Anyone have some tutorials for drawing meat that looks amazing like you see in foodwars?
I specifically want a semi realistic anime style. - cooked food please.
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Anyone have some tutorials for drawing meat that looks amazing like you see in foodwars?
I specifically want a semi realistic anime style. - cooked food please.
I'm thinking using a water texture brush for meat would look okay?
If you want something higher quality than this, you'd have to do a photo study...
brush used for the meat: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=161634319
I feel like I used to find a lo of these on pinterest and deviantart, back when i would hoard tutorials but I've lost a lot of them over time
I did however manage to track these down via quick google search:
The majority seem to point out blocking the general shape of the food item, figuring out values, coloring and then adding other details to make it pop and bring out texture.
Like Kimo said those texture brushes do well to shortcut a bit but I can bet there's some others hidden around too.
Hope you can find some good tutorials, I'll probably be bookmarking this thread to see what other share myself
Edit: I just remembered this artist's tutorials on meat/meat textures as well as their own illustrations
https://www.deviantart.com/designinglua/art/Tutorial-2-Textures-Fibres-77632175859
https://www.deviantart.com/designinglua/gallery/64723993/food-illustration43
ugh some of these image are a bit . . .
but do you mean something like this?
hmm it really seems like you'd probably need to use reference, and then to get the anime look I'd probably just make it shiny lol and try not to get too painterly with it, you wanna go for crisp and clean and have a very clear rendering process. I don't have a tutorial but I can try to help.
HAHA that's one of the 3 ref pics I was using lol. I think I'm getting done with working on it, but this is what I've got so far if you wanna give me any other suggestions. (Yes I plan to add garnish and finish the plate and all that- this is just the steak- also it's just a screen shot since the original is too big for tapas)
Ooooh that looks good! I like the texture you used to do the meat, and its definitely shiny lol. i think i'd be impressed as a reader if i saw this.
So I did a quick paintover and some notes to try to see how you could make it better
sorry for the sloppiness, but hopefully you find something useful in this~
@Hodge Thanks! Yes that is helpful, I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure I'm at your skill level yet but I'll try to use your reference. I found adding textured lines in the meat was the hardest as I attempted those lines like 8 different ways before I just used the water brush from Kimoi. There were some lines in the dark outer parts but I think those are only visible in the very large original file (but that's something I should probably consider that these markings are not visible when shrunk and probably should be more bold.) I'll def play witht he color and see if I can do something about the shape. I think the shape was influenced by some other refs tho.
I do want it to be rare as this is for mob bosses and such... and IDK blood seems fitting for that?
@TAMAnnoying uhhh IDK what cut of meat honestly. It's technically supposed to be horse meat and I don't know anything about horse meat other than it looks sorta like beef. The recipe for this dish is pretty simple tho, so I imagine it goes with most cuts.
@skicoak it's made by my MC, and the running gag(even tho near none of the readers have noticed) is that the food he makes always sparkles. The horse does not sparkle. To reveal anymore would reveal secrets/spoilers to my comic's sparkle physics.
Your welcome~ Yeah the texture is difficult, and i think the brush you got works well, its one of those things where you can zoom in and realy render it out but its a bit time consuming.
And ah, I see so you want it to be rare. In that case, what might help is actually going into some darker pinks (even a hint of purple) at the core of the meat to sort of give it that nearly raw look, like so. You can even go in there and try to sort of render out the meat juices and bloodiness of the meat.
Alright I tried to take in what you said while still keeping some parts I want to keep (all the sparkles lol) without having to redo a bunch of it.
I tried to make it more boxy and adjusted the colors a lot. I think that already helped a bunch, the seasoning was also good to mention, I can't believe I forgot to add pepper to my steaks
Thanks a bunch for all your tips and suggestions!