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kaiserscomms · 6 days ago

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Hi there! I was wondering if you have any tips or advice for aspiring graphic designers (in the rp sense)? Or even tutorials, sites for resources that you might be willing to reccomend?

Hello Anon!

Thank you so much for the kind message and question, didn't think i would become a 'reference' or 'guideline' for anyone in rp graphic or graphic design in general! however ever since you asked about tips - advice & free sources, i will extend you the courtesy of such!!

TIPS &. ADVICES FOR ROLEPLAY GRAPHICS!!

ALWAYS KNOW YOUR STYLE &. BE INSPIRED BY OTHER WORKS!! i know it may sound bullshit or something, but trust me: you need to know THE STYLE YOU RECOGNISE AS YOURSELF,

the style you want to try to recreate / homage / inspired of &. the style you see that's circulating around the community!! my initial experience when i first got into 'editing' was almost 10 years ago, like when i was in highschool, i was in twitter rp &. was fascinated by tumblr rp & the usage of image around!! from there i started to see the trends on editing that were circulating around &. try to recreate it!! i was just a kid per se, and honestly, to be creative is to see thus i believe it is fine to be inspired because from there you buILD YOUR OWN STYLE!! Because you learn, and you keep having ideas, it's like a principle i believe to be graphic designer or even an artist, there's always a glimpse of something/someone in your artwork but in the end it is yours to have it.

ALWAYS UNDERSTAND THE PLATFORM. when i was in twitter roleplay, there's a phenomenon where writers want to have such an aesthetically pleasing account and follows the trends that were happening in tumblr &. applies it to twitter. like the colouring, the graphic style or even the layout; but unfortunately this created a perception that tumblr rp was 'superior' in terms of graphic editing for characters &. they keep trying to 'recreate' &. 'recreate' to fulfill such aesthetic pleasing that can only be reached if you're in tumblr. for example, i find it bizarre if you're writing in twitter but has a blockquote icon or apply PSD/filter to a meme just to have this aesthetic pleasing desire. YES IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE GRAPHICS FOR YOUR ' ROLEPLAY IDENTITY ' FOR CHARACTERS YOU PLAY, but that doesn't necessarily force you to be do everything for aestheticism. understand your platform, understand its benefits / capabilities & inabilities so you can utilize it for your roleplay - writing THAN your imagery.

UNDERSTAND YOUR CHARACTER, LIKE REALLY; i find it so so necessarily that you need to understand your character through imagery. it doesn't necessarily about how they look, but rather the vibe - the images that remind you of your character. sometimes people are obsessed to have a faceclaim / bodyclaim etc that fits into the character thus they can have it in the graphics, but i believe the vibe - the images that remind you of the character is the one that should be used in roleplay graphics. it's like an abstract of a research, and your roleplay writing is the content of the research; if you don't give tidbits of the whole thing, you can't deliver the whole thing. this goes to the colour you associate to the character as well because colour can help you to give concrete base of your character instead of having paralysis on options that are being presented. same goes to the fonts; yes it can look good but does it really represent your character?

HAVE FUN EXPERIMENTING. hey. this is serious advice. i wouldnt be here if i didnt try and try experimenting with styles / fonts / colouring etcs. but in the end you will always have one particular thing that will stuck with you and you will eventually know, the experimenting works!! textures - overlays - different fonts - insipred by movies / book covers / milk covers etc; it can be source of experiment to apply to your graphics in roleplay and everyone will think: this is neat!!

lil side note, but it's my personal bias tbfh: don't make your graphics too dark / desaturated. people can't see it. accessibility should be main priority when it comes to writing. how do i feel about people that use small icons or too saturated colour? point two again: understand your platform. if it can be applied fabulously i agree but it shouldn't be like hindering your writing.

FREE RESOURCES :

ive been using these websites as my resources heh

PHOTOPEA : if you dont have photoshop, use photopea; the basic principle from photoshop applies to photopea. however one downside about photopea is that psd from photoshop can be different when it is applied to photopea, same goes to the other way around so it has benefits - disadvantage but hey, use it when you dont have photoshop fr

HERITAGE LIBRARY : free vintage illustrations, like really, png - vectors, very hopeful

PUBLIC WORK : same like heritage library however it's like pinterest but public domain which you can absolutely use!!

COSMOS : an alternative for pinterest. pinterest has everything to be honest but AI starts to appear and it makes me :/ sometimes which i found about this alternative FOR CREATIVE ONLY so yup it's pure inspiration all around.

FREE FACES : modern fonts are stored here, but then again i still use google fonts...

i'll try to remember where did i get my photoshop brushes but brushes can really help you fr. trust me. you dont need to overlay and such what matters is you can use brushes..

i'll keep this list update for further references honestly!!

SO ANON!! ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION &. HOPEFULLY THIS ANSWER IT even though it's almost gibberish / tmi / oversharing but yes i was in mindset where aestheticism should be everything, whilst it is, but don't make aestheticism become sole purpose of your roleplay whilst roleplay is about writing, playing the characters <3

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