#achilleanachilles

[fictionkinfessions]

I know I’m gonna sound stupid for this and idk if I’m using the ask box properly but. I feel sort of ashamed about two things that have to do with two of my kintypes. Firstly, there’s the fact that I can’t swim (I’ve had three near-drowning incidents and one where I almost got stuck too far out in the water on a bodyboard at the beach), and I also happen to kin Percy Jackson. It’s funny if I don’t think about it too much, but it still makes me feel like I’m failing in a way. Also I freak out too easily with bugs. Even if it’s just in a video game or book. I think that might be because of how I died as Benjamin Carmine, but I still feel mad at myself because I can’t even play any game or watch any movie with a giant bug-like thing without panicking upon seeing it.

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[glowpop]

this is kind of humilating to ask but hi guys i need to leave my family real bad and i know where i can stay but i just need money for a ticket. please help me out id really appreciate it paypal.me/achilleanachilles

[aconissa]

OH FUCK ME HOW TO BE BOTH IS SO GOOD. i read it once when i was like fifteen and it didn't make any sense and then i read it three years later and i was like. ah. i love it when books do that thing where they make sense only after you revisit them. love that

fully same!! if you haven’t read any of her other books than please do because they’re AMAZING, especially girl meets boy (gay, despite the title) and autumn

[whitewashedhanzo]

hey is your icon ana amari in fanagane ronap? just aksing?

[laystudio]

hi! im that anon that asked for a tutorial and you said something specific and i really liked your harvey dent edit? the one that said, god is dead. and it was all red and stuff and super cool looking? no pressure! i just think your stuff is really cool and was wondering what the process behind some of it was!

ofc! it’s no problem at all :)

so i’ll just give a brief rundown and a v rough tutorial on how i made those particular graphics. thank u so much for the support, i’m especially proud of them too and it’s nice to hear u like them as well!

what you’ll need:

photoshop cc 2015.5 but any ps would do really

basic knowledge of photoshop

patience

fonts: dk shaken not stirred, liquido, couture, helvetica, helvetica neue, votu

so the first graphic is a really stupid move and i just realized it like hours after i posted it: it’s one of two graphics that feature a fanart instead of a faceclaim. looking at it as a whole, cohesive set it looks really stupid and surreal? bc it doesn’t match and just throws u off? so my advice is don’t do that. if ur gonna edit from an actual comic then the rest should be like that too (2D) but if ur gonna edit with real life elements i suggest to just stick to that path (3D) so that everything looks coordinated and neat :)

the second one actually took me a while to get right but basically the red circle is in [linear light] and the black circle is in [hard light] mode while the top most white is in [normal]. the paper texture is above all three layers and is on [multiply] mode so it only looks visible on the white circle. the “angels” text is just some basic layer mask so it looks like it’s inside the white circle. as for the style of the graphic itself it’s just based on the previous harvey graphic i did here, the last one on the left. the thing with that is i look for inspiration from other graphics i find and there’s a lot on behance, flickr and even pinterest. just search for ‘graphic designs’ and you’ll find a lot of good ones. u don’t have to copy them exactly but u can adopt and transform it into something urs! but if imitating some designs and tricks is what helps, then it’s fine too. nobody is born an innate artist/designer/whatever so just explore and experiment with what u know and what u want to see. eventually, u’ll be able to develop ur own style.

the third one is basically the same as the second and fairly straightforward. the big, red 2 is set to [darken] mode. i guess with this graphic it’s mostly abt negative space??? and also maybe laziness but negative space is good so that overall, ur graphic set wouldn’t look too cluttered. it helps the eyes breathe i think.  also the main focus is the faceclaim, and since the graphics above and below it is already optically centered, it’s at the rightmost side for asymmetry. just a thought.

ok i’ll be real this is one of my faves bc it just looks so harvey i couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw that hand. i just cut it and applied a gradient map of white and light red i believe so it looks like it’s sketched out or smthng. it looks just like harvey’s burned hand but bc i’m an idiot i forgot to flip the canvas so that it would look like his left instead of his right hand. to this day i regret this mistake. if u look close enough the coin has harvey’s face on it too. damn i love him. but moving on, the lines are made with the pen tool. the pen tool can be a hit or miss thing to use and i just recently learned how to use it properly but it’s v convenient once u got around it! it’s like a sophisticated brush tool if u want to incorporate more lines in ur stuff. u can also use it to cut stuff out (like with the quick selection and magic wand tool) but i don’t do that method often so probs don’t listen to me. i only have a v basic knowledge on it but there’s a yt video tutorial on how to properly use the pen tool if ur interested.

this fifth one is very….. meh. theoretically, it could’ve been better but since i’m the Worst in practice it ended up like that. the design is p much those adidas ads with the many dots? sorry for the plagiarism, adidas, but i don’t make money off of this. so when in doubt just slap some geometry on ur edit and ur good to go. i go for circles bc they’re more aesthetically flexible, if that makes sense? i find rectangles cool but they tend to look out of place in something so vertical; it leaves little space for words and other elements. but polygons look better on horizontal canvases so u can try that too!

the last and definitely least is the most ‘meh’ out of the bunch bc i literally stopped caring abt 2/3 into this thing. the thought that comes to mind is: time magazine cover nov2017 so what does that say abt it really. the text is naturally like that thanks to the font: liquido with a wave-like option if ur into that kind of stuff. some layer masks too to get the effect of the text being inside the harvey art. it looks so dumb now wtf i’m an idiot. but hey, 2 harveys. i’m a visual genius in that respect. again, some gradient maps and a red rectangle border. tip: u should most definitely add a contrasting color or accent in ur graphics, which i once again failed to do here. in this case it’s black since the color palette is red, white and black. it adds a depth to ur work. if ur skilled enough, u can use a wider range of color palettes instead of the usual black, white, [random color]. i, myself, haven’t mastered that yet so that’s what i usually use but one extremely prolific graphic maker who has a good eye for these colors is user mattelektras. u can check out her stuff and see how she uses complementary colors in her edits.

some other things to note:

if u need a paragraph-like text for filler, u can go to type > paste lorem ipsum then adjust the font size to ur liking (somewhere around 0.8pt for maximum unreadability)

it’s good to pay attention to colors and spaces in ur works! the color wheel is ur friend in this trying time

smart sharpen always and forever (at abt 65-130 depending on ur image size)

this got lengthy but i hope i was able to help! i know it’s not that detailed but if u have anymore questions don’t hesitate to ask :) i’m not bothered at all so don’t worry abt it. happy designing!

[witchblade]

achilleanachilles 回复了你的帖子 “that one post about melanie martinez seems mostly legit but why did...”

what post?

https://dilutedd.tumblr.com/post/164345805787/about-melanie-martinez

thissun

[felgueirosa]

@sydneykrukowski @achilleanachilles yeah i did, he was reported to the hillel director and i filed a report to the uni’s harassment email but idk if anything will ever get done and i think they could build a case against me pretty easily

[aconissa]

1. yr header is one of my fav paintings of all time and 2. favorite childhood memory

no way!! I saw it when I was at the museo del prado in madrid last month and I absolutely fell in love, it’s extraordinary. and hmmm it’s hard to pick but when I was maybe 12/13 I was staying at my aunt’s farm and we were walking through their neighbour’s orchard with my uncle and cousins and dogs and I threw a ball for one of the dogs but it just hit my uncle square in the back of the head (he was a good 40m ahead of us) and in retaliation he ran over, picked me up, and carried me all the way to the dam on their property and just threw me fully clothed off the jetty. that summer there was flooding in my state and I had to stay with them for a few more days because we couldn’t get past the floodwaters, but it meant that their dam was high, their dried up creek turned into a rushing stream, and their neighbour’s dam was so high that when you walked out on the jetty it was a metre below the waterline. I’ll never forget the whole atmosphere this created and the other adventures that followed that day. it was definitely one of the happiest periods of my life

[aconissa]

fuck this im not going on anon but like you are so fucking? goals or however the kids say it? i dont know if your life matches up to the instagram posts but regardless of that you're so fucking like... admirable? kind and sweet? like you are one of the very few sapios on this site i can stand (im kidding) but whats so nice about you is the fact that you're just like, real genuine? and smart? and you have such good thoughts about a lot of things? in short, you're just like...THE BEST and yr cool

izzy i like… legitimately teared up when I read this? i love you 😭 

tell me what you think about me ask game

[glowpop]

my urls used to be gayswamphag, achilleanachilles, wlwinston, winstonandhanzoareinlove (yes you read that right), and agamemnn and also hanzosfatballs.

[glowpop]

achilleanachilles-->winstzo

winston and hanzo are in love and thats...fact.

[glowpop]

HI i’m izzy im a lesbian i’m brown im muslim etc etc idk what other shit i’m oppressed for. for being a naruto fan i guess. um you don’t HAVE to donate but also like money is so tight and if you can please spare some moneys for your local overwatch winston/hanzo expert! any little bit helps! i love you!

https://www.paypal.me/achilleanachilles

LOL hey i just got out of the psych ward because the cops thot i was gonna kms 😭 i’m a lil broke rn cause of weirdo expenses and emotionally i am just a mess. i hate being like this but like i have no energy for commissions or the time but i need. money sorta should i like. make a donation post 🤡