Despite what it may seem like, I am not personally a heavy advocate of rules and censorship, but since this has been brought to my attention as a possible problem, I thought I would get input from the rest of you. As you may or may not know, the official guidelines for how to rate an image specify that basically any kind of nudity does not qualify under the 13+ rating. The line between 13+ and 18+ has been blurred when it comes to simp...

I am planning a rather large, ambitious picture, and I want it to look very good. Some aspects, I have a good idea of how I'm going to do it, but there are some things about it that I'm just innately bad at and would like some tips on. Those things are: Shading in a room, namely a white room-- walls, floor, ceiling. How do you depict light on a flat surface without making it look monotonal, boring, or overly textured? Realistic skin shading-- How do you use single pen strokes to achieve go...