#havenester

[havenester]

with the resurgence of scenecore and the rawring 20s i was reminded of one of my favorite things to do on ye ole day of deviantArt: using anime bases made in ms paint, that were traced from a screenshot.

there was something freeing about just slapping some color on a premade base, like your own coloring page, or a paper doll, that made creating somewhat cringey OCs really easy and just plain fun.

of course, tracing other people’s art is problematic, especially without their permission, but if you’re like me you still enjoy loading up a shoddy pixel doll and making it your own in one of the most primitive imaging editing softwares out there.

So! i just kinda. made one myself. the basic process is down below and i’ll explain it a little more in detail. I used, you guessed it, MS Paint.

shitty resolution aside, i start by sketching the figure in a light color, blue in most cases, basic stuff.

i go over it in a darker color, red, and use a couple of shortcuts to phase most of the previous color out. you can fill the canvas with the lighter color, and then fill THAT in with white again to get a large chunk out, and scraggling pixels can be removed like this:

make sure the foreground color is your lighter sketching color.

double check your background color, default is white.

using the eraser tool, hold down the RIGHT CLICK to remove just the foreground color!

once i’ve cleaned up the sketch, i use a combination of the line and curve tools in black to ‘ink’ it. make sure to go back and clean up any stray pixels so the outline is smooth.

i remove the red in the same way i remove the blue, and then you’re left with your lineart! spruce it up with some classic base colors and a palette for easy recoloring, optionally you can change your background color, and bam!

your own circa 2010 dA anime base.

feel free to use my finished version down below!

[xx-rainbowkitty-xx]

THIS is the good stuff right here 👌👌👌

THANK CHU :3

[havdrawsthings]

yo im on instagram @Havenester (thats also my personal blog)

[cherryscentedfur]

Uhh hi first post here trying to help spread the word. Haven’s phone got blocked from his wifi and he needs help getting this out there. Please commission him!!! Contact at: Discord: Havenester#6692 Email: haven1324@gmail.com #art #commissionsopen #commissions #drawing #digitalart #artist #painting #sketch #lineart https://www.instagram.com/p/B17xzcsHHZg/?igshid=bzp1qnrb4vou