#sorry for the rushed photo

[old-chatterhand]

If LEGO brings out D&D minifigures, one has to make Oxventure characters, right?

[thebad-lydrawn-sanses]

GIVE US MORE CAT KILLER

[thereisbeautyinflight]

Simulacrums of luck

Day 1: Resuscitation

Decided to make a senti!Emilie art happen for day 1 of @sillysiluriforme’s horror challenge because I was so inspired by @asukiess ‘s senti!Emilie au

[ventique18]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH FINALLY... IN MY HANDS...

[psychangels]

a bit of angst; bit of symbolism for photo mode monday

[niercik]

[ID: gouache painting of a bent metal spoon, surrounded by an "aura" consisting of a pattern of mosaic-like short rectangular brush strokes, radiating outwards from the spoon. They're overlapped with thin lines and some shorter detail strokes. The "aura" is in shades of pink, blue, and purple, and the spoon's surface reflects some of it. /end ID]

this was my first time using gouache!! a covert mp100 i did for class hehe

[div-divington]

Vandelay Technologies Security Department - 'Hi-Fi Rush'

[plposting]

After Azran Legacy Descole was left with a lot of clothes, personal items, and various souvenir trinkets left behind by the other former passengers of the Bostonious none of which was ever properly retrieved due to the groups sudden parting.

Rather than throwing it all out Descole has been trying to covertly return all items back to their original owners and because it’s Descole he’s probably returning the objects and whatnot in the most complicated way possible over a period of time.

Auroras stuff in particular remains safely stored in a box on the Bostonious.

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

The wonderful Guardian Bingo Fest mods put 'lollipops' on my card and my brain went 'ah yes let's be as weird as possible about this'.

Bonus photo for anyone risking pressing on a read more on one of my posts. You're safe from me rambling for once.

Zhao Yunlan has company now! ☺️

[pearl-kite]

I said I wanted to paint it and I wasn't lying, okay, I just... ran out of steam to finish painting it

But I did something! Finally! ~1.5 hours on one layer, genuinely forgot I'm supposed to go background to foreground a couple of times ~(￣▽￣)~*

[rav-rabies-art-blog]

What do my wips look like today?

Background (mostly) defeated. hopefully the rest will go as smoothly as planed.

I noticed I was getting better at drawing Kale and Zanzo So I'm redoing their practice pages.

These are my favs so far.

[luciferten]

Ya boy got the Promoted Chai outfit!! It looks so fucking cute on him!

[ID in alt.]

[ilikedetectives]

Holding a camera has reminded me how much irl photography isn't for me compared to vp lol

[m0e-ru]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the day my brain was literally rewired and my gender was being changed by the second SO HERES A GAS STATION SPECIAL before this joint was even a gas station in the FIRST PLACE !!!!

FUCKING FREAK

[doyeons]

BTW back during fall term and once or twice during winter term, i would see these random peacocks wandering the parking lot (literally no idea where they’re coming from) and i hadn’t seen them in forever but!!! this morning i saw one of them wandering in the grass again!! and this time it had little baby peacocks with it 🥹🥹🥹

[rhythmmortis]

gif tutorial: selective colouring

turning this gif

into this gif

(requested by @oogelyboogely)

quick disclaimer: i'm mostly self taught, so a lot of the methods i use might not be the most efficient or the ones that other people use, so apologies about that!!

with this tutorial, i'm assuming you know the basics of how to make a gif (loading in frames, turning them into animation frames, etc), but if need be, i would be more than happy to make a tutorial on that too

i use photopea, a browser-based photoshop replica that's free to use and i highly recommend it!

first step is loading in all the frames, which should look like this:

the main thing i want to be in colour is his hair (and the petals that fly around him when he unhoods, same colour so it shouldn't be too much of an issue to deal with). however! for this particular gif, i want his eyes to also be the same/similar shade of pink so they're also in colour.

for this i'm gonna go to the top bar and go to layer > new adjustment layer > hue/saturation > blue, which should give you an adjustment layer that looks like this

if i move this around, this is also gonna change the background very slightly, which we don't want, and it won't change the colour of his eyes very much.

in order to change just the blue of his eyes, i need to adjust the slider at the very bottom. this shows the spectrum of the colours selected and the colours it's changing. if you're testing this, i would say change the hue to 180, then mess around with the adjustments until you've found a setting that only changes the selected hue

this seems to work well for this, so im gonna keep this adjustment layer specifically for changing the eye colour and move onto another

everything i want to be in a specific colour is now in that colour, so i'm gonna move onto working on making everything else in greyscale. it's exactly the same process (using a hue/saturation adjustment layer), but you're altering saturation to -100 (making other colours grey), and changing lightness (which colours you want to be a lighter shade of grey in the greyscale)

this gif in particular shows a specific problem i have with doing this: red and red-adjacent tones with selective colouring. many skintones fall under red hues when altering them, so when trying to isolate a red colour, it can get a bit finnicky. the spectrum slider tends to get very precise with the hue/saturation adjustment layer.

shown here, i'm using a new adjustment layer and going for the red to try and desaturate the skin tone, and you can see it's desaturated the hair too, so i need to adjust the spectrum so it only gets the skin tone (while i'm doing this, i'm also going back to check on the first frames where the petals are to make sure they're not affected by this since i want them in colour too!)

next up is the back wall which is a blue tint (as exampled with changing the blue setting with the first adjustment layer, we can now use the blue adjustment on the second adjustment layer freely since it won't affect the eye colour anymore)

while doing this, it's important to go over all the frames occassionally, especially with scenes that have a lot of varied colours, because a lot of the time, some layers may have stray areas of colour that fit into what is still allowed to be in colour, in which case a 'replace colour' adjustment layer (layer > new adjustment layer > replace colour) should be used to try and get out specific shades you don't want to be in colour. it's not an issue in this gif, but in cases where it is, those adjustment layers can pile up, but that's natural! (it can also be used in cases where you're close to greyscale but not quite there, just eyedrop the colour and set saturation all the way down)

after this, i'm just gonna do some adjustment layers to alter lighting to make sure the colours are balanced well (curves, levels, brightness/contrast, etc), and it should be done from there!

remember to save psd files regularly so you have backups of your work in case anything happens! hope this was helpful and if you'd like me to elaborate on anything, please ask!

examples of some of my gifs with this effect include: this, this, and this