Yes, that’s right—the newest Sketchbook Pro update gave us the long awaited feature, the Clipping Mask/Alpha Mask! Let me quickly show you how to use it and why it should become an essential part of your workflow from now on. How to Create an Alpha Mask in Sketchbook Pro First of all, if you’re familiar…
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They say that practice makes perfect, but how to practice drawing? In most cases it’s not that simple, but there is one kind of exercise that you can do almost without thinking. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it’s perfect if you want to practice drawing everyday, but have little time to do so. I’m talking…
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Long story short, I’ve launched a Patreon page! But this isn’t just a page that you can pledge to to support me in creating art—it’s something completely different. I’m going to do a cat écorché—cover a plastic cat skeleton with all the muscles, one by one. I’m going to create plenty of notes for each…
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Drawing is largely an intuitive process. Artists tend to not think about the position, shape, and angle of every line—instead, they test what “feels” right or wrong. And while it is possible to learn a lot of things about drawing by reading articles and watching videos, some of them only start to make sense once…
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When you think of a thing to draw, in your imagination it’s a real, 3D object. But you can’t draw a real, 3D object—you can only draw lines. So your job, as an artist, is to convert that object into a set of lines. Some artists do it this way: they draw one line, then…
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Most artists learn how to draw 3D forms through the process of trial and error, and after a while their intuition tells them what to do. They make plenty of decisions without even being aware they make them. Things just “feel right” or “feel wrong” to them. In the past I’ve made multiple attempts to…
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Realistic fur is very difficult to draw—that’s why digital artists often use custom brush sets for this purpose. However, while they make drawing fur easier, they still don’t make it easy. So in this tutorial I’ll show you how to use such a fur brush pack in your art process. Recently I’ve published a short…
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Imagine two competitors in an obstacle course race. Competitor A visits the course before the race. They walk slowly, analyzing each obstacle, and testing various ways of overcoming them. Competitor B appears just before the race, and they just start running, trying to overcome each obstacle as they face it for the first time. Which…
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There were 21 beautiful entries this year, so it was really hard to choose, but here it is! The winner of this year’s edition is Josephine from the Philippines, and this is her submission: As for the prize itself, my choice of the model always depends on the country of the winner, and what their…
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Gothic was the first cRPG game I’ve ever played, and since then nothing really came close to it. Its world felt truly alive, not only thanks to the human characters, but also the variety of realistically designed creatures. Shadowbeast was the scariest of them—I still remember the awe I felt when seeing it for the…
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