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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.

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americanninjax

This is exactly how I do my flats.

itscarororo

This is how I do my flats! Really quick and easy!

kihuotter

This is what I do, too! Glad somebody made a lil tutorial for it :3

qualitytutorials

Admins Notes// But of course! Lovely to see someone put this together, I recently watches a stream where the poor girl used the Lasso tool around a huuuuge, detailed, feathered creature-it took damned near the whole day for her to fill it all in-I was actually going to make a tutorial like this myself to save artists sanity everywhere-but loandbehold here it is! Please share!

mosaur

ok, these guys are forest spirits in Soot & Ash’s universe, and for lack of a better name, i’m calling them Grori.
These big, flamboyant flowerpots start off as softball sized sprouts and take a few years to grow in the root systems of whatever fauna they find themselves near. The location and the plant life around them during their little hibernation influences their shape, coloration and markings pretty heavily, so theres a wild amount of variation in appearance. And although their size is pretty intimidating, most are very shy spirits and tend to keep out of sight unless their territory’s being threatened, so its rare to see one unless you’ve royally screwed up.

And Soot certainly doesn’t seem to get along with them so well.. maybe they don’t like the smell of old cinders on him, who knows.