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eva/hannah / 21 / art blog, main is uecolo. probably inactive.

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ecolo stuff from twitter

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Idk if you still think Bass Blues and Tempo should be friends but if you do I’m gonna make your night in a few hours

im so sorry i never saw this since im mostly inactive here but i still love the three of them!! whatever you did im sure is really cool!!!!

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mem ( get one of these for $7 CAD! :^) )

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hello! i have already made a post on my main but it has stopped getting any circulation.

i’m a nonbinary person and i need a legal name change so i can start getting my life together. i also need money to generally live day to day. for whatever reason my current caregivers never buy bulk groceries, so i’m really just eating dinner [when they decide to cook] and thats it. i’m autistic and have extreme issues with food texture so i have to buy my own food 90% of the time anyway.

please consider commissioning me, i work fast. if you’re interested, dm me here or on twitter! if not, please please consider reblogging this. thanks much!

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octogrizz doodles i did wayyy back in june, people seemed to like them but im still a little self conscious about sharing my design for him

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as your father i expressly forbid it

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reference’s for an edgy au, g’s isnt done yet

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F L Y O C T O F L Y

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a full ref for king!

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halloween selfie .............

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really old sk drawpile stuff

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Me and @centralhighway got thrown into a salmon run the other day by ourselves and we kicked ass and won surprisingly, it was intense

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I’ve been getting a lot of asks lately about the brushes and textures I use in my work, so here’s a BIG FAT REFERENCE POST for those of you who were curious! Bear in mind that I’m really lazy and don’t know what half the settings do, so don’t be afraid to experiment to figure out what works best for you :>

BRUSHES

Pencil I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. Ink Pen Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Round Brush The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without. Flat Brush A brush tool set to flat bristle (try saving this bitmap file to your elemap folder if your version of SAI doesn’t have it) is by far my favorite to paint with. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. It’s just GREAT.

Watercolor Best used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects. Cloud Basically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills.

TEXTURE OVERLAY

To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required!

Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. That’s it!

Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Something more subtle? Lower the contrast or reduce the layer opacity. You can also use a tinted overlay to adjust the overall palette and bring a little more color unity to an otherwise disparate piece! Just be aware that too much texture can hurt the readability of the work beneath it, so I’d err on the side of subtlety.

Hope that helps!

-L

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Since making this post 500 years ago, I’ve gotten periodic questions about the Flat Bristle brush setting that is default on my version of SAI, but sometimes absent in others.

After much ado, I’ve rummaged around in my program folders and found an image in SAI’s elemap folder called Flat Bristle.bmp that you should be able to just grab and use! I edited this link into my original post as well, but it’s gotten so many reblogs I don’t know how helpful that will end up being…

In any case, I’ve also taken the liberty of zipping all of my blotmap, brushtex, elemap, and papertex folders and hosting the file on my site just in case whatever borked version of SAI people are encountering are missing all this basic stuff. There’s not a lot in there, but the settings in the original post don’t make any sense if you don’t have them!

You can download the zip file here.

Happy painting!

IMPORTANT EDIT: In the event that dragging and dropping these files don’t do the trick, this site has pretty extensive instructions on installing SAI brush files.

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The biggest gays of Splatoon

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A quick thing for @centralhighway !

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McDonald’s 90′s collection is such a good Look tm