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.
test how big you can write and how small you can write
zooming in is an act of discomfort, so don’t do it. atleast not for this excercize.
Think of it as callibrating yourself, maybe also try line exercizes
Lines just not looking right? Or not exactly on point? Well you callibrate your pen to your screen, why not yourself? *shrug*
Write and draw like you’re scribbling in a journal traditionally.
If you’re separating your writing and drawing when you draw digitally, then that might be a subconscious block keeping you from just emersing yourself completly in your work. I struggle really badly focusing, and always feeling like i should be either typing up my thoughts or writing them traditionally just breaks my train of thought. And it just hit me one day and i wondered: Why the heck don’t i just write digitally?
What to write about?
Anything. The character you’re designing, their features, a story about them, whatever the heck you’re thinking about, even about your brushes and in ways they might be changed. Be messy. (on another layer)
Get nervous writing?
1. You don’t have to worry about anyone reading it, its not an essay that has to be perfect.
2. Your hand writing doesn’t need to look perfect, only as long as you can read it.
3. Write short hand, how you write texting your friends, however you like.
4. Its not an essay for school. Its your own rambly nonsense and its absolutely fine.
I know, its really weird. But the way human brains and emotions and nerves work IS weird. Like, for myself, sometimes i get so locked up i can’t think straight? But when i sit down and start writing, It helps me unlock and think better, sort out my thoughts.
I hope this helps! i know its odd advice, but i just felt motivated to post about it.
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