Nomsar's Ink and Things

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I’ve decided to open an 8chan board for all things exposed brain related.

I don’t have very much content myself, but I know it’s a unique interest that is underexplored, so it might be nice to have it all under roof, so if this appeals to you, please, give it a shot.

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Reblogging, since people are actually posting on the board now, and maybe others would be interested.

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I've decided to open an 8chan board for all things exposed brain related.

I don't have very much content myself, but I know it's a unique interest that is underexplored, so it might be nice to have it all under roof, so if this appeals to you, please, give it a shot.

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Patty Wagon Status: HACKED by Nomsar on deviantART

My first true weird fetish pic entirely drawn and inked by me. SO YEAH, still learning to ink in Photoshop and still learning to draw period. Decided to...

New pic

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Jewel And Airborne by Nomsar on deviantART

Request from: ahurawerewolftheking.deviantar… to ink a drawing he got from Brainy of his OC's brain and Jewel's brain chilling together. TOOK LIK...

New inking

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Pencils for a picture of Patricia Wagon (Might Switch Force) getting hacked Was going to draw her gun and helmet sitting on the ground but... whatever

Time taken: 33 minutes

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I DREW AND INKED THIS

Kind of proud, first thing I've drawn with the intention of sharing and first thing I've ever inked in Photoshop ever. STUFF I LEARNED:

Boobs, I'm a lot better at drawing tits now

Thighs/hips, let's just leave it at "better at drawing women, period"

Navel, I was inspired by a King Cheetah piece for this and the way he draws bellybuttons is SO COOL I'M DOING IT THIS WAY FOREVER

STUFF I DID NOT LEARN:

Faces/heads, that face is way too cartoony and the head too small

Hands/fingers UGH JUST LOOK AT THEM

Time taken to draw: 22 Minutes

Time taken to ink: 4 Hours (Like I said, my first time, next time should be like, one hour)

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aaaand there you have it! Throw on some text, some effects, and you're done!

Total time taken: 2 hours, 9 minutes

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I WAS WRONG IT WAS ALPHA 20%

However, I did use 10% for the gloves.

Got that light behind her, mad science crazy with righteousness look. However, I don't like the coloring on the lines of her labcoat (lifted from Dr. Horse) as they're too light. Usually I don't shade the outlines, but I may have to make an exception...

Time so far: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes

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Lighting!

First I usually draw a light source, then I start drawing lines over my copied linework with color codes to identify what is where:

Yellow - Everything between the yellow line and the light source gets a 10% alpha layer of white

Green - Everything between the green line and the yellow line gets a gradient that transitions the 10% alpha white to 0% alpha, or neutral colors

Blue - Everything between the blue line and the red line gets a 10% alpha layer of black

Red - Everything between the red line and the blue line gets a gradient that transitions the 10% alpha black to 0% alpha, or neutral colors

Cyan - A new one for me! I dunno yet! It's the shininess of the gloves, as defined by the original art, will probably just 10% alpha white it though.

Time so far: 1 Hour, 40 minutes

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A background! I know I said I usually make backgrounds too dark, but I actually WANTED this one sort of dark since Re-Animator! I wanted it to look like Re-Animator, like a pony minimalist version of the morgue in that movie, lots of squares and disjointed angles, but the pony element means earthy colors and a light palette.

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Overlay layer done!

More invisible lines, but now with white at 50% alpha for the hooves and goggles and 70% alpha for the center of the goggles.

Time so far: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes

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COLORING DONE, after linework, I just open up some color references and abuse the fill tool.

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Linework complete!

As you can see, the Samples layer is starting to fill up. Excellent.

Time so far: 1 Hour, 10 Minutes

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ONE HOUR IN, and I'm nearly finished with the linework!

I go over every line twice, the inside and outside using the hairline tool. This way the lines have thickness and weight to them, as opposed to Flash's native line tools which give all lines a universal size.

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Sometimes I can't bend a line to curve just the way I want it to (see that pointy shit right there) so I draw another line between the two, delete the extra bits, and bend the new line to complete the curve.

Time so far: 29 minutes, 39 seconds

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When inking eyes, I like to draw the stuff around the eyes, the eyelid, eyebrow, etc, and then draw a bunch of circles/ovals for the pupil. I then delete any lines that are not necessary. Easiest way is to delete the lines connected essential lines to vestigial ones, as I can then double click the ones I don't want and it will highlight them all in one go.

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Didn't think I'd hit that temp layer thing already.

AS YOU CAN SEE, I drew a big red circle on the solids layer. However, I want the straight outline of the panel to have a curve to it. However however, if I draw them on the same layer the red circle would get in the way and make it so I can't control the curve of the blue line entirely, only pieces of it, seperated by the red lines.

Solution? Bend the blue lines on a temp layer, and move it onto the solid layer once complete.