[Tutorial] How to create/improve your species by ImperfectEnthusiast, literature
[Tutorial] How to create/improve your species
How to create or improve your species – An Unconventional Tutorial
Disclaimer: If you are a seasoned species owner, some sections of this tutorial may be blatantly obvious to you. However, to make sure that new species owners understand these principles they have been included in this tutorial. Feel free to skip over these parts if you wish.
What this tutorial is not going to outline is 'How to pick a unique species name' or 'How to modify a real animal into a species', or other topics in a similar vein. Those popular tutorials were the ones I read when I first started creating species. However with some insight and a lot more experie
Tutorial- How to Take Commissions by ThirdPotato, literature
Tutorial- How to Take Commissions
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STARTING
Judging your talent level
Have a realistic idea of your talent level
-Remain objective
-Poll your audience for outsider opinion
-Don't be too hard on yourself
Find your niche
Specialize in something
-Subject matter
-Genre
-Style
PRICING
Where to start
-study the market
-start lower than the competition, but don't undersell yourself (more on that below)
-offer beginner perks
How to price
-(most common) Level of Completion: Sketch, Inks, Flat colors, Sha
How to Avoid Creating a Mary Sue Tutorial by NuttyNuti, literature
How to Avoid Creating a Mary Sue Tutorial
Hiya!
While reading manymanymany fan fictions and original stories with varying levels, it popped into my mind a few tricks to decrease the Mary Sue aspects from characters. I've sorted the tricks to different categories, hope they are useful! The categories are,
- What is a Mary Sue anyway? And why people create them?
- Before creating him/her, aka General attitude
- When creating him/her
- When writing about him/her
- Notes about fan characters
- Notes about original characters
- Links to other Anti Mary Sue tutorials
Most the tricks I've mentioned in this guide are good to remember all the time. However, the tricks I've marked with a st
[TUTORIAL] How to draw 3D by PowerOfSin, literature
[TUTORIAL] How to draw 3D
Welcome to my tutorial on drawing things more 3-dimensionally!
I believe one of the key requirements to growing as an artist is being able to properly represent 3D space on a 2D canvas. Visualizing a 3D scene and then drawing it from your head is a challenge every artist faces at some point.
People approach 3D in many ways, so I will present some methods that helped me and will hopefully be of use for everyone reading, either to breach that barrier to 3D or learning a few new tricks if you are already comfortable with 3D. This will not be about higher perspectives, or special magical tricks that will make a flat looking image look 3D, but mo