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Because I pour most of my energy into maintaining order at my sacred shrine, it comes as no surprise that my more personal blogs are about as messy as my own room...
It's become significantly harder to navigate here and find things, so I decided to add some tags to my renders, since there's a lot more of them now.
So now I have: Development First Night Duel Honeymoon Married life MotA plot Inquisition plot
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
For @fuckyeahmhawkefenris Happy 15th anniversary â€ïž
Merry Christmas! âš
Donât mind me, guys. Just putting up some Christmas lights.
crazy that they've been married for 14 years
This took. All. Day. I love him, but fuck, he's hard to draw with that white hair.
merry wintersend! this was a secret santa drawing for oomf c:
Missing your feral love so I post some Fenhawke againâŠ
Hello! I love your renders, I was wondering how you did them?
Hello there! Thank you)
I'm Happy to share this invaluable info.
The program is xnalara Posing Studio by Dusan
I discovered it about 10 years ago and ever since then my life hasn't been the same - it's gotten much more fun.
it's very basic and doesn't require any secret knowledge. You download it, unpack, then go looking for models to play with (most of mine were found on Deviantart), and put them into dummy folder.
Once you load your model you simply pose it by moving bones - every single body part manually. Or you can go looking for stock poses, but they may work differently depending on the names of the bones.
After dabbling in this for years I took to putting my own models together by combining various parts from different sources. (It works out fine most of the time)
(If you're interested feel free to message me for more info))
blue wraith
dragon age is sucking me in again guys..... its so painful being part of a fandom thats 10+ years gone
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does the world need another messy fenris headshot? sure
Unhinged Text Posts: Carver Hawke Edition
Skintones for POC companions in Dragon Age
Whitewashing is a huge problem in every fandom, and DA is no exception. All of the characters above are whitewashed and have their skin lightened on a daily basis.Â
There is no excuse when someone whitewashes a character. Take your appropriate swatches if you must, and make sure you are staying true to the characters actual skin tone. Use these colours if youâd like - they were more meant to prove a point. You are certainly welcome to use them as a base.
Stop whitewashing POC. Stop lightening skin, stop slimming down features, and stop blaming whitewashing on lighting. You know better than that. You can do better than that.
Do not take swatches from the lightest part of the face - all the light colours shown here are meant for highlighting purposes. They are the highlights of the face, to be used to display light bouncing off the surface of oneâs skin.
Every image of the characters except Josephine was taken from the dragon age wiki site and was only altered to fit and blend with the pictures. All other graphics are mine.Â
OkayâŠso if you know me you know that whitewashing is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. And normally Iâd be all up on this post screaming âYES, THIS!â  Because I agree with a lot of points in this, mostly the â Do not take swatches from the lightest part of the face - all the light colours shown here are meant for highlighting purposes. â  howeverâŠitâs not this cut and dry. I want to make it perfectly clear that I agree with the majority of this post and while Iâm not excusing this I would like to sit down and explain why people blame this on lighting.
Skintones are HARD to replicate accurately. Especially if you havenât put a lot of study into it. Color theory takes a long time to learn and most fan artists havenât spent that kind of time trying to master it. Hell, even most professionals canât do it perfectly. Most arenât intentionally whitewashing. In fact, most are probably swatching from game stills to make sure they donât whitewash and yet they still get called out for it. Why? For several reasons. 1) Photoshop tends to desaturate swatched colors. Darker skintones are pigmented therefore usually more saturated, therefore if the artist doesnât realize this is happening they donât realize the color has changed so they donât consciously boost the saturation or shift the value. 2) Monitor discrepancy. For example my Dorian pic is significantly lighter on my pc than on my phone. Different monitor settings have a tendency to change color. Some of us like bright displays and some of us canât handle that kind of light. Mine is turned down therefore sometimes when I paint things look TOO dark when in reality theyâre not so what the artist sees on their computer and what you see on yours might be different. Digital art makes it hard to get colors perfect across the board. But lighting does factor in a great deal.
The examples shown in the post above are all shown in similar lighting, but what happens when an artist wants a non-neutral light? Maybe they want a super bright sunlight or cool toned white light. What then?
I took a few POC models in xna lara and lined them up. Notice how the skintones change. (In reality theyâd shift a little more than this because xna lara is terrible at lighting) The âflat neutralâ is the most accurate with their base textures.
Can I just point out how light Fenris actually is in comparison to everyone else? Yet people get absolutely pissed if you paint him lighter than Zevran who is actually several shades darker. Â And if I had painted Fenris ANY of the colors in any one of those pictures I would have gotten called out for whitewashing. In fact when I painted him (and as a rule in general) I took him at least two or three tones down from his actual color and boosted his saturation and still had a few comments about it.
Now, this is all relative, but Iâm just trying to illustrate why this is a complicated matter and why you can still follow all the rules and still get called out on whitewashing. The lighting and color scheme WILL completely shift color.
To better illustrate this, may I invite professor Idris Elba.
Same man, four skintone shifts. Four different lighting scenarios. Different swatches.Â
This is a problem because when finding references we think âWhich screen should I should I try to match? Well, letâs say my lighting is similar to the second picture. Okay, great, I have my reference and Iâve swatched and compensated for the discrepancy. Fantastic, but WAIT, I still get called out because heâs not as dark as he is in 3 or 4 even though he wouldnât be because my lighting isnât neutral or dark, and the ambient color is different. I think âwell fuck, I did the best I could and I matched my reference.â But the person criticizing thinks âheâs darker than that so you didnât make him dark enoughâ and while, yes, that point is valid, itâs also not applicable in this particular situation.So you do another picture, this time in darker lighting, replicated picture number 3. Another person says âheâs more the color of number 4, you made him too light and too red.â Eventually you just donât know how to approach without criticism anymore and what happens? A lot of artist then give up on learning dark skin tones. Which is the complete opposite of what we want, isnât it? Thatâs not progress.
In closingâŠwhile Iâm sure there are some people out there intentionally whitewashing and they SHOULD be fucking called out for it because I canât think of many things that piss me off more than that I absolutely have to point out that probably a ton of artists who get constant hate about this are probably just victims of lack of color theory knowledge and swatching from screens without realizing how inaccurate it can be sometimes. And that may be giving some of them too much leeway, but is that better or worst than automatically assuming the worst? This is why a lot of professionals tell you that itâs better to mix colors yourself,but can I reiterate again that SKINTONES ARE FUCKING HARD AS A BOG FISHERâS BALLS!  Most of those artists are already kicking themselves because they donât know how to do everything perfectly, tearing them down over something as complicated as this only makes them feel like absolute shit. Educate them, by all means, but make sure your information covers all, not just one aspect.This kind of thing takes years and years to learn, (I donât even know it well and Iâve been doing it for more than 10 years) itâs unrealistic to expect a set of swatches to have much effect when color and light come into play.Â
EDUCATION goes farther than CRITICISM. Please, if you have a problem with the way an artist is painting skintones educate them, donât just assume theyâre purposefully whitewashing unless you know for a fact theyâre a complete bigoty douche. I realize Iâll probably get a lot of hate for this, butâŠas an artist I canât get behind âlighting doesnât actually change anythingâ when I know for a fact that it does. Does it always change things as drastically as people paint them? No. Does it excuse turning a brown person into a white person. Fuck no. But it is not some bullshit excuse artists use to hide racism. That idea is just as dangerous a misconception as the people who purposefully whitewash and just breeds contempt across the board.
This was really cool, really thorough @mrnicholas. Thanks for this!
As a POC who is thoroughly fed up of people in this shitty fandom being bullied over supposed âwhitewashingâ that isnât even whitewashing (including, and maybe especially, other POC fanartists who get bullied over that shit) â THANK YOU SO MUCH @mrnicholas for actual sensible commentary on this issue.
(Fun fact: I myself come out vastly different skin colours in my photos, depending on the lighting. Even more so, sometimes, than Idris Elba above.)Â
This is how the kiss at the gallows went, right?
Fenris would have k**led himself to protect me. I didnât want to give him that chance
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Amazing photographer:@/wyldheart.studio(ig)
đŁbeautiful cosplay&staff made by @/kyra.crafts(ig)
đĄhandsome fenris:itsmewyld (ig)
đĄHawke&Edit:Me
đ„Dragon Age 2 by @bioware
A morning intrusion?
The guys were happily enjoying their coffee when someone (I'm guessing Aveline or Anders, because their problems are most likely to be urgent enough) comes to ask Hawke for help again.
Fenris is annoyed, Hawke is apologetic and probably says that Fenris doesn't have to go with them and he could stay behind and do whatever he wanted that's bs, of course, because he is ALWAYS in Hawke's party to which Fenris replies that he wants to go.
(I just wanted to use the bed hair in all its glory)
You should really make comics of your renders! I would love to see them all as one story.
Really? Thank you very much<3
Sadly, i don't think i could ever manage anything bigger than what I already do - small standalone episodes with vague commentary. (I've read plenty of comics and manga in my time, and when I think of the amount work that would require my brain shuts down)
I enjoy the process of posing chars and making pictures, but the post processing part? Is just not very interesting to me.
sometimes i wonder if i could handle collaborating with someone else
