#ANYWAYS I HAVE AN ART PROGRAM AGAIN I CAN DRAW AGAIN

[unnamed-atlas]

I need to draw Wilford and Dark in the Barbie western outfits asap

[dakooftacos]

that mood when the easiest thing for you to semi-freehand draw is whatever characters are in the show you're working on at the moment

[clegfly]

I’ve… I’ve been thinking lately…

[quibbs126]

Honestly I think at this point what I need is a collage of each of a Transformer’s various designs across each continuity they appear in, either with their vehicle modes on the page or on an additional separate page

Not only that, but a collage of the designs of characters with certain vehicle modes compared to others, like a collection of the car Transformers and the motorcycle Transformers to compare separately. Which in addition would probably have to be separated by continuity since that’d be way too many on one page

Unfortunately that would be far too much work and my attention span would not be able to handle a project of that size. I probably couldn’t even do it for one character, at least not one that appears often

[quirkycritters]

Game Night: CHAIN ATTACK!!!

i am,,, withering away but ITS DONE ITS DONE IM FREE FROM THE CURSE (<<< still haunted by wips) clocking in at 32+ hours, this sucker has been getting pushed around for 10 months-

while theres some things i would have done differently if i could redo this from scratch, i still had a BLAST cramming in as much detail as i could tolerate >:) some highlights / cut ideas / ramblings are below the cut, but please zoom for details! (if tumblr doesnt shred it to bits)

gonna be real i locked so hard onto drawing ripped jeans that i forgot i could have just shoved legend into a skirt and called it a day

SOCKS. SOCKS. the amount of Joy anytime i figured out how to personalize them with game references: legend (hibiscus), twilight (ordon goats), and four (force gems)

i WAS going to put time in a turtleneck, but had an epiphany and started digging for the most obnoxious hawaiian shirts i could find,,, ft. a sea flower (wind waker) and a saturation boosted plumm (twilight princess)!

yeah so warriors got the sweater instead of the skintight shirt, sorry gang

speaking of if i ever say im going to draw a cableknit sweater again, somebody PLEASE shake some sense into me- warriors sweater was a NIGHTMARE since my art program has an astonishing lack of good brushes (and yet here i am still using it)

MOST of the text has been modified using the twilight princess cipher because yeah. i was procrastinating shading. also the other ciphers were in japanese- times shirt is cropped, but reads "its 5 oclock somewhere"

winds lobster shirt :) that is all i just think its neat

wilds jacket :) link w(ild) 2017, aka the release year of botw

jewelry! sky has the fireshield earrings, and wild has the amber earrings~ could barely squeeze the bombos and quake medallions onto legend, and wind got the joy pendant

hyrule :D embroidery on his sweatpants because i was struck by whimsy- also i 100% thought his shield was purple tinted for weeks while drawing this because the page i used as reference was set at night, and i was originally basing his sweater on his shield- scrapped the cross pattern after several failed attempts but kept the color ^^

the chips are bbq because im biased (reads "crisps" in twilight princess cipher for no real reason except whimsy)

bless my dearest homie for game reccs because the og plan was to have them all be loz games! titles include wii sports resort, elebits, super mario party, smash bros ultimate, just dance 2016 (its box art is colorful ok), and myth makers orbs of doom (I HATE THIS GAME WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING, as i should, anyways i should play it again). four is suggesting orbs of doom, buddy aint even playing,,,

kinda was hoping to play around with hair colors and skin tones a bit more, but again, see the hour count- ill get em next time surely,,, also blue vs violet eyes for legend already had me in decision paralysis

the whole gang was gonna have friendship bracelets with color combos based on dynamics i found neat but oops! didnt finish the layer :')

thats a wrap! didnt yap about everything but im curious what yall catch onto- anyways surely ive learned something about biting off more than i can chew (<<< lying liar who lies)

[beartitled]

HIVE belongs to @braisedhoney

Canon HIVE blog 👉 @talesaboardthehive

‼️ATTENTION HIVE CREW‼️

I BRING U

✨HIVE megadrawing✨

Bc tumblr cannot comprehend the glory of our ship/silly image size and pixel limit >:(

You can view the quality version of the art with all the numbers 👉here👈

The quality of the og art gotten eaten a bit too, so here’s close ups :D

And of course 🐝CREDIT LIST(s)🐝

Thank u to everyone who participated in choosing the art style for it >:D

@blackkatdraws2 @insomniphic @demonicrhythms @mhokino @writtengalaxies @myhandshurts @bucketfullofstrawberries @stingraystray-ing @kuzann @aetermorte @otterlyinluv @atlantis-whale @4thwallbreakerdraws @fudgemallowmaniac @crimsomcrystal @tumbling-turmoil @dafry-shenanigans @xandyprojects @technologyvoid @idunnowhattowriteheretbh @ejsuperstar @bananatemilkshake @masky-the-mask @cj-is-causing-chaos-again @whatsupwithjinx @oswinunknown @twolitwicksinatrenchcoat @bootleg-behindthescenes @junebug-dot-com @notmefoina @derrangedhemlock

‼️Important note

If you recognise your number and would like to be credited (tumblr, name, etc.), please let me know!

This art contains numbers from old HIVE discord server (which was deleted), so some ppl’s @ might’ve been lost

🐻‍❄️< silly gathered all hivesona art she saw before server deletion, but forgor to screenshot the list of server members

You also free to stay anonymous of course 👍

I will wait some time before posting it on others socials to make sure the credits are alright 🫡

Also little reminder that the drawing is non canon, so we have a lil uniform fashion show in the corner there 💅 (all uniforms have to be grey colour)

Nöw

Lemme me do my usual rambling >:D

The giant took about 3 months +- (hard to count bc I worked on other projects in the same time💥)

Lemme tell u the planning was an actual investigation

(and chaos ofc)

(fun type of chaos :D)

Shoot out to Amari who helped me gather evidence🕵️ and Crimsom who helped me accidentally find a number I didn’t know about before❗️

Thank u guys you’re awesome ❤️

As I said before there are identified numbers, where I either only had a name/somebody’s vague pfp/a discord status 💥

I used standard anonymous crewmate design for ppl with no info

But tried to gather at least some info from old server screenshots for cues, like CR6548 Kura had different red emojis in their bio, so I gave them a rose strawberry crown and earrings 🌹🍓

For anonymous people with asks I added lil visual identifiers ✨

Part of me kinda wants to write a whole guide, but I think it’s more fun to discover things by yourself >:) *whisper* go reread #ney’s chatter

Fascinatingly enough, this drawing really enhanced HIVE as an eldritch abomination

This thing shifted and changed so many times

Constant edits 😭💥

When I planned out the composition I added the balcony as an extra space reserve for crewmembers

Ironically balcony stayed empty, bc I didn’t have enough ppl to fill it up with

Decided to put fandom characters that are associated with Captain’s blog and some alter egos

🗣️ HOWEVER 🗣️

When I finished lineart and posted Bumblebeedog comics

Ppl started creating new Hivesonas 🥺

Nobody can resist the Bumblebeedoggo 🐝

So had to improvise to put more and more ppl into different empty parts of the art 💥

🎶gotta add em all 🎶

This is actually my biggest work so far

Like literally

I usually draw on A3, but decided to go bigger and drew on A2 format instead

A2 is like 420 x 594 mm/ 16.5 x 23.4 inches (big boi)

Which was an absolute nightmare to scan 💥

But honestly really enjoyed the process, bc bigger format allows for more details

Also technical fun facts x2

Drawing program froze sometimes during colouring 💀

cue the anxious saves lmao

Anyway 👏

Hope you guys enjoyed the art and reading some of the backstage ❤️

Hey Ney >:)

Hope u like

Hit me up if u would like the link to 4K version of the megadrawing™️

[dduane]

Off some tags to a previous post...

...these from @faelyn42, off this post:

#curious if these digital art pieces are going to be used for something#e.g. a book cover or promotional material#or if they're just for fun#either way it's very cool#helps to visualize certain scenes/characters if nothing else

They serve all kinds of purposes, depending on what I'm writing at the time.

First of all, they're definitely practice for actual book covers and promotional art: because while I can see things in my head, I can't really draw. The program can, though. :)

So the covers are all over the place on Ebooks Direct (and various of them are at Amazon, and other places); as, if anything needs to look polished enough to encourage that "second look" at a book, it's the cover. There's a lot to learn (and keep learning) about this art as styles and tastes change, and I do my best to keep learning.

I've been known to design covers right here, more or less step by step, while people are watching... to demonstrate that even the initially-clueless (like me) can successfully do this.

ETA: I completely forgot that I much more recently did a step-by-step build—on this cover…

(Inserting a cut here, because a fair number of images will follow. Warning: upcoming imagery includes unsubtle sight gags, vaguely cyberpunk cityscapes, car repair. beings with their hair on fire, and tw: for references to gayness and pastrami.)

...Anyway. Sometimes the images are just jokes that tend to be hip- deep in meta.

Sometimes they're sketches for work that'll need to be done again at a later date (like this one for my first I-got-paid-for-writing-Sherlock-Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Lioness's Mane:" some discussion of the process is over here).

Some of them are actual scenes from works already written or ones in progress.

Sometimes they're just character studies...

...or me goofing off.

But at all times—pretty much—their major purpose is to help me see something (or several somethings) more precisely, so that I can write more clearly about it/them. Pushing a given scene through the sometimes fairly complicated technical issues required to create and render it can also have the useful effect of making one think harder about the character business that makes it necessary for it to look a specific way. ...At least that's how it tends to work for me.

Anyway: thanks for the question! Hope this has answered it a bit. :)

[cardo-de-comer]

Currently in game dev as a student and I’ve been looking over your art and concepts for a little bit now—I’m FLOORED. I haven’t checked on your art in a while and had forgotten just how much it inspires me.

Your style holds so much identity, and your skill bleeds through every brushstroke! The way you do silhouettes, the insanely unique and beautiful choice of colors, the ferocity in some of the expressions, the quality of your brushwork, again the USE OF SILHOUETTE AND FORM OH MY GOODNESS!!!

You have SUCH a striking visual style and the way you incorporate similar themes to tie character designs together in your world is incredible! I was able to pick out what I believed to be symbolism and understand it a few seconds after asking the question (it may have been explained in the text and I missed it, but the fact that I was able to draw a conclusion that quickly says a lot about your skills as a designer and artist!).

Please forgive me if this has been asked before by the way, but what program do you use? I have a number of them and am trying to work out how you managed to get the line quality that you do on the brushstrokes (they’re like. Creamy looking??? Does that make sense? They blend together very nicely but don’t blend so much that it muddies the contrasting colors you put on top.)

Anyways as I was reading the game idea you have, I was actively trying to envision how it would look and was immediately feeling a 3D-2D mixed style, especially since your artwork has a very clear visual identity that would benefit from being the focus rather than something like plain or simplistic 3D models.

And then I immediately stumbled onto the low poly model you made and fell in love. I had already thought a Disco-Elysium inspired + low poly (less development time, plus requires less budget for an indie project) would look amazing especially considering how your brushwork means that high-poly models might not benefit nearly as much from it. And I think it might be the right call to continue with that!

What perspective (2D/platformer, 2D platformer with depth [Ex. “Paper Mario”] top down, isometric, 3rd person, 1st person, etc.) do you envision when you think of your game idea?

Personally I feel like it’d work as a 3rd person perspective 3D game, but using extremely low poly buildings and set pieces that let the textures do the work. But keeping in mind that if every character is 3D and rigged, it can and will still take monumentally more time to make.

I could also see it going the direction of having flat 2D characters in a 3D environment (Like “Smile For Me”) which would take less development time and save more energy to focus on good gameplay.

I’d love to hear more about your ideas, and think that you should definitely give more thought to making that game a reality!

Just as a word of advice though, start small. ;^^ Don’t begin with your dream project, make some goofy little games first to get your feet in the water, then dive in once you have that experience. And don’t get too wrapped up in it either, take breaks and divert from the project every so often to regather your creative energy. Like doing game jams for example!

o7

first of all thank you for such a LONG text oh my god T_T I cannot express in words how much this means to me and even if I knew English well, I still wouldn't be able to tell you... I use drawpile a lot for sketches and light stuff like doodles! And Photoshop for more complicated works and render. If you need brushes I have them in this post on my side acc. As for ynstbh, well... Here goes the rambling haha. I was thinking about it being either 2d platfomer /LISA was my main inspiration at the start/ or isometric 3D thing. Isometric still wins in my head because it gives some space for movement in different planes, if that makes sense, my favorite example of it being player is walking through the City and at some point you see a tower on a foreground plane just getting up and running off the screen to ambush you later haha (yes, the City is like that. nothing unusual here). When this game idea first appeared in my head, I also wanted it to have some kind of frame, medieval-inspired, around the gameplay, that would change drawings depending on the location. But now I think that's gonna be too much visual noise. And I would love to make cutscenes because I like my 3d models and I like to animate stuff, although it would take an abysmal about of time to make backgrounds.. Also ynstbh would probably have a lot of dialogues, since I really love to show characters through their interactions with each other. Notably the Devil, who loves to break the 4th wall and look right at the player in his portraits.

Either way yeah, I know about starting small. Right now I only have experience in drawing, 3d, just a little bit of code (I think I forgot everything actually lol) and I'm just really good at googling problems. I hope somewhere in the future I will have enough energy to start. My lore and characters became really important and dear to me so I really hope to make sth with them. :) If game doesn't work out, I'm thinking to give an animated short a chance, I need to put this world somewhere or I'll probably go insane. Once again thank you and good luck with your studies! thanks for letting me ramble about ynstbh haha <3

[unnamednarrator]

hey! about the fluffy dialogue prompts: number 3!!! <3

bet you guys thought i’d forgotten about this! turns out my week off was busier than i normally am at my actual job 💀 also sotr came out so we had to emotional deal/not deal with THAT. anyway, we’re back to semi-regularly scheduled programming!

3. “How come you always end up under my blanket?”

The first time Peeta and I slept in the same bed again, it was the autumn after the war. He’d said something about needing to wear his warmer jacket when he walked back home and it made me say, ‘Don’t do that.’

‘What?’ he’d asked, brows drawn together by a small line on his forehead. His jacket halfway up his arms.

‘Don’t go back,’ I’d said. And when he didn’t say something for a minute, I added, ‘Please.’

‘Okay,’ he’d said, hanging jacket back on its hook and walking towards me. Drawing me into his arms. ‘I won’t.’

After that, he only went back to carry his things over to my house and I went with him. Just a few things at a time. Clothes, baking utensils, art supplies. Eventually, all his things became lost between mine. We’d forgotten to assign different drawers in the bedroom and cabinets in the bathroom to our separate items. Now my socks can only be found in the folds of Peeta’s sweaters, or his gentle hand soap behind the vast selection of shampoos that Flavius left behind one time.

The only thing we don’t share is a blanket. This is at Peeta’s insistence. He said it was easier for him to get up in the middle of the night if he didn’t need to extricate himself from my limbs. Apparently, I’m an “exceptionally prime hogger”. The ridiculousness of that epithet is the only thing that kept me from being angry at him about this setting this rule.

But he must know, and not really care, that I’m terrible at sticking to rules. Because when I wake up, my paisley fleece blanket is nowhere to be found and I’m caught between Peeta’s arm and torso, entirely under his cotton duvet. This is nothing new; usually I’m able to retrieve my blanket before Peeta starts to stir. But when I look up at him this time, he’s peering at me with humour in his eyes, a twist on the corner of his lips.

‘How come you always end up under my blanket?’

I humph, annoyed at being caught out, I guess. But even more so, annoyed that he didn’t say anything before.

‘It’s nicer here,’ I say, burying my face into the warm space between his shoulder and neck. He never smells so wonderful as he does in the mornings. It’s like the blanket has captured his very essence and I’m allowed to inhale him in his most concentrated form.

‘It’s nicer to have you here,’ he agrees, pressing a kiss to the crown of my head. ‘Tell you what, let’s not start separately from now on.’

‘It was a stupid rule, anyway,’ I mumble into his skin.

Peeta snorts, hugging me tighter towards him. ‘We’ll make better rules from now on, okay?’

‘First one is that you’re not allowed to leave,’ I say, pressing a kiss to his neck and leaning back to see him again.

He’s smiling in that way that makes the prospect of the darker days of winter feel more bearable. He’s the only person who smiles like that.

He catches some baby hairs by my ear and tucks them behind the shell. ‘Lucky for you, that’s a rule I won’t break.’

‘Very lucky for me,’ I say, before leaning forward to kiss him.

send me a number from this prompt list and i’ll write an everlark ficlet!

[peachducy]

If it is okay to ask, what brushes would you use when it comes to drawing in the Professor Layton Artstyle?

Hi!! if you mean for sprites like these:

then i just use the basic lineart pen that can probably be found on any art program. for csp it's the G-pen and my settings look like this:

i set the pen pressure to a lower range just to have more consistency

if you mean for the box art style like this:

then i still use the G-pen for the lineart, but i use the basic default round brush which can again be found on any art program for the shading, for csp i used this:

more in depth tutorial for the box art style below, i guess?

obviously start with references, i was picturing diabolical box in my mind so i used that as my main inspo but i also had all the other box arts up, was definitely also thinking of last specters art

(note: weirdly the 3ds titles go from soft shading to hard shading? not sure why but i was going for the soft one personally)

anyway, after that i went into compositional thunbnail, sketch, then lineart, fairly basic, i would show you what these looked like but im running out of space for images. the main thing to make it look "layton style" is to have a good grasp of the characters and shapes and how they move which is not something i can teach you in one Tumblr post i have just spent a lot of time staring at layton arts

also for your compositional sketch be sure to include where youre gonna put the logo because i forgot to !!!!!!!!

for the base colours i just used the colours from their official arts, its much easier than trying to figure out how to keep their palletes later

my layers here looked like this (but turned on obviously) the first few are an overlay on battler & co. to make them more orange to fit the tone of the art, and a multiply layer for both descole and beato since theyre more in the background. theres also a black gradient around battler & co. to make the transition into beato less jarring

from there is the lighting, i just used a yellow overlay layer for the light and a greyish brown multiply layer for the shadows

deceptively simple! the whole process probably took me about 1hr and 30 mins maybe

[autumnalfallingleaves]

aaaaah okay SO I recently started drawing digitally again after a really bad bout of having absolutely no spoons for it, and of course this happened right after the WondLa hyperfixation hit again, so of course I had to actually start drawing the AU that's been rotating in my head since last July (when the first season of the show aired). The gist of it is that Sanctuary 573 actually naturally failed on its own, right after Eva was decanted, while at the same time Rovender's family didn't die, therefore he didn't leave and stayed in Faunas. I'm borrowing bits and pieces of the worldbuilding from the show to flesh this AU out, so Rovender is a pathfinder and his partner and (first) daughter are Gisana and Hanno (tbh I'm really glad the show gave us canon names because I was FLOUNDERING in that department lmao).

For designs, I went with mostly Vibes for Eva and Hanno, combining a few motifs from Cærulean outfits from the books. Gisana's design is primarily my own, with her outfit colors coming from the show but with actual outfit design being inspired by the books. Her and Hanno have crests because Soth does and I thought that'd be fun to incorporate. Rovender's design is an attempted combination of his late-book 2/book 3 design, with the added caveat that he hasn't been despondently wandering around for who knows however many decades.

Anyway, somehow Rovender, while on assignment, finds Sanctuary 573 and ends up finding Eva and Muthr, who is shutting down. In a last act of desperation, Muthr manages to use the Sanctuary's computer to decipher the Cærulean language (just... work with me here) and decides to give Eva to this random alien that literally just wandered into the Sanctuary one day. Luckily for her, that was the best call she could've made, and 8-month-old Eva then goes off to Faunas with Rovender.

(Continued under the cut)

please do not repost my art

Muthr, before letting Eva go, also downloaded all the programs Eva would ever need (language modules and such) onto the Omnipod, just in case, which she then leaves with Eva. She, and the Sanctuary, shut down after that, leaving this poor guy with a baby from a species he's never heard about before.

Rovender, not knowing what to do initially, thinks he'll bring Eva to Faunas and then figure out where she'll be sent from there. What of course ends up happening is that Eva imprints on him, and Rovender bonds with her, and, well fuck, he just can't let her be adopted by anyone else now, can he? Luckily, he manages to convince Gisana. Hanno is a bit skeptical, but she, too, comes around eventually and she's kinda always wanted a sibling? So. Score.

Eva grows up very loved, with the sort of family she always dreamed of, in a lovely little community. In addition to Rovender being a pathfinder, Gisana is a beamguide maker and Hanno is a tailor, which means that Eva can usually get human-sized clothes rather easily. (My headcanon is that Faunas is also a huge textile creator and exporter, so textile-related jobs are pretty common.) The entire family has custom-made beamguides that Gisana designed and made-- they're locked in on each person, and show where they are relative to Faunas. Hanno uses this feature in book 3 to find where Eva and follow her. They eventually meet in the ruins of New York just as the airships and warbots attack. (That's one of the doodles here lol.) Additionally, Eva wants to be a pathfinder like her father, so Rovender takes her on as an official apprentice not long before her thirteenth birthday. What happens later on, during the period the books cover, is that Rovender and Antiquus, seeing how Eva is maturing and developing, decide to start unofficially training her to take on a council position, which she does eventually take in a few decades. Eva also shows hints of her powers early on in life, with plants and animals usually responding to her in little ways, but she doesn't really come into her powers until the events of book 1.

The books largely happen like canon, with book 1 being the most changed. I'm thinking what happens is that, as her official first journey as an apprentice pathfinder and as a birthday present, Rovender takes Eva on an Eva-directed journey back to her birthplace, which she's been wanting to do for years. Besteel, who has been a problem since Eva was little (the Kitts found out the Royal Museum was looking for a live human specimen, using Besteel to do it, and knew they had to keep Eva hidden-- it's been a huge game of keep-away for years, and Besteel certainly suspects Something), finds them out in the open near the Sanctuary and starts the pursuit. Eva and Rovender flee to Lacus, deciding to try and get to Solas via the ferry to try and clear things up-- Eva's an official resident of Faunas, after all, and part of the chief's clan. Can they please stop trying to capture Eva? Except, of course, it doesn't go to plan. They get captured, Eva meets Otto and unlocks stronger abilities, and Eva gets captured at Lacus. (The Haveports are also some of the few non-Cæruleans who know that Eva even exists.) Without Muthr, it's a little harder to escape, but Eva does manage it, being as familiar with Orbona as she is. She gets out, gets back to Rovender and Otto, and they go to the ruins, Eva now curious as to whether or not there are humans on Orbona. Events continue only slightly altered (Eva gets bad vibes from the oasis and they avoid it, for one, and Eva doesn't loose her mother, because she's back in Faunas, for two), and the arc ends with Hailey and the Bijou.

Books 2 and 3 happen largely like canon, I think, with the exception of Eva being able to introduce Eight to her Cærulean family (Eight still goes off the rails and turns into a tree, though), and Eva knowing, going into New Attica, that she's not staying, she just wants to meet humans and maybe make some friends before going back home. Cadmus, of course, takes exception to this and tries to force Eva to stay. Eva, of course, escapes, with her friends and family in tow.

Book 3's biggest change is the addition of Hanno to many events, with her intervening at the ruins and accompanying Eva to the now-destroyed New Attica. Everything's better with a sassy older sister who isn't about to go off the deep end :) Eva ends up back in Faunas at the end, instead of just her and Rovender in Lacus, like in canon.

I do have more about this AU, but, like, this here is long enough and I think the best way to communicate other stuff is through narrative format (fic :) ), so I hope I have the motivation to write those at some point lol.

[seiishindraws]

I noticed when looking super close at your line art that the there's slight red green and blue on the sides of the lines like an old 80s anime and i think that's super cool! How do you do it?

oh, that's chromatic aberration! i guess you could say its a kind of colour/visual distortion.

it's pretty simple to do, but i usually just use a csp auto action to do it for me to make things go quicker, but i can teach you how to do it manually in most programs.

i'm going to use this silly doodle of me as pompompurin as an example lol

youre gonna wanna merge everything onto a single separate layer first and then we're gonna work with that merged layer. make two copies of that merged layer so you have three of them in total.

the top merged layer will be our red layer, so youre going to want to got to EDIT > Tonal Correction > Level Correction

the level correction graph will pop up. since the top layer will be our red one, select the green level and drag the rightmost arrow on the Output scale all the way to the leftmost side. do the same for the blue level.

the image should be red like this afterwards.

the middle layer is going to be our blue layer so do the same thing we did for the top layer except youre going to reduce the green and red levels instead, and the middle layer should be all blue like this.

for the bottom layer, it will be our green layer. same process as before, reduce the red and blue levels so its all green.

your layers should be looking like this now

from here, you want to set the layer modes of the red and blue layers to Screen, DON'T do the same for the bottom green layer though. you'll notice once you've done that, the image will look normal again!

from here, all you need to do is shift the red layer in one direction, and the blue layer in another, to as much of an extent you want. the further they are from each other, the more drastic the effect will be

and that's how you do it! my other personal tip would be to add a layer of noise set to Overlay or Soft Light at a lowered opacity over the drawing bc it goes well with the aberration, or even sharpen the image.

if you dont want to do all that hard work though and you happen to have clip studio paint, just use an auto action, like this one!:

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1713222

anyway i hope that helps? ^^;;;

[kiruliom]

how to load psds on ibispaint!

this was made with coiners in mind but will work with p much every psd so no worries if you wanna use a base or a sticker pack in a psd file (note, since its important, psd files meant to change the color of an image only load as intended through photoshop and photopea, so youll need either of that for them, not any other drawing programs.)

first of all: where to find files?

honestly, there isnt a clear answer. you can find some for most of them through just seeing if the coiner has linked any. most of them will be linked through file hosting sites, most common is drive or deviant art, but I used catbox for a while then switched to filegarden personally. the user @daybreakthing has took upon solself to turn a lot of more complex flags into psd files, so you can find a lot of them on sols old and current deviantart page (linked in their pinned)

the only downside for deviantart is you HAVE to log in to download the files. it is free however and you dont have to do much else.

for this tut Ill be using the nonhuman x for x flag psd by daybreakthing, (coined by sol as well, on melabea)

^^^ this guy

now onto the actual tutorial:

youre here likely because you already tried it, but its good to go over what not to do, and the results, anyway.

if you try to open it like a regular file, you will get errors, often more than one.

its important to note that psd files, while still considered image files, have no previews (except on drive) so they will look blank or empty. no worries about that, they will load properly.

here is what to do (or what I do, anyway)

go to your gallery, google photos, or another file manager (like just files or an external file manager)

Im using google photos bc my device's gallery wont let me share psd files

select the image, go to 'share', and pick ibispaint. theres a chance it wont pop up in the first screen, so just press the more option.

if ibispaint is not an option, try another image or file manager!

it will ask if you want to convert the file to ipv, select yes!

and thats all!! if all goes well it should be in your gallery when you open ibispaint. keep in mind it may crash once or twice when you first try to open it, just clear your app history cache thing and try again! (ibis paint is held together by duct tape and prayers)

I hope that helps!! if you have questions or problems, never be afraid to ask, I love to help!

tagging @idwl since their anon had a question related to this and I was directed to, to help :3

sorry about the amount of clutter with the red arrow and circles and pixelated stuff, I wanna obscure irrelevant or personal stuff while making sure people dont miss anything important.

[yuchan1928ofc]

Hello everyone, I’m Yuchan, and I’m here to present an independent project I’m working on. I’m creating a yandere visual novel called Two Faced Lovers.

I would like to ask for some feedback, as I don’t want to end up creating a copy of a game or visual novel I haven’t encountered yet. I’ll give a brief summary of the story, but it might change as the game updates and is developed.

Synopsis: You’re in school, it’s your last year, and this year you decide to make some changes by starting new friendships and finally fitting in. However, along the way, you encounter people who are willing to fight for their eternal love, even if it means lying or killing to get what they want.

Now, I’ll explain a little more about the story: the visual novel I’m creating features two yanderes and two rivals (the number of rivals may change). Keep in mind that in this story, rivals can be romantic partners, but they are considered rivals by the yanderes.

Currently, I’m working on the NPC sprites, and since I’m the only one working on it—drawing, editing, and even programming—I believe the game won’t be completed anytime soon, especially since this is my first time creating a game.

I want to bring a somewhat cute theme inspired by 14dwyN, and I’ll reveal who the yanderes are. But I want to emphasize that the game will be a "farce," with the theme initially appearing as a cute romance game, but once you start playing, it turns out to be a somewhat darker game.

E antes que alguém pergunte, o jogo não será NSFW, pois ainda não estou confortável com isso. Pode ser visto negativamente, especialmente por pessoas próximas a mim, Os personagens foram inspirados em meus amigos da vida real, mas com seus gêneros trocados. Então, antes que alguém diga que estou copiando outra visual novel, quero deixar claro que minha arte é inspirada nas pessoas da minha vida. Não tenho intenção de copiar ou fazer algo semelhante a outras obras.

Anyway, this was a brief explanation. I hope you like my idea and accept it.

I just want to emphasize again that my game is entirely inspired by 14 Days With You, The Kid in the Back, Date with Death, and Error143. I am simply a big fan of these works, and they have inspired me a lot to gather the courage to create my own game with my own hands.

[soradayone]

“Their foreheads rest together, another precious point of contact”

———

So a few weeks ago I found this fanfiction that unironically sparked such an insanely artistic shift in me that, not only have I started writing again but it compelled me to DRAW again. I can’t count how many times I’ve read it; how every new reading my mind paints another vivid illustration. If I had known I would’ve loved a written work like this I would’ve taken my time and not devour it the way I did lmao. I wish I could read it for the first time all over again and that’s probably why I read it once every few days. So it stays fresh, so I don’t forget.

Sometimes I find myself laughing aloud in my apartment that something I found by genuine CHANCE has made me feel like I can create again. I gave so much of my creativity to climbing that corporate ladder that I forgot why I started my personal journey in the first place. So I had started an artist recovery program and the shift started happening before I found this but then I found this fic at 7am before work one day and I wish I was making it up (because it sounds absolutely asinine to me) but I couldn’t breathe straight when reading it. Mostly out of shock that the words were written in such a unique style that I constantly look for in main stream books but never can find (that’s a whole other ass rant), but it hit so hard and suddenly because I wasn’t expecting to read poetry, especially because I’ve never had an affinity for it or poetry like writing, at least not in my younger days.

It made me remember why I loved writing as a child. I forgot that it wasn’t just the stories that I loved, it was the technique, the science of words, the POWER of them, the art of it all.

Is this a really dramatic reaction to a femslash fanfiction about Rangshi, lmao absolutely and it’s why I laugh because it’s embarrassing to me but I’m too old to give a shit about it. I’m tired of not enjoying things, especially this part of fandom.

This is so long but honestly it’s more for me anyway, it’s been months since I’ve sketched so this was a genuinely fun emotional release to finally sketch on my iPad again. I couldn’t even do this scene justice and my lack of skill FRUSTRATES me because my hands cannot keep up with the vision I see when I read this. But my favorite scene in this fic has yet to be drawn but I’ve already sketched that out on a paper somewhere at my desk because I couldn’t stop thinking about it so might post that here one day.

[dross-the-fish]

What about AI artists who sell their art?

Kind of a grey area to be honest. I feel like if they disclose they used AI to generate the art it's at the buyer's discretion. I don't think it's actually very profitable to do given that 1. the AI image can't be copyrighted, there's nothing to stop people from using it as they please anyway so you can't protect your inventory, 2. You have no ability to control the quality or consistency of your product. I don't see AI generated art sell for much, maybe 5 USD for an adoptable OC or something on Deviant art and if you're spending hours putting in prompts and weeding through results that's a lot of time for very little money. There's also not a huge demand for AI art and a growing stigma against it. My take is that it's not really worth it/profitable. All that aside, I am of the firm belief that there is no such thing as an AI artist. Not because you can't define what AI creates as art but because the "artist" in this case is the generator, you are pitching it ideas or making requests and it's doing its best to follow your instructions. I'm currently working as an illustrator on a project for someone and they send me references, descriptions and samples to work off of so that I can create the artwork they want for their book. This is the same process that I go through on any project I work on where I draw what my client wants. No matter how detailed or thorough the client is in their descriptions there is no circumstance under which they are considered the artist because the actual labor of creating art falls to the illustrator. Again, I have to stress, the author is not an artist, they've employed an artist (me) to create art for them because they cannot make it themselves. No matter how detailed their instructions are at the end of the day it is up to me to interpret and produce the actual art. In the case of AI Art the generator is the artist, not the person using it. People argue that AI is just a tool but a tool is made to assist not to completely automate the process. When you hire an artist to draw something for you that artist is not a tool, they are an employee. AI also isn't completely free, I think to get the most out of some programs you do have to subscribe, which means you're still paying for AI to make art for you, it's just significantly less than commissioning an artist.