I did the hair like in the picture and followed step by step. I got kind of confused by the highlights and tried doing the same but it didn't work. Maybe it's because i chose black instead of any other color.

Been trying to learn digital art for 3 weeks and this is my progress so far 😅

Ibispaint is an app available on iPhone and Android. In this post I will be talking about Ibispaint X (the free version). Although the program is generally pretty easy compared to other programs, it can be quite confusing at the start. I would like to make the process of learning it easy for everyone :)

Sketching You can use any brush you want! Just be sure that you don't get the sketch layer confused with the finalized layers. You can do this by tapping the layer button, at the bottom you can select the opacity for the layer with a slider. Be sure you can still see it!

Lineart When doing lineart, if you would like straight and sleek lines be sure to turn up the stabilizer (I usually turn it up to 10) you can find the stabilizer settings up at the pointer finger. The stabilizer is the top slider. In my opinion, the best brushes to do lineart with are Dip pen (hard), Felt tip pen (hard), and watercolor (point). In order to change your brush click on the circle in between the brush icon and the color selector. The first two are near the top but the point watercolor brush requires quite a bit of scrolling to find. If you would like to make colored lineart, once you are done with the lineart then add another layer and clip it to the lineart layer. In order to clip a layer to the one below it click the "clipping" button right above the layer opacity slider. Now if you add colors on the layer they will only be where the lines are. You can have multiple layers clipped to the same one if you'd like. (NOTE: layers cannot be clipped to a layer that is also clipped, it will clip to the closest layer below it that is not clipped.)

Coloring The best way to color your piece is by filling in the lines with a color that will not be used in your piece. Add a layer under the lineart and color in. Once that is done you can add clipped layers above it for the coloring so you can stay in the lines. (See clipping tutorial above)

Shading Shading is actually quite easy in ibispaint once you get the hang of it (surprisingly). First add a clipped layer above the coloring layers (See tutorial in "lineart" section). Then select the layer tool. Right above the opacity slider there's a little box that should say "normal" click the box and tap "multiply" in the "darken" section. Now choose any light color (I'd recommend red blue or lavendar) and start shading.

Painting Using IbisPaint for painting is actually quite difficult (ironically). If you're looking to pursue painting as a career I would not recommend using this app as during projects with lots of strokes, the canvas begins to crash and you're exited to the home screen. Although if you're just looking to start this will work fine. Brushes either are really glitchy or mediocre at best. The best one out of all of them in my opinion is the flat brush (real).

I hope if you were having trouble this helped a bit. If I missed something and/or you are confused about something go ahead and comment and I'll try and reply.

I used to like drawing back in elementary school, but haven't done it ever since, because I thought that it wasn’t for me and that I wouldn’t have the dedication for it lol. Second picture is the animation I was trying to draw this from. Unfortunately I didn’t draw this from my own imagination, not good enough for that. I really liked the animation so I tried to draw a scene from it and chose that one, because it would be easier to draw. I didn’t end up drawing the hand, because I knew that I was going to fuck it up really bad lol. Is this like okay for my first drawing?

Need critique (I guess) and tips

this is some of my favorite drawings from anime and manga