• Art,  Smart Dummies

    1 Cat 3 Ways to Shade

    I wanted to show a little bit of shading from flat colors. I used the same cat in all of the paintings and used flat colors as a base. These were all done fairly quickly in Clip Studio Paint so they are a little messy. I’ll be posting 2 more ways to shade a cat on my Patreon next month! https://www.patreon.com/SmartDummies

    The first cat was created using the crayon tool. The second with the pen tool and blurring the edges with the running color on fiber blur tool. The third is with an oil paint brush and the blur tool.

  • Art,  Smart Dummies

    Simple Character Design

    Are you ready for character design? Just grab some paper and a pencil (or have your computer program on standby and let’s get sketching! The video shows how I might do a page to figure out a character. There is lots of different techniques. 

    Full Video

    Quick Video (no sound)

    Character face designs
    Images I drew for the Smart Dummies video see link above.