How to PAINT your DRAGON | PROCESS | Medibang Paint Pro
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2018
- Speedpaint of a recent personal piece featuring my friendly forest derg ^o^ In it, I go over some of the things I've learnt about painting scales and why doing it in black and white first is a really helpful process! Enjoy!
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Tools Used
I used a free digital art program called Medibang Paint Pro to do most of the drawing, and then exported the file to Photoshop CC to make the final colour adjustments. If you're ever on the look out for a really awesome and easy to use digital art program I really highly recommend Medibang! It features a ton of awesome brushes and supports a lot of the basic features that digital artists need u I'll have a link down below to their website!
Medibang Paint Pro: medibangpaint.com/en/
Photoshop CC: www.adobe.com/
Recording software: obsproject.com/
Wacom Mobile Studio Pro: www.wacom.com/
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FAQ
How long did this take?
It varies! If it's a five minute long video, then between 3 to 4 hours. If its between 7-10 minutes, it was probably a bigger piece which can take anywhere between 10-15 hours.
Where did you get that fur textured brush? tinyurl.com/yd3te4sk
Where did you get the flat brush?
That one's from the Medibang cloud (click the little cloud shaped button with the arrow at the bottom of box with the list of brushes). There you will find all the additional brushes made by Medibang - plenty of gems to download and test out.
Where did you get all these brushes and textures from?
They're from a mix of stuff! Some of them are made by other artists and you can easily find them just by typing in 'medibang brushes' or 'firealpaca brushes' into Google. Some are brushes that I made myself. Some are actually Photoshop brushes! You can import most Photoshop brushes into Medibang by downloading an ABR Viewer. Since most Photoshop brushes are in the .abr format, you can use the program to view all of them and convert them into .png files. Once you've done that just click and drag the brush image into the Medibang brush list and you'll have a new brush to play with!
You can find most of the brushes I have just by doing a Google search. Please give this a try before asking me for specific brushes! I really don't have the time to answer all the questions I get :) 
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Step 1: Draw dragon
Step 2: You probably can’t do step 1
Step 3: Repeat
HAHA
but honestly that's how i learnt to draw dragons in the first place.
just keep doing it until you eventually succeed
clockbirds So i’m curious. We have seen you do lots of painting in your videos, but what about the line art before that? Line art is the starting processes for almost all drawings, and it would be so cool to see how you get started. I think that would be a cool video to watch! A shake up in content beyond painting would be cool. :>
I remember when my dragons used to look like horses....
(oH WAIT. They still somewhat do tbh)
I just started drawing like nobody was watching or judging me. (Oh they always did. They still do. When don't they??)
(It was much better than most seventh grade students could do anyways)
I agree it would be nice to see some line art and even sketches because being a young artist I find the linework the most time-consuming.
clockbirds did u ever have support? from friends and family and what is the best kind
of support?
"Look after your hands, kids. Be kind to them" Jax, that needs to be on a shirt.
4:02
You want to start at the point of the body with the lowest *"scale"*
Pun intended?
Lmaoo
0:11 “I think I might make these [the art talks] more often” yasssss girl please do! Also yes, it me again (it’s not like I’ve been binge watching art videos (including clockbirds) for the past month or anything :P)
G. Snapdragon Nyooooooooooooooon *passing through*
G. Snapdragon ....... Snapdragon is the my street name XD
kitkatthe2tails am I that famous already? :P
Yep lol
Can you do a tutorial on foliage next? Your backgrounds are so beautiful everytime 😫 I've been having a hard time finding plant brushes online. Do you paint each little thing by hand? if so, howwwwwww??? And if you don't, can you share some of the brushes you use?
Your art is a Big inspiration and you're the reason i've found medibang to be my favorite program, keep with these Amazing soothing paintings, i love watching your videos (and the art talk is really nice too) !
Wow I was just searching for scale paint techniques and here you come with this tutorial!
Your art talks are my favorite thing to listen to while I draw! Cant wait for more!
I ABSOLUTELY ADORE your digital painterly style!!! It doesn't matter how many times I must say it! I love it so much, and I can only aspire to be on your level of art! I can work with digital, but started with traditional, and have only gotten better. But, even if I can shade extremely well with colored pencils, YOUR ART IS LIKE, ART LEVEL: GOD ! I wish. ;-;
I loooove the special texture all your drawings have!! And this was super helpful!
I love these videos! It would be incredible if you could do a talk through or a tutorial on how you draw and paint water. I'm always fascinated by how magical you make it!
I really enjoy hearing you speak as I watch you work. Its is soothing and informative. I really enjoy you and your work! I can not wait to see more!
I absolutely adore everything about this video. Your art is beautiful and breathtaking (as always no surprise there), but the commentary included a lot of tips that i could never have found just looking at a regular speed paint. I really appreciate the bits of humor thrown in (whether intentional or not) its been a while since I’ve genuinely laughed. Thank you and keep up the good work! :D
ahahah thank you!!
and i'm glad you appreciate the humour, although i still cringe at my attempts to be funny everytime i'm doing the audio editing haha x'D
honestly your art inspires me more than any other artist, keep it going!
You are such an inspiration.
I have always wanted to draw like you. You are so talented, and I absolutely love your tutorials and speedpaints!
They have helped me so much to incorporate different techniques into my drawings, and develop my art style.
So thank you so much!
I look forward to viewing more incredible videos from you soon! ❤️
I personally really enjoy the voice-overs in your videos! Wonderful work as always ^-^
I love how you explain your drawing process!
I was so scared of starting scales on the drawing im doing for smaugust, but this helped me take so much notes and look at references better! thx!!
this is gorgeous!!!!
Love these so much!
oh wow
:0 thanks so much! btw i love how you make bonsai trees. they fit a lot with the type of dragon you had in there.
I know this is about the gorgeous painting but can we take a moment to appreciate the pun in the video title? It's GENIUS XD
Thanks for thiiiiiis! is just what I needed
Couldn't wait for another art talk💕
Yaayy more talk through!
I love this tutorial !!
Your voice
This is really beautiful i Love ir so much, you inspire me to continue drawing
How can someone be so good! Your work is amazing:)
Emphia's design changed again :0 He just keeps getting prettier haha
I love this piece so much, like always!! This is super helpful since I draw almost only dragons.
wow i love your arts
wow! beautiful as always thanks for the tutorial. i have trouble drawing reptiles so i will defiently use this in the future! :3
Simply awesome!! Loved it all! Hope there is more! ^ w ^ And... i guess using grayscale may teach me about value and contrast too? I really would like to know where you have started from, i am kinda sad and feeling down lately, because i am studying a lot this year to finish highschool (stopped doing art and stuff) and start my projects... i watched your video now and calmed down somehow, so i would like to know how was your beggining maybe or so... Thanks Jax! Appreciate your videos! S2
don't worry i was the same during my final years of highschool ^o^ sometimes you just gotta prioritise your studies, but know that you'll eventually find time to get back into drawing again
O-M-G what a goal to know how to paint like this ! I have to practice, this is so cool ! I love your art, it inspires me so much OuO
Love your tutorial! ❤
Holy heck I love this !!
Very helpful!
I LOVE YOUR ART! XD
thanks, you helped me quite a bit
B-E-A-U-T-F-U-L!!!!!💕
That so good
YAY you did it! I am also early! Clockbirds ur so helpful!
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beutiful work as always! i really love your voice over videos, it helps alot ! although i havent yet tried to use greyscale painting i plan on trying it out soon, it seems really interesting *^* again love all your works clockbirds! your art is an inspiration for me ahahhaha thank you for all the hard work!!
awww thank you so much!!
you're welcome! *^*
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Beautiful
I LOVE IT
broski you just saved my life
Give me your incredible talent!!
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YOU ARE A GOD
THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!
Hey clockbirds first I must say that I love your art and its gorgeous!!
I also realized that you use medibang but use procreate for sketches, so one quick question
for fur and the sharp watercolor brushes what do u think that is the most similar, ive tried a few imported but im not sure about them ?
Thank you!!
ah I love your tutorials so much x3 Also can you do a tutorial on how you make water it'd be nice ;v;
DRAGONS
YESSS
Pleas please please make a water tutorial! Your water droplets are so shiny I want to learn how to do that
This was so helpful!
Also does anyone have any brushes that work the same as the watercolour brushes she used but instead work on Clipstudio?
Yesss!
How to paint water? And how to paint with values and being able to change its color to what you need?
what do you generally do to edit the colors at the end of your pieces before showing the finished product?
can you make a tutorial for every tool and how you use it especially the gradient and how you use it twice without them covering each other
i can! but i will answer your gradient question for you now. there's this option at the top (under the menu bar). when you have the gradient tool selected you can choose either foreground-background or foreground. choosing foreground basically set the foreground colour as your gradient and the other colour as 'transparent', that way you can build on a gradient you've laid down without them covering
you should do a video on how to use watercolor on medibang, im having the hardest time with it
What brush do you use for your fur texture?
Can i get the brush you used to draw the BnW dragon plez ? :3
Merp.
if only i didnt use ibis paint x and with my phone
i wish i had good brushes
I love your voice!!!! (And your art of course) But what is your accent?? It sounds Australian but also something else at points?? I’m Australian so I know what sounds Australian lol 😂 I’m confused about your accent
Im a big fan of dragon.i hope i can draw like that😞😞
i have a drawing i really want to add scale and fur texture to. my only problem is that i get so worked up in my head how the drawing should look i talk myself out of finishing it. Do you or have you had this happen?
oh yeah this happens to me all the time! especially when i have super big pieces planned. i've learned to make peace with the fact that things will almost never turn out the way they did in my head, but that actually getting a completed piece is the most important part. when this happens it means my current level of skill isn't /quite/ high enough to execute what i have in mind. it's good to take this opportunity to evaluate the final piece, write down what went wrong and what you need to improve on. then stash that piece away for a few weeks, months or years and then do a redraw and see if you are closer to being able to achieve your original idea! it's really a great way to track your own progress ^u^
Thank you! I will try this. And practice texture drawing.
This question had been on my mind for a while. What does grayscale for? I already did a research but i still don't understand...
it's just a good technique for laying down basic values (areas of light and dark) and some detailing of a piece without having to worry about colour ^o^
clockbirds ooooh~ now I understand! Tysm~^^
I don't know if anyone asked you this, but how do you add your drawings or layers together when you do your speedpaint. Everytime I watch your video you put your drawings all together in layers and started to have less layers for your art. Can you tell me how you do it or are you planning on making a video of it?
i just merge them! one of the options (next to the add layer button in the layer box) is to merge a layer down with the one beneath it ^u^
Nice, thanks!
Agnztjkxfy okay so you know how you made a video a long while ago about how to get brushes on medibang?? Well I've been trying to make the eclipse brush on my tablet and it's all pixelated! Idk why but can you help. I followed all the steps but it's all pixels and it doesn't stay straight when I'm using it!!
oh that's really weird? i don't know how to help you with the pixel part, but make sure you have 'rotate along' turned off and 'rotate random set to 0. things like brush spacing and all that should also all be set to 0.
clockbirds all right ill try that and give you an update as soon as possible thanks!
clockbirds ok I tried and it still is all pixilated. Im not sure if my tablet is making some sort of space between the top parts where they would connect or if its just a tablet problem. Thank you for your help anyways
I have a question, this is more a question about the grayscale method which would match more the other video but, I'm already here so, let's go.
I always want to try grayscale here and there and I never really do draw with grayscale, I have problem with the values and all that, picking the colors in between and barely using actual Black and white is something I don't balance well. But that are things I can work on. My question here is: Do you use no saturation at all in the colors? I see that you change the hue from Blue to red here and there and I'm wondering how much influence that has? Is using no saturation of color at all the right way or using like one or two pixels of saturation a better option?
oh that's an interesting observation! honestly when i paint in greyscale my general aim is to keep everything with 0 saturation. the little bit of colour change you see is actually completely unintentional haha. i usually have the sketched lines in a light blue and sometimes when i colour pick from the canvas i pick up a bit from the line art. but that little bit of colour makes no difference to the process though ^u^
clockbirds, I see, thank you for the reply it is very helpful.
I am curious. Most people seek alternatives to painting in photoshop because they cannot afford photoshop. What makes you actually prefer this program for painting on its own?
(Bcause in another video you clearly also have access to photoshop. I'm downloading medibang now since it's free just to dick around with it for painting. Part of me wonders if I have no discipline with color because I know I can easily tweak it to be right later in photoshop.)
i prefer it to photoshop because it's lightweight~ my tablet can't handle running both photoshop properly and record the screen at the same time haha. and honestly sometimes it's just less strain on my mind during the drawing process to know i have less options? too many brushes and brush settings are just overwhelming!
How to paint water
I don't understand but thank you xd
"Be nice to your hands, kids!"
also.... grey SCALE. xD
I have a doubt, why do u pick medibang over other programs such as ps or krita? I love medibang because it's rly light tried with krita but the smoothing and stabilizer makes it impossible to use tried ps but would prefer using it as a photo realistic program, the question is do you find it good and competitive as other programs, what about the proffesional market? do you feel it needs a lot of improvements ? what about perspective tools? and like Jyundee that I find her an incredible talented artist, ur works are totally amazing too I think I decided to go with this program because of you two, but I'd like to know why.
good question! medibang's great for covering most of the basic things an artist needs to draw but it definitely still needs improvements. i use medibang now because its light and i can run it simultaneously with a screen recording program on my wacom tablet (something that I can't do when using photoshop). but i would never use it as my sole program because it lacks so many of the colour correction and adjustment options available in programs like photoshop. i still haven't tried krita yet, but from what i gather it also seems like a super viable and powerful painting tool. i don't think either programs are built for professional use, but that shouldn't stop anyone from using it professionally imo
Rly??? with those incredible draws of urs! haha, would say that ur work is trully professional enough in this program, (I think u did once used ps for hue and levels and then get back to medibang I might try working between the two too!) Thanks a lot for asnwering me! i've been wondering about that for a while still a lot to learn but with an incredible community an amazing artist like u, the way seems more clear
How much do you charge for your commissions?
You can find her commission info on any of her social media
Here's the link to her deviantart commission info:
www.deviantart.com/art/commission-info-2018-closed-741404468
Thanks
i like talking videos
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I was trying to see if I can easily draw a dragons scale. Simple answer? No. Don’t be lazy, just draw every single scale 🥲
And wow only 8 people that dont like it 👎👎 at 2021 mar
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This is probably just me, but I don’t see how you are showing/telling how to do this. Personally, I think it would be much easier to understand the process of how to do something with you showing it, not telling it.