How To Make Better LINELESS Art!

[@mimbis]

as soon as he made that "all credit to the artist" joke and then cleared it up while also throwing shade at those who do it, i decided to devote my life to him.

[@Riku_nkmr]

2:18 "Credit's to the artist". Boy that triggered me for the whole 2 seconds. You had me there. Hahaha

[@noorulnaziha5709]

What is reverse image searching?

[@JessieEffendi]

Personally I like the look of lineart. Maybe it's because I grew up reading comics and manga along with watching cartoons and anime. Something about the simplicity of the style really resonates with me. I definitely rely on my lines when it comes to art though. So trying out lineless art from time to time has proven to be a real challenge; Most likely due to my impatience of spending that extra time on a piece.

[@CharacterDesignForge]

It definitely takes that extra time, I think it's a valuable exercise to try from time to time to see what your lines are really doing!

[@stephaniewozny3852]

I like both; I'm so conflicted!

[@JessieEffendi]

@@stephaniewozny3852 Definitely experiment around and figure out what works best for you! Also if you're looking to get into a certain industry, you ought to look into what they want in a portfolio

[@russiancheems2275]

Ah yes, the *B O N E L E S S* drawing

[@Rudenbehr]

I animate and I really love combining lineless cityscapes/environments with lineart characters. It is the perfect combo

[@jjstarA113]

My New Year's/New Decade's resolution for 2020 is to draw every day. Wish me luck!

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Nice goal to have! I've made some videos in the past, especially about goals, that should be helpful for you pushing through when it gets tough. That's a really great way to learn better and faster!

[@savannah8675]

Good luck!

[@yofu2969]

Been going strong for 7 months now. I don’t plan on stopping in 2020 either. 👌🏼🦈💥💥💥

[@tingcraft3920]

Have you been keeping up with your resolution? If not you need to draw a circus chicken on a beach ball today

[@princess6177]

You'll hate it here

[@stellbz2347]

This was very helpful, ive been working on doing lineless art a lot lately and these pieces of advice are just what i needed☺

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Wow thank you so much, it really means a lot to hear someone benefitted from the video! All the best in your future lineless adventures

[@zeatehkcasualaccount]

I forgot it was Tuesday, and I shall take this time to wish you (all) a Merry Christmas.

[@TheApochRaptor]

I recently started experimenting with lineless art and I was feeling unsure, so thank you for this video! It was a super simple explanation but it helped me understand better.

[@raeroberts7492]

I wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy holidays!!

[@savannah8675]

Roberta Roberts you as well!

[@blu.ul.5791]

Thx I need a short vid bout this cuz Im into digital art, 1 of the best art Channels in my opinion

[@CharacterDesignForge]

thanks blue ultra!

[@annenoir760]

I love making lineart and i think my art doesn't look nearly as fun without it, but I've been breaking my head trying to learn how to make lineless artwork so i can have another technique i know of incase i need it, thank you so much for this video I would've never thought of individually coloring the lines i do and don't want myself

[@ectoplasmhell]

Just the video I've been searching for! I used to do lineless work all the time. I feel it would fit my style better. I got too dependant on line art.

[@bon78]

I've been a line art design graphic student for such a long time, and I tried to add more fiasco to my art and tried line art, my first attempt was not the best, but after watching this video with these important points that you've mentioned, I seen more things in my art, thank you!

[@finalfroevo]

Can't wait till I get 20/20 vision to do this :D

[@CharacterDesignForge]

You have a vision appointment scheduled for January 1st too?!

[@tingcraft3920]

Nobody had 2020 vision..... *No one*

[@Phloggers]

haha... ha...

[@yofu2969]

Sensei!! I have returned, it’s been a while since I last commented on your videos. I’ve grown allot in the past 4 months and I finally think I lost my fear of drawing, I can now pick up a pencil and start drawing on paper and not worry about the outcome of the sketches. I really value your lessons and will continue to appreciate your videos when they’re uploaded.

[@leonfergozi]

You know it’s gonna be a good video when the dude has awesome lighting

[@graceoartyo]

i’ve actually been doing the opposite of this lately, i usually did lineless art but got kinda tired of it (especially since i wanted to draw characters more, and it kept being either too messy or too clean and blobby), and honestly i love the change!! using lines is helping me use more interesting shapes, which is kind of counterintuitive

[@Madi-th5ve]

This is incredibly helpful and explained the concepts in a very understandable way! I’ve been wanting to challenge myself with some lineless art lately, so this is perfect!!

[@momo-xh3bm]

Your video does pain point while I’m choosing and planning the colour palettes when I first try out colouring. Thanks again Brooks! ❤

[@oscarchavezart]

lineless art is what I mostly do because of my illustration and fine art background. But I have been practicing line art because I want to get better at making brilliant sketches. That last tip I will try out though.

[@racheltoler3895]

This was amazing. I always wanted to learn how to do colored line art!

[@rigelsagrado283]

im in digital art for 12 days rn and i found a lineless art good looking , so i decided to try my hands on it

[@Deadcat323]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for this video! I've been working pretty much strictly with lineart forever, and this helped me conceptualize what moves I need to work on to evolve my art. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

[@matiasnl]

This is something I didn’t know I would be so interested in

[@jamdaniel]

Soo helpful! How did I just discover you now? You're so underrated and dont get enough views in your videos! Keep it up! 🙏🙌

[@cynthiabrogan9215]

Now I know that most artist are told that you should never use the airbrush tool but I find it helpful when drawing lineless art! If you have to shapes of similar or the same shade you can put them on separate layers and then use the airbrush to create a “shadow” in the same way he uses lines for definition. I still recommend doing another layer of shading if any is going to be used.

[@chungies]

This was so helpful. Thank you!

[@DarkSide_45_]

Is there a way to where you can do this on paper? Because I wanna try it for my up coming projects

[@AvaliShadowhunter]

Okay, that was the advice I needed to hear to finally understand how to do it! Thanks a lot ^.^

[@boswcheydoesart1314]

These are some very interesting ideas! I've been drawing a lot of anime style lately and I've been wanting to experiment with lineless cartoon style. Hearing your ideas, though, gave me another idea! Currently, I'm satisfied with drawing bold, black lines separating everything then paint bucketing all the empty areas. But, as I just realized, it might be worth a try to set grow selection on the fill tool to an extra pixel. That way, the shapes would connect on their own under the lines. If needed, blur the color layer one more pixel to ensure the shapes connect in all the corners. Then lower the opacity of the line layer. Voila! You have a piece that looks more organic than something blocked out with solid black, and yet more structured than an unleashed blob monster! Or so is my theory, I haven't tested it yet.

[@boswcheydoesart1314]

@Trin Silvers Okay, I didn't have time to make a new piece just to test this out, so I tried it on an old one I'm pretty proud of and happened to save the Krita doc. So here's the original: drive.google.com/file/d/1c-2GwhlcJl9obgH9rCCsAg_al3kC75pz/view?usp=sharing Literally all I did was blur the color layer, duplicate a couple of times so the color shapes grew till they were physically bumping into each other, and then play with the opacity of the line layer. Here's the result: drive.google.com/file/d/1vOTDdJDhhBFeb6BQCA8m6bzvHmgaSFpS/view?usp=sharing Not exactly what I had in mind, I'm sure some fine tuning to the technique will fix that, but it starts to do what I wanted from it. The lines are softer, and do start to take on the hue of the shapes they enclose. This may not look so well on your phone, because it kinda condenses the color spectrum so you have to pick MORE different shades of a color to show that they are visually different on phone. Something to keep in mind, especially if you want your creation to be mobile friendly like a Webtoon. So yeah.

[@Nasylbek]

Thanks for the tutorial! I just stopped to use line art at some point and rely on the shading only and you reminded me importance of lines for some moments. Btw nice Owlboy t-shirt)

[@alzamonart]

Lineless art has always been my artistic Achilles' Heel so this video comes timely to me. I've been using Procreate a lot these days so I can see how your technique can benefit mine. You are definitely right on the time required part: sure it looks stellar but it doesn't come out quick no matter how blazing fast you think you are. Not for the impatient! :) I have seen entire picture / comic books done this way though - how do they manage? Anyway, thanks for sharing.

[@CharacterDesignForge]

great to hear, thanks so much!

[@mattdoesstuff8987]

4:35 _confused screaming_ *Top Ten anime Plot Twists* I kid, nice informative video Brookes.

[@rainpooper7088]

Thanks for the video, it’s actually really useful since I‘m doing a lineart-less project based on Greek vase art to hand in for my uni course in January. But I’ve also been studying something else: I know you already made a great two(kind of three)-parter on how to create great villains, but I want to know what makes a great villain-sidekick-dynamic. There tend to be only two standard ways media goes about this: Number one is the villain being at least mildly intimidating while the sidekick is silly and incompetent as if to balance out the tone and keep the villain from becoming too serious by having them comedically beat up or constantly be annoyed by their sidekick. Option two is the inverse, the villain is a bumbling moron while the sidekick groans at their boss‘ stupidity or childishness. It’s essentially the same dynamic, just with additional comedic effect due to the switched roles. I feel like this dynamic is pretty overdone at this point though and I’m not sure if you could even do anything new with it. Sure, you can always spice things up by having them actually care for each other or having the sidekick have a crush on the villain or having the goofy sidekick secretly planning to overthrow the villain or whatever, but I‘d prefer doing something different entirely and like to hear other artist’s thoughts on more than just this one dynamic. So far, I‘ve figured out the following: -Their personalities should have some kind of contrast going on because contrasting personalities make for more interesting dynamics. -The power dynamic between the two should be clearly established. If they were on the exact same level of dominance, they‘d be co-villains which is a different (and much easier to write) dynamic. -Unlike a heroic sidekick who will naturally be kept around without question because of friendship and goodness, an evil sidekick usually needs to pull their own weight. There has to be an incentive for the villain to keep them around, especially if the sidekick is of the bumbling kind. -The inverse is also true: The sidekick needs to have a reason to serve the villain because it’s not something most normal people would do.

[@eehacartoonz]

This is so helpful thank you so much 🧡🧡

[@Xx1Garmadon1xX]

Nice art tutorial God bless! nice artwork! And Channel!

[@PilferpupCartoons]

Im so ready for this lesson! >:3

[@PleaseUnsubscribeHaha]

Speaking of credits, what's the outro music here? I love how it sounds and I'd like to hear the full thing

[@yomiixia6267]

I’ve been doing lineart and it was so tiring, it just didn’t look good to me. Now I finally know how to do lineless art! I’m not very good at it still, but this is so helpful! Tysm!

[@sansaraee]

This is exactly how I make my lineless art! I've been doing lineless for years

[@CharacterDesignForge]

ok sorry!

[@sansaraee]

@@CharacterDesignForge?? I'm not complaining or anything, I just thought it was cool :)

[@JaneXemylixa]

A lot of my pencil-and-pen sketchy drawings are made by sketching with a pencil (with loose lineart morphing into shading where I feel like it... I just see a nice shadow shape in some spot and define it), then outlining it with a black pen, and then coloring the pencil strokes digitally. So it's neither here nor there xD

[@SalusKitty]

All I can think of is glass volens right now... Imma look through some videos and try it out...

[@skysplash8]

This is the first video of yours that I've seen. I took one look and thought "this guy looks like a mix of Iain De Caestecker and Paul Rudd"

[@sheamations]

Just what I needed 😍

[@midna6364]

That baby yoda was neat

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Thanks! Sculpted him- moved him a bit at the last part of last weeks vid

[@midna6364]

@@CharacterDesignForge woow, so cool that you made It, you're amazing Brooke

[@christy1499]

💕💕💕 Thank you for this!

[@CharacterDesignForge]

You’re so welcome!

[@Surkk2960]

I would try more lineless stuff, but its kind of difficult to do with only mouse and keyboard.

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Oof, anything's tough with mouse and keyboard!

[@sandeeartist]

Makes it even more fun!

[@Surkk2960]

@@CharacterDesignForge No worries, been dealing with it for years. I need to get back into colored work practice though, got a bunch of doodles I should make colors of...

[@ichwanst9828]

I have a question. But first sorry for my bad english. does it always have to make human character in proportional form?

[@laureen69]

Thank you for those tips. May I ask what do you call that device of yours you use, That is the one I wanted beside cintiq. I want to be able to do art even just siting on a corner in public or somewhere outside my house.

[@CharacterDesignForge]

that's an iPad Pro with Procreate, I have a ton of videos on it!

[@laureen69]

@@CharacterDesignForge thank you so much i'll dig more on your videos *subscribed*

[@eagleheart1634]

How can I shade/render using no lines on procreate? I keep trying things like alpha lock or clipping masks, but it never helps :/

[@freeflowsilver117]

As a fine artist, it's often drummed in that texture is the most important aspect of an image, especially when using oil paint, but that's a tad more difficult on a flat medium like a tablet

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Interesting, I've never heard that said to be the most important thing in oils before!

[@willcarroll3712]

5:36- 5:47 how do you do this step in Photoshop?

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Cmd+U or Ctrl+U to bring up the hue/saturation/brightness menu

[@willcarroll3712]

@@CharacterDesignForge thanks

[@nokostunes]

*shares video* All credit to the KZbinr

[@leahabella5143]

What that app

[@vardhamanrathore669]

Brooks if you're reading this Hi im your new subscriber Please suggest me some Character design books that would make me a good charecter designer.

[@OrchidsStuff]

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