#was gonna speed run digital lineart for this one

[oldbirdwithsomebrain]

Pov: you find out what jarate is...

He is disgusted..

(Alternate title was "he is disgusted with how short and feral you [i] are [am] about him")

Funfact: just finished my sketch book uh 90% of its tf2;...i only started drawing fanart in mid march...

[wintercosmicskye]

Made another meme lol. Sorry it’s so messy, I wanted to color it digitally but I wasn’t in the mood to do lineart so.

Anyways I made this because I headcanon that Halkenna is prone to becoming a found family older brother. Why? Because I love found family trope and I think it’s sweet, also it was said at one point that Little Jack aspires to be like Space Boyfriend, and Halkenna (Space Boyfriend) wishes he was more like Little Jack so, like, it’s 1 in the morning not the best time to explain my thoughts. Just like Halkenna taking Little Jack in and they develop sib relationship I just like the idea.

A similar thing happens with Omori in an idea I have for a fic called “fuck it, I say let him do it.” (Name pending) where instead of fighting Space Ex Boyfriend, Omori decides “you know what, I think we should let him. He’s earned this.” (Probably not his exact wording). The rest of the gang is naturally really confused by this, like do you mean we should let him get revenge on his ex Omori? Space Ex Boyfriend is like hell yeah, see? this kid gets it. In the confusion, he manages to run out to enact his revenge plan before the boss fight can happen, but before he gets too far Omori catches up to him and convinces him to wait until tomorrow so Omori can help him (maybe at least partially explaining the emotional Rock Paper Scissors thing). The next day, Omori and the rest of the gang wind up going separate ways(?), the gang still following the main plot while Omori joins up with X (going to abbreviate Space Ex Boyfriend’s name like that every now and again because it’s so much quicker and the third song on Bug Spray is called X so hey bonus music ref). Going through the forest is so much easier with X thanks to the fact that he can just light the candles from afar with his space laser. Basically they’re gonna try assassinating Sweetheart, but of course there’s obstacles along the way, and X does a little bit of big brothering over time (he’s probably slower to do it than Halkenna, but still) also the dynamic is probably a bit different than the one above but ye. There’s one particular moment I have in mind where he carries Omori like Mari did Sunny cuz “uhg, come on, we’ll never get anywhere with you going so slow with those tiny legs of yours, come on- wow, you’re really light-“ (and if this was a mod the running speed would probably be twice as fast as before) and the next day (this time with Halkenna/Captain Spaceboy) he helps with the thalassophobia thing (sorry I probably butchered the spelling auto fill wasn’t helping me and Im too lazy to look it up right now) but it’s funny cuz he mentions how it’s physically impossible to drown in the water here cuz it’s breathable, and Omori doesn’t say it out loud but he’s like “(okay that may be true, but narratively you weren’t supposed to acknowledge that.)” and then Halkenna is briefly confused cuz wait how’d he develop a fear of drowning on a planet with breathable water? But anyways yeah. I’m working on a diff fic right now but I might write for this one at some point, maybe after I finish “The Adventures Begin!” And before I start the next part “The Lost Treasure of Nowhere” (I have... a lot of ideas and one may debate whether I’ll actually be able to do them all, but ideally I’d like to think yes.) anyways, remember when I said it was one in the morning? WELL NOW ITS TWO AAAA WHYD I RAMBLE FOR SO LONG

[elux-storage]

nobody asked but i could try giving some tips for what i've learned to get around some of the difficulties i had with ibispaint

if you're like i was and used a phone or ipad that doesn't detect pressure i way i was personally able to get around this to make my lines more dynamic was to mess with the opacity and thickness according to to speed

i'm using the soft falcon bleed pen for this- if you're on mobile you can mess with pen settings by pressing the arrow on the far right

the one on the left is where i put the default settings on the brush and the one on the right is where i messed with the thickness and opacity according to speed. these are just the settings i personally liked and you can always change them according to your preferences in how you want your line weight to look

left is the default and right is where i changed the settings. left is fine if you like that sort of style for your art btw!! im not saying you have to do this :] im just saying with my art i liked leaning towards more dynamic looking lineart.

i will say with ibispaint you CAN run into a lot of crustiness- if you look at some of my earlier digital pieces on here you could probably see some glitches that definitely could have been avoided if i knew how to use things like the bucket, clipping, and alpha lock tools.

a lot of my mistakes earlier on came from the select opacity option because it was the easiest for me to understand at the time, however its not always reliable as a lot of times you either run the risk of the edges of your coloring either not being colored or being colored to the point of them being crusty. especially avoid this if you're trying to color over lineart. trust me.

im gonna be honest- im not the most patient when it comes to coloring flat colors and much more like messing with shading, so i usually use the bucket tool! nothing wrong with that, it just makes things a a little easier and a whole lot faster. if there's little gaps in the lineart it misses i can just go back and color it in manually, no big deal.

the only setting with the bucket tool i ever mess with is the expansion, which i usually put at 2.0 (the default is 1.5)

the reason i do this is leaving it at 1.5 always leaves gaps in between where the color ends and the lineart and it saves me time having to go back and fill in all those gaps. with textured brushes there is still some gaps you might have to fill in but at least you dont have to go all around the lineart filling them in manually.

hopefully you know or have at least an idea of what these do, but if you're like me and can be a bit slow at things like this, basically clipping lets you color over the layer below the one that's clipped and alpha lock lets you color over only parts of the layer that's already been colored.

i usually use alpha lock for recoloring both the colors and the lineart because it doesn't leave the crusty look youd get with the select opacity option and i used clipping for shading. again do whatever is easiest for you!

they're pretty easy to use and get the hang of! again sometimes dealing with crustiness can be a bit of a problem in this app so usually if im putting an overlay above the entire drawing i have the overlay clipped to the bottom later and the bottom later alpha locked. i tend to merge layers a lot to keep from getting disoriented while messing with my layers so if you merge them with the alpha layer locked press no when it asks you if you wanna disable it

that's all the pictures i can put so im done rambling but i rly do love ibispaint and things it's a rly good app especially for beginning artists, it's easy to use, it has a wide variety of brushes and it has REALLY good filters! hope if you're an ibispaint user this has helped you a bit, if you have some questions you can send me some asks about it :]

idk man say what you want about free art programs because obviously a lot of them will be flawed but man i love ibispaint and if you can figure out how to mess with brush settings it rly is just great it rly did carry most of my drawings for all of the past year