When Moonflower was 11 (2022), she put together a video tutorial about drawing tears using IBIS Paint, (which pretty much should apply to any digital art program).
(I'm in the process of transferring posts from previous sties, to this site, but I'm not including the video just yet. I've already given myself too much work. I have a weird habit of creating way too many websites, being unable to keep them updated, and then trying to combine all of my content into one space. I like to think that Black Ariel Forever will be the forever home for all my content lol)
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Original post written, 2022.
How to Draw Tears: A Tutorial to Treasure
Moonflower is such a great teacher. And she’s patient too. She does a phenomenal job at demonstrating techniques that come naturally to her.
This high-quality, “How to Draw Tears” tutorial is over 4 minutes long.
In order to prepare, here are some terms that are used; and thus you might want to familiarize yourself with these phrases and action steps:
(IBIS Paint)
- Use dip pen (hard)
- Dynamic
- Adjust thickness and opacity as demonstrated in the video
- Once you click on a shape, you will drag it to the whitest area of the eye
- Be prepared to swipe fast across the eye during brush strokes
- Press settings and reset
- Then draw circles where the “cone-shaped” tears are
- Tip) Make your maximum thickness higher than 30 pixels
- Repeat certain steps
- Now, make the tears fall
- Settings and reset
- Now draw circles on the tears
- Use eraser and then dip pen (soft) to erase through some of the tears
(This is Megan’s Mom typing and I think that is my favorite part). Too cool!
- As you approach the end of this thorough tutorial, expect to add a new layer
- Lower the opacity, draw inside the tears
- Add semi-transparent circles inside of the tears
“And now you are done with your tears!”
🧜🏿♀️👸🏾👼🏾
