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Slaps aert on the table - I maked this! ✨💪☺️

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I have made so many effing versions of this bc I can never make up my mind with sparkle effects. Also this is teeny tiny because of not choosing my procreate canvas wise enough

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A Twitter thread of mine that I think some of you may find useful here as well! I’ll update this periodically when I update the Twitter thread.

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This is a Christian site now, quick censor the nipples before tungl deletes my posts

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On the nostalgia train, I also found this lovely doodle! I think this would make a fun sticker!

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I had this sad little girl in my WIPs since 2013, and now she is finally finished! I have learned a lot while working on this old file and was very proud of myself for how quick the drawing process was compared to five years ago!

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Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

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How to paint gold - tutorial by LenamoArt

Support the artist on Patreon!

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First tutorial posted up for Patreon Supporters is now available for everyone! Please read the tutorial carefully. If you have a question that is not in the tutorial I’ll be happy to answer it. Want me to make more tutorials and even video walkthroughs? Support me on Patreon!

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1-25-16 update I should mention that you can use this technique to draw space backgrounds too

You don’t have to have that many stars in your background, but you know what ever floats your boat. I like lots of sparkles ok..

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Movie stills studies by Marina Petrova

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just a little sketch of Lance from the fic In the Company of Fate by snapdragonpop007

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My improvement as an artist has been to just add gradients. Just add a gradient, just do it just add some gradients to ur art meal

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Italian magical girl TV is not ready for how butch I wanna draw their characters.

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This is the only true romance option and you all know it

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Big gay

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