#and I gotta get used to android medibang

[sokumeii]

[summerroseart]

Actually yeah I'm still lowkey mad about this bc I was just able to open, edit, save, and download a 3500×4700 pixel drawing with 150 layers on my almost-4-year-old budget Samsung phone with extremely miniscule lag. I'm never ever believing apple is a better product

*seconds away from throttling my ipad* so you're telling me I spent $400 dollars on you and you CAN'T run an art file with 60 layers?? Do you KNOW what I used to draw on my $150 android PHONE??? SURELY you can do BETTER??

*ipad spits on my feet and crashes my drawing app for the 30th time* fuck you

[baronvonriktenstein]

any standalone art tablet recs?

Tentative and maybe to be added to a birthday wishlist somewhere down the line since my wacom one still works it's just becoming a hassle.... so my wacom one cable might not be the problem. it might be the adapter. but I have 2 of those and I have problems with both, if so

.... anyway

thinking of someday investing in a "Standalone" art tablet (one where I don't have to use a bunch of cables and plug it into a computer to use lol)

Friend recommended iPad 10 for such a thing (Pros: seems to work really well and a lot of people say it's one of the best for this kinda thing: Cons... expensive. pen is a separate purchase. uhhhhhh)

was also looking at uhhhhhhhhhhh Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 (cheaper and comes with a pen and also is android which I'm used to. probably not as good though? I'm unclear on the pen pressure thing and ... well idk it might be fine)

but if anyone has experience with good and budget friendly standalone tabs (bonus if I can use kindle on there I guess, but not necessary).... uhhh my art program of choice is clip studio paint (because I've already paid for it lol) but I can adapt to something free (liked medibang back in the day) so y'know

Any recommendations?

gotta be good for drawing and coloring and... maybe I can get a paperlike screen protector for it. would prefer good pen pressure reading with like... y'know it changes thickness. like a wacom but portable and cheaper

[mobian-crossing]

Hey! Would you ever be willing to do an edit tutorial? I adore your edits!

Sure, I’ll make one right here I guess!

So, uhh… Let’s do Blaze. She’s somewhere in the ask box…

First I go to the Animal Crossing wiki and look for pictures of cat villagers.

Lots of kitties here.

So… Download a few of these images. I usually only download the ones that appeared in ACNL and Happy Home Designer since they are all physically similar and have the same style to them (I downloaded pictures of Monique, Kitty, and Merry). All of my images are small because they’re easier to work with, but feel free to use the higher quality larger images.

I’m doing this in Medibang Paint, but you could feasibly do this in any art program, probably. I don’t know, I haven’t tried, I only have this and an outdated version of Photoshop that I don’t like to use. Medibang Paint is a free download for all sorts of devices (PC, iPad, iPhone, Android) though, so knock yourselves out!

First, the head. I’ll only really do the head for this “tutorial” since the full body takes quite a lot of time, but just the head gets the point across.

Bam, head. Just… Delete her body. Her face isn’t right, clearly, but I used Monique for her pose, which is about it.

Gotta make the head more blank. Protect alpha is your friend, as well as the airbrush and blur tools. Clipping layers also help a lot.

I’ve turned her into Blanca.

Okay, so now there’s colors to worry about. For Blaze, we need to make this purple. Clipping layers are needed here.

Experiment with the layer settings. For this, multiply worked the best, but the insides of her ears still aren’t the right color. This may require some creativity.

So I erased the multiply layer bit on her ears, and now I’m gonna try to match Blaze’s peach color.

I ended up using two layers, one set to burn and one set to screen. Now I just merge all the clipping layers onto the head and continue on. It’s time for facial features.

Edited Kitty’s eyes with color and multiply layers, but w’re missing some things, like Blaze’s muzzle, mouth, and the little gem in her forehead, as well as her tuft of hair and fluffy bits on the sides of her head. These are unique things that aren’t present on any in-game villagers, so we have to draw them in ourselves. I’ll do them in order from least to most difficult, at least in my eyes.

The muzzle, with color and overlay layers. The nose is just a simple black dot, and the mouth is just a line. She looks very tired, honestly, but that’s a huge mood. The gem is reflective and requires you to think about where the light source is coming from, but it isn’t that hard. I also slightly blurred the edges of her eyes so they looked less sharp. Blur the edges of some things so they look more natural on the character.

Make the rough shape of what you’re going to draw in. 

Match the shading with the airbrush tool.

Optional: Use the stipple pen tool to give it a bit of texture, and her head hair tuft things are done.

The hair is a bit more of a complex shape, but the same concepts still apply. Now it’s blaze!

Add any extra details that you think would make it more authentic looking, and here we are! I hope this helped! Maybe y’all can try to make some of your own. Sorry I’ve been gone so long, school started and my motivation has been crap lately, so… Yeah. At least you have some lovely looking Blaze head now.