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Istebrak's Getting Started Drawing Series

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Istebrak's Getting Started Drawing Series

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Welcome to the Krita 4.1 Manual! - Krita Manual version 4.1

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As you learn about Krita, keep in mind that it is not intended as a replacement for Photoshop. This means that the other programs may have more features than Krita for image manipulation tasks, such as stitching together photos, while Krita's tools are most relevant to digital painting, concept art, illustration, and texturing.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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You shouldn't have to pay to find plenty of photo references.

In this section are many free ref packs.

Also check out the tools section for tools like line-of-action.com that provide free photo refs, timer function, and more.

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Marr's Board

Isabel's Poses Board

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Also includes a link to YT moving through the timed poses.

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Figure Drawing (001-015) - JookpubStock’s Ko-fi Shop

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105 full body drawing reference poses with focus on the use for figure drawing practice. Videos with timed poses are available at https://www.youtube.…

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See the individual sections for each program below, but here are direct links to the most common:

Adobe Photoshop ($$$)

Clip Studio Paint ($)

Procreate ($) Available on iOS only

Krita (FREE)

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Before posting polished works online, you should consider steps you can take to minimize the damage if it is stolen by AI.

Glaze protects your art from imitation

Nightshade poisons AI models, fighting back against the injustice.

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Free and highly respected 3D Modeling, Sculpting, and 2D/3D Animation tool.

and here's a highly rated free YT TUTORIAL series

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Free and Open Source

Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org, licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors.

For that reason Blender is Free and Open Source software, forever. Learn more

Part of the industry

Blender is a member of ASWF, Khronos, Linux Foundation and OIN. It's also well supported by major hardware vendors such as AMD, Apple, Intel, and NVIDIA.

It's about people.

Designers, developers, engineers, artists. All driven by passion. All using Blender to make an impact.

The Ecosystem

Countless communities and thriving businesses are built around Blender.

Together, these tutorial makers and content creators, add-on developers and global marketplaces form an ever-expanding ecosystem.
Find Blender Communities
Everything You Need

Cycles is Blender's built-in powerful unbiased path-tracer engine that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.

· Real-time viewport preview

· CPU & GPU rendering

· PBR shaders & HDR lighting support

· VR rendering support

Blender's comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.

· Full N-Gon support

· Edge slide, inset, grid and bridge fill, and more

· Advanced sculpting tools and brushes

· Multi-resolution and Dynamic subdivision

· 3D painting with textured brushes and masking

· Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons

VFX professionals say: "Probably the best tracker in the market". Blender includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3D scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

· Auto and Manual tracking

· Powerful camera reconstruction

· Real-time preview of your tracked footage and 3D scene

· Support for Planar tracking and Tripod solvers

Thanks to the high quality rigging and animation tools, Blender is being used for numerous short films, advertisements, TV series and feature films now.

· Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning

· B-spline interpolated bones

· Curve editor and dope sheets

· Custom bone shapes for fast input

· Sound synchronization

Story Art, Drawing 2D in 3D

Really! Drawing directly in a 3D viewport makes a lot of sense. It opens unsurpassed workflow freedom for story-boarders and 2D artists.

· Combine 2D with 3D right in the viewport

· Full Animation Support with Onion Skinning

· Layers & Colors for Stroke and Fill

· Sculpt brush strokes & Parent to 3D objects

Blender has a flexible Python controlled interface. Layout, colors, size and even fonts can be adjusted. Use hundreds of add-ons by the community or create your own using Blender's accessible Python API.

· Customize the interface layout and colors

· Hi-res/Retina screen support

· Create your own tools and add-ons

· Draw over the OpenGL viewport

· Connect with Blender's Render API

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blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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A free reference board that stays on top all windows without minimizing

(Windows, Mac, Linux)

Here's the handbook

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PureRef, the simple reference image viewer.

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Timed reference poses, lots of pics already available OR use photos from your own device!

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Decent sized update tonight. Huge thanks to all the people who have been submitting translations for the site. Happy to announce today we have a whopping 9 new languages available:
Arabian, Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Estonian, Hindi, Latvian, Serbian, Tagalog, and Tatar.

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Timed slideshow of references - Figures, animals, hands & feet, faces & expressions...

and more!

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Happy Thanksgiving to our USA users! Here comes the fourth part of the Flash Studio photoshoot with Sadeq. There's a big mix in this set, ranging from Sadeq swinging a baseball bat, swinging a lasso, chopping firewood and doing some gymnastic jumps.

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Timed poses for drawing gestures, web-based app.

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A web based app for gesture drawing, figure practice and general sketching.

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Another timed pose resource!

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Increase your ability to draw any pose

Quickposes is a tool for art students, illustrators or anyone who wants to focus on improving their drawing skills.
By practicing gesture drawing you will not only get better at recognizing certain aspects of poses, but you will also build a visual library of characters and models.

Procedure

Grab something to draw! Select the type of poses you want to draw and your desired time limit.
Try to draw the essence of the pose within the time limit. The image will change after the time limit has passed.

For a special list of images go to Challenges.
For non time limit mode use Random gestures.
For images with time limit use Timed practice.

Note: Challenges are always 20 images each session.

Examples

I believe Ryan Woodward is one the best artists when it comes to figurative gesture drawing.

Tips

Draw the essence of the pose first and work on details later.

You will get better each session but it takes time and practice.

Learn from your mistakes. If you do this you will improve much faster.

Make these exercises a daily habit and you will surely improve a lot !

Find the best drawing from the previous session and aim to beat that during this session.

Challenge yourself and choose a shorter time limit every couple of weeks.

Try to complete your drawing on time.

If you can't complete your drawing on time maybe you should change the time limit.

If your drawings are out of proportion try drawing the hips and backbone first.

Try different drawing materials from time to time.

Don't forget to have fun.

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Free image library and gesture drawing tool for artists

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Short video clips or photo sequences of bodies in motion

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Motions - Bodies in Motion’s dynamic photographic sequence library

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The Motion library contains high-resolution photographic sequences of the human body in motion. Each Motion is artistically lit to highlight the anatomy and form of the human body as it moves. Ideal pose reference for animators, figurative artists and students of anatomy. The library includes dynamic poses from ballet dancers, contemporary dancers, parkour athletes, martial artists, circus performers, as well as simple actions and figure drawing poses from models of all shapes and sizes.

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Every time we step into the photography studio, we are clear that the goal is not to get the most beautiful photos, it is that you have the most perfectly designed references specifically for drawing and painting.

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Free gesture drawing program.

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I made an open source Gesture Drawing app using the Godot game engine. You can check it out over at GitHub here: https://github.com/brodieswift/GestureAppNew v2 Update Released!Gallery ViewDrag and Drop your Images into the App!Zoom & Pan on ImageRedesigned UICustom TimersShuffle Images on LoadHorizontal FlipGreyscale FilterPin Window on TopVisual Progress Bar1 Minute Remaining Sound ChimeGesture App is a lightweight program that uses your own photo references to study, by displaying them for set durations you can create sessions similar to classic life drawing classes.Figure from example photo via https://referencepictures.gumroad.com

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Gesture drawing program Free for Android Users

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Gesture Drawing Practice - Apps on Google Play

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Improve skills at Figure & Gesture Drawing, Anatomy, Quickposes & Line of Action

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Free, ability to see musculature is nice!

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POSEMANIACS - Royalty free 3d pose reference for all artists

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POSEMANIACS - Royalty free 3d pose reference for all artists

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Posemaniacs.com is a royalty free pose reference for all artists. Our mission is “to create free learning materials for all people who want to be an artist.” We are small teams it would be great if you are happy to help us.

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New Function Ver5.0

Quickly & easily create new body types!

The Scale Tag's new Simple Adjustment Mode lets you make rough adjustments to model bodies.

Controllers are split between the left and right sides of the body, for adjusting length (buttons) and thickness (rings).
Adjust the length and thickness of parts by dragging.
Intuitively make body type adjustments, even after posing.

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Create a personalized sketch doll and make it pose! DesignDoll is a software program that can freely manipulate human body models in 3D space.

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Free 3D Model Poser

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Upload ✏️

Drop file to load into scene

Accepted types:

Image (.png or .jpg)

3D object (.obj)

Scene (.jsm)

Pose (.jsmp)

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JustSketchMe - Character posing for artists

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Breathe life into your art with the best character reference tool on the web.

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Get a free sample of Proko model photos by joining the newsletter.

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Free Reference Bundle - Pose Reference for Artists

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105 high resolution reference images for use in your personal and commercial work.Photos from 40+ of my premium packs!--In this pack, you will get full resolution images from ALL of my reference packs so far for absolutely free! You may recognise many of them as the promo images I use to promote the full packs and that I allow my social media followers to use for free, so I wanted to make them available at full resolution for those who can’t afford the cost of reference right now (or are on the fence about whether buying reference is worth it).I really hope you get a tonne of use out of these! And, for those of you who do have the means, a donation on this pack would mean the world to me (I value this pack at about $5, it’s got SO MUCH VARIETY in there, but you’re welcome to tip as much or as little as you like). I like making free resources and keeping my work accessible to as many people as possible, but it can be scary to surrender my income, and those of you who pay a little extra are directly supporting other artists by making them financially viable for me to make. BUT, please feel no obligation. If you want the pack for free, then go claim that pack for free without a moment’s hesitation and consider it a very happy thank you for supporting my work <3.--While credit is not required, I love to see how you use my photos and share your creations with my followers! Tag me on Instagram (@imrachelbradley).--Licence Information:This license does not cover redistribution of any kind, but if you get in touch, we can arrange a licence that’s suitable for you. If you’re an artist, teacher, school, studio, or anyone with a vision to collaborate, drop me an email at rachel@imrachelbradley.com!

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Drawing digitally, you don't have any friction from the digital media. Stabilization can help simulate that.

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The Brush Stabilizer - Krita features explained

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3D Models

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Use Sketchfab to publish, share and embed interactive 3D files. Discover and download thousands of 3D models from games, cultural heritage, architecture, design and more.

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Pose 3D model

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A highly dense (and mildly irreverent) series of lessons on all things art fundamentals. (No interns are actually being unpaid or mistreated in the productio…

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It can be really hard for a beginner to even start looking for art that they can turn to as inspiration or artists whose style they admire.

Imagine you want to do an art study and look up "girl with dog" for example. Or even "Ariel from Little Mermaid." You may be recommended an AI work that is NOT suitable to study.

This artist directory helps beginners identify experienced artists whose style resonate with them and at the same time increases visibility for artists.

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User Community of CSP tips, tutorials, and more.

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Make better art | Clip Studio TIPS | Sharing creative knowledge

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Learn how to create character art, manga, comics, webtoons, animations and other forms of digital art to elevate your creativity. Get to know the Clip Studio Paint app and learn from the best around the world.

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Procreate is the most advanced painting app ever designed for a mobile device. Created to work in harmony with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, Procreate gives you the feeling of real-world drawing with the power of digital art.

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Learn everything you need to know about Procreate in the official user guide.

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From your favorite anime/shows/artists and illustrators

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IMPORTANT NOTE: We wish to emphasize that our Visual Library is in no way intended to supplant, replace, or offer an alternative to formal art education. The resources presented here are simply meant to serve as a complement, a source of inspiration, and a catalyst for your creative journey, a tool to be used to augment your artistic journey, broaden your creative horizons, and fuel the flames of your imagination. To embark upon the path of artistic excellence, one must recognize the significance of robust artistic training, a voyage that begins with a firm grounding in the art fundamentals. We recommend you immerse yourself in the elements of art and acquaint yourself intimately with the interplay of color, shape, line, texture, and form, possibly under the guidance of a mentor. By doing so, you will allow the principles of design to shape your artistic sensibilities. Combine this with the power of daily practice and the ardent pursuit of live and gesture drawing, as these exercises forge a profound connection between your hand, eye, and imagination.

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Studying the work of other artists can be an incredibly useful tool to help you in the further development of your artistic skills. Our visual library offers a quick way to access to an extensive and carefully researched collection of model sheets, concept artworks, sketches and tutorials from estab

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Artists directory is work in progress but check this out in the mean time

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Here at CharacterDesigns.com we provide resources for anyone from brand new designers to veterans in the industry - references for poses, weapons, monsters, style, and more. Stay tuned as we add more!

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Here at CharacterDesigns.com we provide resources for anyone from brand new designers to veterans in the industry - references for poses, weapons, monsters, style, and more. Stay tuned as we add more!

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(NSFW) 110 Drawing Photo

(NSFW) 32 images Figure Drawing

(NSFW) 250+ Gesture Figure

230+ Facial Expressions

"GUN GIRL" female refs

350 daily sketching female

300 Hands refs

400 athletic female poses

(NSFW) 380 Romantic Female Poses

"Groom" Refs (hairstyle, eyebrows, eyelashes)

(NSFW) Human Anatomy - Male

(NSFW) Human Anatomy - Female

(NSFW) Human Anatomy - Female 2

(NSFW) Rope & Climbing Poses 280

(NSFW) 50 topless female poses

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ArtStation - Human Skull Anatomy Tool | Resources

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Resources - Human Skull Anatomy Tool, USD $0.00. Highly detailed Skull model with split Mandible and Teeth. “Planes of the Skull” version is also included.Meshes in OBJ format. UVs and textures are NOT included:…

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ArtStation - Free E-book: Human Anatomy for Artists - Comprehensive Handbook of Visual Reference of the Human Skull | Tutorials

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Tutorials - Free E-book: Human Anatomy for Artists - Comprehensive Handbook of Visual Reference of the Human Skull, USD $0.00. This e-book was designed to help you master skull anatomy and enhance your portrait…

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Sampler packs provide a few free images for you to test out the quality of a larger reference pack.

sampler Female Hands & Legs

sampler Female Portraits

sampler Assorted Figure Poses

(NSFW) sampler Male Human Anatomy

sampler turntable reference male

sampler Hand poses

sampler male poses

sampler (50 images) mermaid poses

(NSFW) sampler tempting female poses

(NSFW) 12 sampler 300+ Female Pose

(NSFW) 12 sampler 280+ Wide Angle

30 sampler 400+ Male

sampler (statues, sculptures, reliefs, pillars, vases, pots, trims)

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FREE learning programs/resources listed first, then PAID will be marked as such. I am not endorsing any program.

This section is for resources that cover multiple topics.

Scroll dedicated sections by subject and the "Books" section.

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Many helpful subreddits out there:

r/learnart

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"Make sure that you're learning is balanced, and takes you where you want to go.

Your art journey is similar to learning music: if you only learn the scales and theory, then you understand the rules. But that doesn't mean you can make enjoyable music from what you know. At the same time, if you don't know any rules of music, you may just be making trash.

There's middle ground in there, where you know just enough to get you to where you want to go, while still breaking boundaries and exploring cool things spontaneously (like accidentally playing a modal scale in a different key).

So - if you only learn the rules of your art, you won't know how to explor it creatively. If you only focus on creative exploration, you won't learn how to create effectively within the rules of your artform."

Play with child-like wonder

Do what pleases you from time to time, and draw what you like. Practice composition, new techniques, and new mediums. Explore what you learn with personal projects.

Observe like a painter

Sculpt your images. Practice shape design (painting, expressive pencil drawing). Watch and listen to Marco Bucci and Sinix to elarn more.

Think like a draftsman

Balance the rest by studying hard principles to elevate your creative exploration. Watch and listen to Scott Robertson, Feng Zhu, and Kim Jung Gi to elarn more.

Navigating the curriculum

The curriculum is based on the struture of Marc Brunet's "ARTSchool", so if you like it you may want to check out his own course.
Overall however, the Solo Artist curriculum has a much higher emphasis on

You may find the subject material front unit to unit seemingly random. This is by design - so that you don't go mad driling perspective for 2 months at a time.

If you want to swap a unit or term around feel free to do so. This is merely a guide for a structural approach to self-teaching.

The intended purpose is to balance a foundation of technical perspective and creative learning, so that you may learn to draw anything from imagination.

Feel free to divide this curriculum to take however long you'd wish. I've planned it this way to
provide a tangible structure for how long to stay on each unit before moving on.

Figure drawing I

Figure drawing Fundamentals, Proko Premium

YouTube

"Figure drawing for all it's worth"
Andrew Loomis

Challenge

30 days of Croquis Cafe Gesture Sessions (Vimeo)

Composition & Storytelling I

Creative Composition, SVSLearn

Youtube

"Framed Ink", Marcos Mateu-Mestre

Challenge

Thumbnail 50 favourite movie scenes

Watch Sycra's video "Iterative Drawing" and iterate on 5 compositions, 10x each

Anatomy I - The Head

Understanding & painting the head, Marco Bucci

YouTube

New Masters Academy

Challenge

Ahmed Aldoori's 100 head challenge

Perspective II

Drawabox.com Lessons 4-7

Challenge

Drawabox.com 100 Treasure Chest challenge

Rotate 50 boxes and 50 cylinders

Anatomy II - The Torso

Anatomy of the Human Body for Artists (Torso), Proko Premium

YouTube

"Figure Drawing for All it's Worth", Andrew Loomis

"FORCE: Dynamic Life Drawing", Mike Mattesi

Challenge

100 exagerated gestures

Perspective III

"How to Draw", Scott Robertson

Challenge

Drawabox.com 25 wheel challenge

Rotate 50 boxes & 50 cylinders

Anatomy III - The Arms

Anatomy of the Human Body for Artists (Arms), Proko Premium

Challenge

100 hands

25 rotated heads

Clothed Figure Drawing

Clothing & Drapery w/ Glenn Vilpu, New Masters Academy

YouTube

Cubebrush Artschool (w/ Brushboost Sub)

Challenge

30 Day Clothed Figure Gesture Challenge

20 - 30 minutes

Colour & Light I

"How to Render", Scott Robertson

Challenge

50 Still-Life Lighting Studies

Examin lighting in drastically different setups

Use a lamp and change the position over the subject

Perspective IV

moderndayjames Visual Library

"Framed Perspective I: Technical Perspective and Visual Storytelling", Marcos Mateu-Mestre

For Mech Drawing

Challenge

100 Rotated Objects (based on mdj's Visual Library videos)
or
100 Unique Studies (machinery, vehicles, Plants, Animals)

Anatomy IV - The Legs

Anatomy of the Human Body for Artists (Legs), Proko Premium

Challenge

100 Feet

100 Studies of interacting characters - figure drawings of at least 2 figures interacting in a scene

Intro to Animals

FORCE: Animal Drawing, Mike Matessi

Aaron Blaise (pick one)

Challenge

30 day Gesture Sessions of Anmals, change the type of animal each week.

4 legged animals

aquatic animals

flying animals

big, small reqtilian, etc

Colour & Light II

"Colour and Light", James Gurney

Challenge

150 Color Replication Studies

or 50 Color Variation Studies

50 subjects, drawn with 3X different colout palettes

Character Design

Character Design w/ Aaron Blaise

Challenge

moderndayjames' 100 Expressions Challenge

50 Character Design variation Studies

50 subjects, 3 variations each

Composition & Storytelling II

Pictorial Composition w/ Nathan Fowkes, Schoolism

Challenge

50 Compositions including figures

2 total variations

Change colour, perspective, and composition

100 environment Colour / Composition Studies

Pick movie shots that tell a story in a single frame

Perspective VI

Krenz Cushart's Gumroad Bundle

Challenge

Draw 100 figures in perspective

Rotate 50 figures a full 360 degrees

Draw 50 compositions of figures in extreme perspectives

Anatomy V - Imagination

"Figure Drawing: Design & Invention", Michael Hampton

YouTube

"Constructive Anatomy", George B. Bridgeman

Challenge

50 Character Designs

3 Variations each w/ varied anatomical proportions

or invent 100 Figure Poses

50 Calm Poses

50 Action Poses

Next level: Rotate these poses 3x each

Perspective VII

moderndayjames "Becoming a Gi" Series

Challenge

As many studies as possible from imagination

Environment Design I

Challenge

100 Landscape Thumbnails

Create 1 deviation for each thumbnail: colour, shape design, biome, time of day, composition

Optional: Create 10 full works based on your thumbnails

Environment Design II

Environment Design Course, James Paick (Gumroad)/a>

Challenge

100 Environment Thumbnail Studies

Make at least half feature figures, animals, or some additional subject

Painting I

Digital Painting 1 + Brushwork Techniques, Marco Bucci

Challenge

50 value studies

50 colour studies

Limit time to 60 minutes each

Optional: Develop traditional painting habits. Paint on only one layer, with no undo

Anatomy VI - Caricature / Animal

The Art of Caricature w/ Court Jones, Proko Premium

Challenge

100 Caricatures

100 Animal Studies

50 Creature Designs (after completing at least 50 animal studies)

Painting II

Digital Painting 2 & 3, Marco Bucci

Challenge

50 Value Studies

50 Colour Studies

Limit time for both to 60 minutes or less

Optional: Develop traditional painting habits. Paint on only one layer, with no undo

Painting III - Matte Painting

Art Camp: Enviroment Concept Design, Titus Lunter

Cubebrush ARTSchool

Schoolism

Challenge

10 Matte Painting Studies (include Photobashing)

If you're unable to photobash, 10 Full Works of Normal Painting

Personal Project

"The Skillful Huntsman", Felix Yoon, Khang Le, Mike Yamada, & Scott Robertson

Challenge

3 Personal Projects

Concept

Visual design

Multiple perspectives

Colour variations

Character variations

Environment variations

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Learn to draw and paint - Art curriculum for the self-taught artist

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Drawabox | A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing

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A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing. We tackle drawing in a logical, analytical fashion inspired by concept artists and industrial designers, focusing on technical skills that can be developed with hard work and determination.

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FREE - How to Draw (webtoon by Littlepink Pebble)

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FREE - How to Draw (webtoon by Littlepink Pebble)

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comic book format how to draw :3

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Years ago I could only draw stickmen, now I can draw and paint anything, so here are all my secrets! It’s a fun project so the art may be lacking, but hope the information helps anyone interested in learning art or thinks that art is too hard. Stuff that took me years to learn, I’m sharing it all for free! Enjoy!

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Many, many lessons out of the available courses are free, check out the Drawing Basics course first.

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How it works Learning to draw should be fun and inspiring.

Practice Most lessons have suggested assignments and examples to help you practice.

Get Feedback Get your drawings evaluated by peers and pros. Feedback helps you improve quickly.

Talk with Classmates Help each other grow by asking questions, critiquing, and discussing everything about the lessons.

Our courses have hundreds of free lessons When you're ready, get the premium version of the course for extended lessons and extra features. all courses

Recent Student Work Our community is filled with dedicated students producing awesome work.

Fun and Informative Lessons Our lessons are entertaining, yet very educational. When you're having fun, you learn better! all lessons

newsletter subscription Subscribe to the Proko newsletter to get a FREE art model sample pack! Also, stay updated for the latest art lessons, events, product announcements, and much more.

Tools to Help You Study Supercharge your studying with reference photos, sculptures and apps. all tools

Meet our instructors We make teaching fun and interesting, and the results are rewarding!

All Instructors

Wanna be a proko instructor? If you're an experienced artist and teacher, we want to work with you. Join our team to reach a wide audience and make some money. Become an instructor

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Proko - Learn How to Draw with Fun Tutorials

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FREE (& paid) - Love Life Drawing Community

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PAID - Marc Brunet's Art School for Digital Artists

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PAID - Marc Brunet's Art School for Digital Artists

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Welcome to Art School for Digital Artists! Want to learn art as a complete beginner or take your existing art skills to the next level? You've come to the right place!

The ART School program is a complete college-like curriculum from home for those looking to get the best art education possible - at a fraction of the cost you'd normally pay in traditional institutions.

It's the only program of its kind online, 7+ years in the making.
You will learn all the essential skills needed to get ahead in the crowded digital art industry with a curriculum packed with content you actually need and none of which you don't.
I've gathered countless curriculums from traditional art schools all around the world, put together the best part of each and added some key classes you'll need (yet normally won't find) based on my 20+ years of experience in the art industry.

The result is a massive program I've split in 10 terms with a natural progression from simple notions to more complex topics.

Included:

▶️ Video files for all 30 classes (stream or download)

📜 Assignments

📕 Weekly Study Companion Guide (23 pages PDF)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Private Discord community access

📦 Bonus files

⌛ Lifetime access

🔮 All future updates and additions for free

💬 English subtitles (more languages coming soon)

Tools needed:

🔧 Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint or equivalent (Procreate, Krita, Sai, etc)

💻 Drawing tablet

🖐️ Your hands!

✅ I guarantee you'll love ART School but if you're not sure this is for you, grab the new ART School Trial first to see if it's a good fit!

❌ (There are no refunds for the full program)

⚠️ This is the self-learn version of the program. For mentoring consider the ART School Feedback Upgrade

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Renaud Galand, Lead Character Artist @ Blizzard Entertainment (Overwatch) - "After 2 years (!) of insanely HARD WORK, my buddy Marc finally finished something that I consider to be hands down THE BEST "all-in-one" art class you could find for the price. I've worked and known Marc for close to a decade now and his level of drive, research, dedication and quality in everything he does is some of the most insane I've seen in the industry.. TLDR; It's awesome and there is something for everybody so check it out."

Fausto De Martini, Senior Illustrator on Avatar Sequels @ Lightstorm Entertainment - "Given the fact he is an amazing artist and Cubebrush is a fantastic platform, this new class is a must for those who wants to learn from the best teacher out there!"

Simon Fuchs, Senior Artist @ Valve - "Check out my friend Marc Brunet's Art School project. This is an amazing amount of content for the price and any art student would be a fool not to look into it!"

Josh Singh, Art Director @ Top Free Games - "I don't plug things lightly. But I really want to make this visible to artists looking to brush up fundamentals or artists looking to get started creating a portfolio you can use to get work. Marc Brunet is one of the most meticulous artists I know and a great teacher. This program is absolutely amazing."

Clayton Barton, Founder @ HowtoDrawComics.com - "Most notably, Marc has just completed his hit course 'Art School' - a carefully structured curriculum of lessons that promises to give you the same education you'd expect to find in a traditional art school for a fraction of the price."

I've created a ton of tutorials over the years - ART School is the one I've always wanted to do but never had the time (or skills). This is the project I'm the most proud of in my life so far, can't wait to take you along for this epic art journey and introduce you to the amazing world of digital arts!

Latest Updates:

👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 25,000+ students enrolled, join our community on Discord!

I'm a complete beginner at art with no prior drawing experience will this program work for me?

-YES! It's a complete art education starting from the basics. It's ideal if you have no experience, some experience or even a lot of it (many working pros have it, great to refresh the fundamentals)

What software is required?

-I recommend Photoshop but any painting software will work great (Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Krita, etc). For the 3D portion, you can either skip it or download a trial for ZBrush, that should be plenty enough!

If I purchase this, can I upgrade to the version with feedback later?

-YES, you can find the upgrade option here

Do I get a certificate after completing the program?

-Yes, you get a signed certificate as proof of your achievement!

How do I enable the subtitles?

-The subtitles are enabled from the Cubebrush video player, while watching from your account Library. They cannot be downloaded.

Table of content:

🎨 TERM 1 (8h46m total)

Nude Figure Drawing

Perspective 1

Photoshop for Digital Prod 1

Visual Communication 1

🎨 TERM 2 (9h19m total)

Visual Communication 2

Photoshop for Digital Prod 2

Perspective 2

Anatomy 1

🎨 TERM 3 (11h35m total)

🎨 TERM 4 (8h42m total)

🎨 TERM 5 (13h30m total)

🎨 TERM 6 (7h52m total)

🎨 TERM 7 (6h06m total)

🎨 TERM 8 (10h47m total)

🎨 TERM 9 (9h20m total)

🎨 TERM 10 (4h05m total)

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Part 1 (Basic Skills & Sketching Accurately)

Part 2 (Covering Perspective & 3D)

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Alan Becker (animator)

Proko (artist & teacher)

Love Life Drawing (teaching life drawing)

Marc Brunet (artist & teacher)

SamDoesArts (digital artist)

Stephen Travers Art (urban artist & teacher)

kuroshiro (anime artist)

Naoki Saito (illustrator)

S. Michael Hampton (artist, teacher)

Ross Draws (artist, content creator)

Ethan Becker (animation, teacher)

Chommang_drawing (artist, how-to-draws)

Glenn Vilppu (artist, teacher)

Hanacue (digital artist)

The Art of Aaron Blaise (artist, animator)

Ada Blue (multimedia artist, illustration)

Scott Christian Sava (artist)

LinesSensei (artist, teacher)

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Drawfee (artist, content creator)

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Dan Beardshaw (artist, perspective)

dannydrwing (watercolor artist)

David Finch (comic artist, tutorials)

Draftsmen (art podcast)

Drawing Tutorials Online (teaching)

Kaycem (character design)

Kyle T Webster (digital artist, designer, brush maker)

Lighting Mentor (Jeremy Vickery, artist)

Louie Zong (animation, music)

Louise De Masi (watercolor artist, teacher)

Mallery Jane (watercolor artist, tutorials)

markcrilley (illustrator, author, how-to-draw)

Paint Coach (painter, teacher)

Paul Heaston (artist, shorts)

Philip Urlich Art Channel (artist)

pikat (artist, content creator)

pjartworks Patrick J. Jones (painter, concept artist, teacher)

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Sinix Design (artist, tutorials)

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Find out how to combine the expressive, loose concept of gesture, and the scientific structure of anatomy to create inspired and informed figure drawings.

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This is the start of a series of lessons designed to help you build a solid foundation of life drawing skills, with the end goal being expressive drawings in your own style. We'll go through a straightforward and doable drawing process and a set of exercises designed to help you develop the skills in those lessons.

After this lesson... you'll understand what this course is about

You can watch this lesson in this video, or read it below.

The lessons and exercises come from Mayko - an award winning artist and figure drawing expert, and me, a life drawing student that understands the challenges, because I'm still going through them everyday.

You'll only really improve through practice, so to make the most of the mini-course, you'll need to do the exercises and general figure drawing practice regularly.

Before getting into drawing techniques, we need to talk about the learning process itself.

First steps

With drawing, the information to practice time ratio is insane. It can take 10 minutes to take in a piece of how-to information, and then take hundreds of hours to actually be able to do that thing well.

So if you take in a large variety of technical advice quickly, you are creating a huge burden of practice debt for yourself.

The tricky thing is that there is so much information out there. Not only is there a large quantity, but a lot of it is advanced and requires a solid foundation before it'll be useful.

There's videos detailing expert artists' drawing processes, 'everything you need to know about perspective' books and 'comprehensive anatomy' video series and so on.

Many of these are brilliant and extremely useful. Experts have so much information and skill, and they want to show it all to you, which is really generous of them, but there's a couple of problems.

But there's a phenomenon called the 'expert blindspot', where experts forget all the steps - the temporary failures, bad practices and repetitions - that they needed to get through on their own journey.

The second difficulty is that with so much knowledge out there, it's easy to forget that you are also aiming to be expressive and go beyond just technique towards creativity. The freedom of your lines, your unique observations and your own aesthetic style can suffer if you're consumed with technical knowhow and academic correctness.

Mayko and I struggled with this as she tried to teach me - she didn't realise all the little things I didn't know, the steps I needed to take before I could learn more advanced things. Beautiful art demonstrations would leave me a bit inspired, but also lost when it came to actually draw.

We have worked through that, and we've created this little beginner course, where we can take our first steps together at a challenging but doable pace, and have a good time while we do it.

The big adventurous journey

Learning to draw isn't a sprint, or a marathon, it's a big adventurous journey.

We have a rough idea of where we want to go, but we don't need to know every detail of the journey yet.

We may be tempted to try to teleport straight to the destination, but a) it's not possible and b) where's the fun in that?

We just need to start taking steps, and also know the next few streets to walk down.

So what are those first steps?

If you are at the start of the adventure, we would suggest you spend a lot of time learning to build your drawings, rather than print them. This means not trying to draw the figure in detail bit by bit, like a printer would.

Instead, approach it like you're building - start with a very rough plan, and then build a basic foundation.

Then start to flesh out the drawing with a focus on the most important lines and shapes, still keeping things very simple. Finally, add the last little flourishes of detail.

In other words, develop your observational skills so that you can simplify what you see into the most important shapes and lines, starting with the most fundamental, and simply and slowly adding layers with increasing levels of information in them.

This building process is what this 'first steps' mini-course is all about. We are aiming to give you some doable technical advice, and coupling it with plenty of practice so that you can actually 'get it', before moving to the next step.

It'll only work if you regularly undertake the exercises we've designed for you. It'll require a little patience, but we'll be taking real steps pointing squarely at your goal together.

Try not to rush the process. Each skill needs time and practise to develop.

We are going to add more exercises and additional lessons to supplement this course, so be sure to stay up to date with what we're making for you by subscribing to our YouTube channel, our newsletter below, our Facebook page and our Instagram page. Thanks for watching!

Next lesson: Lesson 2: Movement lines

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True Grit Texture (free sampler)

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(this is a referral link, cuz I'm shameless. You might also look at Padlet/Padlet Sandbox which is being used for this Art Resources Board!)

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Scott Robertson has almost two decades of experience teaching how to design, draw, and render at the highest college level. He has authored or co-authored 11 books on design and concept art. In addition to books, he has co-produced over 40 educational DVDs with The Gnomon Workshop, of which nine feature his own lectures. For several years, Scott chaired the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design. He frequently lectures around the world for various corporations, colleges, and through his own workshop brand, SRW. In addition to teaching, Scott has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from vehicle and alien designs for the Hot Wheels animated series Battle Force Five, to theme park attractions such as the Men in Black ride in Orlando, Florida for Universal Studios. Some of his clients include the BMW subsidiary Design-works/USA, Bell Sports, Giro, Mattel Toys, Spin Master Toys, Patagonia, the feature film Minority Report, Nike, Rockstar Games, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Buena Vista Games, THQ, and Fiat to name just a few.

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When you're painting or drawing, you don't want to spend half the time hunting and scrolling for that brush you want in a long, messy list.

If you only have a few brushes, you'll probably get by. But there comes a point when you accumulate so many brushes from various sources- brushes and brush packs you download, or ones you make yourself- that it can get a little overwhelming.

Some people just learn to avoid switching brushes because they assume it'll always be inconvenient (other programs don't provide a lot of options when it comes to organizing your brushes and keeping the important ones within reach).

Luckily, Clip Studio Paint actually gives you a pretty good amount of flexibility for organizing your brushes and tools and setting shortcuts. And a little reorganization and a few shortcuts go a long way in making brush-picking a task you don't even have to think about.

So I'll outline some tips here to get you started on some simple brush management.

I'll talk about 1. organizing brush groups, 2. setting shortcuts, and finally, 3. reusing shortcuts and reordering groups to make your brush-picking lightning-fast.

1. In Clip Studio Paint, brushes are organized as tools, tabs and brushes

Formally: Clip Studio Paint calls these the buttons on the toolbar on the left Tools. The tabs on top Sub tool groups. And the brushes are called Sub Tools.

To make things simpler to understand, I'll call these Tools, Tabs, and Brushes respectively. I'll use sub tools and brushes interchageably, where it's clearer that sub tools can also be things like rulers and shaped lasso and variations of paint bucket.

Every brush belongs in a tab.

Every tab belongs to a tool.

Each tool can have several tabs. Each tab can hold several brushes.

The [Tool] palette/sidebar also has separators. You can split tools between separators by dragging a tool onto an existing separator. A red indicator will show a long horizontal line over the separator to show that it will make a new one.
You can group brushes into tabs.
To make a new group: drag any brush into an empty space above the brush list. You can also drag it to the tiny space between existing groups. A red indicator will show where the group will be created.

To move a brush to an existing group: drag that brush onto that group's tab. A red box will show where the brush will go when you release it.
You can change the order of these tabs by dragging them like tabs on a browser. You can make NEW tools in the [Tool] sidebar.
Make as many tools as you sanely want.

To make a new tool: drag any brush tab into an empty space on the [Tool] sidebar or between existing tools. The red indicator will show where the new tool will be inserted.

Dragging an individual brush to the [Tool] sidebar will also make a new tool and a new tab for that one brush.

Both individual brushes and brush tabs can be moved between existing tools in the [Tools] sidebar. The red indicator will show up as a red box around the tool to show where the brush or brush tab will go when you release it.

2. Now for Shortcuts!

You can set shortcuts for tools, tabs, and specific brushes.

Go to File>[Shortcut Settings...] (in Windows). And choose "Tool" under the Setting area dropdown.

Choose "Tool" under the Setting area dropdown.

Like other programs, you can set shortcuts for tools.

But Clip Studio Paint also lets you set shortcuts for individual brushes and tabs.

Here's where shortcuts become really powerful

3. Reusing Shortcuts and reordering tabs and brushes
You can reuse the same shortcut for different brushes. Pressing the key repeatedly will cycle through those brushes.
For example, if you assign the | key for multiple different rulers, pressing | key repeatedly will cycle through the different ruler sub tools.

The order they're cycled through depends on the order of the brushes in their list.
You can also reuse shortcuts for tabs. Pressing the key repeatedly will give you the same cycling behavior.
For example, if you assign the R key for watercolor tab, and also for the acrylics tab, pressing R repeatedly will switch you between watercolors and acrylic tabs.
The order they're cycled through depends on the order of their tabs.
This means after you organize your brushes into tabs, you can give similar tabs the same shortcut key.

And depending on your needs at the moment, you can reorder your tabs and brush lists according to what you want your shortcut to give you immediately.

For example: for one task, you may want your F key to be primarily for painting using a plain, smooth brush. For your next task or next painting, you may want "F" to use a grainy brush. Instead of having to dig through the shortcuts all the time, you can just reorder your tabs and lists to have easy reach for what you want at the moment, then easily change the order again later when your task or technique or style changes.
Using this can also free up your other keys for other tools.
For example, L can be used for the Lasso selection tool. But you can also use L for the rectangle select and polyline select tools. This can free up your M key for use with mixers and blenders.

Just having that key for blenders can open up possibilities for you to use an efficient and no-stress paint-then-blend technique.

In summary...

Group your brushes into tabs and tools according to any category scheme that makes sense to you, so if you know you need something, you'll instantly know where to find it.

And for brushes or tools you use most often, set key or button shortcuts to help you easily reach them without even moving your pen away from your canvas!

When you reuse keys for multiple tabs or brushes, the order of the tabs and brushes will change the order the shortcut cycles through them. So change them as often as you want depending on what you're doing.

FAQ / Extra tips
I don't use these brushes anymore. How do I delete several brushes at once?
If you want to delete several brushes at once, group those brushes into a tool, and delete that tool.

If you right-click on a tool and choose [Delete tool...], it will delete all the brushes under it. Be careful! Make sure you have a copy of your important brushes.

Sometimes you want to get rid of a brush you don't use much but don't want to delete it yet. You can move those brushes to a "Recycle Bin" tab or tool so they're out of your way but you can dig them up if you need them.
I like the settings on my brush. How do I prevent it from being lost?
Sometimes you edit an existing brush and don't want to lose your settings.

If you fiddle with your settings and get it just right for your needs, but don't want to lose your original brush, you can use [Duplicate sub tool...]. Just right-click on a brush to access it.
When you like the settings on your brush, make sure to use [Save as default]
In addition to duplicating the brush, you can use [Save as default] to save your current settings as the brush's default. You can use [Reset to default] later to restore those settings you saved.

If you want to back up your special brush, you can right-click that brush and choose [Export sub tool...]. Save it to Dropbox, Google Drive or some other online storage/backup service.

Thanks for reading!

That's all the tips I have for now. Happy drawing and painting!

For more Clip Studio Paint brush tips, you can follow me on Twitter @PharanBrush

I also make paid and free brushes for Clip Studio Paint! Check them out here: https://ko-fi.com/pharanbrush/shop

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