ALRIGHT, so, I know a lot of people have trouble making eyes match. Yesterday I found out a way to make it significantly easier! Here’s a small guide.
Well, first of all, you have your face. mark where the eyes should be on it.
Then mark the corners of the eyes and go over the middle again, to make the next step easier
Alright, I know it sounds a bit crazy, but draw this shape, trying to make it as symmetrical as you can.
Draw the eyes using that shape as a guide and TA-DA! They match! For different eye shapes you tweak the angle of the two guide lines.
And it also helps with angles where the size and shape of the eye is distorted, you just put it in perspective.
I think the theory behind it is that the thing that makes it hard to make the eyes match is the angle of the corners, and this type of guideline helps make them even, which makes the eyes look symmetrical. Welp, here it is! I hope it helps someone!
Just gonna post this here so everyone can see just in case they’re interested also. And don’t worry, I don’t mind people asking me how I do stuff haha.
So someone asked me how I do those dotted gradient background like the image below so here goes~
First you make a new layer below your image
then you click the gradient tool. Make sure your foreground and background color is set to the default black and white. Then use it on the layer below your image.
Now go to Filter»Pixelate»Color halftone and click it. A window should pop-up after.
Welp there’s your window! Now change all the variables to 45
It should now look something like this! If you want the dots to have a different color then make a new layer above the dots and set the layer mode to “screen”
On that layer which is now on the “screen” blend mode fill it with any color you like using the paint bucket tool.
And there you go! I hope this was helpful :’>
AUUGHHH I’VE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT THIS DOTS BULL FOREVER OMG FINALLY A TUTORIAL AAAHH
So I love finding masterposts online, and I figured everyone else does too, so I decided to make one of my own. I’m constantly updating this/fixing links, so make sure to check back. If you need to find it, it’s linked on my navigation page.
Bored?
The Bored Button
Online Games
**psychological game, possibly triggering
Addicting Games
Girls Go Games
Super Mario
Goatlings (literally the coolest website ever. you make a goat and battle and dress it up and stuff and the options for gender are male, female, neutral, other, and hidden.)
Online Games Masterpost
Lots of relaxing games
More relaxing games
Helicopter Game
2048
QWOP
Curveball
Robot Unicorn Attack
Cubefield
Choice of Dragon
Color Tests
The End**
No One Has To Die**
Off**
The Grey Rainbow**
The Color Tuesday RPG (TCT)**
Bastion**
Coma**
Loved**
Don’t Look Back**
Thomas Was Alone**
TV Shows/Movies/Music
Hulu (watch lots of shows/movies for free, but it does have ads, totally legal)
Anime List (with subtitles)
TV Series Masterpost Blog
Lesbian Movie/TV Show Masterpost
Crackle (lots of free movies/shows, totally legal)
I put most of these here with anxiety/panic attacks in mind but they’re just simple, calming things, so they’re really good for anytime. This is probably going to be one of the longer sections, because there are so many amazing resources. This first section doesn’t have anything triggering except very small mentions of mental illness.
Ocean in a bottle
DIY microwave heat pads
Origami
Learn how to do things (masterpost)
Make sand art
Lots of soothing games
DIY relaxing glitter jar
DIY honey lavender bath melts
Soothing noise generator
The Fluffington Post
Draw a nebula
Get compliments
The Dawn Room (comfort and support)
Draw with silk
Explore space
The Thoughts Room (get rid of negative thoughts)
The Quiet Place (take a break and relax)
Get a hug
Distractions (2)
Emotional Baggage Check
Cute Roulette
Immunity cat
“To This Day"… for the bullied and the beautiful (video)
Gives Me Hope
Make everything okay
Just say yes!
Liquid particles
Paint (click for another color, hit space to clear)
Nice relaxing games
Self Harm
Simulate cutting **VERY TRIGGERING**
Alternatives
Recovery masterpost (including more alternatives)
Coping with thoughts of self harm masterpost (more alternatives here too)
Another recovery masterpost
Information/Helping Others/Self Help
This is a bit of an extension of the last few sections, but it’s basically a bunch of links that will help you help friends/yourself with anxiety/depression/eating disorders/anything like that.
With social anxiety
Info on anxiety
With depression
Info on depression
With self harm
Info on cutting/self harm
With eating/body image issues
Info on eating disorders
With a mental illness
Info on panic attacks
With a panic attack
What not to say during a panic attack
Info on (mostly physical) abuse
Info on abuse/types of abuse
How to support a friend
Self help masterpost
Helpful stuff/lots of info (includes abuse, anxiety/panic disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBT, staying positive, self harm, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts/suicide prevention, trauma and PTSD, and a section of other links)
Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US)
International Association for Suicide Prevention (includes links to find help centers/lifelines near you)
Masterpost with suicide helplines for a lot of countries
Info on suicide
Info on bipolar disorder
Info on personality disorders
Info on PTSD and trauma
7 Cups of Tea (talk to people trained to listen to you and help with your problems, completely free)
Fashion/Makeup/Hair/Beauty/Cosplay
There are a lot of crossovers so I’m just combining fashion and cosplay.
Makeup
Makeup tips (2)
What colors should you use?
How to contour
Perfect eyeliner
Applying false eyelashes (video) (pay attention this is so hard)
Perfect eyebrows (video)
Eyeliner ref
Lipstick color ref
Hair
Bun masterpost
Braid masterpost
Dip-dying your hair
Good semi-permanent hair dye
101 hair ideas
Cosplay
Learn to sew
Cosplay makeup help
Bigger eyes (video)
Latex elf ears (video)
Pointy teeth (video)
Fake blood **LOTS OF BLOOD, COULD BE TRIGGERING**
Clothes
Cheap online clothes
Old fashioned clothes
Sexuality/Gender Identity
GLBT National Help Center (US)
The Trevor Project (crisis intervention and suicide prevention for young LGBTQ+ people) **TW: MENTIONS OF SUICIDE/ABUSE/ETC**
Coming out videos/LGBTQIA+ channels
Asexuality, types of attraction, and romantic orientation
Bisexuality and pansexuality
Intersex
Human Rights Campaign coming out resources
Coming out
Transgender info
GLAAD
LGBTQIA+ terms
Gender Diversity terminology
Gender Diversity
Writing
Huge masterpost
Writing tips site (2) (3)
Names
Character name generator
Fantasy character names
Various name generators
Common surnames
Character Profiles
Character profile generator
Teen character generator
Various character generators
Characters
Manipulative
Witty
Leader
Rebellious
Indifferent/distant
Bitchy
Popular
Young
Of a different gender (different than the writer)
Character of color
With a tragic backstory
Character development questions
Underused personalities/traits
Character virtues and vices
Character trait cheat sheet
Lots of character resources (includes: narrators, backstory, general stuff, sexuality, religion/culture, disabilities, and other stuff) (also has other writing resources)
Body language
Diversity Cross Check (diversifying characters while making sure to not offend people or use stereotypes. You can get in contact with all of the people who submitted profiles.)
Story/Plot
Outlining
Creating a compelling plot
The Snowflake Method
Beginning and end, but no middle?
Coggle (free online mind mapping)
How JK Rowling outlines books
Ways to outline your plot
LitLift (online writing where you can write and share stories if you want to. It has great organization, so you can keep track of settings, items, chapters, scenes, characters, and more.)
Essays
The five paragraph essay
Writing a basic essay
Harvard essay help
Essay structure
Using quotes
Academic writing tips (very helpful)
Writing an introduction
Writing a thesis statement
Transitions
Strong body paragraphs
Paragraphs
Conclusions
Developed and detailed conclusions
Persuasive and argumentative essays
Writing about poetry
Writing an expository essay
Essay map
Research papers
Application essays
Research
Lots of stuff
Mental illness
Limits of the human body
Fighting/self defense
Writing fight scenes
Flirting
Kissing (scroll to bottom for writing tips)
Sex scenes
Issues, -isms, and privilege
Mystery/crime resource references
Gun information
Forensics for writers
List of resources
Motivation/Help
Written? Kitten!
Write or Die
Tip Of Your Tongue
Mind mapping
Cliche finder
Word frequency counter
Prompts (2)
First line generator
School
Mathway (solve math problems + get an explanation)
Scholarpedia
Effective all-nighters
Quizlet (great for studying – make flashcards and study them as well as playing games with them)
Bibliography maker
Didn’t listen in class?
Finals survival
Geography
Wolfram Alpha (solves math problems and has great research/info)
Online ruler
How to study
Study tips
Stress analyst
Learn history
Etymology dictionary
A ton of calculators (engineering, net profit, etc)
Unit conversions
Free graphing calculator
Learn to use Excel
Free Microsoft Word alternative
Writing software
Food (tw: food)
Cook with the ingredients you have
Quick and easy snacks
Healthier food substitutions
Quick and easy soup
Study snacks
Guide to chocolate chip cookies
Microwave Food (aka things to make with a microwave and a mug)
Microwave snacks
Mac & cheese
Nutella hot chocolate
Cookie in a mug (so apparently this is actually a single serving cookie you bake…)
As I promised, part 2 is finally done yayyy!!! ‘Course by no means is this the last Artistic Anatomy post I’ll be doing! I am planning on doing more so don’t worry about that (I’m thinking of the arms or the chest next, or the neck and shoulders (my personal favorite hehe)). But for now part 2 yeah! Hopefully it’s not too confusing, but if it is digest it in little bits as not to be overwhelmed! Baby steps! In the future i’ll look to see if i can make these downloadable so they’re not shit quality but for now please bare with me ;v;
But like I said in the last bit, I can only provide you with the facts, and you’ll only get better at drawing hands if you actually draw them from life and practice, observe, and especially learn to understand them. It takes initiative and self-discipline, but the result is well worth all the effort!! So just have fun and good luck! ^o^
Quite a mess, this one. I have a really bad habit of STARTING tutorials and then never finishing them.
I actually don’t think I’m at a level where I am qualified to do tutorials yet. I am still a developing, growing artist myself and I make a lot of mistakes. But I have come a long way! So I decided to share some knowledge that I’ve picked up – just very basic stuff, and encouragement!
The real joke here is the shirt I’m wearing. Props to anyone who catches on.
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