photoshop tutorial: use stroke to draw pain in the ass lineart
1. draw the shape (shoe laces, grass, filigree, 5 million background silhouettes, etc)
2. ctrl+click the layer thumbnail and Edit > Stroke on your line art layer
(OR right click layer > blending options > stroke)
while I'm at it: how to make it look like you took time to draw neatly when you didn't
functions used: any combination of:
- selection (ctrl click your layer)
- expand selection (select > modify > - expand)
stroke (edit > stroke)
- default brush
can be used to make lace too
If you're making a webcomic / self-published comic, remember you can get comic fonts from BLAMBOT
Dialog fonts, SFX, runes, symbols, titles etc free fonts even for COMMERCIAL use (eg in your printed books)
idk if this happens to other creators but i viscerally recoil when im faced with my own art/writing sometimes; the amount of emotion i pour into stuff i make is too much and too embarrassing for me to acknowledge and so i end up unable to look at/edit my stuff or show friends
me drawing faces can only go 2 ways:
- looks exactly like i wanted 3 minutes into the sketch
or
- 10 hours of plastic sugery later i no longer remember what a human face looks like
The Final Days were upon us, the convocation decreed we must sacrifice artists to become programmers and summon the social media platform zodiart .com to shield us from the despair of the internet
But in the end we were sundered into 14 social media, separate by the rift and-
2001 veloce back when she had a ton of animal sidekicks and magical weapons, im in pain
2006 everybody-took-this-off-of-google-and-used-it-as-their-RP-OC veloce
2017 she's just become my mannequin for drapery
The augur / The queen of swords
painting of my character Veloce Visrin (: cool colours are really hard to paint for me but I'm glad I was able to finish this
we all remember the exarch as a soft, sentimental old soul but what gets me the most is this precious boy is also a powerful, slick-tongued, cunning badass mofo that can't be messed with
#ffxiv
it was never about how blind artists are to a tech's potential and usefulness. it's about how we say that we're mad new tech is being used to steal from us and all ppl do is deflect in a way that paints the crime as necessary sacrifice or totally justified/deserved/worth it