I WAS JUST IN THE MIDDLE OF A SMUT FIC AO3 COME ON

chopper: nami can you pass me the salt nami:

Coming into a fandom late

proportionen…. all german… sorry, me lazy..

This was for an art contest a while back

zoro comics.......... comics about..... zoro.......

Epic Sky Fight

a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

This is suuuper bare bones but this is basically how I make space. The great thing about space is that there’s really no right or wrong way to go about it- depending on the style- just pepper in some stars / as little or as much color as you want and BLAM- space also to note (cos I’m silly and forgot to add):

step 1 is base layer

step 2-5 is all one layer

step 6-7 in one layer

step 8 is one (optional) layer

(also layer effects and references are your friend.)

(also also the other brush I used was the Uneven layering brush right above the one I have circled) I hope this helps!

MLP ONE PIECE AND NOW *FUCKING* TANGLED TRENDING IN THE SAME WEEK??? ALL MY FANDOMS ARE THRIVING???

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