TUTORIAL // using your creative spark to generate ideas (Patreon)

Here it is: this month’s tutorial! Some of you have asked me how I come up with ideas, or requested an idea generation tutorial. So for this month I wanted to make a tutorial that talks about how I implement fleeting moments of inspiration into my workflow to come up with new ideas. It’s less technical, and more mindset-based, but it also has a demo for how I make quick painting thumbnails for those who want to know the technique!

The demo goes pretty fast, so if you want to know more about the basic techniques that I use in the demo, these resources might be helpful:

• Using the lasso tool to ‘paint’ (step-by-step): https://www.patreon.com/posts/step-by-step-36570445

• Constructing a pose (tutorial): https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-38377684

• Choosing colors (tutorial): https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-colors-39277902 (this one might be especially helpful for explaining how I use color modification tools and the feathered lasso tool to adjust the colors).

And if you want to know how to move forward from this rough thumbnail into a more finalized painting, this tutorial about rendering might be helfpul: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-without-62987609

The brushes I used were:

• Macalabs HB pencil for sketching: http://cbr.sh/fg8up?ref=loish

• The hard round brush and splatter/snow brush from my own brush set: http://cbr.sh/3jq96x

And in the video I refer to a sketchbook tour, which you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sketchbook-tour-33412561

The subtitled version will be posted immediately after this post goes up! Hope you enjoy this one and as always, let me know if you have any thoughts or questions! Have a great weekend everyone ❤