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da: trespasser animatic

#art #dragon age #da:i #da: inquisition #animatic #solas #inquisitor #m!lavellan #lavellan #animation

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Vetan Darmaru, boring bitch and drama queen

#art #my art #tes v: skyrim #skyrim #oc #dunmer #dovakiin

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imitating brush strokes (more or less) in photoshop

i highly recommend making your own brushes. it’s very easy in photoshop and i’ll show you how.

if you don’t know how to do that at all, here’s the basic: you draw a shape that you want to be your brush shape on white canvas. white will be transparent, black will be opaque, and anything in-between will be semi-transparent accordingly. you select what you’ve drawn with marquee tool, and then go to edit->define brush pattern, like so

and there you go, the brush preset will be added to your available brushes, and from there you can tweak it however you like.

so now to the general idea of the brushes that i prefer to use. aside from fancy texture brushes for things like leaves, cobblestone, etc, that when used wisely can make your work much quicker and easier (and when used unwisely can make your digital painting look absolutely horrible. please do not use too many texture/stamp brushes), you’re gonna need four basic brushes and variations thereof that you’ll just adjust the size and other settings of during work:

1. a textured, charcoal/stiff paintbrush tip

you start with a square and add texture to it using default photoshop brushes. remember not to leave any sharp edges of the original shape. the smudge on the top is what you get without adjusting anything, but what you wanna do is set angle jitter to “direction”, spacing to no more than 10%, and transfer to “pen pressure”.

2. flat paintbrush strokes

just make some dots and shapes using a soft default photoshop brush in the shape of a line, to make it look more or less like the mark a flat brush would make if you dabbed its tip on paper, then put it through a bit of motion blur and gaussian blur to soften it more. then set spacing to no more than 10% (depends on the shape of the preset), angle jitter to “direction”, and transfer to “pen pressure”. you can also set size jitter to “pen pressure” but don’t make the minimum less than 60%

3. fine round brush tip

the shape of an oval works best. give it a little bit of texture and soften the edges, set angle jitter to “direction” or “initial direction” (if you want a more varied size of the tip in one stroke), and both size jitter and transfer to “pen pressure” but with the former don’t set the minimum to less than 40% and with the latter don’t set the minimum to less than 70%. add hue jitter at about 4-8% to give it a more painterly look

4. smudgy round tip

just make a very blurry, smudgy round shape with some textures and little lines and scratches, that you’ll mostly use for blending and overlays. set transfer to “pen pressure” and add some texture or hue jitter if you wanna. you might want to also reduce spacing to about 15%

for each of these, play with opacity and flow settings until you find what you need. and, in general, when drawing your own brush presents, just play with blurring the edges, different shapes, textures etc, until you get what you need. all of these brush presets were made with default photoshop brushes you can find when you open adobe photoshop for the very first time.

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video games b like 

elves can be oppressed….as a treat

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Viran Amell, grumpy gray warden, good at loving witches and not good at loving their mothers

#my art #art #da:o #dragon age #dragon age: origins #grey warden #i will learn how to draw one day or another #grumpy puppy #m!amell #oc

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counts and countesses of cyrodiil rated

narina carvain of bruma: apparently she’s a bitch but she seems ok. doesn’t like you wasting her time. cool under pressure and good to make tough decisions. huge history nerd. sends you on a quest where everyone else died so that’s not great?? but i mean you asked for it. 8/10

regulus terentius of bravil: kind of a dick. kind of a huge dick. won’t even send help to stop the apocalypse if he doesn’t have a guard captain. nobody likes him and everyone makes fun of him and he deserves it.  0/10

arianna valga of chorrol: can carry a big fuckoff sword so already she’s pretty good. real good at her job, merciful. misses her dead husband maybe a bit too much? she seems like she wants to teach you a lesson idk. 6/10

marius & alessia caro of leyawiin: big huge racists. literally have a torture dungeon for argonians. he’ll make you a knight but you’ll be a knight serving a racist. she’s a boring bitch. absolutely deserved to have sanguine fuck with them. fuck leyawiin -32654/10

millona umbranox of anvil: a good ruler who says she walks the streets but never seems to do that? loves her husband so much she never even thought about remarrying after 10 years, which is good, because he was right there the whole time. heartwarming. amazing. corvus is also real damn cool. capital/10

janus hassildor of skingrad: he’s reclusive and doesn’t want to talk to you but vampirism be like that so give him a break??  crazy-powerful wizard also, doin as well as he can. loves his wife so goddamn much he’s willing to help her die. is dealing with a lot. one time he followed me into an oblivion gate and also said he’d personally fight mehrunes dagon. i’d die for him. 10/10

andel indarys of cheydinhal: a lone dunmer in an imperial’s world. pompous as fuck, just like his son. maybe?? killed his wife??? regularly threatened by the dark brotherhood, apparently, so maybe they killed her? he’s a douche but at least his county isn’t that shit and he eventually disciplines his kid. 3/10

ormellius goldwine of kvatch: he fuckin died, dude 0/10

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characters’ facial expressions in all bioware games be like

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#my art #actors #study

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#my art #skyrim #study

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need new people to follow

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tippy-toes todd

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got Drag Of Age Two on pc so i made a new hawke :) her name is Gale Hawke and shes very tough and also a cool rogue (i usually pick a dual wielding rogue in da2 because i love the way the daggers go swish swish)

shes best friends with fenris because theyre both dramatic and tough and bad at trusting people, so they just have their Bro, I Have So Much Unaddressed Trauma, Dude *Flexes Muscles* moments together all the time…. and she will eventually be gfs with merrill =). she also travels with anders. because why not just always travel with the three people who hate one another

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“kamski is cryptic” is just such a fucking hilarious sentence to me, like? kamski is cryptic. kamski be vaguing. a mystery man. a fucking dumb bitch with secrets. just a fancy way of saying you have no fucking idea, as hank said.

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i love e3