Hellooooo all wonderful artists of Lioden (and art lovers)

Slots for FREE Art

1- Blitz (#47268)
2- Boi (#122868)
3- ιммodon
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Link to character:
What pose/emotion? Lying down/sleepy
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? Fullbody

Thankies ^^

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Link to character:
What pose/emotion?: Anything, try something dynamic!
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? : Fullbody if possible

1. What art program (preferably free) do you use/ recommend? I use either Photoshop which is amazing, but expensive or MediBangPaintPro which is free and in my experience better than firealpaca (no offense!)

2. Do you have any good art techniques tutorial pages/etc you can share?

some tips for starting out
1. Always use analogous and complimentary colours and keep your saturation low
2. Try to make characters posed not look like they're in a coffin/stiff keep the dynamic
3. Flip the canvas when you're drawing to make sure it looks right both ways and to check mistakes
4. If you've been working on a piece for hours, take a step back and look at it how everyone else will see it.

3. HOW DO YOU SHADE? PLEase somebody teach me? (Not really a question just my biggest obstacle)
Establish a light source (try drawing a sun in the corner of the page for reference), and take the colour that is to the left of the colour your shading (basically shade orange w/ red and green with blue etc) and block in areas you think the light source won't touch, blend out with a watercolour brush/blur/bending tool in soft areas and keep harsh areas unblended.

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@ Boi
I am mostly more-practiced digitally with animals, however when I draw traditionally in my notebooks I do human faces, so I do have a little experience with that, I am not too good at human bodies though.

No offence taken! Thank you for your suggestion, I just never know what to use, I'll give that one a shot.

Thank you for your advice! I will have to try all of that out

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Link to character: clicky
What pose/emotion? Playful/something? He's a magician's pet so... artists surprise?
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? (Will attempt as best I can cx): Up to you <3

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Link to character: Drift
What pose/emotion? Could she be either looking at/watching her tail intently or like this?
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? Headshot please

I cant really help much on the advice because my art skills aren't too great, but I find that looking at references when drawing and watching speedpaints and stuff to see artists' techniques have helped and I try to practice whenever I can

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1. What art program (preferably free) do you use/ recommend? (I use FireAlpaca): Same

2. Do you have any good art techniques tutorial pages/etc you can share?: Hmm, I generally look at references for help. I'm not really good with humanoids, but if I need to draw one, I use references and it helps!

3. HOW DO YOU SHADE? PLEase somebody teach me? (Not really a question just my biggest obstacle): I'd be willing to show you if you want? I use a basic sort of technique, buuuut.. [here's an example of my shading:]
clicky

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1. What art program (preferably free) do you use/ recommend? (I use FireAlpaca)
Photoshop and SAI i strongly recommend, sadly i dont know free ones

2. Do you have any good art techniques tutorial pages/etc you can share?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMEum4lum0
Aaron Blaise is a wonderful artist who worked on many disney films (and if i remember correctly, he helped animate Lion King). He has many free tips on youtube that have helped me and may hopefully help you as well!

3. HOW DO YOU SHADE? PLEase somebody teach me? (Not really a question just my biggest obstacle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5ulFxA-eA
Another Aaron video, and while this is for photoshop, playing around with similar settings on your program may yeild similar results.


If you want my advice, all you have to do is keep practicing. Set aside half an hour to an hour a day just to draw and play around with ideas or styles to find what works for you. Another thing that helps is studying the anatomy of creatures by looking at reference pictures and just drawing what you see, making note of joints, length, width, etc etc.

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Link to character: http://lioden.com/wardrobe.php?c=_nN1h0qP2Y
What pose/emotion? Something where you see that is an evil queen, maybe her smiling in front of a plain cub who is injuried by her ?
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? (Will attempt as best I can cx)
As you want. Preferably a fullbody ^^

Advice, please?
Try to use a skeleton ref' of what you draw, the heads are goods but there are some mistakes at the legs and how they are on the body.


1. What art program (preferably free) do you use/ recommend? (I use FireAlpaca)
Paint tool sai, or Crita
2. Do you have any good art techniques tutorial pages/etc you can share?
Take you time, that's a basic.
3. HOW DO YOU SHADE? PLEase somebody teach me? (Not really a question just my biggest obstacle)
Visualise where you want to shade, make a mix of fuzzy shade and hard shadz and NEVER make the shadows black, choose a dark color.

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Link to character: my Boy
What pose/emotion? As long as you add Ear Tufts, you can draw him in every kind of way. I'd love him even in the shape of a birb ;D
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? Up to you :)

1/2/3)
I used to have gimp and/or photoshop, but i am not an artist. I used to try to draw some things, especially horses (for another game) and i am really into different layers for every small step. That way it was easy to re-do even small parts w/o destroying every other part of the picture. And that way i didn't had many problems to shade, because i was able to use different colors w/o blending them in with extra tools (smudging looks mehhhh). Don't rush with it, just take your time.
Sorry for not being the biggest help :/

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Link to character: clicky
What pose/emotion?: scared (if you can)
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? (Will attempt as best I can cx): i would love to have a full body, but if you can only do bust that's fine c:

if you can't do humans well, you can see if there's another character on my toyhouse you might want to try?

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For whenever you open up-
Link to character: Druella <3
What pose/emotion? If you could have her curled up taking a nap, I would love that!
Fullbody/Headshot/Bust? Fullbody would be preferential, but I'll take anything of my new baby! <3

I have yet to get into digital art myself, but I'm good with anatomy of canines and have plenty of traditional art expierence, so I can offer that at least xD

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