#IDK I'm just fucking around with layer modes

[leichendiener]

Mmhmmm?

[alllgator-blood]

okkk wait this is the anon that sent an ask about autistic narinder and leshy hc 😅 i retract my statement they're all autistic 🤯🤯🤯🤯

I WAS LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF ANSWERING THAT ASK TO SAY "I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ALL AUTISTIC" BEFORE THIS ONE GOT SENT IN, I was two sentences in so your comedic timing was impeccable actually

I know there's like no evidence in-game to back my claims so this is purely a vibe check (and also me being unable to write for neurotypical characters) but yeah no I 100% feel like all the bishops have autism for some reason. They definitely express it in different ways and I was actually thinking about that in the car ride back home tonight??

SEMI-DETAILED HC EXPLANATIONS BELOW THE CUT

For leshy, I feel like since he's the youngest...when he came along, everyone was like "yep. We don't even need to get this one tested" after seeing him in his natural element. Which sounds cruel but that's just personal experience after people in my family started getting diagnosed and we started noticing things about each other better LMAO. I kinda actually designed my iteration of him to be like a big stim toy, I did that shitpost sketch in the last post but even the first time I drew him I was like "this dude is made out of orbs that make satisfying noises when they click together", so if I had to categorize the way his neurodivergency manifests, it's definitely "I NEED TO MOVE AROUND!! RIGHT FUCKING NOW!! MAYBE SCREAM A LITTLE IDK IT JUST FEELS RIGHT!!"

Heket is for sure the one that fights the most against people labelling her with it, just because she's like I'M SO NORMAL GUYS. LOOK HOW NORMAL I AM. LOOK HOW WELL I CAN ADAPT TO CHANGE AND LOOK AT ME NOT FREAK OUT AT ALL WHEN I'M OUT OF MY ELEMENT!! She's the new leader of the family so she does her best to hold it together but if you make plans with her, she's gonna be in Waiting Mode as soon as the plans are made and might tear you limb from limb if you flake or reschedule. Something my therapist told me recently is that me getting absurdly upset over injustices (small or big) is likely directly related to being autistic, so if heket feels like something is wrong she will absolutely be vocal about it. If someone says something mean to her, they are her fucking arch nemesis from that point on. The block button is NOT enough she wants them DEAD

For narinder, I feel like he maybe bonded a lot with shamura over the fact both of them feel pretty disconnected from everyone else? The way his autism manifests is probably the feeling that he's on a completely different wavelength than everyone else, and can't experience empathy the same way his siblings can. He'll like have conversations with people but it feels like someone just talking at him, and him having to mentally choose the dialogue options that make the conversation end the quickest. He probably feels like a completely separate species from everyone else on more levels than just "I am a cat and you are not". I know this doesn't line up with my narinder art so far but I have a distinct characterization of him pre-schism that's completely different from post-schism. I feel like he also resented the other siblings for having the same condition as him but presenting so differently, he felt like he got the short end of the stick.

Kallamar........is a FREAk ABOUT TEXTURES. Bro will actually throw up if he has to eat or touch something gross. He would probably excuse himself to go hurl if he sees leshy combining everything on his plate and shovelling it into his face. I'M actually about to hurl just thinking about it. I have to have lotion on at all times or I freak out when I touch things with my hands, and I feel like kallamar needs to have that famous Cephalopod Mucus Layer in order to exist in his body without wanting to implode. Maybe even a special oil he formulates himself? I also feel like he probably has the most freakouts and has been left crying inconsolably + hyperventilating on the floor over something seemingly stupid MANY times, but shamura is understanding enough to be patient with him and not try to grab him or repeat phrases at him over and over.

LASTLY, SHAMURA DOESN'T THINK THEY HAVE AUTISM. They're like "I love my Neurodivergent Family :) can't relate tho" but all the siblings have unanimously agreed they have something going on up there, even before the TBI. I think they're very book smart, and have little file cabinets of their brain of stuff like "arthropod husbandry" and "dreamcatcher making techniques" but are totally clueless to how other people operate. They don't really know *why* people do the things they do; in my prequel AU thing, they gain most of their social knowledge through people watching rather than like...being normal and just knowing how to behave. Out of all the siblings, they've probably been told the classic phrase "but you don't look autistic!" the most LMAO

Also shamura 100000% has misophonia and that's the reason I didn't have them sitting at the table with the other siblings in the voidpunk comic I did of them. They love their family to death but they have to make the conscious decision to not shake baby leshy every time he loudly chokes down his dinner, so they just sit out meals and eat on their own time. If shamura was real I would build them a shrine and sacrifice my noise cancelling headphones cause idk if they have sound reduction methods in cotl world <3

I know autism kinda encompasses ALL of these traits and isn't something that can be categorized into "this one hates noises, this one needs to follow a schedule..." but I also don't want to just point at one bishop and go "YOU. YOU WILL BE MY VESSEL" because I'd never get to write all that I have in mind if only one character had it. There's definitely overlaps in symptoms between them but I just wrote down what I felt would be the most notable to that specific character. I've been wanting to do a comic about their special interests or the times they just like sync up and have a brain blast jimmy neutron moment, cause usually they're all over the place. I have literally never said the word "autism" so many times in my life I think I gotta cut it here, THIS IS SO LONG. I REALLY DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS THOUGH SO THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK GENUINELY. IDK IF YOU EXPECTED A SMALL ESSAY ON THIS BUT I WROTE ONE ANYWAY

[soft-pine]

hiiii!!! how are you? :))

i’ve seen you mention a few times in the past that you’re not really a chuck won theorist, so i’m curious (1) what about it doesn’t work for you? and (2) what do you think about the finale and even spnwin?

hi!! aw it's so nice to get an ask!

1) okay so like i REALLY GET chuck won! like i GET IT!!! and i absolutely see why it's so popular and compelling. i feel like my issues with it stem from two things: 1. who my spn community was and 2. narrative reasons.

like to be really transparent, my spn fandom experience was mostly on twitter. and on twitter there was a VERY BIG chuck won theorist who was also a really big gay-dean anti. and they harassed a young friend of mine's fics and accounts and would go on rants about gay-dean people. so my community mostly ended up being people ... who didn't vibe with that... and therefore ended up mostly not being chuck won people. (that person is on tumblr too but i haven't ever seen a chuck won moot reblog from them which is nice. and also when they were doing all this harassing, they hadn't even seen the whole god danged show!)

narratively i'm kinda mixed. i think chuck won has some GREAT potential for fix-it's (both like canon continuation????!!!!! and fics!) and i think there's lots of fun puzzle pieces to put together to make it really compelling and supported by the text! like i really do think chuck won is maybe one of the simplest and best premises for that stuff. HOWEVER, i can't get over dean saying "see, that's not who i am" and not killing chuck in 15.19. like THAT MEANS THE FUCKING WORLD TO ME!!!!! and i get that even in chuck won, maybe killing chuck then wouldn't have done anything and like idk i get there can be layers. but like choosing to beat god by just being the ultimate punching bag (as he's always treated you) until he's expended all his hate and all his power taking it out on you and then just walking away.... THAT FUCKING SLAPS IM SORRY!!! i am gobbling it up and up! also i think another part of why i'm not so into chuck won is that i'm not really a jack girlie so i don't /personally/ find his 15.19 actions particularly ooc. but also like... if the finale and spnwin is all the continuation we get, i feel like there is something in dean being a being with autonomy booking it around the universes and cas being alive and in heaven. like idk that's crumbs but like if this is all the canon we'll get, i'd rather not think chuck is still in control. if that makes sense? so how i feel really depends on if i'm in fix-it or make-the-best-of-it mode.

2) well i hate the finale lmao! a long time ago i described myself as like not a chuck won truther but a john won truther... which idk is also really sad... but i think one of the most important narrative through lines in spn is dean managing the trauma john left him with. and in a very real sense the finale is a categorically a Tragedy when seen from that lens. and that is the kind of fix-it that i /personally/ find the most compelling (i.e. the mundane rather than the cosmic) so that is why i lean in that direction and my fics are fix-its to that tragedy and that story. like unfortunately, i want to write the whole finale off but dean's speech is just too real to me, i just can't. i want to and i can't :( (i wrote more about it here...) so yeah, spn, to me, is the tragedy of growing up closeted and abused and parentified. so the fact that the finale echoes 3.16 and is like Yes those things are real and they will Kill You... makes me want to dig in! like it's awful!! they shouldn't have ended it like that but idk maybe i'm crazy but i feel like - to me - there is some validation in the way it just Is a Tragedy (even if it is NOT framed like that at all and that episode is crazy bad and the lighting is insane and they play carry on my wayward son twice in a row). i hope that makes some sense??

2.1) i really enjoyed spnwin when it was airing!! it was the first time i had gotten to be in spn fandom with new eps coming out and i felt like i was constantly nauseated and worried and exuberant and insane and it was great i miss it! i got really annoyed by all the john takes i was seeing to be fair. i LOVED carlos so much! i think the parallels (intentional and not) for dean and mary and deancas are all delicious!!!! but also sadly multiverses are a big ick for me and i was really really disappointed they didn't like properly resurrect dean though i LOVE that he IMMEDIATELY broke the rules and dipped right the fuck out of heaven. but again, i'm a mundane guy, i don't care as much about dean being like a semi-divine universe hopping being (or w/e edlund said i dont recall). i want him alive on earth eating a grilled cheese with tomato soup in his kitchen that he has set up just right. BUT i did love seeing him and hearing him and i would watch ten million seasons of a show even if it just had three seconds of dean's voice in every episode so there's that. i also am a big Deans-only-grow-beards-when-they're-highly-stressed theorist so the beard made me sad but i loved his dress up! and i LOVED the vibe of the car on a foggy road at the end of the first ep. i DID NOT like the akrida people talking about needing to kill him (HE HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH!!) and i DID NOT LIKE him being trapped in the void or w/e for a long time cause like i know he was in there worrying he failed and everyone would die and no version of his parents could be happy and i swear i cannot take that shit. but dean saving his parents who are younger than him is DELICIOUS I AM FEASTING!!! and i have evil fic ideas about spnwin that i should actually write sometime

thanks for the ask! sorry for the novels! hope they're coherent enough!! <3

[chaosandthe-deadblog]

Sunny's unnofficial rendering tutorial because idk why but people say they like how I color

Hey kid. So you got your drawing, right? And you have your flat colors, now you gotta render 'em, right? Then you find that BAM, you have no idea how to make it look cool? Neither do I! But here's what I do (I've been told that my coloring is cool)

1. Place your flat colors

Imagine these are your flats. A few things: you want your base colors to be all around the same hue, that way they look better together. See how all the blacks, greys and whites are purple/blue-ish? That's on purpose babey! But how do you acheive this? idfk. jk, you have to stay on one (or two) areas of a hue wheel.

This way, all the colors look like, nicer around each other. You're not FORBIDDEN from going outside an area you picked, but you should still try to make sure everything is in the same hue so you have to do less overlay layers later.

(FYI: I do this because it saves me time on rendering. I don't think it's mandatory, there's no rules to art. Go crazy!)

2. Shading

I think shading makes or breaks a drawing. Personally I don't have a lot of rules about it, but there are still tips I can give.

So here's what you gonna do. You're gonna pick a color that's somewhere on the opposite of your main hue, alright? Here, my hue is mostly cold colors, so I'm going to pick a warm tone. You're gonna make sure it's dark enough so it's like, a shade, but not enough so it becomes black when you set the shading layer to multiply.

(Note: I never get this right on the first try)

(Another note: as you can see, I have the entire drawing, including the lines, inside a group. Don't worry! I'll explain this later)

Personally I like to use a paintbrush-esque brush because I like the look of it being hand-painted that it gives my art. Mine is the default paint tool sai brush, but I'll leave the settings down here just in case.

I don't. Really know how to explain the way I shade, I mostly follow the lines I already placed in the lineart phase, and give them depth. I guess my biggest tip would be to FOLLOW THE CLOTHING FOLDS!!!

Idk how to explain this. But people always tell me that they like how I shade the clothes, it's because I follow the fold lines I place on the lineart phase! Not only does this give the clothes depth, it also makes shading a lot easier. Follow your lineart, idk what else to tell ya.

Now you're gonna set the layer to multiply...

And lower the opacity as much as you want until it looks good. No real rules to this, it's kind of depending on the vibe you want your piece to have.

Now, and stay with me here, grab a blending tool, okay? This is the one I use, I have a textured version for when I'm feeling brave, and a regular, flat version (the one I use the most) Here I'll use the flat version.

And. Stay with me here. I want you to blend the FUCK out of this. Just absolutely destroy those borders. Okay? Trust me. If it looks messy you're doing it right. You're gonna want to follow the shape of the shadows tho, this way you don't lose the shape of the objects you're shading.

Woah! Suddenly everything has depth! Let me go back to the clothing folds, because holy shit, the clothing folds.

See how I'm adding depth to the shadows I placed by kinda. Following the line I drew and blending the outside? Idk how to explain this. You blend whatever isn't touching the line, okay? Trust me.

3. Lighting

Ok. I'm holding your hand gently. You have to do lighting on your art, okay? You have to. It adds depth to the shapes and also is sososoososo easy. Here's how. It's so easy.

Grab your airbrush tool. Yes, that one. Hear me out okay?

Pick a light, warm color between yellow and orange.

Stay with me. Make a new layer, set it to whatever lighting mode you prefer. I use luminosity because I live dangerously.

Now.

Airbrush everything that the shadows aren't touching. Yes. I'm serious.

It's gonna look ugly as shit. DON'T BE ALARMED. This is part of the process. I want you to take the blur tool. And blur the ever loving fuck out of this. Just go fucking ham.

Good. You're doing so well. You're being so brave. Now lower the opacity as much as you want, until you like the way it looks.

Like so. I also like to add a few brush strokes and blend them on an up-and-down motion for the hair and certain details, but this is optional. Same as before, you're gonna take a (slightly warmer, but still bright color) and make a new layer on luminosity mode.

Take the blending tool and make it small, only slightly bigger than the brush strokes, and blend these lines until they look nice. Adjust the opacity, and voila!

Now, I could stop here. But I'm extra so I keep going.

4. The pizzazz

AKA, "Ah fuck the colors don't look the way I wanted them to!"

Do not worry! I have a solution that's almost never failed me.

Overlays. Just a whole fuckton of them. I don't really have a method to this, I just kinda try colors and layer modes until something looks good.

For this one, I felt like I wanted the colors to be warmer, so I picked a warm color and overlayed it on multiply. Then, I noticed that the darker colors came out darker than planned, and you couldn't really tell them apart, so I picked a light warm color and overlayed it on screen.

Voila! We're not done! There's one more thing I like to do, and here's where the layer folder comes in!

Remember how I said I keep everything, including the lines in a folder? This is why!

Make a layer that's on top of everything, like this. Pick whatever color you want, make sure it's bright. (Personally I like using pink). Take the airbrush tool again and airbrush whatever edges you want to give a little more pizzazz to.

Blur it as much as you'd like...

And adjust the opacity and layer mode however you like!

5. And done!

Sometimes I add white highlights. Sometimes I add more shading, or more lighting. It depends! But this is the method I use in a nutshell.

Hope you enjoyed it, or at the very least realized idk what the fuck I'm doing!

[fantasticcloudcreation]

Rambling about diet things lol

I'm actually amazed that I haven't gained weight this winter. Last year I went up to like 125 by this time, but I was also sitting around the house being depressed, getting high and eating too much/drinking way too much the entire time... I guess it was a good idea to stay busy this winter. Didn't quite escape the winter blues/existential crisis but it didn't hit nearly as hard as usual.

Haven't been feeling skinny lately but also not feeling fat, just kind of average. Haven't paid any attention to what I've been eating and definitely drinking more than the average human is supposed to, but I didn't gain so that's all that matters, right?

Can't believe I'm 29 fucking years old and I'm still thinking about this shit. At the same time, my mom is once again starting this diet program where she only eats these lil meal packages for like 6 weeks, she was walking around the house today complaining about wanting snacks but needing to stick to her diet; I wonder where I got it from lol. At the same time, I'm skinnier than most of my peers from high school/college, so whatever that means; at the same time, I'm average compared to my coworkers, some are smaller some are bigger but I definitely don't stand out as "skinny" in that group. At the same time, it's a good distraction from the actual real important things about adult life that I'm supposed to be paying attention to and working towards.

I low-key love staying at my mom's house when she's in diet mode bc I can just not eat all day and she doesn't notice, the snacks in the pantry start to dwindle and she doesn't replace them, I can get away with just eating a little dinner and drop a bunch of weight in a week or two. The first time I hit my lw (2017) I was staying at her place for Christmas break from college and went from 107 to 99 in like 3 weeks and it was great, she had no idea except she kept telling me how tiny I was, but like in a jealous "good for you" way.

Just goes to show you that the eating disorder never goes away unless you actively work on it, you could be stuck in the diet cycle forever if you don't try to stop it :) I've thought about talking to her about it but realistically I'm doing the same thing and I don't want her to look too closely at my habits. She does however notice my drinking habits and that's unfortunate but also I know she means well.

It's 6:30pm, I know I should eat something, I haven't eaten all day and while I felt hungry a couple times throughout the day those feelings have passed and I'm not feeling hungry right now; should eat an edible to help with that but I only have one left and I want to save it. Should just make the food and I know I'll be hungry once I smell it. As much as I enjoy not eating and seeing the scale numbers drop really fast, I also know that my body can't take it at the same level as I used to, and dinner at least is important, and I shouldn't wait til it's so late that I can't digest before sleeping; so many layers to it. Just opened another truly and they hit better when you haven't eaten haha.

What is my motivation for losing weight right now? I like being skinny, I like wearing crop tops without worrying about my tummy looking big. I like when people comment on my weight/body even though it makes me uncomfortable in the moment lol; thinking about that time this girl at work asked if I was working out and said I looked great lol. Thinking about the next time I see D or L or J and they'll tell me how small I look... I guess I might be seeing J in a week or two but idk how dramatic the weight loss will be in that time period, realistically I only see him sporadically and my weight only cycles between the same 10-20 lbs and I'm probably about the same size as the last time I saw him. Thinking about how I'll be spending the next month in Miami probably and the next time I see my family they'll tell me I'm so tan and thin.

Idk, it doesn't seem as urgent or exciting as it used to; I'm already pretty thin compared to most people I know, but I still feel average. I could lose 5-10 lbs and look better, you know? My clothes could fit better, and by that I mean they fit normal right now and I like when they're oversized haha. My legs could have a bigger gap but at the same time I know I'm building muscle at work and I want to start lifting weights outside of work, I need to lose this extra layer of fat or I'll end up looking bigger.

I guess, thinking about being in Miami for the next month, I never feel comfortable there like I'm chronically underdressed no matter what I do but at least I can be skinny lol. Also thinking about how I've been wearing all the same clothes forever and my style is just like, dad working in the yard vibes, so if I want to refresh my style/clothing it's a lot easier when you're skinny. Thinking about the lil stash of skinny clothes I keep in the back of the van and maybe I can pull them out and wear them in Miami.

Realistically: nothing really matters. I'm already on the thin side of average. At a certain point if you get too skinny it looks weird and concerning to people but I'm not at that point, especially with the muscle I've gained, I can lose another 10 lbs and look Fantastic vs staying the same and looking Fine. You know? At the same time, with all this extra muscle, I don't want to look too buff being super skinny but also super muscular haha so I guess we'll see.

I guess right now it's a coping mechanism and an old habit and at least a reset in case I end up eating too much while working in Miami, I'll end up with a net zero by the end of it rather than gaining on top of where I am currently.

I guess I'll get off my phone now and make myself eat dinner and probably end up eating too much which will realistically probably just be the regular recommended amount of calories lol. I'm glad I haven't gained this winter despite not trying to do anything about it, and I know if I actually try for the next couple weeks I can probably lose at least 5 lbs. Who really knows what's going to happen next anyway! My life is a mystery even to myself!

I think one of these days I'll go sit out by the pool and try to get a little color back in my skin, I've been looking pale since the winter. Work makes me tan real fast but it always comes with stupid tan lines, might as well get a lil base color while I can sit around half naked haha.

[ectonurites]

How do you choose your color palettes for your art?

Good question! The truest answer I could give you is like, vibes, but to get a little more specific:

The basis of colors I use for most of my art is this color set based on vintage CMYK comic book coloring (i am committed to my comic book vibes!!!!!!!!) I don't strictly stay within it because it has very obvious limitations, but for the last few months i've pretty consistently used these colors as my starting point at the very least (and then like, i'll layer them using assorted blending modes to get different more specific colors when I need 'em!)

After that though, I like to mess around with tone curves and other adjustment-type things/blending layers to kinda give a more cohesive feel. Usually I like... have an idea of what I'm going for when I approach coloring a piece based on what the piece is/what time of day it takes place/where it takes place/what mood i'm trying to evoke with it/etc because all of that can effect what colors I gravitate towards/what adjustments I make.

In general with my art I just kinda... play around with stuff and have fun with it, I'm not terribly consistent. (which like, idk I do think at least with my ST art my linework is pretty consistent, but the approach to coloring & shading is actually pretty all over the place because I try out different things/approaches all the time sdfgjgf)

but like truly if you ever look at a piece of my art and you wonder why it's colored a certain way, the answer is really just 'i was fucking around and thought it looked cool' 👍

[auniverseforgotten]

5, 8 and 17 for the AO3 wrapped :3

ANOTHER ONE WAHOO THANK U TEA

Ask meme for anyone who wants it!

5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Honestly the one that got the most Visible feedback is please god don't let this be my legacy, like I know my niche atm is saliama but even with that, I was surprised so many people commented on this one! I know we all know Salieri in life is different than he is portrayed in media but in tapping into that I brought in some people! I love all my comments ofc but one in specific we started discussing in depth and that's always so fun <3

I was also surprised on like ANY response on my two fionndiar fics, Waging a Water War and A Kiss, A Miss, specifically because I go very far from canon in my interpretation of them so it surprises me people really want to read them! I know it doesn't look like MUCH engagement but I was expecting like. One person to look, or two at max SO I WAS PRETTY HAPPY WITH IT.

8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Surprising ABSOLUTELY NO ONE the pairing I wrote for the most was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Caster/Antonio Salieri | Avenger, these two sad composers really grabbed onto my brain by it's lil folds didn't they?

A total of 12 of my works this year were for this pairing! And given that my runner up was Dantes/Salieri with 4 fics, they are very much my main pair at the moment!

They simply compel me, there's just so much there? Like you can mess around with stuff from history, but also just the first lostbelt, the fact that Salieri exists ONLY because of Mozart, because of rumors, how do you grow as a person outside of that? How are you ever your own person outside of that?

And Mozart, well. He's an absolute asshole, he's not even a funny one sometimes, but when you peel that and take a look at insecurity and exhaustion [LB1 HCs but still] and everything he uses humor and being an asshole to disguise.

And a lot of it that I see is Mozart desperate to have Salieri close, someone who really Sees him, who can call him on his bullshit best because he knew him most, and it's a reminder of who he was in life and who he is now. And Salieri...his entire character is built from how much he hates and loves Mozart. It's his entire thing. And there's so much nuance there. THEY COMPEL ME.

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

I'm not only counting posted fics this time sdfxcgv obviously I've written a lot of Salieri and I do really like writing from his PoV bcus I love writing angst and it's so perfect. But in my WIPs I have a LOT more Diarmuid PoV fics and idk when,,,if ever,,,,they will be finished and posted but he's just so fun to write he gives 0 fucks about anything except Fionn and taking care of kids, he'll tell Goredolf to fuck off and set a building on fire but if a 5 year old asks him to get their cat out of the tree he will [grudgingly] do it, I have a fic where he is Accidentally given 8 kids and he proceeds to spoil them rotten bcus they Deserve it, I love his friendship with Medb, I love HOW FUCKIN MUCH he yearns for Fionn.

AND THEN YOU SPECIFICALLY KNOW ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS LMAOOOOOOOO I have been. Having a lot of fun with Starscream specifically in your alt mode AU it's been so good to tear into all the things he hides behind his bitchiness <3 which is not to say he isn't just a bitch, he is <3 it's just that he has layers <3 <3

THANK U SO MUCH FOR THE ASK YAHOO

[mafuyuakgae]

i'm so obsessed with ur colour choices and painterly style, if u don't mind sharing, could you explain a bit about your process when it comes to ur art? thank u!!!

ahh thank you! i guess i’ll use this recent akiangle piece bc it’s one of the more recent finished paintings. long post up ahead sry

0. sit in lecture and think about what i can be drawing instead of listening for 3 hours about urbicide.

1. sketch concept - i like to use the emilyamiao linebrush 3 for this, it’s really good for life drawing too. usually i just save a bunch of poses on pinterest to use as reference later

2. refining bc the sketch is messy; i don’t do another round of lineart so this is the cleanest it gets

3. basic colours with kyle webster wet gouache brush <3 it really gives a nice watercolour texture which i’m currently digging. sometimes i use lasso tool for this step too

3. fuck around on a new layer using a really big brush size; i like to change opacities and go through all the procreate layer modes until i find a colour palette i like. early stages of colours i dont like going into details much

4. ???????? get serious

5. giving up on initial concept and going for a black background

6. kyle webster cool drag brush for some texture, lasso tool on luminosité (brightness? it’s the last layer mode on procreate idk the actual eng name sry) layer to block shading (v inspired by chuwenjie for this)

7. colour adjustments to make colours boring again but atleast it’s more cohesive ??

this is what the layers usually look like at the end. no i dont know what’s going on either. it’s a nightmarish process and not a workflow i recommend

finish with chromatic abberation :)

this isn’t a very detailed piece so it’s a bit more straightforward, but sometimes i also like to start with 3d modelling and taking multiple shots to render later. sometimes i take my assignments and make it into fanart lol. usually i do like incorporating architecture in my art as well and looking at all the ref pics i save in pure ref :)

[coalgod-a]

Hello! I'm very sorry to be bothering you,but I have a question. I want to start doing manga colorings and I really like your Tanjiro edit! I was wondering if you have any tips? As in what program you use etc. I also love how warm the colors are! Do you also have any tips on that? Thank you for your time.

hi hi !! you arent a bother at all, dont worry…im no art expert or whatever but . here u go!! if u have any more questions, id be happy to answer them

first thing, i use ibispaint !! its a mobile app since i dont have a tablet. or a mouse. laptop touchpad is rlly shitty when it comes to art gfiuhiu……..but im sure you can p much replicate everything using a different program !! i also use ps to add finishing touches

ok first thing first……..the lineart……….what i usually do is. extract the lines from the original manga cap, so its easier to color!! it makes it so that u paint ‘under the lines’ (aka it pretty much removes the bg and leaves u w/ lineart only). i dont rlly remember how to do it in ps but u surely can find a tutorial online ! i also like to color the lineart once im done w/ everything. it just adds onto the general feel !

next. go bonkers !! go absolutely wild w/ colors !! do whatever u want !! use those funky hues !! theres no rules when it comes to this. the ‘secret’ to my warmer colors is the pink undertone. aka u just add pink onto everything n then fuck around with layer modes. it also works well w/ red n orange ig

thats it ???? idk i dont think abt any of this when i color. just do your own thing n have fun !!

[creatrixanimi]

Hi !I love ur art! I'm trying to start doing more digital art but I don't know how or where to start? What program do you use? (Or just any advice at all would be cool)

I use photoshop CC 2015.5! A problem with older versions of PS is that Adobe is being an ass and sent out a letter saying “If you use any version before 2018, someone will sue you” But to that I say, fuck you I'm paying for this service! Long story short, idk if you will be able to access the version of photoshop I am currently using. But either way, anything you can get is probably fine. Art in general is more about finding your own technique and rolling with it that way. The way I do things is very different than the way most people draw digitally (I don't do lineart, I just clean up sketches) so my best advice is to mess around and see what feels comfortable for you! Besides that, learn how to use the selection tools, the transform tools, blending layer modes (multiply!!!), and know how to lock layers. I can't really tell you how to do that depending on which drawing program you use but definitely search those first! Honestly, I’ve only been seriously drawing digitally for about 2 years so I'm still kinda in baby mode myself but those are the most important things I can think of right now! There are a few more things like adjustment layers and layer masks you can also look up but the bolded things are the main things I use in pretty much every single drawing! I hope this helps! I'm not the most tech-savvy digital artist and I use the special effects pretty sparingly!