I don’t know what it is yet, but I think it will include the belief that the gnomes are demons. Little, stubby demons out to corrupt the souls of tall, strong men.
I can't shake the impression that I'm just going to do the same thing I do every time I'm on the forums, anyways.
Obsessively archive the fan-art, read the fiction I've missed, resist the urge to follow Varinn around and translate him to other people, and, uh....argue about how to make the forum a better place, socially.
Zuki says:
"I'll find something to put here later!"
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
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It's a little harder to tell where the post boundaries are like this, when you're blasting through the thread at high speed anyway, the light colours were also a little easier on my eyes in general.
The blue text on the neutral gray at the bottom of the forum table is also a little hard to read.
This is crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy they put me in a padded room.
I died there.
They buried me where the flowers grew.
One grew up, one grew down.
The one that grew down tickled my nose.
It drove me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy......
(Repeats forever!)