Alrighty, I'm gonna start an adventure, simply to see what it's like doing this before I get to the more serious stuff. But that's only if I actually do bother with an adventure with plot.
Anyways, choose an element! To make it all simple I don't think I'll install a supereffective/not very-effective-elements-against-each-other. Or at least not until I think up some good reasons for it.
Elements:
Dark
Bright
Stone
Fire
Plant
text from two years in the future is blue
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My projects Meda Peda... Meta Peta... Macarena... I'm not sure what these blue things are called, but apparently I have 6 of them. And the guy behind them made my avatar.
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.
Well uh since I'm getting really impatient I'll just do this. I think (well Wikipedia told me) cesium's some sort of metal, so I'm gonna count that as Stone.
Huzzah for impatience!
Deep in an unknown cave, a crack suddenly opens, spewing out a sort of bronzish ooze, with silvery veins.
The ooze seems to gather up into itself, as the crack above mysteriously seals back up.
Oh! It seems the ooze was a just-born Stonekin! This one has quite a healthy shine to it, and its plates are a shining silver. It has a rather mischievous grin on its face, too. It looks around the cave in excitement, since, you know, it's only been in this world for about three minutes.
There's really not much to see. A couple of stalagmites/stalactites, some emberflies, (which are the light source in here right now.) and really faded and scratched out blue stuff on the walls. They look kind of... familiar, sort of. But not really.
You do so. It appears to be cave moss, and looks a little damp. An emberfly drifts lazily down to you. Goodness, you really are quite reflective.
Note: Emberflies often flock to sources of magic, especially strong ones, which is why they glow like that.They feed mainly on the energy that comes off, but this often isn't enough to amount to anything. Oftentimes 'kins like you have at least a couple of emberflies floating around nearby, and more come as a 'kin gets stronger. However, despite their very tiny magic sapping, they still have to survive on something material, such as the cave moss. For so many to be here, there must be some huge magical force or something.
I'd just like to say that I really like the art style.
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.
You leap into the air to give the emberfly a friendly nuzzle.
Oh. Oops. That didn't turn out too well. You ended up banging your metal body into the wall with the blue markings on it, instinctively moving your silver nubs back. Looks like there's a tunnel to the right.
EDIT: Hah, oops. I looked back at the picture with the overview and wow, that wall grew a couple feet.