digital painting tutorial creature concept Chimera

[d3athb3rry]

howdy, good sir! i want to applaud you for making all those videos, to show us viewers your way of painting and make it easiert to actually understand quite alot of artistic basics :D personally, i´ve already watched the most part of your uploads and am totally inspired to get deeper into cg-art :D

still i got a question, if you´d care answering, it´d be awesome :D

after filling in color into the overlay layer, did you merge it with the grayscale part?or did you put a normal layer ontop?

cheers

[idrawgirls]

@d3athb3rry NO problem. Layers? Check your inbox for useful articles. Too long to write here.

[MushiXD]

Im slowly getting better at digital art, do you have any tutorials on when to use different edges?

[idrawgirls]

@MushiXD I have articles I wrote along with images a while back.  Check your inbox

[D3MONxOFLiFE]

what brushes do you use? like the skinny one you used for the background shapes? I don't know what brushes to use

[idrawgirls]

@D3MONxOFLiFE You are missing the point. Simple rules 1) Shapes (correct drawing), 2) understanding value (light and shadow) and 3) Edges (Soft edge, hard edge and lost edge). Well, also color harmony, but that can get away without. That is all it is to it. Check your PM for more info.

[sharkdanger1]

can you give me some advice on shadows and lighting plz :)

[idrawgirls]

@sharkdanger1 Practice. ;-) Check your inbox.

[Brianpowers1992]

Do you use the mixerbrush or something to blend the colors or the smuge tool or what? =o

[idrawgirls]

@Brianpowers1992 Forget the fancy tools, they are useful but defeat the purpose of understanding. Simple rules 1) Shapes (correct drawing), 2) understanding value (light and shadow) and 3) Edges (Soft edge, hard edge and lost edge). Well, also color harmony, but that can get away without. That is all it is to it. Check your PM for more info.

[kikokoo]

what did you do to add the light at 9:00?

[idrawgirls]

@kikokoo I don't know, just listen. I said focus on value and check your PM.

[Mirmidon87]

how do you blend colors ? you seem to have some sort of texture brushstrokes while blending ?

[idrawgirls]

@Mirmidon87 check your pm

[forsakenlight77]

when you neared completion of the face, i thought it was awesome, then you showed the final pic and i was like: holy shit wtf crazy amazing!!!!

[cookieeater55555]

6:39 "Disco Bitches"?

[jmacksoni]

How do you stop colours over lapping when the are mid to low opacity

[idrawgirls]

@jmacksoni use 100% opacity

[gravesm009]

The chimeras victim dis-liked this video

[jakedamus111]

Do you separate the different tones in separate layers? How many layers would you have or do you paint flat?

[nyxeka]

how long does it take you to like, get to an "intermediate" level...

[Nicro327]

@nyxeka Depends on how much you practice. I used to draw all day >.> literally. When I woke up I would start drawing, after school I would draw, after dinner I would draw, and even in school(On the weekends I would draw pretty much all day), I would go through so many notebooks in a month it was ridiculous, kind of obsessed :o

[idrawgirls]

@Nicro327 Now that's what I am talking about. Before I get the job in gaming, that's what it take. And after...also what it is like. ;-)

[graphkid]

i like his chimera, i kinda reminds me of the one from god of war 3

[0Xss0]

Very informative, thanks a bunch! :)

[masterodst1]

do you use a sketech tablet

[philipdw2]

Grate value tip :D

[69squirter69]

must b a very creative and satisfying job u have. Very interesting video!

[xTHExFALLx]

That's a a pretty sexy lady, idrawgirls.

Bowchikawowow~ <3

[KRAKlN]

What is your style of drawing most of the time. i see that u dont have pressure sensitivity set to opacity because in the beginning u were shading with the same opacity the whole image, then you went over and over the spots you wanted to darken more.

[MrExtreMetal]

Can you please tell me what tablet (brand & model & size) you're using? Thank you.

[gamenoise25]

Awesome man

[spinnerboyz]

Do you work on the same layer all the time?

I love your paintings

[myth123123]

Dude i dont know who u r, and i just found ur page when i was just looking around for a video, i know thats crazy right, but hey i am learning animation as a career now, and i no u might get this a lot but ur paints ar amazing and i would do anything to paint like that man, dude ur awesome ....and the 1st thing i did was hit subscribe... keep up the good work...i'll be here watching..take care..peace out

[greenman1055]

Wow, that is definitely one of my favorit paintings of yours I have seen.

[Glutymax]

What do you have your pen pressure set to?? Opacity?

[Dummweltschutz]

OMG

that picture rocks :D

[88OHA]

great stuff, i'm a traditional artist learning digital and your tutorials have been very helpful. as a critique/suggestion, i feel you should learn more about colors. you have skills, no doubt, but you still have a lot of room for improvement. i feel if you learned more about colors, your pieces would be on point. great stuff still!

[TheTLTLHeadquarters]

another awesome execution.  Your art is spectacular.

[Tomymdobson]

Remindes me of Black and white 2 :)

[Nothingreallyexists]

I love how i learn more from these videos than I do in art school.

[shredfreak194]

@Nothingreallyexists soooo true i am the same way haha, i come home from school and watch one of these and do a painting and its like i wasnt at school at all haha. thanks again xiao!

[shredfreak194]

@Nothingreallyexists soooo true i am the same way haha, i come home from school and watch one of these and do a painting and its like i wasnt at school at all haha. thanks again xia!

[Huussi6]

@Nothingreallyexists You know, that's exactly what I've thought. Been watching these Xia's videos for like half a year for now, and it has already felt like few years in art school when I look back and see what I've learned during these few months. These are just pure professional teaching when Xia narrates them, the nice fact is how his narration often breaks out from the current work and focuses on "how/why to do this kind of thing in general", not "how to do this in this piece of artwork"

[C00ki3M0nsst3r]

omg good im glad you fixed the nose in the end =)

[Bdlsito]

First time I hear you mention Gesture drawing :D ,,YEAH!!!! 

[Ducaz012]

what software do you use to record photoshop?

[dunkje1]

Woah, I like this one alot! Awesome job.

Can u do a monster with a lot of teeth?

[LittleArmGoya]

(^^)

[Shiinnie]

i've seen a lot of monkey kings drawing recently, is he from some movie?

[shatterdomeps3]

@Shiinnie He is a mythical chinese figure, that has been in MANY movies books etc...

Wikipedia has a good writeup on him.

[blackbonexxx]

@Shiinnie I think you can call it manticore xD its very alike Its a legendary creature

[Shiinnie]

@blackbonexxx why but why the sudden outbreak of paintings of him?

[blackbonexxx]

@Shiinnie I dont know xD I haven't seen any :O

[Bidon45]

Have you ever released a brush pack with brushes that you use? I REALLY like the look of the brushes you use in some of your woman drawings and paintings, looks more painterly than normal PS brush. BTW excellent painting.

[DrowSkinned]

I love this one!!! Great job :)

[motokeiru]

What's with the women's voice talking non stop in the background TV? Nice painting anyway!

[idrawgirls]

@motokeiru That was my Ex-GF keep blabbing, and she can do that pretty much all day...aren't they all do that? :)

[motokeiru]

@idrawgirls

hehe they sure are.

[Bidon45]

@idrawgirls lmao hence the "ex"

[kevino025]

@idrawgirls lol, i know what you mean

[zrsasuke]

@idrawgirls Yes, yes they do :)

[FatalFlaw2008]

@idrawgirls zing!

[TaiwanIsntACountry]

@idrawgirls

those fucking bitches and whores

[mcnutty226]

@idrawgirls it jsut sounds like part of the music

[T0mat0S0up]

@idrawgirls Probably just alienated a few women from your videos ;)

[randomtroll2000]

@idrawgirls haha!

[sim725]

I watched these Just for some stuff to pick up for Art gcse :D

[SpookyFan]

Nice one.

[cemendecandy]

very very good ....

[icetea1395]

This should be a magic the gathering card D:

[shaneXD]

I love your videos keep posting ! :) Your an amazing artist!

[Theicemonkeyjr]

amazing as allways mate im still no where near as good as you but ill keep trying

[goshockrohit]

supremely amazing :)