genuinely, you don't know how happy it makes me to see somebody use medibang as an art program. I always get a little confused and frustrated when people rely on brushes that are only available on their mediums, so seeing you only use the GPen and a few other tools makes me feel a little bit better
I use FireAlpaca as my main program, and I also get super frustrated when people's advice is "use this brush" or "use these settings" without caring to explain why things work or thinking of the possibility that not everyone has access to those tools or settings.
As a former MediBang user, it was always a lesser used program. I feel like the things people don’t use that much (anything other than Photoshop or FireAlpaca) are actually really good!
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Im trying to use these tips and do rough blending, but it is so hard in ibis paint x because I dont know any brushes to achieve the rough blending effect
I was ready to do something when suddentIy I saw your video pop up on my recommended and I said "ooooh prettyyy" and now I am 8 minutes in and I cant remember what I was supposed to do.
Maybe I'm being nitpick? But you say right alot It was alittle hard to focus, as its a sensory thing if a single word is repeated. I pushed through it though, it was hard 😭
I really like creating visual aids for my DnD characters, but I always end up with sub-par results, meanwhile stand-alone landscapes and creatures are pretty good. Do you have any tips on how I could shift over a little bit? I don't know if it matters, but I use Krita.
how do i know what different colours to pick when blending?😪 is there like a colour scheme? i also don’t know how to use colour schemes cl i don’t know sh!t
I have a really hard time with rough blending even though it’s my fave style. I have a tendency to overblend and find it really hard to be comfortable with texture in my digital pieces. I always feel like it doesn’t look good or right so I blend it out. I really wanna get more comfortable with loose blending and sketching/painting in general.
Ooh, I struggled too!! What I did was take a low opacity (around 30-40% opacity) brush and just sketch the blending out? Not worrying too much about the smoothness - I also used a low opacity (around 8%, my art program mskes it seem like a lot more than that) eraser!!
@@candacefnaflover5153 I'm not sure if you know how to shade metal now or not, but it's a more reflective surface so as said in the video so that as well would have more concentrated lights and shadows
I draw with my finger so it’s difficult to draw zoomed out do you have any tips to feel more comfortable with being zoomed out when you don’t have a drawing pen?
I draw with my finger as well, so I understand how hard drawing zoomed out is. Something you could try is using a stabilizer tool to help the lines look less shaky, or making your brushes a bit bigger to better accommodate your zooming. Practicing drawing zoomed out will definitely help, too, because practice makes progress 😁 That's really all I've got for you. Good luck with your art, and have a great day/night ❤️
If you set a headphone cover (the black bit) on a pencil you can you use it as a drawing pencil. Just use the black bit on your device it's occasionally shaky but it normally works perfectly.
Oh my goodness thank you so much for explaining this topic specifically, everyother youtuber usually skims over digital shading as if it comes with art so having a video dedicated to this means a lot
Wow this is new to me or never realized it before, thank you! Flat = No Blending *Texture = Color Picking Blending* Soft Round Brush = Soft Blending Smudge Tool = Soft but sometimes Textured depending on the brush Mixer Brush = Soft Blending with a hint of Texture
Dude thanks for this! Your videos make learning art so much easier, and it feels so welcoming and comfortable :D I've always been scared of art tutorials because of how overwhelming it can get, but yours is just perfect! The whole vibe is so nice and it's a great way to learn, you just earned a subscriber!
i'm trying to do art for a living and this helped sooooo so much!! doing really refined digital art and painting scared me so much and having it explained how it's actually done helps a tonne :)
I'm struggling so much with art and it's been really discouraging, but thankfully your vids have actually helped and I've been getting so much better!!
I usually blend and shade by using a normal drip pen brush in ibis paint, then I blur the edges to make it more realistic. I might actually start using airbrushes to blend instead, they look a lot more clean and less messy then what I do!
I usually go for a rough blending style and only use the gradient tool when I'm beginning to block out my shadows!! (I carve them out when I refine) it works for me because I add detail afterwards.
When I start to blend I kinda of have a STROKE and stop at cell shading. I dont know why, but I just couldnt do it (except in traditional mediums). Your explanation made it super clear and easy!
I dislike 'shouldn't do' type of teaching. Gradient tool shading can be done very well, it is 'ust difficult and not recommended for beginners. It's nice, too, for overlaying layers of lighting. So you wouldn't want to do ambient occlusion with gradients (or at least, good luck, more power to ya), but do atmospheric tones, a wash of warm or blue light to add temperature to a sketch. If you have nice presetys or take your time making them, you can do transitions well with them and have a lot of control over those tight transitions, whereas the airbrush and rough shading style makes it very easy for an inexperienced blender to overblend away their contrast. Often times when I see more detailed gradient shading, I usually see a mix of it with one of the other style and a lasso tool. But, basically, I have always hated hearing art youtube teachers talk in 'shouldn't's. KNKL was very good about avoiding the words and absolutes. Istebrak was awful for it, (or at least used to be), Holly Brown was awful for it. A pet peeve of mine, really.
I always stayed away from the airbrush tool because I thought professionals never used it. I guess I’ve been teaching my brain the wrong stuff for my style all this time
damnnn i love how you color! for way too long i thought people shading like that had watercolor blending brushes which they have full control of lol Nice to see the good ol' way of the eye dropper B)
I find using a (radial) gradient isn't bad in Illustrator, since you can use maybe three different radial gradients on the same object. One for the base colour, one for shadows, and one for highlights. But I'm not an artist, so take what I say with a grain of salt. EDIT: Though obviously using radial gradients is going to depend on what you're creating. If you're trying to add shadows or highlights to something that's not rounded, oval, or basically flat, then gradients might be less useful.
