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Here it is, the tutorial I’ve been asked about the most: Etyas liquids. I tried to make them as visual as possible, sorry, if it’s a mess for you c:

Every gif is separated by numbers, and an explanations can be found below:

1) Lighting

- After drawing your contours, think about the location of your main light.I’ll also add for myself some back light, like… Candle or something. Yeah.

- Your main light will track down the surface of your liquid string from the side it is shining.
- Liquid itself will distort this light to the sides.
- Same goes to the backlight, just in a smaller amount~

- It doesn’t need to be picture perfect. Liquids tend to be chaotic in structure.

2) Cover lighting

- Liquids are not just strings and tubes that hang everywhere. They can cover stuff too! With the following effects…

- Here’s our basic test tube. It has it’s own shine coefficient, but when we pour some liquid over - It implifies shining effect of the weird test tube, folowing the rules from the previous gif
- It also will make coloration of the tube a bit darker… I’m sure you’re familiar with multiplying layer effect.

3) Distorion

- When the liquid crosses something, it will distort it, mixing colors with the background.
- I prefer to draw that effect above every layer in the pic, copying colors around

4) Colors and opacity

- By adjasting colors, opasity and lighting strength, we can manipulate our drawing to appear like other liquids.
There is nothing to show off here - you should try it yourself!

5) Viscosity

- Don’t forget about the viscosity of liquids. They can behave differently depending on their type.

6 - 7) Little tips

Drawing liquid covering an object without contours

- Apply your liquid via Multiplier layer effect or Screen effect with the gradient tool or airbrush.
- Make holes in it wherever you want
- Draw your lighting over it, avoiding the holes and bending the light around them a little
- Erase the light where your gradient ends
- Draw light around the borders of the liquid

Drawing puddles

- Draw basic shape vith Multiplyier or Screen effect, blur at some points, maybe add holes.
- Puddles tend to reflect large amount of visible lighting, and less in the shadows
- Draw your lighting, bluring it on the blured sections and bending aroud crisp borders

Something like that. Hope it’s fine.

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p.s. Animations working?

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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