For those unaware because staff isn’t saying it
Tumblr was deemed too full of inappropriate content to be allowed to be downloaded from the app store.
It has this “inappropriate” problem because of rampant porn ad bot accounts. The old solutions were bots to detect image sets with nsfw content, the automatically enabled safe mode, tag filtering for mobile, and wide takedowns of nsfw bots based on words used (that’s why their messages are full of numbers and symbols, to evade this)
Tumblr released their own bot supposedly capable of wiping the ad bots, but it’s taking down many popular blogs, possibly due to sheer amounts of posting or sheer amounts of ad bots in their notes. This bot was likely rushed to be put out.
You are more likely to be accidentally flagged if you post external links, as well. If your acct is taken down you CAN get it back, but it’s a pain. E-mail tumblr support for help with this. It takes down side blogs with the main ones.
I’ll be halting posts for about a week or until this problem is fixed.

Nov 19 reblog 101358

shoomlah:
itscarororo:
americanninjax:
rtilrtil:
Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster.
Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.
Full tutorial image
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This is exactly how I do my flats.
This is how I do my flats! Really quick and easy!
Worth sharing because this is exaaaaactly how I do my flats! I get this question all the time when I post my process videos, and this explains it far more succinctly than I ever could. :)
This is also how I do my flats but unfortunately with lines that are see through (or sketchier) you get a lot of jaggies all over the place. So I play with channels!
So alternatively step 1.5 is to click on the channels tab, and create a new layer. Fill the areas that you magic wand(ed) with black (leaving the characters/whatever you want to fill white). Click out of the marquee and use gaussian blur (i use 3.0 on a huge image, sometimes you need to go down for a smaller image)
Then you go to image/adjustments/levels and put in–and this is where I sound like a mad scientist–88 1.42 and 122. Which cleans up the edges so they’re pretty clean!
Then all you do is click on the circle at the bottom of the channels area (”load channel as selected) and then go back in to layers and click on a layer to load your original view again! and then do the rest of the steps. It will cause you to clean up corners a lot but it saves me a whole heck of time since i have a rougher inking style. This step takes all of 3 minutes at most but otherwise I’d have to base everything by hand :I Or spend a good 40 minutes cleaning up jaggies.
TL;DR alternative step if you have rougher/sketchier lines.
Oh! Since my lines often don’t join correctly, I create a layer underneath and fill any holes before i do selection (with “select all layers” ticked off) which is admittedly tedious but again. Way quicker than doing it by hand! So yeah if you see this and are like oh gee whiz this doesn’t work with how I do stuff, try this added step?
(this is also how to do a stroke around an image that is cleaner than what you get from the layer styles box– I adapted these steps originally from a DA tutorial on how to get clean strokes!)

Hi everyone!

Hi, it’s the person who runs this blog! It keeps growing at an incredible rate so I’m sure a lot of you by this point have never heard anything from me, so I wanted to ask some questions of you guys and kinda check out feedback. Also, for new people, let you know some of the stuff we do here.

So first off, one big thing I like to do with this blog is support smaller and/or younger artists. So if you have an artblog and would like to try to spread it, feel free to message me and I’ll make you a featured artist! Send me two of your pieces and I’ll reblog them, a small blurb about yourself for my featured artist announcement post, and hopefully it will lead to some follows.

Second, I’d really like a sense of community. So I was curious if you would be interested in adding content to this blog where if you have any specific art questions you can’t seem to find the answers to, I can post them and (hopefully) someone else will see it and be able to answer it in the replies of the post. If you’re interested in that, please, like this post to let me know if I should start!

Third, I’m not sure if many of you are also interested in writing. I have been considering posting writing tutorials to this blog as well, if you’re not interested you can probably just block the tag “writing”, however if you are, please reply to this post to let me know!!

Alright, well, that’s it! Hope you all have been enjoying this account and good luck in your future art endeavors!

Nov 10 reblog 43

#admin post #let me know whay works for u guys!

brunegonda:

Another crap thing I do to make references, if you like it I can make more tutorials but idk if someone would find sense in my crazy stuff hahaha

Anonymous: Do you any tips about using ms paint?

shitfly-deactivated20181216:

I think I have few tips
#1
Use 500x500 px or bigger canvas size. Any smaller size will make a brush look messy and shit.
Here look:
Can you see the difference?? Lineart in 600x600 px is so much smoother
#2
#3
#4
RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
YOU NEED IT
#5
*:・ﾟ✧ it’s like manga : *✧・ﾟ
that’s all tbh
i hope this was somewhat helpful

Nov 10 reblog 76948

CamScanner: a must have for traditional artists!

do-the-art-things:

hello! I recently found this rad app called “CamScanner”, a mobile app for android and iOS
what does this app do? well, basically it imitates a scanner, so even if you don’t have one, you can take real cool pictures of your drawings!
for this to work, i suggest you take a picture of your entire paper / sketchbook / etc. The app will automatically crop your picture and come out with something like this:
(sometimes it wont be too accurate, but that can be easily fixed by moving the frame yourself)
once scanned, the app will make it so your drawing looks like this:
(the app will have some presets, so you might want to mess around with those. OR you can mess with the settings yourself to get a look you desire)
this can be really helpful if you plan to color your traditional piece on a computer, or something similar.
this can even work with colored drawing, if you’d like!
original:
edited with CamScanner:
if you mess with the settings yourself, i bet you could get the picture to look better, as i did this with the presets.
anyway, i hope this helps!

Nov 10 reblog 92874

mcapriglioneart:

how to draw arms ? ?

This is my art blog @the-madames-sketchbook my blog provides plenty of learning resources for artist. :)

Nov 03 reblog 6

#submission

ellievsbear:

Hi! This is a peak into my illustration process, based on my last post.
I have divided the whole step x step into 6 parts :
I - CONCEPT
II - COMPOSITION
III - COLOR SCHEME
IV - DIGITAL PAINTING
V - ADDING DETAILS
VI - TEXTURE & ADJUSTMENT LAYERS

ellievsbear:

Hi! This is a peak into my illustration process, based on my last post.
I have divided the whole step x step into 6 parts :
I - CONCEPT
II - COMPOSITION
III - COLOR SCHEME
IV - DIGITAL PAINTING
V - ADDING DETAILS
VI - TEXTURE & ADJUSTMENT LAYERS