WARNING: THIS ADVENTURE WILL CONTAIN GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF OFF-SCREEN VIOLENCE AND SOME AMOUNT OF ON-SCREEN VIOLENCE, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.
now that that's out of the way...
Let's choose our area of expertise.
Then, let's choose who the pro(an?)tagonist.
SUBJECT A : Tristan, male. Street smart, down on money.
SUBJECT B : Daisy, female. Suffers a bit from mental illness.
SUBJECT C : Randolph, male. Your average nerd.
SUBJECT D : Nadya, female. Rich widower.
SUBJECT E : Jaime, male. Strong dude, ex-convict.
SUBJECT F : Zoe, female. Punk rock anarchist.
The Macabre Carnival shall begin when an area of expertise and character selected...
Please be gentle, this is my first 'serious' adventure. Because a bit of grimdark is awwight... wight?
Last edited by carriontrooper; 02-23-2011 at 07:17 PM.
I just am asking why she is selling sausages at a funeral.
Originally Posted by inexpediency
Everyone is a hedgehog...on the inside.
Originally Posted by Tesseract
On a deadness scale of normal to doorknob I would rate her as double doorknob
Originally Posted by Jitka
fuck yeah sodium hexametaphosphate
that is my favorite hexametaphosphate
Malakin:because its actually the truman show just with ponys
crash826:that
crash826:makes
crash826:far too much sense
gingerale:xD
Malakin:think about it
Malakin:it all makes sense
Originally Posted by Catbread
Those sound like some pretty badass park rangers.
Originally Posted by ranasan
Wow... it's like if someone managed to manifest Missingno. from Pokemon Red and Blue into the real world, grind it up into a fine powder and then snort it.
18:21 Girard so I learned something at the barber:
18:22 Daniel ?
18:22 Girard The entirety of England, London in particular, is actually a stage for the biggest production of the musical Oliver ever made.
18:22 Girard England is a giant musical.
18:22 Girard This explains the small children with cockney accents and giant hats who dance in the streets.
18:23 Daniel ...DAMN YOU MARY POPPINS!
18:23 Daniel DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Yeah... no. Sorry, but there's already some scenario for each of the characters that's tied to them, so I can't combine them into the huge clusterfudge you are looking for.
But rest assured, if we're finished with the story of one of the characters, we get to choose another... until all have been crossed off. Then the Macabre Carnival goes to a special stage.
Last edited by carriontrooper; 12-26-2010 at 07:46 AM.
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.
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Try to borrow any clothing that is still in one piece. You will attract too much attention in that. I doubt any of the guards would have had weapons, but search them anyway. Take what you can.
> Your KNIFE must still be there! Grab it and snuggle its soft fur.
> Go off to kill people with the wickedly sharp TEDDY BEAR.
Originally Posted by HarMegidon
I just am asking why she is selling sausages at a funeral.
Originally Posted by inexpediency
Everyone is a hedgehog...on the inside.
Originally Posted by Tesseract
On a deadness scale of normal to doorknob I would rate her as double doorknob
Originally Posted by Jitka
fuck yeah sodium hexametaphosphate
that is my favorite hexametaphosphate
Malakin:because its actually the truman show just with ponys
crash826:that
crash826:makes
crash826:far too much sense
gingerale:xD
Malakin:think about it
Malakin:it all makes sense
Originally Posted by Catbread
Those sound like some pretty badass park rangers.
Originally Posted by ranasan
Wow... it's like if someone managed to manifest Missingno. from Pokemon Red and Blue into the real world, grind it up into a fine powder and then snort it.
18:21 Girard so I learned something at the barber:
18:22 Daniel ?
18:22 Girard The entirety of England, London in particular, is actually a stage for the biggest production of the musical Oliver ever made.
18:22 Girard England is a giant musical.
18:22 Girard This explains the small children with cockney accents and giant hats who dance in the streets.
18:23 Daniel ...DAMN YOU MARY POPPINS!
18:23 Daniel DAMN YOU TO HELL!
They had to have stored your favourite knife on board. Get back and fetch it.
Originally Posted by Nekokaburi
Try to borrow any clothing that is still in one piece. You will attract too much attention in that. I doubt any of the guards would have had weapons, but search them anyway. Take what you can.
Originally Posted by crash826
> Your KNIFE must still be there! Grab it and snuggle its soft fur.
> Go off to kill people with the wickedly sharp TEDDY BEAR.
Originally Posted by Miraculous
> Contemplate flaming wreckage.
Originally Posted by ProfessorLizzard
>Knify-knife is alone! She is crying Go back for her.
Well the voices sure are talkative today. But yeah, let's go find my-
Bye bye knifey.
OHMAHLAWD TEDDY YOU'RE OKAY! You so soft and snuggly, and warm and furry.
Originally Posted by Nekokaburi
Head Westwards (away from the rising sun).
Hmm? What's that Teddy? West? There's just some city out west.
"But we need to go back to where the nice men were holding us. It isn't safe out here!"
(The teddy is now the voice of good conscience, I demand it to be so!)
"But we need to go back to where the nice men were holding us. It isn't safe out here!"
Originally Posted by ProfessorLizzard
>"West is where are all the honey is! Teddy needs honey."
Oh yeah. I forgot you were in there for having a split personality, Teddy. Thanks for caring, but I don't wanna go back! They always give me things that make me sick or sleepy. I hate being there. But don't worry now, Teddy, because you can get all the honey in the city! Yay!
Originally Posted by Andorxor
>Grow a second head
What's that, Teddy? You want a ride on my shoulder? Okay! Let's sing a song now! Rumba rumba rumba rumba
Rumba rumba rumba rumba
Well here we are, but no sign of honey anywhere.
Oh hey a man, he stinks. He smells like disinfectant they use back there. Why is he screaming at me, asking me for honey? I don't have any honey, no sir.