#I will product photo editing

[yourlocalabomination]

May I present to you one of the dumbest things iv ever drawn.

#someone was on my dash talking about giving crumb a gun #this is what I immediately thought of #never opened procteate faster #I think the stock photo of the stairs really sells the piece #it was just going to be a sketch but I had to commit to the bit #I had to stop so many times while drawing this because I can’t stop laughing at it it’s so stupid #anyway take this in honour of the kickstarter reaching its goal #EDIT: I SPELT IT WITH THE WRONG YOUR I DONT CARE #Edit 2: shoutout to the person on Twt who called him Owen Crumbvour I love it sm that’s his name now #starkid #team starkid #starkid productions #cinderella’s castle #cinderellas castle #crumb #fanart #my art

[mirai-e-jump]

スヌーピー“顔を出す”シュークリーム

#snoopy #peanuts #food #dessert #cream puff #official product #from official photo #transparent #my edit #do not repost #cute #png #I just think it's cute #site link #snoopy “shows his face” cream puffs #source: hilton hotel japan #shu cream = cream puffs in japanese

[whycantwegivellove]

based on this tumblr post

#rebecca das musical #ich #maxim de winter #mrs danvers #nienke latten #mark seibert #willemijn verkaik #mycreations #myedits #eye am literally so sorry for all these silly rebecca edits/gifsets #i promise i have a serious one coming soon (at some point) #also it's CRIMINAL that james park isn't in ANY of the official production photos #anyways

[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

Mizuno x Shoma Uno collaboration 7th edition to be released on 18th January 2024 🩶

#shoma uno #figure skating #mizuno #the things of the 6th edition aren't even sended yet lol #these products are so nice but barely affordable overseas with shipping and tax #i do have some but bruh can't do this all the time #anyway nice Shoma photos

[tetedurfarm]

little bit of light reading today as i work on the website

#it's 'rabbit production tenth edition' by lukefahr mcnitt cheeke and patton in case you were wondering #trying to explain genetics in layman's terms is....difficult! but kinda fun #also: i broke my phone and just got it back yesterday so sorry it's been quiet i just. haven't been able to take photos lol

[storytellering]

if it's okay, would you mind sharing your art process? your style is SO gorgeous dude. keep it up spardacest nation!!!

Thank you so much anon, and of course! I kinda posted about it on twitter a while ago, but for anyone not also on there, here's a paraphrasing of what I said there! (under a cut bc it's gonna get a bit long)

(speedpaint video from procreate mostly bc like I also said in that post, it's one of the few pieces I've done entirely on procreate and thus entirely recorded kdfjhdk I usually don't do the sketching + painting parts on there but every now and then I get lazy and want to get it all done quick in one program lol! It's not as good as it would look if I were using krita to render (which is what I normally use) but it gets the idea across decently of what it is that I do)

The short version of my process is: sketch, clean up sketch for lineart, then flat colors, then paint over the flats (i make the flats my shadows and paint on the light), then a multiply layer for skin details (like lips, eyebags, etc), then an overlay layer for skin transparency details (red over the ears/nose/fingertips etc), then i do hair over the lineart, then a multiply layer with the contact shadows in a light beige/grey/neutral tone on top of everything else, and then i unify layers, paint over the details, and color correct the HELL out of it The longer version is: SO, first of all, I will say, my entire process for a finished/fully redered piece is pretty scattered and uses a lot of different apps, because after many years of trying out different drawing apps I found that I just worked better when I could incorporate the parts I liked best from each individual one rather than having to adapt to another app entirely! In total, what I use is: autodesk sketchbook and procreate for the first half I do on my ipad, then krita and photoshop on my computer when I'm actually rendering (but any photo editing app instead of ps will do, I'm just used to photoshop bc that's what I learned as my first drawing app WAAAY back in the day lol), and then meitu on my phone for color filters (also any phone editing app with filters in it will do), AND also optional just for references: blender and daz3d on computer + magicposer on my phone The actual step by step of what I do: First of all, if I want to do a detailed, well rendered piece I will start by getting my references ready. That means either just grabbing a screenshot from the game if it's like, a simple portrait, or a photo reference, taking a picture of myself in the right pose/lighting, and if it's something more complex I will recreate the scene in Daz3D to simulate a realistic lighting, OR even just blender (i have the game models for the dmc characters downloaded, so I can just pop them in, pose them and change the lighting to get a realistic idea of what shadows their faces will cast in that specific angle/lighting.) Note: references are pretty essential to me, and there's nothing to be ashamed about for using them! Personally I don't struggle a lot with the drawing/sketching part of art, but my tiny little pea brain cannot fathom how to make an object 3D in my mind, and how to visualize shadows realistically... thus the reliance on 3D programs to do that for me, and then all I have to do is draw what I'm seeing lol. My art improved significantly ever since I started making 3D refs so I could get /exactly/ what I needed - there's still a lot of leeway you need to learn though, because as realistic as the lighting will be in a rendering program, you'll never really get a fully natural looking image, as far as stuff like the body stretching/squishing/pulling when it's in movement, facial expressions, folds in clothing/fabric, etc... so really it's more a guide than something meant to be followed 1:1.

Then, once I'm confident I know exactly what I'm gonna draw/have the idea in my head, I start sketching it in sketchbook. Not really getting very in depth, just blocking out rough shapes - I like sketchbook and to be on my ipad for that because it feels very reminiscent of traditional sketching on paper to me, which while I'm not super confident on my traditional art abilities, I do get the most natural/fluid/non-stiff figures out that way. Then when I think I have the general idea ready, I export the sketch layer as a png and import it into procreate - which is where I kinda start picking at the sketch and polishing it like i'm carving it out haha. Lots of liquify tool, flipping the canvas to check if it's even, blending out some of the lineart to help out with the rendering later, and then polishing up what was once the sketch into serviceable lineart. I usually reimport it back into sketchbook at this stage - while I like procreate for drawing I don't love the brushes I can use for lineart there, and so I usually only draw the "base" naked figure in there - when I'm in sketchbook I use a hard pencil to refine the details, then on a separate layer add all the things "on top" like hair, clothing, etc - usually I can get it pretty easily in one go, and once I'm satisfied I erase the naked body under the clothes and unify the lineart layers. Then I will just do the flats with a hard brush, turning the lineart layer into an overlay layer and coloring things in with the shadow colors. At this point, I export the file as a psd and import it on my computer - I give it a once over in photoshop first to see if there needs to be any adjusting (like whether any layer that has an effect needs to have a different effect, if all the colors look right since the ipad screen isn't the most faithful, if i wanna change the background color, etc), and once I think it's ready enough, I open it up in krita, where I do the actual bulk of the painting/rendering (as to why specifically krita: it's because I've gotten very comfortable with the brush/painting brush dynamics there and cannot seem to get as good results anywhere else, it's just the goldilocks spot of a brush for me haha.) If anyone's curious, here's the brushes I usually use for painting:

The one in the middle is my go to painting brush, left one for tinier/more refined details, right one for blending out soft shadows (though I learned the hard way to not overuse it, or it will look like I went ham with an airbrush tool lol). (I don't change any of the settings on these brushes, so if you wanna try out the exact ones I use! Just fresh off how they come out the app haha) I paint on the lights on top of the shadows, and just focus on that for the time being - once I'm done with the basic painting, I'll make a separate multiply layer for details like lip color, eye waterlines, makeup if there is any, eyebags, etc, and then adjust the opacity until it feels right - then I'll make an overlay layer with skin translucency details (like, when you hold your hands in front of a light and see the tips of your fingers become bright orange - many parts of your body are always a bit translucent to the blood underneath, specifically parts where the skin is thin like noses, cheeks, joints, knuckles, etc, and I found it makes the character look a lot more alive to add that subtle coloring in) - then usually I do hair on a separate layer on top of the lineart (because that way I can add small flyaways, more details, etc, and just use the lineart as a guide) After that, I'll usually make a multiply layer on top of everything where I'll add contact shadows in a neutral color (usually pretty pale, it'll be darker anyway since it's multiply), and once I feel like I've rendered everything out properly, I save the psd and re-open it on photoshop.

In photoshop, I'll mess around with the layers a little bit more (changing hue/saturation, opacity, etc), fuck around with the background to make it look pleasing, and once I'm happy with it, I'll unify the layers and start color correcting - usually by duplicating the unified layer and messing with the curve/hsl of the image and then changing the opacity of that edited layer until it's as strong or muted as I want it to be - then I also edit the RGB curves individually and adjust the opacity of that also (because I just really like how it ends up looking if I give a bit of a red/warm tint to the shadows lol), and at that point often I will reimport the finished image into procreate for some finalizing touches! Like, blending out shadows that came out too harshly, painting over anything that came out not the way I wanted it, redefining the lineart if it got messy during painting, and adding any extra small detail that might have gotten lost like catchlights, hair shines, hair flyaways, tears, etc. I also do one last round of flipping the canvas and liquify if needed! At this point, I export the finished image both to my computer and my phone - on my phone I open it up on the photo editing app, and add a bunch of different color filters - I don't hesitate from going completely balls to the walls here, and just kinda applying as many filters as will make an image look pleasing to my eye. Once I think it looks good, I'll export the edited image to my computer - and then open both the version without filters and the one with them on photoshop, and use the filtered version as an opacity layer, and adjust it until it doesn't look as crazy anymore lol. One last step I recently started incorporating was also changing the image to grayscale after I'm done, and doing one last round of curves in greyscale to make sure the values look right, and nothing is getting too lost because the values are too similar (because i know i get a bit swept up in getting repulsed by harsh contrasting lighting and can end up washing out all of rendering if I don't check myself kjdfgk) AND that's it! Yes it's a pretty long and chaotic process, but it's coming from years of trial and error and realizing I can just let myself fo whatever makes me happier with the results, and I don't have to stay constrained to one program if I don't like every tool it has to offer/don't have to accept the final image fresh off the painting app as the "finished" image with no adjustments allowed after, lol. I don't find it takes a lot more time than if I didn't do it this way, but YMMV. Hope this was helpful and sorry for taking so long to explain! I just wanted to give a thorough explanation dfhdkhkx

#asks #sorry i know its a bit chaos hfdgd #but i hope its helpful anon! thanks for asking #also for anyone wondering #no i am not paying for ps lmao #fuck adobe #it is always morally correct to pirate adobe products people #if you have an alternative photo editing app you like best youre welcome to use it #but if youre too used to photoshop. everything is free on the internet if you know where to look #i also wouldnt recommend meitu bc it feels like a pretty sketchy app all things considered #im just too lazy to care to change my go to app but i would look for a different phone app #p sure theres billions that let you add funky color filters instead #actually i think you could use photoshop camera raw filters for that too #its just way too intensive of a process for my tiny potato computer and it feels a lot faster + seamless on phone

[benkyoutobentou]

31 Days of Productivity Reading: Day eight

Before: It’s already three pm and I haven’t even started this post. I read a bit of Natural Beauty when I woke up but haven’t begun my Japanese reading for the day. I went to rehearsal even earlier than usual and am currently sitting at a ramen place! They’re playing Yoasobi, it’s just like listening to my own playlist. Anyways, I may have gotten a bit emotional on the drive up thinking about rush hour on the Tokyo subway. There’s no worse fate than being an American 乗り鉄.

After: I actually ended up hanging around at the ramen place longer than expected because I liked their music that much. I just can’t leave when they’re playing 踊り子 and きらり. They weren’t busy either so I didn’t feel bad about loitering a bit.

And then the people next to me in the cafe were speaking Japanese! I’m way too shy to actually say anything but I rarely get to hear Japanese in the wild so it was at least cool to experience.

I ended up reading 199 pages today over an hour and 57 minutes with an average pace of 1.7 pages per minute. With that pace, I finished volume four of光が死んだ夏！I really enjoyed this volume, I think even more so than last volume. This series is one of my favorites, but last volume took me a bit to get into. I wasn't sure if I was fully on board with where the plot was going and I think part of my hesitation with that volume also came with the amount of time spent with characters that weren't part of Hikaru and Yoshiki's little circle (what I'm saying is, I didn't care about them as much). In this volume, though, I was totally on board with the plot progression and I'm really into the mystery that's being introduced! I knew something like the ending was going to happen based on the art that Mokmok Sensei had been posting on Twitter, but I totally forgot and was not prepared for that ending.

Also, I feel like this series has become something of a Japanese litmus test for me. Each volume I read seems easier and easier to get through, despite the Kansaiben. I remember really struggling with the first volume over a year ago, so it's great to be able to see my improvement just in my being able to finish a volume in less than two hours now.

On an unrelated note, I also finished Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang today! I won't talk about it much since it's an English novel, but I will say that I adored it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys literary horror. Although, this does open me up for now being able to start my next Japanese novel... I think that 独り舞 is gonna be the winner but I'll update you all tomorrow when I actually start reading something.

#benkyou posting #langblr #studyblr #30 days of productivity #booklr #polyglot #language learning #actually i think im gonna pull 独り舞 out now so its kinda decided #today was very much a ''oh you miss japan right? well how about NOW'' kind of day #take me back i miss japan so much #also i did (badly) edit the art in the photos because it had the shop name on it and idk if they only have one location

[tealfruit]

it's really a shame I have to sell 40+ of my life hours every week for poverty wages instead of spending all my time and energy on dozens of creative and technical pursuits with unlimited resources

#nerd alert #lets see if i can list all the hobbies i wish i could be doing instead of working #drawing. both traditional and digital. painting mostly acrylic but id like to get good at watercolors. drawing/writing comics #writing in general. fiction nonfiction poetry lyrics whatever. composing music. music production. singing. practicing piano and guitar #performing someday maybe! #sculpting too. i always forget bc i never do it bc i am never in a place to justify buying clay. i should just get some #i think im fairly good at it tbh. anyway. #knitting. sewing. mending and modding clothes in general. embroidery. id like to learn to crochet at some point #photography and scrapbooking sound appealing. photo editing. #web design. game design. 3d modeling. these are all things i dont really know how to do much of but id like to #animation. voice acting. regular acting. honestly a lot of stuff in the filmmaking process sounds fascinating id like to try some of it #tarot reading. is that a hobby? im gonna say yes. jewelry making. #lots of these ive only dabbled in and some i havent even done that but would like to. but i have no time and or money to get into them. #i would hardly call myself a master at any of these. jack of all trades as it were. and thats fine im fine w that #but given the time and resources i think i could make so many different diverse perfectly average to good things #that people could enjoy in passing or say 'oh how neat :)' about

[sidetongue]

a very serious face on this beautiful morning 

#bear with me I have multiple very similar photos that i'm going to post #i've always been very awful at photographing with the sun behind the subject #so i avoid it #but i'm trying to get better with both the right exposure and then also post production editing #wish me freakin luck #harold #dogs

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent sky photos 

#still... I am not joking.. every time I post things like this it is so hard to narrow them down #I am almost as obsessed with the sky as I am with cats. I have a folder of just cloud pictures with like 650 photos in it right now #I don't post them all because I think it'd seem repetitive probably but just know... lol #that could be an entire blog or something.. hundreds and hundreds... #Like the same way that I cannot explain my obsession with cats or why they've imprinted into my brain so heavily - clouds are the same way #anyway.. .still have the costume photos and stuff like that I just havent edited and posted yet lol.. I will.. hoepfully have actual art #content and stuff thats not just random cat photos sometime soon. I'm just always so preoccupied at the beginning of the year with trying to #adjust to new goals and schedules.. plus.. still wokriong on that wretched little slideshow aaaaaaaaaaaa... it is going to take me... #a million yearbs..... #I just want the worldbuiling lore established so I can branch out and do other things.. aughhhh...... #also have to work on game videos and a few other vidoes.. still trying to keep up wiht the youtube a little.. I just havent been productive #like since new years as I've felt sicker with my stomach symptoms and stuff.. ToT ALSO I DID MAKE THAT ENTIRE interactive fiction game which #I still have no posted anywhere lol.. Because it was kind of to accompany something that I was doing on a game site (like imagine making a g #ame to go along with one of your neopets or something) but it works totally fine as a standalone thing as well like. so detached from the #lore of the game site in general that it'd be broadly understandable and is it's own thing of course (because I dont really like writing #other people's characters/in the confine's of other worlds so I made everything original as possible with just a loose tie in to the neopets #typw thing lol) - but I figured since it works on it's own I could post it publicly other places too like 'hey look I made something' since #that is...... kind of somehting that counts as like... being creatively productive lol? like I keep talking about getting nothing done while #also forgetting about the things I actually HAVE done. alas I continuously forget. Seriously I am so bad at social media. I am never exagger #ating for comedic effect or something. I am the type of person that could legit like. write and produce and direct and complete a movie #that will be million dollars shown in theaters or something and I would forget to mention it anywherte until like 5 months later and go 'oh #uh .. oh yeah.. i should post about that online somehwere probably.. oops' . Cursed with the 'forget about everything once it's complete' #trait. Like the way my brain works is just like. once I finish something I'm immediately like 'cool! onto the next thing!!' without processi #ng what i just did. I'm just always looking forward to the next thing. I'll finish sculptures and then throw them away or forget about them. #I take photos and they sit in the drafts for 6 months before I post them. Like to me the enjoyment comes from the PROCESS of making somehtin #g but I don't care as much about the end result so it just doesnt exist in my brain anymore once I'm done? idk.. anyway ghjbhj #SORRY.. trying to be more active. I want to make and sell sculptures again. sell all of my spare clothes too. stuff. things.. aaa.. ***

[vinmauro]

finishing a gifset means opening and closing my drafts a lot to admire it and feel silly

#acey talks #like the finished product makes me so happy and i'm always like wow i can't believe i did this #when i have been photo editing for years and giffing for not even 6 months #but also in awe of getting it done bc of how depressed i've been

[mirai-e-jump]

52TOYS「パンダも猫シリーズ」

#panda #cat #kitten #figure #toy #official product #from official photo #transparent #my edit #do not repost #source: 52TOYS #cute #png #I just think they're cute #panda as a cat series #gashapon #blind box #release: 6/30/23

[hydrodragons]

i gave my ipad a new layout and im happy with how it turned out 🫶🏻

#the kokomi chibi makes me laugh every time i see it #i was originally gonna put a cute chibi of her but then that specific one brings me joy so i decided to use that instead LOL #also that's my quote unquote productivity page so makes sense to put her stressed out on there #that alhaitham pic took me a while to edit bc the og pic had greens and yellows 😵‍💫 #but it turned out so pretty!!!! im rly glad it looks nice bc i will be looking at this everyday 😭 #also the kazuha pic is my own ss 🫶🏻 i should post that separately tbh i rly liked the photos that came out of it #lou.txt

[night-dragon937]

why do i only get motivation at night TwT

cleaning, organizing, cooking, responding to emails/texts/calls, filling out paperwork, doing art or crafts, filming tiktoks- 10am? no chance. 3pm? that's funny but no. 6pm? ehh that's pushing it, probably not. 2am?? fuck yeahh let's get it all done right now!!

i need help and also someone to tell me that the project i want to start working on (will take a minimum of three hours) is a bad idea to start now, at 2am, when i need to get up in like eight hours

#blog post #however the project is really fun!! #i got two pairs of demonias and i want to put together a bunch of potential rave outfits partially for fun and partially because there's a #bunch of raves and festivals coming up that i want to attend #i want to try out the outfits and jewelry and boots and take photos and make a tiktok and im so excited for this project #all my brain would let me do today was play minecraft #and that was productive!! i now have the layouts for three new builds i did 90% of the redstone and building for one farm i improved #another farm i went mining and got like five stacks of copper ore i did a bunch of villager trading and got some emeralds i built a large #pathway i did a little bit of resource collecting i found a new disc and i did a ton of minor fixes and improvements to pre existing builds #so it was a productive day but now I'm getting the urge to be more productive instead of sleep halp XP #i really wish my pc could handle video editing i could easily make yt videos if it could #i really need to finish my new pc and sort out the monitor issue #im just procrastinating because i dont know the first thing about installing and setting up drivers and the os and it low key scares me ngl

[mayorofcattown]

I have finally finished sorting out all of the boring behind the scenes stuff to prepare for selling things online, so at last I can finally actually open up an online store for all the stuff I've been making for local cons!

First up, I'm going to be doing a soft launch in a couple weeks that will be open Exclusively to Australia and New Zealand, just to figure out the logistics before I take on a whole lot of orders.

I'm still figuring out the exact dates, but it'll likely be open somewhere around Oct 29-31st, and will just be whatever stock I have on hand, so some things will be fairly low stock

I will leave that open for a couple weeks (or until enough stuff sells out) and then close it for a couple months to do a restock of the at least the stickers (and maybe other things if they sell out too) and then I will open up the store to international orders, likely in early January.

(I'd do it sooner but delivery times are Absolute Ass before christmas so I'm not touching postage in december with a 10 foot pole lmao)

Everything will be shipped out via untracked lettermail for both openings, cause that's the least hassle for me and by far the cheapest option for flat paper goods

#ignore the product photos I still need to edit some of those lol #I'll post more details abt the actual products when the shop is open #but its basically just stickers prints and bookmarks #cause that is what nz post will let me ship via lettermail lol #and don't worry abt stock selling out cause I'll be restocking everything except maybe some prints #but the prints will just go up on inprnt instead. which will probs be better quality anyway lol

[citrineghost]

It has been done

inspired by the crop-and-paste edit by @naropinosa Tagged by @proph-et

And this time I’m getting ahead of the game and posting it on Redbubble right off the bat. So go wild

#if youre not familiar with redbubble #scroll down and you can select different products like prints and such #edit #meme #funny #art #knighting #photo editing #priest #catholicism #painting #ghostpost #if the rb link doesnt work try it again in 15 minutes cause i just uploaded it and it takes a minute