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benhasten:

Reassuring Raven

Screenprint by Deborah Champion

“I was reading a little book called ‘the Buddha’s law amongst the Birds’ and was rather taken by what the Raven said. Unlike western birds always threatening us with menacing nevermores, he said ‘help will come’. So I made it into a poster.”

ketotica

Posting up a bit more of my old art. Some of it is Soul Eater fan art (a couple years old now, probably the last fan art I’ve ever done — I think I’ve noticed at least one Soul Eater fan in my followers). Digging through this old stuff makes me feel encouraged about my abilities while simultaneously motivating that drive to improve.

I can’t wait to see what new stuff I’ll be making very soon, especially 3D stuff. I’m incredibly excited to make rigged mesh for Second Life, among other things.

(Sorry, followers, for this non-ketogenic related stuff. It IS related to health and recovery, however, believe it or not — but I promise to get this blog back to its original focus very soon. Bear with me.)

** Edit: I just noticed that there is at least one smile in every one of those pieces of art. **

ketotica

As promised, just a few bits of random Elsie-H-Effin digital art. All of these were done when I could barely see (notice the backgrounds are nearly all dark to spare my eyes from glare), and making art was actually so painful I never finished any of the 3D projects I worked on, and my style became extremely scribbly because I no longer could see detail.

I’m excited to be able to create again. :D

tranquilizersforthesoul

Rebloggin' my art because why not, really.

tranquilizersforthesoul

Hello! I learned about GoFundMe just today through an internet acquaintance, and I figured it’s worth a shot in my particular situation. I hope this doesn’t come off as whiny or a poor-me thing, but I want to be as honest as possible. Like most people, I find it hard to ask for help. I don’t…

Posting this here because I need help and the best way to get help is to ask for it. Thank you to everyone who looks. :)

buzilla-roars

Signal boosting. This is one of the most awesome people I’ve ever met on the internet and even five bucks can help get this rolling. JUST LAST MONTH they were able to finally get the help they needed for surgery to have cataracts that rendered them legally blind for YEARS fixed and now they’re looking for a bit more help to get them back on their feet again! Please just take a moment to look if you can! Even a signal boost would be kickass.

tranquilizersforthesoul

THANK YOU BU oh god ;u; And thank you to you amazing people boosting this.

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lexxercise

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 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

grypwolf

… AND THAT IS THE WAY I MAKE FIRE! Simple and messy “how to gry”. I will add quick smoke tutorial / step by step too Just wait. \o/ EDIT: Sorry for small images >8C I am not good with tumblr image sizes and I have never understood them. But by copying the image URL you can see bigger sized images!