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All the eeveelutions! :) 

Now available for purchase here.

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a little bit of fancy living for Olivia 🌹

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witch’s attic 🔮✨

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dark brotherhood + quests 

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Sky addiction

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video game meme  → (1/7) favorite games: portal 2

Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: A horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that.

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Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

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She waited and listened.

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sweet

DA556A | E27787 | EDA9B4 | F0BBC3 | F6CECF | FBDFDE

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get to know me (again): [1/10] tv shows ∟ avatar: the last airbender (2005-2008)

“Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will, and the energy and drive to achieve what they want. Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring. Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns, and they found peace and freedom. And they apparently had great senses of humor. Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything. It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, the other nations, will help you become whole.”

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@prince-sanji asked: Catradora or Glimadora

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Keyleth’s small crush on Vex is the reason why I stay awake at night

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i also did this very last-minute (like, two days before reveals i think?) pinch hit for PresAlex on ao3, but thankfully i got SUPER INSPIRED and just did this in… not quite one sitting i think but i just started and then chugged on bc i was having so much fun? and im very happy with it! and obvs im just here to give keyleth all the wlw content. let her smooch gals! and also cuddle with a beautiful ranger under the moonlit sky. 

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I'd kill to see your take on your fave pairing from Campaign one of CR

hello now that im back from the UK and also have photoshop back and need to remember how to use that again i figured id try to do at least one of these asks (we’ll see if i get to more of them later or not)

Good Old Vex’leth

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it took me exactly 0.2 seconds before drawing something gay for this show

filed under: Vax & Keyleth are cute and all, but have you considered this

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well, the moment has come that this blog is finally archived and my new blog is ready to be publicly announced!

i don’t have anything posted over there (yet) but you can find my new blog over at kiimboyle!

see you guys there

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Chibi Ladybug commission for @rubyrose 💕