#nativity animals

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Progress!!! It took some time yesterday mixing the colors up, but I think they’d work well now. The donkey did turn out kinda blue, and I didn’t use a photo filter. Hehe ☺️🎄💖

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Tips For (First Time) Illustrators

Here’s a post to all of those who want to make a drawing their gift for the Christmas party!

Recently I've been getting more into illustrations and since there is so much amazing fanart on Tumblr I wanted to share mine as well but didn|t know how to. So here are some tips for people like me, how are just getting started on digitalizing their artwork, for more specific advice you can also take a look at YouTube, where you will find tons of awesome tutorials.

1) Get a digital version of your artwork

If you have a scanner, that is great and you should definitely use it but if it does not work or if you just don't have one you can always just take a photograph. Remeber to use the most natural lighting possible (bright lamps work as well) and the camera with the best quality available to you: to me, it was my Ipone 4s. Heres what my picture looked like at first:

2) Basic adjustments

I'm using a PC running on Windows 10 which includes some basic editing tools when you are looking at your pictures, you can crop and turn pictures, change the lighting a little bit and have a little bit of influence on the colour. Not the greatest but it definitely improves something and as far as I’m concerned most computers have some sort of basic editing set. 

3) Editing software

Now that the pictures are properly cut to size and adjusted you could post it but if you’re like me you’d probably want to go a little bit further and you can do so through editing software. The kind of editing software you can use depends on your budget - if money is no problem I’d recommend Photoshop but if it is GIMP is always an amazing option that will do (almost) just as much as Photoshop does. Take your time to get used to the different settings and adjustments - for improving an illustration I’d recommend adjusting the lighting, contrast and saturation. Using GIMP’s wand tool you can also select the background with one click and delete it. This will make the entire thing look cleaner. (Please keep in mind that this is meant just for the cases in which the background is white.) To intensify some colours even more you can also create a new layer, paint the area with the colour you want and then adjust the transparency to make it less obvious.

Personally, I like it much better this (edited) way but maybe you prefer the rough, unedited version of the pictures and if this is the case, I’d encourage you to just go for it and to upload your drawings just the way they are!

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A little bit at a time. 🎨 Yay! Getting closer! 😅 Feeling already tired.

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Gosh, I’m feeling more of the body fatigue today. I’ve been pretty productive and busy every weekday the past two weeks. My body isn’t use to it, but I know if I keep pacing myself I’ll gain more endurance. I use to walk more when I didn’t have my car, and that was I did for exercise. Now I drive everywhere; which isn’t a bad thing really, There’s just very few places that are close by; rural town in Texas. Anywho….I’m rn sitting and glancing at my painting at hand. My body is telling me, “I don’t want to sit on the floor anymore.” through it’s annoying aches and soreness. *sigh* I seriously feel like an elderly person, but I can only work with it if I wish to get anything done. I’ve already been babying my hands cause my carpel tunnel has flared up again from all the hand work I’ve been doing. I know I’m just whining. It just simply gets frustrating. I still don’t plan to give up tho. My desire is to move forward and achieve my goals. Thank you Jesus for you are my Hope!