What shall we learn next?📜Tutorial Poll✏️✨

Help decide on the next tutorial!!

We still have so many good options thanks to your excellent suggestions! Here they are!

• Knowing what I know now, what I would do if I were a beginner learning to do art! In this tutorial, I am going to break down what I would focus on and practice if I were approaching art as a beginner in order to both make efficient improvement and preserve the fun in the process!

• How I get back into the art flow after a break. In this tutorial, I'll guide you through how I get myself back into creating artwork and regular art practice after a break, and how my approach might adjust depending on whether it has been a long or short break.
  

• CHARACTER: Facial Proportions: Profiles (new and updated!) In this tutorial I will guide you through how to draw the human face in profile. With more experience under my belt, this will be a new and improved tutorial to the one that was created a couple years ago!

• CHARACTER: Facial Proportions: 3/4 view (new and updated) In this tutorial we'll go through drawing the human face when angled in a 3/4 view. We'll cover the proportions and how to draw the features like the eyes, nose and mouth at this angle.

• CHARACTER: Male Body types This tutorial will be about how to draw various male body types!  (similar to our female body types tutorial!)  We'll cover proportions and forms to create different body shapes.

• CHARACTER: Short Hairstyles: Let's draw some short hair and go over how it can flow and how to shape it! We'll also include very short buzzcuts.

• CHARACTER: Beards: Let's learn how to draw different types of beards, from painting a 5 o'clock shadow to mustaches to full Santa beards!
  

• WALKTHROUGH: Full process walkthrough (using procreate on the iPad) This is another beginning-to-end illustration process walkthrough. I will walk you through my whole process of creating an illustration.
  

• TEXTURE: How to Draw and Paint Scars: Add history and interest to your characters by including scars in their design. In this tutorial we'll go over how to draw and paint a few different types of scars, and we'll go over how their look can vary depending on the cause and age of the scar.

• TEXTURE: Painting Metal Armor: In this tutorial we will go over how to paint and render metal armor. I'll show you how to simply indicate metallic and reflective surfaces, and we'll also go over how to add things like wear and tear to the metal.

• TEXTURE: How to paint Sparkly and Shimmery Textures: Be it on clothing, skin, shoes or another surface, we'll learn how to paint sparkly and shimmery textures digitally! Let's add a little shine to your art!

• TEXTURE: Ways to paint Lacey Fabric: Sheer Lace fabric is a gorgeous element, that can also be a little intimidating and it's easy to get lost in all of the detail. Let's go over a couple ways to approach this type of fabric. From extremely simple (easy!) to more complex!
  

• DETAIL: How to paint beautiful Jewelry in a design without losing the details: Including elements like jewelry in an illustration or character design is a wonderful way to add interest and detail! Let's go over how to do this and do it in a way that doesn't lose all of that beautiful detail when you zoom out and look at the whole picture!

• DETAIL: How to simplify detailed items in an illustration. The goal of an illustration is not to draw EVERY SINGLE detail of every single item; it is to make decisions on how to draw and render things in a way that communicates! In this tutorial, we'll go over how I approach simplifying details and complicated items in a way that they still communicate as what they are, but don't require me to spend hours rendering every little detail
  

• DIGITAL ESSENTIALS: Guide to Blend Modes and How I use them in my Illustration Process: Blend modes are a wonderful and powerful tool in digital illustration, but they can be daunting! Let's go over how they work, and I'll show you my favorite modes and how I use them in my actual process!

• DIGITAL ESSENTIALS: Essentials for drawing and painting in Clip Studio Paint This is the perfect tutorial for those wanting to get into or learn how to work in clip studio paint as an illustrator.  I'll go over how I prefer my workspace setup and the essential tools that I use throughout my process.
  

• My Workspace, Equipment, and Workflow! Let me give you a tour of my workspace setup for optimal illustration (for me!), what kind of equipment I use for drawing, streaming, and filming, and then I'll show and explain what a day illustrating looks like for me!
  

• Making a Final Piece Pop! We'll go over some final ways to make a nearly complete illustration pop more!

• How I paint Spirits Let's have fun with drawing and painting some semi-transparent, and maybe glowy spirit and ghost characters!
  

• MAKING GOODIES: How I convert a finished Illustration into a Sticker: I typically create my stickers from my completed illustrations, which means that there is a process to separate out the character and make adjustments so that it is appropriate as a sticker design! I'll show you how I do that and the process of creating the sticker through my current preferred sticker company!

• MAKING GOODIES: How I modify an illustration and create a T-shirt design that people actually want to wear. Anyone can slap a rectangle illustration onto a t-shirt but most people don't go for buying shirt designs like that. In this tutorial, we'll go through the process of taking an illustration and modifying it so that it fits well on a t-shirt. Then I'll show you the service that I actually use to create my shirts, how to do it, and what to keep in mind when choosing the type of shirt! This will be a full from design to production tutorial and hopefully we'll have a new snazzy t-shirt ready to order at the end!
  

• Painting interesting grayscale artworks: In this tutorial we will focus on how to paint in grayscale, simplify lighting and make it interesting!

Poll ends July 7th!
Looking forward to the poll results for July's tutorial!🌸 (and hopefully I actually got all the options this time!! There are so many, that it's easy to miss one or two! Ahh!)

If you ever have a suggestion for a future tutorial, please comment your suggestion here on the poll, and we can add it to next month's poll!

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