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with the resurgence of scenecore and the rawring 20s i was reminded of one of my favorite things to do on ye ole day of deviantArt: using anime bases made in ms paint, that were traced from a screenshot.

there was something freeing about just slapping some color on a premade base, like your own coloring page, or a paper doll, that made creating somewhat cringey OCs really easy and just plain fun.

of course, tracing other people’s art is problematic, especially without their permission, but if you’re like me you still enjoy loading up a shoddy pixel doll and making it your own in one of the most primitive imaging editing softwares out there.

So! i just kinda. made one myself. the basic process is down below and i’ll explain it a little more in detail. I used, you guessed it, MS Paint.

shitty resolution aside, i start by sketching the figure in a light color, blue in most cases, basic stuff.

i go over it in a darker color, red, and use a couple of shortcuts to phase most of the previous color out. you can fill the canvas with the lighter color, and then fill THAT in with white again to get a large chunk out, and scraggling pixels can be removed like this:

make sure the foreground color is your lighter sketching color.

double check your background color, default is white.

using the eraser tool, hold down the RIGHT CLICK to remove just the foreground color!

once i’ve cleaned up the sketch, i use a combination of the line and curve tools in black to ‘ink’ it. make sure to go back and clean up any stray pixels so the outline is smooth.

i remove the red in the same way i remove the blue, and then you’re left with your lineart! spruce it up with some classic base colors and a palette for easy recoloring, optionally you can change your background color, and bam!

your own circa 2010 dA anime base.

feel free to use my finished version down below!

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Took me a day to draw, and forever to gather up the courage to upload

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Space ace moodboard for @momthatreblogs

Let me know if you need anything changed!

- Mod Jordan

[havenester]

every meme you post brings you closer to satan. one day you will out-sin him and become ruler of the underworld. on that day, we will know humans failed.

Jokes on you

Humans failed when memes were first created

We failed as a species a long time ago

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it was raining but that didn’t stop the sun

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ok the speed of light isnt impresive bc everyhings happening at the speed of light or else we couldnt see amiright

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i'll take your sin and make it win

me

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what am i supposed to do with this blog

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eyyy i exist now