Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew!

Hello and Welcome to Café mew mew!

I shall be your hostess today, let me introduce my self I’m truly also known as Mew Torte!

This club is about relaxing, having fun and most of all helping the mew artist! Here you will find special services cratered to helping anyone who needs it! I’ll be posting links to awesome web sites, resources, and art information that will sure benefit you!

Don’t worries if you just need a place to sit down to have tea and cake we’ll cover that too! Here at café mew mew we hold unique contests like fashion shows that people can compete in for unique Tokyo mew mew charms and jewelry made be me!

Oh, you want a menu of everything that happens here? Here, take a look!

• Character intros- You can post a sketch a possible fan mew and get comments and/or advice on it by me or the rest of the members of the club or just post it there if you don’t want to submit it to TheO.

• The café help line- You can seek advice to how to improve your character like the bio, costume, back-story, weapons, mew names, etc.

• Tutorials and resource discovery- I will post tutorials and guides how to make a mew (including my own). I’ll post pictures of poses, bodies, reference pictures, etc made by me. I’ll post links around the web of great stock pictures, inspiration, character development, drawing information, free Photoshop brushes and tutorials, etc so will never hit art block again and stay inspired!

• Mew repair- If your mew needs a full revamp, needs work, or you just hit a road block that you can’t go over, and you can submit your mew to get a design repair/option!

• Fashion shows- Hold themed fashion contests for members to have a chance to win custom jewelry from me!

• Mini stories. Short stories about my own mews that you don’t see often. Members can submit there’s too!

That’s just the beginning! New services and events are always around the corner, so stay awhile! :3

Tutorials and stock!

Welcome back to café mew mew! This time will be a very useful post.

Lately I’ve seen a lot of my peers talk about how they struggled with coloring in Photoshop and anatomy (even though I think they improved a LOT). But none the less both of this issues is something that a lot of artists struggle with (I always want my bodies to look like the ones in the anatomy for doctors book and fail). So I thought that this will be good time to update café mew mew!

Here are great links to anatomy, stock photos, people, poses and hugely helpful coloring tutorials!

To really bone up on anatomy just to take 15-30 minutes or however long you want a day and just sketch what you see. It doesn’t have to be perfect at all; I wouldn’t even try to shoot for a half ass good looking picture. Just getting into the flow of everything and getting use to drawing what you see is all you need and day by day things well get much easier.

Another thing is to is draw similar stock pictures or a part of a body you can’t draw well then later in a day try to draw it without looking a reference if you can, or just practice it A LOT though out your drawings. That works a lot for me.

So without farther ado here are the sites that I use and is super helpful!

http://www.posemaniacs.com/?p=623 < This one is really great for practicing a pose at all angles!

http://senshistock.deviantart.com/ < A great place to get sailor moon/magical girl poses

http://blacksockstock.deviantart.com/

http://homnoct-stock.deviantart.com/

Now for all of us coloring can be a big pain between the lighting and shadows and just where to start. The biggest thing about getting better with Photoshop is finding as many tutorials as possible and trying and experimenting. That’s what I had to do when I first got Photoshop look, learn, try out and experiment! Don’t be afraid that the picture won’t come out as you want, just practice and learn. If you go back a few pages in my gallery I wasn’t great in Photoshop at all it was like learning a new medium, which it is!

Here are the tutorials that I tried out when I first got Photoshop (and a tablet later on) that really helped me in the long run.

http://kuitsuku.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-Lineart-Coloring-Tut-56907784 < Used this tutorial to make the coloring in this picture > http://www.theotaku.com/fanart/view/277901/have_a_rave%2527n_new_year%2521

http://zambi.deviantart.com/art/How-to-color-like-zammies-40199116

http://news.deviantart.com/article/31800/

http://photoshop-tutorials.deviantart.com/

There’s plenty of good tutorials out there so always do searches on art sites and Google!

That will be all for now, I hope this post helps everyone!