Elixir

Tests cosmetic SHAMPOO on familiars by giving them baths and brushing them. She has managed to make A GLORIOUS SHAMPOO THAT IS THE BEST
and it smells like
idk
Bliss and Bless use this to wash other dragons with their mops despite most of them having scales.

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how to make digital art with a mouse


I'm still in the middle of questioning whether tutorials are actually helpful or not working on this for the time being, more stuff will be added later


If you wanna make stuff without a drawing tablet, here are a few proposals:

1-
transforming circles and squares
example:

this has been made by deforming the circles (just dot the default brush and you've got one) and rectangles (using the square selection tool) ok i got lazy with the stick-go-burny thing but still

objects like pillars, candles, boxes etc can fall under this


Tutorial on how to make the candle:

The software this tutorial uses is firealpaca- it's free and doesn't annihilate your computer's hardware too much

anyway, first- go file ->new

select your canvas size- I think the more detail you want, the bigger it should be
(this one is 200 px)

to make this whole thing easier, select view ->'brush size' so you can see where your brush is going


to start drawing, select the pen tool:


and make a circle by clicking on the canvas

press ctrl+t to transform it, and squish it down-

this acts as a circular surface

to make the rest of the cylinder:
repeat what you just did (but on a new layer), but keep in mind that the circle at the bottom would be bigger in this case because the eye level means that the bottom circle would be viewed from a higher level than the top


make a rectangular selection to join the two of them and fill it in- this can be on the same layer as the bottom circle, or on a new layer that can be merged down into the bottom circle's layer:

after selecting 'lock alpha channel' and coloring the two layers different colors, you'll see something like this:
that's your cylinder
for the flame- dot a white/yellow/or whatever circle, select a decent area around it, and go select -> mesh transform to deform it however you want

brush the tip yellow with the 'airbrush' option pen type and make a stick/burny thing with a rectangle or just dragging the brush up
anyway, onto the shading:
three rectangular selections were made and filled in with a lighter color- two for the shine going towards the light source, and one for 'reflected light' bouncing off it's surroundings
select 'clipping group' so this layer doesn't go outside the contents of one below it

brush the bottoms of the highlights with a low-opacity airbrush eraser- go from the bottom up for a gradient-ish look


for the dark shade, one blocky rectangle with clipping-


and that's the side of the cylinder done

for the top:

note:
I wanted the highlights of the side and the top to be connected for the sake of style- highlights on cylinder tops actually look more like this


these highlights were made individually so one could of them could have perspective added-
selection+color

transform (ctrl+t) and hold down ctrl to free transform it, like this
repeat for the other highlight and the darker shade on the other side

for the curved reflected light on the top:
place a highlight colored dot-

erase an area like this:
clip it to the top of the candle and squish it down-

hold ctrl and drag the sides to displace it as necessary

and that's it, you should be done
you can also play with blending modes and such if you want



coming soon:

2- drawing in vector

vectors are infinitely resizable graphics

the program I'm using here is inkscape

3-using paths


4-freehand