If you haven’t read it, please take a look at part 1

Thanks for checking out my latest tutorial. Like promised, I will now be looking at the iris. The iris ended up taking up the entire guide because I didn’t take into consideration how very complex the iris can be.
Irises are where the eyes can get really fun and captivating. If you don’t believe me, just look at the iris of a friend. Irises have all sorts of colors within them with little lines of color. These lines exist because the iris actually has the ability to widen or close in order to get more light in dark areas. Eyes also have a shininess to them, making them even reflective under the right lighting conditions. Neat to look at, but tough to draw. That is, until you get used to it.
With cartoon eyes, you can completely skip the iris and just draw circles with dots in them. If you’re lazy, you can even just draw dots. These are great for simplistic cartoons and save enormous amounts of time. But artists who want to draw eyes that are prettier try to capture the enormous amounts of color found in the eyes. Blending a variety of shades and colors works fine for cartoon eyes, but to achieve the realistic look, much greater care must be taken.

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Tags: cartoon, circles, Color, eye, Eyes, highlight, iris, Photoshop, realistic, shading

Back I am. Hopefully for good this time if life doesn’t get in the way. Just wrote one of the toughest final essays ever.

Eyes are incredible. There are so many ways to draw them and so much emotion and personality can be conveyed through the eyes. The eyes come in a good variety of styles. Not only are there realistic, digital and cartoon eyes, but each of these kinds has their own sub-categories. Eyes have different shapes, even though that might not be so noticeable. Eyelashes have different lengths. The spacing of the eyes and the position of the eyes on the head can mean so much when conveying your character’s unique look. Eyelids can be tricky, the iris can be intricate and the eye color can be rich and beautiful.

This week, and maybe next week, I’m going to take you through the miraculous world of eyes. I’m going to cover all of the different styles of eyes. But in addition to that, I’m going to do something more. Eyes do not have to necessarily fall into one category or another. Serious subjects might ask for realistic eyes, but these eyes might take far too long to draw for a time-pressed artist or an artist who wants to focus on other aspects of a drawing. Artists have been known to lighten up the eyes in order to emphasize the emotion contained within the character – and artists have also downplayed the eyes so that they do not distract from the actions that the character happens to be carrying out.

This guide can be completed with:
Pencils
Markers
Pens
Tablets
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Tags: cartoon, Comics, s

Hi everyone! Here’s a how to draw tutorial on mesomorph and ectomophic body types, focusing on arms in particular. These body types go along with the endomorphic body type covered in the last how to draw tutorial. The mesomorphic body type is generally associated with more muscular characters, though mesomorphs do not necessarily have to be muscular. Their bodies are compact and curvy, with muscle hanging well on their bodies. When learning how to draw the male version of these types of characters, imagine the football players and boxers of the world. For female characters, they are very curvy. When they become emaciated, you can still see the muscles stubbornly clinging on to the bones, which can be difficult to learn how to draw. When they are more chubby, their bodies are a synthesis of muscle and fat.

The other body type to learn how to draw is the ectomorph, which is most commonly defined as a tall and frail individual. These characters are typically all skin and bones. As these characters become more emaciated, the bones can actually start to seem visible. If the character attempts to put weight on, they typically end up with larger guts while the rest of the body continues to appear slim. These characters have a difficulty developing a lot of muscle and often appear more toned than muscular. These characters would be great on the basketball team if they are tall enough.

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Tags: arms, draw, lines

I know… I didn’t draw their feet. I really hate drawing feet. I’m not too good at it and I never know what angle to draw the feet at. Maybe eventually I’ll learn how to draw them.

I still need to name the character on the left. Maybe I’ll do that right now. Um… Pan… Pangan… Panganiban! Gani for short. He’s a character I kept envisioning in my head but I couldn’t get him from my mind to the screen until now. Does he look how I envisioned him now? Who cares?

I’m starting to feel restless about the ratios and after I finish the next how to draw guide, time to master the anatomy of the limbs, folds, shading and fine itty-gritty details. For now, let’s finish the tutorials on how to draw different ratios. Click to read more …

Tags: Anatomy, brushes, characters, circles, features, Nose, opacity, Photoshop, shading, tone

Good afternoon! Marisol here with a Photoshop tutorial. Hooray!

Since summer vacation began, I’ve had the opportunity to draw more and experiment with new Photoshop brushes. Previously, I shared some of the drawings I did using some of these new brushes, but those images were on a smaller scale, so it may have been difficult to see the effects. As mentioned before, one of my favorite brushes is the downloadable skin texture brush, simply because the brushes make skin appear more porous, eliminating the smooth airbrushed look that Photoshopped skin usually has. Here’s how to draw textured skin using skin texture brushes. Click to read more …

Tags: Art Tutorial, How to Draw Skin, Photoshop Brushes, Photoshop Tutorial, Photoshopping Skin, Skin Texture Photoshop

Alright, on to the 1:6 ratio character. Hopefully this guide can be finished in one sitting. I have a few hours to write this how to draw tutorial. Alright! Let’s go!

To keep this all from getting boring, I’m shifting from a realistic cartoon style back to the manga style. I decided to draw my first faerie ever. I was thinking about what faeries usually represent to me when trying to figure out how to draw my new character.. My associations with faeries are: magic, sensuality, nature, childlikeness and cheerfulness. Most faeries I can think of are rather cheerful Tinkerbell-style pixies or the fuller, more sensual sylph type faeries. I went for the former in this case. I bought How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Volume 6: Striking The Right Note. The book is basically on how different features and physical characteristics can be used to depict certain personality types. I wanted the character to be cheerful, so I followed the book and separated her bangs down the middle, which is supposed to make characters appear cheerful in manga.

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I really need to post more. I should be practicing more and posting how to draw tutorials more often for Sketching House. Darn my ADD. I don’t have too much work to do, but every morning there are too many things to get distracted by. But I think I’m getting better at my discipline.

This time I will be focusing on how to draw a character sitting cross-legged or the Indian style. There are a lot of ways that people sit, but this is one of the more common ways that people sit when they don’t have a chair to sit in.

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This is part 2 of how to draw people sitting. In this guide, the exact same sitting position will be covered, only at completely different angles. Like before, I’ll be focusing on the position characters are in when they sit on a chair, a sofa, a rock or some other object. This is just another extremely practical how-to. Nothing fancy or exciting. Don’t worry, we’ll be covering how to draw pretty much anything we can conceive of, which should keep us busy from now until eternity. Click to read more …

Hi everyone. Sorry I’ve been gone so long. The evil finals are finally gone, so I’m back, hopefully for good. I hit a little burnout last week, but now I think I’m finally ready to go.

The tutorial I have today I came up with spontaneously while working on a picture of a tribal character I’m working on. He’s from the prehistory Phillipines, an area that I’ve never heard of a story being written about. Such a fascinating area.

That picture up there shows Snake Island in the Philippines. The completely naturally formed landbridge connecting two islands is shaped like a snake. Click the thumbnail to see how beautiful and clear the water looks. Anyway, I can’t get myself to draw the main protagonist as I see him in my mind.

Anyway, as I was working on trying to draw him a few nights ago, I realized that a lot of people draw the majority of their characters the same way. They’re always standing forward or to the side with their legs straight or slightly bend. But in real life there is a whole range of positions and motions that an individual can do. So I decided that my newest tutorial would be on how to draw a character sitting. Click to read more …

Tags: Anatomy, character, characters, draw, drawing, Drawings, drew, How to Draw, Life, lines, Night, Perspective, picture, poses, profile, proportions, real, Returning, side, Travel, Tutorial, Tutorials, Work

Good morning all! How is everyone today? Me, I’m pretty good. I took some pictures today and worked on dying my hair pink. The streaks I wanted to be pink turned blonde. My hands, however, are very pink. I can’t wash the dye off, which makes me grrr! It sucks.

So I got a request from an acquintance from the SoapNet forum for a tutorial on how to draw a Disney-like fairy. Luckily, I did one last summer for E-How. So today, for LaVerne, I will post my fairy tutorial here. This fairy is drawn in nine steps and is fairly easy to do. So without further delay, here’s the Disney fairy! Click to read more …

Tags: Disney Art Tutorial, Disney Fairy, Disney Tutorial, Fairy Drawing, Fairy Tutorial, Fantasy Drawing, How to Draw Fairies, How to Draw Fantasy, How to Draw Fantasy Characters, Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell Drawing, Walt Disney, Whimsical Drawing, Whimsy