TUTORIAL // creating interesting & flowy shapes (Patreon)

Here it is: this month’s tutorial! It’s about shape design, or more specifically, creating interesting and flowy shapes. Basically, it covers how I approach shapes, and how I use them to enhance movement and appeal. I tend to approach this intuitively so in order to explain how I use shapes, I really had to dig into my influences and artistic journey to figure out where I picked these ‘automatic’ habits from! for those who find that stuff a bit tedious, the demo begins around 25 minutes in.

Here's the final result of the demo:

The brushes I use are the MaCaLabs HB pencil brush (http://cbr.sh/fg8up?ref=loish) and the hard round brush from my free brush set (http://cbr.sh/3jq96x), and also a speckle brush from that same brush set.

I also have a tutorial on constructing a pose, which talks more in-depth about the shapes I use to construct figures and how I approach gesture and line of action. You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-38377684

I used a pose by AdorkaStock as a loose reference for this image, you can find that here: https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/Sailor-Pose-39-68857379

A note about subtitles: I mentioned earlier this month that the Patreon video tool doesn’t have any options for implementing subtitles (yet). I think the best option for now would be to upload a second version of this tutorial with the subtitles baked in to the video itself. I’m currently waiting for them to come in and I will be posting a version with subtitles within a day or two! And of course every patron who is a member this month will be getting a google drive link, where they can download the video and the subtitle file. I hope this solution is ok for now! In the meantime I’m also looking into what I can do for the previously posted video files, and trying to figure out a solution that doesn’t involve re-posting 25+ videos :’) Bear with me and definitely reach out if you have any issues!

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and let me know if you have any questions!