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helloo!!!! your edits are absolutely stunning btww
3. who/what inspires your graphics / gifs?
ooki this is going to be a lengthy answer buttt my most of the folks near me are very artsy and creative??? like my siblings, folks from uni, & even annoying exes. my siblings are are liek talented when it comes to drawing & painting and i’m the least creative one out of the bunch,so they like give me tips when they share their stuff with me?? i had a senior back in uni who would make these amazing UI’s and i loved their minimalist style,,,
on tumblr, it’s once again a long liist, but the way @svmeragi uses textures (anjali was the first editor like i saw and went, OH FUCK I WANNA DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT), @zenien‘s way with colors (seriously sel’s usage of color inspires me like nothing), @noxdivina‘s minimalist edits (i just genuinely loe how they use white space in their edits and the amount of detaill like im always in awe of the stuff they create), @ultkags‘s way with symbolism??? like legit pls check out their hxh/hq!! edits good stuff right there ,,i lve the way @sukerokus colors it’s just all very gorgeous and pleasing to look at,,,,, once again there’s a lot of editors who inspire me, and that i look up to cbgvbv
non-tumblr inspiration is mostly found from pinterest/behance/youtube? there was a video talking about the aesthetics of east-asian cinema and i loved the posters in it. there’s also the artist side of youtbe and i watch their videos and look at how they use colors on traditional medium and try to use the same techniques???? like i can’t make any of it, but there’s a lot of things that i want to learn to incorporate
also like the anime/manga themselves??? like znt’s animation, psycho pass’s op sequence, tg’s illustrations & production stills, mononoke’s art (which is the best art i’ve seen), shouwa genroku’s silhouette’s,mp100′s oberall animation like they’re all things i see and want to learn to do
8. your favourite graphic and or gif created by yourself
yeh so im someone who absolutely loathes whatever they make, but i’ve been making peace with it. i don’t have a favourite??? so i just went through my edit tag and chose ones i don’t hate if you don’t mind: but i like this suga gfx alot because it was the first gfx i made in like forever, this spirited away gif, this knnw gif, and this znt one came out better than i thought it would??/gfgbfchg sorry for adding so many
33. give us a quick explanation of how you make a graphic / gif?
i really don’t have a process??? but it’s mostly scene/manga panel i like, mark it, go back to it like six months later, and work on it.
with gifs, if i liek a scene, i mark it down in my notebbok and open ps when im not being lazy, get teh screencaps, and the wjole process. i manually color most of my gifs but if i can’t i stick to older psds (ones i made or ones i got), and then slap on a noise filter if i think it’s necessary and bam done,,,
with gfx, i have no idea about typography rules or any of the gfx principles (im dumb like that) so it always comes down to what looks pretty to me??? so there’s a lot of trial and error and it rarely ever comes out great. but i clean caps/find textures i like over @DA or behance or creative market/browse pinterest for ideas/chuck the ideas out because they’re too advaned/close ps and come back to it a week later/then just play around wih settings
with colorings, i don’t have a fixed style, but if i like a panel then i try to find a palette i like and then just work with it. there’s a lot of layers and blending modes and brushes. but i think it’s important that you have an idea about how you want it to look like in the end so that whatever result you get, you know you did your best. im also fuelled by the need to not copy any styles so that ends with me doing very weird shit like with the suzuya coloring i did recently, i wanted to see if i could pull off the color palette??? and how the same palette could end up looking different?? and aaaaa sorry this doesn’t make any sense
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