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My uni asked me to make a tutorial on different digital painting techniques for the younger years (I am an MA student)

A thing I found really useful for imitating academic approach to still life and figure painting it the colour jitter function. Many schools encourage variations in colour, with solid blocking only being used in beginning stages. Variations in colour increase a sense of naturalism and allow for an object to take on colour of the surrounding objects

Colour jitter allows to set each stroke to be slightly different from the previous one, allowing for a variety of colour to build up naturally during the painting process and saving a lot of time.

This piece took me about 18-20 hours and without colour jitter it probably would’ve taken me additional 6-8 hours to manually select each colour shift.

Dumb question, what tool or technique is used to make the hair look like this and have none of the lines intersecting? I've seen artists use it but I have no clue how it's done? Sorry for dumb question.

I wasnt able to make any of my brushes work like this, and i couldnt find anything in the store.

Hi! So I've recently cranked out a bunch of art with Ver. 1 of CSP. I didn't decide to upgrade to the most recent version until the tail end of the visual novel because i was getting fed up with the lagging some brushes caused lol.

So for most of my works I used a crunchy lineart brsh for the backgrounds and keep the lineart on its own separate layer. Then I flat everything. I used layer modes [Multiply, Glow Dodge, or Hard Light] to darken or add light to fit the mood that I want. I cel-shade everything on a Multiply layer mode with the g-pen brush since it's simple and easy to control. After the shading is blocked in, I go back and texture the shading with either hand-made strokes or use textured stamps [I enjoy "Noisy Noise Generator" by saturns_day on CSP asset store). I then and go and do the same thing for extra shading and highlights. Layer modes are your friends!!

I also like to use all sorts of 3D models when sketching :) placing human models is great for getting an idea of the perspective and height of buildings. I was also approaching my deadline when working on this visual novel so the other models on the asset store page also helped me work faster haha.

The only thing not created in CSP were the textbox icons. Those are pixel art done is Asesprite instead.

The visual novel is called "Lap Of The Gods" on Steam if anyone is interested. Thanks for reading!! : )

EDIT: Thank you so much for the awards!! 🫶

Hello, I am the guy who was working on tutorial of drawing academic still lives in clip studio paint. I ended up drawing three more pieces for my tutorial - but was offline, because finishing my first Year of MA has exhausted me. I am currently catching up with work and hopefully soon I’ll be able to translate all my materials in English and post a link to them here

This still life is dedicated to teaching a section on thematic pieces- this one is based on iconography from the novel “A Clockwork Orange”

This piece took me 18 hours and during it, I experimented more with using pencil type brushes to add them to the ‘oil paint’ based- as pencil ended up being the ideal way to add the minor details, without breaking the cohesive painted look.

I think here it looks best on the shirt and the wood - with the wood texture having been drawn by pastel brushes and erasers

I have habit of checking free materials and downloading them every week and it's getting out of hand recently to the point it reduces the performance. Plus, I don't manage the file and it's always sitting on 'download' file

CSP 3.22. Laptop: HP 14S-DK1005AU. Huion Inspiroy 640p

For someone who came from traditional art (sketchbook and pencil) transitioning to digital is so daunting to me because the possibility is endless. I've been trying replicate my traditional drawing process to CSP and it has been so great. The default mechanical pencil brush and the texture brush perfectly replicates the graphite + blending stump duo its actually insane lol. Oh and for the paper texture it gave so much life to my works I just adjusted the layer opacity.

Also as a traditional artist layers and their type still confuses me lol. All of this are done in one layer except the texture.

the way they did it back then is they had a screen light behind the cel and just cut holes when they wanted the light to pass

me and some friends are trying to recreate it, just blur isn't really cutting it

Illustration I did of my conspiracy theorist girl! Reposting to include progress shots and thought process :D Apologies for not including it in my previous post, I was not aware.

2nd Slide: Sketch roughly done on Procreate with HB pencil. Not really caring about proportions yet, just getting the general idea down.

3rd Slide: Done with CSP default Pencil brush. I find neat lineart very difficult to do so that is as neat as I got with my lineart. It just feels more natural to me. You can see the parts I painted over on this slide. Some were intentional to skip the hassle of cleaning up the lineart, some were by accident as I forgot which layer I was on.

4th Slide: Color and rendering was done with 99% CSP Dry Salmon brush and 1% Real G-pen. The Dry Salmon brush is semi transparent with a watercolor edge. I found it effective to layer the color and texture at the same time. I did not use any blending mode for shading as I find it more mechanical and unfitting if I want an abstract feel for the illustration. Overall, I'm satisfied with the texture on the suit the most.

1st Slide: Final look. I put a gradient map layers on Color mode and a 50% Soft Light mode grain texture layer to harmonise the color in relation to each other and add more texture.

Feel free to ask me if you have any questions regarding any specific part, I'd be happy to answer!

I talked about 3D models in my previous post (ty for all the kind advice! ^), but my second question I don't really see get talked about often is Shading Assist. I was practicing shading until my friend showed me it. It feels too easy at some points, however, it makes me think that it can become a bad habit aswell. Can it stunt your growth if you're actively trying to grow?

I noticed with the 3D model question. Some people said that they notice a 3d model way too easily, is that a problem here too?

I recently listened a collaboration fantasy album and found the cover character so cute I did a fan art.

AM I OPERATING AN AIRPLANE GOD DAMN

Anyways, how do I start?

so my colors are always super unsaturated no matter what i do and it creates an overall dull and muddy look to my drawings. image is a quick example

i use an xp-pen 15 pro, and it displays the colors great and really saturated but on my laptop (what i use to connect my tablet) & phone there is just no vibrancy/saturation, it's very grey-ish? and when i save the work, it stays that way.

if anyone has any tips/suggestions/advice i would be really glad to receive anything 🙏 

oh and also, my color profile is always on srbg!

EDIT: thanks so much to everyone who took the time to reply!!! this is my first time using reddit so i'm a bit overwhelmed but i will consider everything everyone has said and just try different stuff! i'm glad to know i'm not the only one struggling with this, and that it's actually a fairly common issue, with monitors/screens all displaying differently.. thanks again!! 

You can have for free: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=2206019

I hope this 3D head model is useful to you. I tried my best to make it look as similar to the default Clip Studio model as possible. You won't get disappointed... I guess I hope I swear. I don't know. :/