Artist Cubby

WORLD WILL BE RECEIVING A RENO-JOB AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS! Thankyou for your support and patience!

Hello and welcome to MangaKid and Ikemarth's Artist Cubby!
We hope you all enjoy your time here!

This is a world Ikemarth and I have created after our dear friend Angel Satina gave us this great idea! We wanted to create a place for artists to share their methods, experiences, tips/advice, ect. Its like a club in a community where artist friends can join even closer together^^ We will be posting anything such as our own step-by-step process of creating art, tutorials, art notices/progress, cool artistic videos, before and after pics of artwork, and simple tips as well as answer any questions that you post or have! We hope everyone, including us, will learn new artistic ways and become even more creative together as we experience each others' style. For new artists, we hope to help inspire you and motivate you to continue drawing!

Note: Check out the Cubby's sister world: The Otaku Fellowship by Aryia!!
If you are looking for tutorials on how to make wallies and ecards, please visit our friend Aria Sky's cool world The Ultimate Guide to Creating.
And if you're looking for a neat project to do, check out snow fox's Collaboration Nation!
And for additional awesome art tutorials, definitely check out ekaknr's Artist Cafe!

If you have any questions, feel free to PM MangaKid or Ikemarth! We are accepting guest posters, if you feel that you'd like to join and share your tips with the Otaku!

Rules+Guidlines: -Nothing inapropriate.
-We'd like you all to shorten your posts to new pages but you DO NOT have to shorten your profiles. Please post your profiles normally. We want the other posts to be shortened though as it'll be a lot more organized that way.
-You can post a chibi at the top of your posts if you'd like, but please make sure its small (approx. 300x300 pixels. A bit bigger then that is alright too.)
-No putting down anyone or making them feel uncomfortable (of course, we're all good friends here so I don't think we need to worry about this^^)
-If you join, you are not obligated to post (even though we'd LOVE to see posts from ya!). Feel free to post anytime or not post at all. The main thing is if you enjoy the club, learn new things, and make new friends :)

Feb 16/13-Thankyou everyone!! we've hit 11,111 views^^ Keep up the great work!

~Club Leaders~
MangaKid: Profile
Ikemarth: Profile
Angel Satina: (profile to come!)

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Drawing tools

Hi again everyone, Ajan here
Im here to talk about what drawing tools you all use. Well if you have any in mind just put it in the comment section along with any techniques with them.
Well the main drawing tools I use and currently have are Pencils (mechanical, drawing 2b-8b, charcoal medium & fine, pencil crayons) Tissue, erasers, sharpeners, Ruler and charcoal pastel.

When drawing with pencils I tend to first draw whatever im drawing with thin lines first, reason is so that any mistakes you make can be easily erased and they can also be use has guide lines. Normally I would use a well sharpen 2b pencil, but I think it will be better to use a 2h pencil for that though (Though I really forgot to mention the H series pencils which are the best for thin lines, which range from 9h-2h, with 9h giving you the thinnest.

After I draw my guide lines I would start shading (in one direction) and drawing right away with the lightest part of the drawing on the left, reason is because I don't want to smudge the area I already draw/ shade, but a paper can be used between your hand and the paper to prevent that though.

For each time I shade with I type pencil, I would normally smudge that part with tissue and then go darker with a higher shade pencil and repeat.

An Eraser is really important because you can use it to draw and also for clean up as well.Its important to ensure that when erasing to check the tip your using so u wont leave a permanent smudge on the paper. Personally I would recommend a knead eraser, because instead of cutting an eraser to get in thin spaces you can form it with your hands and it doesn't make you leave smudge marks by accident.

Charcoals I usually use last (but not all the time I use it on a piece) cause its really really messy, im still practicing how to use it :P.

Well If you have any other tools and technique you like to share please post in the comment section.

And look out for my Pre-time line drawing post.

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Drawing tools

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