#mel500

[melaningifs]

Woo ! The Melaningifs Tumblr 500+ Follower celebration event ! Not a contest cause I’d never choose you guys over each other :’0 it’s all for funsies so no pressure!

🌸 Whats the event & How to participate

The objective of the event is to 🥁🥁🥁

Make an edit of yourself! What do I mean by that? Take a character from an anime/animated show or comic/manga and use the character to represent yourself ! Here’s an example of some I did for me !

I chose a base character with short hair and glasses because I also have short hair (naturally) and glasses, so I changed the color of the hair suit mine and my glasses are black so I changed that as well and ofc I gave her my skin tone !

Click here for an old editing tutorial of mine

It was made for how I make black edits but the skill set can be applied to editing other things like hair and etc, layer modes, colors and opacity are the key !

here’s another example I did !!

I found that manga is SUPER easy to edit, first edit ever was a manga actually but I’ve only done it twice up until now 😭 damn she looks a whole lot like me actually lmao if anyone wants to make fanart of me here ya go lmao !

🌸 Tips for editing Manga pages

- For manga changing colors is super easy just make sure you use a separate layer to color on it and change the coloring layer to multiply so that the outlines of the manga are visible

-If you want to change the color of an area that’s gray (for example the shirt) make a new layer and switch the layer mode to color and you should be good ! -Be sure to lower the opacity if the colors feel too harsh for you ! -If you want to change the hair color it’d be best to choose a manga character who’s hair isn’t black so that you can fill it in !

🌸 Rules !

you can make as many edits as you’d like and submit as many times as you like ! (I’d love to see what y’all make!)

Tag me ( @melaningifs ) and tag your submissions with #mel500 so I can see!!

There’s no deadline! Submit whenever you feel like !

Anyone of any identity/race/ethnicity/color etc can join ! please don’t feel left out just because you’re not black as well xD you’re all welcome here ! (as long as you don’t fall under my dni of course!)

Only represent an identity that is your own ! don’t make someone else, you’re making yourself only !

Don’t use other people’s fanart or original artwork ! use official works please !

Ask me if you need help ! Something you’re not getting or struggling to do? I’m here to help you out ! My askbox is always open for questions ! 🌸 Rewards

all I can really offer are edits lmao, everyone that participates can get a request slot ! It can also be fully customizable (to the best of my abilities) this includes hair color, eye, color and things like that, I’m trying to practice those for potential commissions in future but that’s tmi, if you don’t want of that it’s totally fine I’m just grateful you participated !

🌸 Extra Notes

when I get a good amount of submissions I’ll make a post compiling all of them like when your parents put your drawings on the fridge as a kid (atleast I think that’s what they do- I wouldn’t know 💀)

wowowow thank you all for 580+ followers?! IK it’s a 500 event when we’re literally almost at 600 💀 it’s exclusive here on tumblr because y’all interact with me the most and it’s super fun interacting with all of y’all ! I might post this on Twitter too we’ll see how it goes ! If you do plan on participating thank you !! I’m so excited to see what you make !! Have a wonderful day y’all ! 💌

[opalofoctober]

myself as satomi murano from parasyte: the maxim for @melaningifs’s event! 

[zombiesama]

@melaningifs my submission! I currently have a buzz cut, but I want to grow my hair out again so I chose to use Mochizou from Tamako Market bc he is shown a bunch of times with an undershirt that makes me think of a binder + he has a mole on his ear, which I do as well! plus I just really like him lol

[acethedria]

Edited Tsubame from Hands off Eizouken to be me! I have pink dyed hair, I always wear green shirts, and I have blue/green central heterochromia (how tf do you represent that in anime??? idk i tried)

Importantly, I did it for @melaningifs and her 500th follower event! :) Mel is awesome go follow her for some absolutely wonderful black edits :))

[melaningifs]

OMG YES THE BEAUTIFUL THICK LINE ART 🙏🏾NOW I WANNA MAKE A JOJO EDIT ! THIS TURNED OUT SO GOOD OMG YOU LOOK SO COOL !!! TYSM FOR PARTICIPATING!!! 💕

God Bless Araki and his thick line art- this edit was a BREEZE 😭. I struggled to find a character that looked like me (that wasn't already canonically Black) and then I remembered this absolute Queen, Ermes. Let me get this cosplay together 👀 @melaningifs for your event, boo 🥰

[melaningifs]

WOO I JUST GOT MY 4 AMAZING SUBMISSIONS AND I’D LOVE TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU GUYS !!

@editcore :

@acethedria :

@dear-tokyo

@kkeigolovesme :

SOBBING EVERYONE DID SO GOOD THESE ARE AMAZING !! *Virtually hugs all of you*

[melaningifs]

I know you said anyone can participate, but I just wanted to make sure that if I'm white, I can participate. tbh, I've already made mine, and plan on posting it, it's just whether or not I tag you in it and tag it mel500 or not!

I don't want to intrude, you know?

Ofc ! no worries ! anyone can join ! and you're not intruding at all :D i'm super happy you participated ! the only time i'd be iffy about it is if a non-black person made a black edit since i know a lot of my other black editor friends are not comfortable with that but other than that any kind of art editing/manga coloring is welcome ! please tag me and feel free to use my hashtag ! <33

Edit : and don't worry if there is a time i have to draw a boundary line i'll be sure to do so :D

[melaningifs]

Omg !! The purple touch is sooo cool I love it !! your version looks so lovely thank you so much for participating!!!

myself as satomi murano from parasyte: the maxim for @melaningifs’s event!