Tutorials, Resources, and Tips

[Shiay]

Hello everyone! This thread will be our go to thread so that we can help each other sharpen and improve our artistic crafts.

All tutorials and resources will be taken from user posts and will be put up here in the first post so that people don't have to tear this thread apart looking for any one thing in particular.

One thing I'd like to be making clear is that if you are posting a tutorial and/or resource, to be crediting the person or site that it comes from with a link to their page. This doesn't exactly apply if you're the person that made a tutorial.

Here's a list of allowed tutorials and resources that you can post:

Tutorials:

• How to colour
• How do make clean lineart
• How to draw [insert subject matter here]
• Lighting and Shading
• Anatomy
• Spriting
• Video Program how-tos
  
• Music Program how-tos
• Various media platform tutorials

Resources:

• Brushes
• Fonts
• Textures
• Templates
• Stock
• Music (Free to use, not copy-righted)
• Free multimedia programs

This is actually all I can be thinking up of at the moment, so if there's any other kinds of things that you think should be added to these lists, I'll add them to them. In the meantime, I look very forward to seeing any and everyone out there to be posting what it is that they use as references when they go to be doing what they do.

Art Tutorials:

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Humans:
Dynamic Poses by kisu-no-hi
Expressions by palidoozy
Hair Tutorial by shark-bomb
How I Draw Hair by ribkaDory
Tutorial: How to draw hair by cataclysm-x
Tutorial: Painting Hair Part 2 by Foxbane
Hand Tutorial by shingworks
Foot Tutorial by shingworks
Tutorial: Feet and Shoes by dyemelikeasunset
Character Design by michemagius
SKIN: a tutorial - Part 2 by navate
Various Video Tutorials by Proko

Animals and Pokémon:
Drawing Snouts by cheeziesart
Fur Tutorial by motok-wolf
Canine Paws Tutorial by ink-falcon
Bird Wings Tutorial by joanniegoulet
Bat Wings Tutorial by joanniegoulet
Horse Tutorial by Droemar
How to Draw Whimsicott by user Pandaun

Backgrounds:
Drawing Rocks by Scarypet
Water Tutorial by lisiCat
Trees by thundercluck

Lineart and Coloring:
+++Line art tutorial+++ by Norli
Basic Line Art Tutorial by Kliptopyro
Inking Tutorial for Painter by celesse
Line Art Tutorial by Larein
SAI Tutorial: Vector Line Art by SakuraChan776
:: tutorial 1 - coloring hair by lostsoulx44
Hair painting tutorial by Dianae

Other:
Gijinkas Part 1 [Part 2] by michemagius
Drawing From A Reference by NoirGrimoir
How to Draw on MS Paint by Shipuh
Photo 2 Painting by Orioto
Realism Tutorial by yumix
Simple Cloth Pattern Tutorial by budgie
Various Tutorials by FOERVRAENGD

Resources:

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DesignFruit (have resources for anything listed here, which is why they're not in a category)

Brushes:

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Brush King
Brusheezy
FBrushes
Free PhotoShop Brushes
Get Brushes
My PhotoShop Brushes
Obsidian Dawn
PS Brushes
QBrushes.net

Fonts

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DaFont

Textures

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8 New Paper Textures by hibbary
Miscellaneous Textures by kamino
PhotoShop Textures
Smoke Textures by DaughterOfSnape
Vintage Grunge Textures by Princess-of-Shadows
Texture Gallery by Sanami276

Templates

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Nothing yet

Stock

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Nothing here, sorry!

For Spriters:

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Tutorials
Making Sprites in Aseprite by apenitentone
Pixel Art Tutorial by Make Games

Resources
The Spriter's Resource

Other:

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How to make an animated GIF from an MKV file by Minus Zero
Tutorial - Making Gifs for Rotating Images and Animations using GIMP by Rainbow Cloud

 

[Underscore]

This should be helpful to newbies

 

[Morru]

Do sprite tutorials belong here?

 

[NismoZ58]

^ Yes, and I will post one.

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For this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a revamp. I will be using a Bulbasaur from the Yellow version. Let's look at it for a second:

Yuck. That needs fixing up.
First, paste the Bulbasaur and an advance-gen sprite of it into your image editor. I would like to show them side by side, but I use a layered editor (no, it isn't Photoshop) so the best I have is this:

Now zoom in, recolor and make the outlines black.

Still... Yuck. Now you get rid of the clusters of black and shade the bulb.

Then improve the shading and add some extra details.

Next, shade the outlines and you're done!

Congratulations on your first revamp!

And on the third, fourth and fifth images, you may have seen a black pixel around the bottom-right. That was my pencil tool, sorry about that.

 

[Ghost Trainer]

Heres one

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[Underscore]

Here's a trainer tutorial: http://demandincompensation.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1b00m3
EDIT: Credit goes to DemandInCompensation for the tut c:

 

[Shiay]

Here's a trainer tutorial:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs28/f/2008/062/0/4/Pokemon_Trainer_Tutorial_by_DemandinCompensation.png

One thing I'd like to be making clear is that if you are posting a tutorial and/or resource, to be crediting the person or site that it comes from with a link to their page. Remember, artists always love it when you credit them -- not to mention you'll have less angry people with you if someone wants to check out more of their stuff. This doesn't exactly apply if you're the person that made a tutorial.

What's even worse for you at the moment is that I actually know the person that made this, DemandInCompensation as we're both competitors in the Pokémon Ultimate Battle Frontier that's being held on deviantART. I'm really positive that she wouldn't like not being credited for something. :C

Keep this in mind for future tutorial and/or resource posts, please.

 

[Underscore]

What's even worse for you at the moment is that I actually know the person that made this, DemandInCompensation as we're both competitors in the Pokémon Ultimate Battle Frontier that's being held on deviantART. I'm really positive that she wouldn't like not being credited for something. :C

Keep this in mind for future tutorial and/or resource posts, please.

Ahh.. okay. Sorry about that. \I just looked on google for the picture, and found a random one xD

 

[mangomusher]

Here are some resources:

for brushes:

http://www.brusheezy.com/

for fonts: (Not sure if needed)

http://www.dafont.com/

 

[Shiay]

Lists updated with new Textures, Fonts, Tutorials and Stock links as of Tuesday, June 1st, 2010.

Remember to report any broken links to me.

 

[FullMetal]

Not sure if I can post this but, Here are my lessons on Infernos and Neons ^^

 

[Pidgeot]

Recolours:

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Hi there, and today I'm showing you how to do recolours. Now, my eyes bleed when I see a recolour where no shading is done at all, and everything is just a few colours. For example:



Isn't it horrible?

Firstly, the basics. Choose your pokemon sprite, and then choose what colours you want to make it. I'm gonna stick with Bonsly and the red and blue colours, so some good pokemon to use is...



Toxicroak!

Now that you have your pokemon that will change it's colour, and the pokemon you'll get the colour from, you can compare the colours. Just use the eyedrop tool on both pokemon, and get all the colours together.



On the left is Bonsly's colours, on the right is Toxicroak's colours. So now we've got the colours together, let's do the recolouring! Just use left click the original colours with the eyedrop tool, on right click the new colours with the eyedrop tool as well. After you've done, use the eraser, hold down right click, and hover over the original colour to change it. Slowly do with each colour into you get the finished product:



That's much better than the original attempt. Just keep on following these steps, and your recolours should be better.

 

[raychuu]

Recolours:

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Hi there, and today I'm showing you how to do recolours. Now, my eyes bleed when I see a recolour where no shading is done at all, and everything is just a few colours. For example:



Isn't it horrible?

Firstly, the basics. Choose your pokemon sprite, and then choose what colours you want to make it. I'm gonna stick with Bonsly and the red and blue colours, so some good pokemon to use is...



Toxicroak!

Now that you have your pokemon that will change it's colour, and the pokemon you'll get the colour from, you can compare the colours. Just use the eyedrop tool on both pokemon, and get all the colours together.



On the left is Bonsly's colours, on the right is Toxicroak's colours. So now we've got the colours together, let's do the recolouring! Just use left click the original colours with the eyedrop tool, on right click the new colours with the eyedrop tool as well. After you've done, use the eraser, hold down right click, and hover over the original colour to change it. Slowly do with each colour into you get the finished product:



That's much better than the original attempt. Just keep on following these steps, and your recolours should be better.

Here's a video of the eraser trick.

 

[Shiay]

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=44497 Posting that here for future reference for when I go to edit the OP with more Tutorials/Resources when I get to it -- eventually.

A PhotoShop line art tutorial by me.

 

[Wes118]

can someone add a tutorial for making pics transperent

 

[Rоulette Goddess]

does anybody know a good program i could use to make a background transparent?

i've got GIMP, but it stopped working. i used it to make the image in my signature transparent a while ago. i tried opening my new image in GIMP, but i got an error message. i tried reinstalling the software, but it froze... so i won't bother trying again, since my computer is SO slow and corrupted.

thankkkksssss.

 

[Underscore]

does anybody know a good program i could use to make a background transparent?

i've got GIMP, but it stopped working. i used it to make the image in my signature transparent a while ago. i tried opening my new image in GIMP, but i got an error message. i tried reinstalling the software, but it froze... so i won't bother trying again, since my computer is SO slow and corrupted.

thankkkksssss.

Try splashup. Ehh, I hate it, but it's easy to use. Just open your image, change the opacity to 0%, and fill in the background. Then just save it.


http://www.splashup.com/splashup

 

[Rоulette Goddess]

Try splashup. Ehh, I hate it, but it's easy to use. Just open your image, change the opacity to 0%, and fill in the background. Then just save it.


http://www.splashup.com/splashup

thanks babe, but nvm. i fixed ittt.

 

[Pidgeot]

Here's a huge colour sheet created by Captain Arcane of PC forums.

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7451/colorsfs1.png

 

[grassyjc]

i want to learn how to sprite!!! can somebody teach me?? pls..