Also, before you start inking reduce the transparency of your inking layer. That way if you’re actually inking on the sketch layer you can see that you are right away.
apparently ppl don’t know about waifu2x??? despite its… concerning name it’s literally the most convenient website i’ve ever come across as an artist
it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile
Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.
☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚
Artists–please recognize and embrace the various ranges, hues, and values brown. I so often see characters meant to be medium and dark brown regulated to a “I’m too afraid/internally prejudiced to use the correct skin color.” Relative color is legit a thing, but I’ve seen a lot of brown-skinned characters appear much lighter for reasons that obviously aren’t relative color related.
Agreed, I’ve had many of my dark brown ocs lightened, and had artists be very difficult to work with to get the tone brought down into the correct shade. Which, can make me feel uncomfortable, and maybe even regret commissioning someone. I am very understanding when it comes to limitations, but if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it. If you’re not comfortable doing a dark skin color due to inexperience, say so, and either turn down the commission, or learn. Otherwise getting angry at someone who keeps telling you it’s too light, just makes you look like an asshole.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
i have hard artists get pissed off at me and swear i never gave them swatches, that i gave them incorrect references, that they’re going to charge me more to fix my characters’ skintones even when my swatch link was in plain view in my reference list, right at the goddamn top. it’s hideously unprofessional and you bet your ass i warned all my art buying friends about these folks. if you fuck up skintone, you fix it. it’s your mistake, not mine.don’t make excuses to draw my character white.
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