#christmas present to myself

[evilpunks-blog]

obsessed with new bag

[aokoi]

merry christmas 🎄❤️

[freebooter4ever]

cuddle penguin is in ohio!!

[naivety]

edible kicking in it is time for me to watch those drag queens react to gay vampire sex on youtube dot com

[sassy-tic-tac]

i think its time for a new daki

[dykeomania]

wholly contemplated purchasing airpod maxes today so if you see me walking around with 500 dollar cinder blocks on my ears Mind your business

[devilart2199-aibi]

Bdubs Is Amazing! ✨

[flairfiend]

Ourple girl ourple girl

[starflungwaddledee]

alas, it seems the christmas mystery shall remain unsolved 🎁 happy holidays!

[artfucksmylife]

Just Laios and Kabru enjoying Glühwein during Christmas time. Kabru was not aware of warm alcohol making you drunk faster.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[linolinoing]

Paddington (2014) — dir. Paul King // As we are (2024) — dir. Soze Yoon

[lochnkey]

Royal Ludroth is definitely one of those "dog" monsters y'know? That's what I feel anyhow, he's just got Big Wet Dog temperament to me

anyway, have a big spongey dog for this week's Monster Hunter Art Challenge with @artgoes-here

[morebird]

Okay finally

Small lighting tutorial (very long post, lots of images)

First of all I work on PS but if you have basic knowledge of your program of choice this will be easy to follow.

Second I use a different layer for everything. So assume that each screenshot is a new layer.

Third I've seen people not knowing how to choose colors for light and shadow and for me it comes out naturally so I don't put that much thought in it, but picking the neighboring color in the color wheel never fails, so lets say you use a red for the lighting, then pick either orange or pink for the shadow. The shadow should be fairly desaturated. However if the lighting is the desaturated you can go wild with the shadow saturation. But this is subjective and it's very dependent on your goals and art style.

Okay let's start:

Line art

Base color

Now for the shadow layer. The layer blending mode is in hard light mode

I use the quick selection tool on the previous base color layer, and in the new shadow layer with the hard light mode set I fill the selection with the paint bucket tool.

The lighting layer is on the linear dodge (add) mode.

I use the lasso tool to select the lighting parts, then I fill it with paint bucket tool.

Then once I have everything, I use the quick selection tool on this lighting layer, and in a new layer also on linear dodge mode I use a radial gradient, drag it from the direction of the light source, you have to try it out on it's own but it usual takes me a couple of tries to get the desired intensity.

Also tbh you can just leave it like that no gradient, if pure cel shading is your goal.

I add all the extra shadows, this layer is also on hard light mode, I use the lasso tool and a normal round soft brush.

This next part is something that I sometimes do and sometimes it's not necessary, in this case since the light source is moonlight the light on the clothes should bounce off on the face so I do an extra gradient. (or just do this if you want to make it lighter lmao)

With the quick selection tool, I select either the base color or the shadow layer, and in a new layer with the linear dodge mode, I use a gradient, it has to be either a fairly dark color or a very soft gradient.

And lastly in a new layer, with linear dodge mode I use a soft edge brush on top of the lighting areas, to give it that glow.

Sometimes, like in this case, I have to use some color balance adjustments, more contrast or brightness.

And that's it. Good luck and hope this helped you, if you have any questions my inbox is open 😊

[lavaflowe]

Drawing Wukong based on the Anthony Yu covers is self care 😌 and I do feel refreshed

[squishy-sharkie]