An anon asked me if I would ever do a tutorial about how I draw, and at first I was all, “but I draw so simply! surely that would be useless!” and then I had the idea that, rather than any ~special technique~ I have, my thought process is way more interesting because there are a lot of things I wish people told me were okay when I was a wee human. AND SO.
I will take you through how I drew this picture.
STEP 1! Choose your subject matter and Draw The Thing! Ideally it will be something you are excited about. For this example, I have chosen my dumb centaur Rook in his youth. He is bleeding. He is wearing a more-or-less historically accurate uniform. His hair is possibly historically inaccurate but I don’t care I love it. While it is very important to break out of your comfort zone and learn how to draw a lot of things for the purpose of refining your draftsmanship, it is also important not to wear yourself down or tell yourself that what you are interested in is not worthwhile. That is counterproductive and will only make you sad!
STEP 2! Ink The Thing, if you are into lines. I am. Don’t worry if your linework doesn’t look like someone’s you really admire. My lines will never look smooth or clean or “Industry Standard,” and that’s okay because that isn’t how I draw. I draw very quickly and I have shaky hands, so my lines turn out like this. I am growing to like them. Your Photoshop brush or Actual Physical Drawing Implement of choice DOESN’T REALLY MATTER. Use whatever gives you the effect you want! Sometimes I use fancy custom brush sets, and sometimes I use the default hard brush. Give Google a spin and see what you can find that works for you!
STEP 3! Delete that sketch layer and choose an arbitrary background colour. I lean towards dull browns or blinding neons, and sometimes white.
STEP 4! Colours! Rook is a Comic Character, so I have a set palette for him that I colourpick from because I am Lazy. However, I’m not sure these colours are what I want for this particular image. At this point, you may also be interested in Rendering, but I am so bored with Rendering and absolutely do not care so I don’t do it. For me, the important thing is to communicate the image as economically as possible. Which here means, no painting.
STEP 5! Duplicate the colour layer and start messing with the levels and hue/saturation and blend modes until you get something a little more appealing. Here I also colourize the lineart so that it’s not just flat black. For some reason I decided a halo would be nice. I’m not sure why. Rook is not angelic. We’ll say it’s a Design Decision.
STEP 6! Final filters and adjustments! Everything I do ends up being pale lately. Maybe he is in a foggy place. Who knows?? I also went back and painted over the part where his coat vanishes into the colour field so that it looks a bit cooler, I hope.
That’s it, that’s how I draw! Maybe you learned something, or maybe you now think I’m a hack! Either way, I had fun~~~
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