Mar 12
2009
Adobe Photoshop
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Feb 17
2009
I’m back 
Where was I? Working, school and being lazy. I’m sorry! I know, it’s been awhile. Marisol and I were trying to get an apartment but we ended up working so hard that everything started to suffer. From now on I’m going to stick with contributing to our tutorial art gallery.
Anyway, here’s another art drawing tutorial on nothing specific in particular. This tutorial focuses on drawing face art, rather than body art, giving explanations on how to draw out each part. I added advanced sections, even though they’re not really that much more advanced. They’re really just extra things you can look out for when you’re trying to go the extra mile with your art lessons. Click to read more …
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Jan 8
2009
Aren’t you glad?! This is the last part, consisting of the background, which I made relatively simple, and can be done suuuper fast, at least this one anyway. I’ll be going about how to finish off your picture. Anyway, as a side rant, I went up to the College I want to attend, and all that happened was one screw up after another. They have my test scores and GPA all messed up, saying I got lower than what I KNOW I did. This is putting a LOT of stress on me right now, especially because I tried really hard and I was a good student. *30 minutes pass* Ok, so I took a break from writing out my rant, listened to a song called “When Reason Fails- Texhnolyze” and now I feel a bit better. I do love that song, and it explains my thoughts on a lot of things. Ah, those beautiful words, believe, hope, miracles, they all play a special part for me, but enough ranting on that, let’s go and finish this shall we?
So the first thing I did, I went back to the background layer, finding a good brush that I could use to shape clouds and the sky, I picked these colors, though you could use anything you want.
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Jan 7
2009
Ahhh! It’s so long! There’s one more part after this, and then, it’s over. XD I finished this picture last night, but I couldn’t help take a bit longer to finish, because I was oggling all my beautiful gifts I got from Mari and Alex. Mari got me this Japanese dagger, it’s soooo pretty, and she made me a little Kotou doll out of clay! That woman is a pure genious, it’s gorgeous! I’d want to expirament with clay sometime as well, but when I had before… everything came out looking like the bad end of a prune salad. *shivers* Besides, I was spending my time looking at my pretty pictures on the World of Warcraft Card game from the Burning Crusade series. Ah but what was I talking about? Oh yes, back to the tutorial. This lesson, I’ll be pretty brief on how I do the clothes, and the jewelry for the cross.
Alright, so right now it’s pretty plain, and looks something like this 
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Jan 5
2009
Aaand we’re back with my latest instalment of the “semi-realism tutorial” brought to you by Tala herself! Alright ladies and gentlemen, (I wonder why guys are called gentlemen anyway, are guys really gentle? Most I know aren’t.) Aherm, yes, back to the subject after getting off topic. I’m going to start my second part of the tutorial, which deals with coloring in realistic hair! Here’ you’ll learn a really simple way to color great hair, and do it in half the time you can imagine! I would have had this up sooner, but my dear Kyo was not feeling very well, that and we really needed to have a heart to heart talk about certain things. It turns out that he does care about me very much, it just happens that his thoughts are being impacted by what’s around him, and when your world comes crashing down, it really becomes a challenge to see things in the same light you used to. ;-;
Anyway, I’ll try to get as much as this tutorial up as I can, since I’m also going to be hanging out with Mari and Alex today, which I look forward to! <3 They are truly great and my medicine for everything. Now, how about we get to that tutorial now shall we? Click to read more …
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Awhile back, I promised that I would post a tutorial on drawing a female figure. Because of a bit of an ADD problem, some personal drawing of my own, and the fact that I am engrossed in Celia Rivenbark’s latest book, Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits
Now, I have to apologize, I started drawing this BEFORE I decided to turn it into a tutorial, therefore, a lot of the guideline steps are skipped over, so I think I rate this tutorial for those artists at an intermediate level. If there’s an issue, please email me and I will simplify the steps. =^_^= <–It’s a kitty! Mreow! This tutorial is a realism/anime hybrid. I didn’t really know what style I wanted to use. Click to read more …
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Jan 4
2009
Whoo, I drew my first picture of 2009, and even though I’m not totally
enthusiastic with the way it turned out, I think I can deal with it for now.
I don’t know what possesed me to do this… or well, yeah I do but I just felt
the need to do it anyway. I chose to do realism, and my next guide will be how
I do realism in Photoshop, step by step. There may be much better ways
of doing this, but I guess I’ll show mine.
-Tala
Good morning, everyone, if you consider this a good morning. It is currently a balmy 18 degrees out with six inches of fresh powder covering my lawn. The Chicagoland area was inundated with snow last night, and even though it’s pretty, I don’t like it. I’m not a fan of snow; only on Christmas. Christmas snow is magical.
It’s currently really early for me, too. I could not sleep a wink last night for some reason, yet, I was very tired. Personally, it sucks. I’m very tired and I have that somewhat dizzy feeling I usually get when I’m very tired. It sucks more because, today, Alex and I are suppose to go back to Artist’s Square to do some antique shopping. I better get a lot of coffee in me, or else I’m not going to survive the day.
*Yawns*
I have an idea. How about instead of me rambling on about how tired I am, how about we do another tutorial? We’ve done hair–digital, long, short, and medium length–eyes, lips, but we haven’t structured a full face. I have three methods for structuring a face: anime style, unfeatured, and features first. Today, I’m going to use a style that I’m totally unaccustom to: unfeatured. This is going to be scary.
*Rubs eyes and yawns again*
Now, dearest Mari, what is an unfeatured face, you–our wonderful, yet mysterious viewers–may ask. The answer is simple, my friends. An unfeatured face is a face structure you draw BEFORE adding the eyes, nose, and mouth. I usually draw all my facial features before, THEN add the face around it, then a friend of mine–who is totally annoying me at the moment, but that’s a rant for another time–pointed out that, sometimes, my faces look goofy because I do things that way. Well, poo on him. To each their own, I suppose. But anyway, that is besides the point. So, I figured I’d try doing the face structure FIRST, then add the features. Now every character I draw kinda looks like Jennifer Aniston. Hopefully, this will not be the case for you!
Additionally, for this tutorial, I apologize for my shading looking very dark and askew. My family, for some reason, has an aversion to using lights in my house. I think it has to do with NIPSCO raising the electric bill 50% or something. Eep!
Now for the tutorial!
FACE STRUCTURE Click to read more …
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Dec 8
2008
How to Draw a Long Hair Explosion!
Hello to you all! This is the last hair tutorial from me for awhile. I got really carried away with the drawing, but I created a bunch of new hairstyles that I’m going to put on my characters. Today I’m playing around with long hair. The really great thing about long hair is that there’s really no limit to what you can do with it. And long hair looks so… cool. *(^_^)*
Lengthening the hair on a character means only one thing… HAIR EXPLOSION! That’s right. Bangs, strands, flips, curls, and dos can go all over the place.
I really, really love drawing long hair. Hair can have a fine, coarse, or wirey texture. People with drier hair have all sorts of curls that flow and bounce all over the head like they’re taking over the joint. Wetter hair is long and free-spirited, blowing whereever the wind wants to take it. Some hair-owners try to make their hair symmetrical and pretty, while others let hair go wherever they want it to. The wilder the hair, the more interesting it is to look at.
I’ve seen cartoon hair in three styles. The most common seems to be the angle look, since the really sharp edges of the angle show up really nice on a cartoon. Figure one shows the basic principles of the angles. Lazier artists draw huge gobs of hair and then fill these gobs in with lines. But these gobs of hair can look really great, especially if colored well. You can see the gobs of hair in figure 2. They have a really nice cartoon look to them. But if you’re going for a much more realistic look, you might want to try drawing each strand individually. There’s really no limit to how realistic you can make each strand of hair, but you should keep two things in mind. The more realistic you make your hair, the more realistic you should make the rest of the character. Also, the more realistic you make the hair, the longer it will take to draw the entire head of hair. Really, there’s no limit to how detailed you can make a head of hair.
Figure 1 Figure 2
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The next natural drawing tutorial is “How to Draw Medium Hair.” Short hair stays on the top of the head and sometimes throws a party, except when a comb comes to crash it. Medium hair often covers the ears, or extends down part of the neck. That includes my favorite hairstyle, the one that is made up of curved triangles and wraps around the character’s head, making it look really round. Its a common hairstyle in Japan both among men and women.
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