorial: [http://artbyriana.deviantart.com/art/Why-shadows-aren-t-gray-321656856]

But! None of this means you are never allowed to use black.

realistically shadows will have a hint of a colour to them, but stylistically you might be going for, say, a film noir look and deep black shadows are needed for impact for example.

The more you know about how light works, the more informed decisions you can make about shading and the more options you have.

If someone tells you that you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can do what you like!

yes, black is hard to use and if you just mix a colour with black it’ll get muddy, but thats easily resolved by choosing your colours manually - which ideally you want to do regardless bc the computer doesnt have your eyes & cant choose the colours you like

basically if someone gives you some art advice and says you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can, you just might need to study a little to figure out how to make things work.

I mean for example, people will say you must make your composition follow the rule of thirds and never align centrally, but while the rule of thirds makes it easy to create visual interest, Mad Max Fury Road is a testament to the fact that central composition can and will work if you experiment.

there are no rules in art! there are theories based on reality, this has been a post on colour theory & light theory, but they exist to inform you, not to restrict you.

Do what you like! Trust your eyes, if you think something looks good, then great! If you don’t, then research & experiment until you do.

Also if you wanna learn more abt colour theory, I go into it in a lot more depth over yonder: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131822744966/ http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131958395841/

- 6/01/2018

Meh. Looking back i feel all the facial proportions are kind of off. Apparently even my art skills gets worse without sleep

- 4/17/2018 So i started using Procreate instead of apple notes... (it wouldn’t stop crashing and I actually kinda planned on doing this months ago) (I need to learn the brushes and like color stuff)

-6/16/2018 All these were done at the art auction after day 2 of heroescon. They’re all drawings of the people standing around me

No matter what I’m pretty sure I can say I learned a lot while drawing this… While it may not look like who I based it on I realize I’d have to redo it all to make look right.

(4/23/2018)

- 1/15/2018 Ughhhhh.... at this point I feel like I'm just putting off doing color... not only do I have to learn to draw digitally with color it's a different app

- 3/10/2018

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

Five Demands of the Hong Kong people:

Full withdrawal of the Extradition Bill (a.k.a. the Evil Law)

Retraction of the characterisation of the protest as a “riot”

Release of all the arrested protesters (especially the students and the wounded)

Accountability for police brutality

Resignation of Carrie Lam

- 4/18/2018 While it looks like I didn’t do much yesterday I’m actually working on a colored version of this

(I made a fast sfw version)

(5/04/2018) So it turns out I love this version of my art far more than I do the version I spent many, many… more hours working on… But yeah mermay is great (I’m not being sarcastic I’m really enjoying it)

[I posted three with a black, white or transparent background]