(Oh hey look a collab between your two favorite absentee authors, SleepingOrange and Sfou)
Today is a great day. Like every other day. Life in Alpha Complex is perfect, and you cannot imagine any existence that would be better. In fact, you don't imagine anything. That would take your happy time away, and you don't want that. That would be a Bad Thing.
You have just finished watching your favorite vidshow, and the next one won't be on for a while, since the credits on these things tend to run for about half an hour. All the other REDS in your barracks are off troubleshooting. What will you do?
The Attackening: A Switch in Time
Like the first one, but in... THE FUTURE!!!
Also probably even more ridiculous.
Yeah we're still updating it it just takes frickin' forever, ya know? Part one here! (Mirror in the works, no really I'm serious)
It's a blog! Kind of. It's weird. You should go check it out. You should go check it out right now.
I can't draw, not that that matters, because Lord Unb'ma-tched Diaminomito dwells within a darkness so deep that not only sight but all other senses leave you. He is the undisputed master of obfuscation, and holds dominion over all the dark places and hidden things of the world. The day shall come of the Great Deepening, in which all existence shall be lost within his ineffable foldings.
This is but the first of many horrors that have been revealed to me throughout the years, through typographical errors in online communication.
You have no idea what this is supposed to mean. You were cloned perfectly normally. You're sure it wouldn't be possible to be decanted with no arms.
Originally Posted by zebtrestalala
>Change your shirt! Everyone knows reds are the first to die!
You're well aware of the mortality rate of your rank, but changing out of your standard-issue RED jumpsuit or touching higher-rank clothing would be a Bad Thing! Just thinking it is nearly enough to make you not happy.
Originally Posted by OddGuy
Wonder if there is any connection between Friend Computer and Dirty Commies.
Originally Posted by Red Herring
> praise the glorious prophet Stalin to whom all homages must be payed
LALALALA YOURE NOT LISTENING GLORY TO FRIEND COMPUTER DEATH TO DIRTY COMMIES
Originally Posted by Lollipop&Rainbows
> Smile, because you're happy.
You chase away these negative thoughts and put on your best smile. There now, that's better!
Originally Posted by shieldman
Read credits. Maybe Red #125 made the cut this season?
director: FRIEND COMPUTER
producer: FRIEND COMPUTER
special thanks to: FRIEND COMPUTER
...
Looks like it'll be a while before they get to the actors. You were hoping to find out if Zack|R|BRF|2 had gotten over that nasty case of "executed for treason" yet.
>
No! That would take away from your happy time. And rebel seem to have a tendency of catching "executed for treason". *twitch*
Originally Posted by Almost Human
Yes, that's right, our 19 year old's can get stoned and have a few drinks with their hired escort at a Lesbian wedding. Canada. is. Awesome.
Originally Posted by Zuki
And the other person totally at your mercy. Their junk's in your mouth, after all.
Originally Posted by c_rowles
*Do people still say that unironically? Whatever. I've got so many layers of irony going on, I'm like a damn irony onion. Watch out bitch Imma make you cry.
Originally Posted by cyclicCircumferentia
So I read these:
Originally Posted by Raizor
how do you do it
Originally Posted by Skyrius
Ok, this is just going to keep bothering me for a while.
Cyclic, what brushes or textures do you use? I almost want to say it looks like the water overlay effect but that's not it. And it reminds me of lineless art in a way, but I'm pretty sure I've seen your sketches with lines (or am I hallucinating?? >_>). I can't quite place it, but I KNOW I've seen something like that coloring before but I know it wasn't the same and ARGHTHISISANNOYINGANDSILLY >_<
AND NOW I WILL DO SOME EXPLAINING~ (And fail at it because I am the worse teacher)
I guess I'll start this off with brushes and what program I use.
First off I use Photoshop CS5, it's pretty damn awesome and I recommend getting it.
As for brushes...I use many, including some downloaded ones.
Most of the brushes I use DO come with Photoshop.
Brushes
Sketching:
Normal Round Brush, opacity pen pressure turned on.
Coloring:
(Opacity varies, do whatever works best for you)
Round Brush
Rough Round Bristle
Oil Pastel Large
Watercolor Loaded Wet Flat Tip
Now that that's said, there are three things you must know about my art.
Lineart, I cannot do crisp lineart, I normally use the sketch and just clean it up a little.
Two Layers: Sketch + Coloring, they eventually get merged so I'm coloring on one layer eventually.
Adjustment Layers: I abuse the hell out of them, they are my best friends.
I start out with the sketch layer and color layer as separate. Eventually I merge them and clean up the sketch making it look "lineless" but not really. (if that makes any sense)
After that I use a variety of Adjustment layers and blending modes. It kinda varies with each picture…but I can provide a basis to go by!
Adjustment Layers, Layer Modes and etc.
^that little button gives a list of adjustments. Pretty handy~
Adjustment Layers:
Curves
Vibrance
Selective Color (Edit Neutral and Black colors only)
Solid Color (Normally Navy Blue set to Exclusion)
Layer Modes:
Multiply
Overlay
Soft Light
Exclusion (Used with Navy Blue solid color layer)
Helpful Things --------- RGB Channels:
Much better than using gradient map for black and white copies of your picture.
Image > Apply Image:
Make a new layer then use this option.
This option pretty much puts the merged copy of your picture on that one layer. It's really handy and it prevents you from having to lose your layers. (if…that makes any sense.)
In the drop down menu you can chose the color channel (RGB, Red, Green or Blue) pick the one that puts the most contrast on your picture. After that, set the blend mode to whatever suits you best.
^Should look like that, except blending should be set to normal not pin light
Lens Blur:
It's always nice to have a blurred border around your picture.
I pretty much do this all the time.
Masking:
I can't explain this too well, but maybe this tutorial can give some clarity: http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/tuts/mask/masking.html
Examples of Progress
Unfortunately I lost the extra lineart layer for the ghostyTrickster picture, so there's only two frames (Before adjustment layers and after adjustment layers.)
This picture shows the process better here:
1. Sketch, 2. Color, 3. Merge Lineart and color layer, color and clean up, 4. Adjustment Layers.
So this is pretty much what I do. I apologize if none of this makes noooooooo sense.
Avy made by Ashtastic
You should read thesetwo awesome webcomics! If you like them, join the forums and tell them that HaloKirby9 sent you.