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artistically-gay’s Hair Tutorial

So! before we begin, I wanna state that the program I use is Fire Alpaca, though this tutorial can be applied to different art programs as well! Some brushes and filters may work a bit differently from program to program.

First, we need to go over the brush checklist! These are the brushes you’re going to be working with:      - Watercolor 1 (Turn ON size by pressure)      - Watercolor 2 (Turn OFF size by pressure)      - Airbrush

We’ll start off with a base color. A lightish color is the easiest to work with when you start out. A caramel color should work best for practice.

You’re going to want to duplicate the color layer. The duplicated layer is where most of the coloring is going to be done. Lock the first layer to make sure you don’t accidentally work on the wrong layer. I’ve had this accident several times and ended up wasting an hour or two.

You’ll need to have an understanding of color theory for this, but I’ll be linking a post at the end that can help give some guidance on shading with the say I do it!

We’ll be shading our caramel-colored strip with a dark red, and making highlights with a light and pale yellow!

Take Watercolor 2 and start creating strokes with varying pressure. Try and go lighter with the shading in where you want your highlights to be, and go heavier where the shadows will be.

Using Watercolor 2 gives you a guideline to follow before using Watercolor 1, which is where detailing will come in.

Now you start using Watercolor 1. Try and have it small, since this is the detailing brush and you’re trying to mimic the visuals of having individual hair strands. Remember to have lighter pressure where the highlights will be and heavier where shadows will be.

Duplicate this layer again with Watercolor 1, and then repeat this process with your highlighting color, in this case the yellow! After this, you can adjust the opacity oh this layer until you feel satisfied with how the highlights look!

Now it’s time to clip and merge the layers! After this, we’ll be moving on to the final steps, these steps involving the airbrush tool.

Returning to our dark red shading color, use the Airbrush tool to place some soft shading depending on your picture’s light source. After that, use the layer filter settings and either apply Multiply or Hard Light, it really depends on your preference*. Adjust opacity to your preference as well.

         *personally, I like to use Hard Light more than Multiply.

Repeat this process with your highlight color. Use the layer filter settings and choose either Overlay or Soft Light. Again, you can go with whichever you prefer.

And that’s my hair tutorial! Feel free to practice and experiment with this method in any way that you like! I hope that I was able to be of help to the people who were interested!

Here you can find the post I mentioned about shading!

When you figure out who the killer is before the episode is over

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Fallout Confessions

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reading ur old writing

So I write and I can get through the first chapter, but after breaking for the night or something, I can't get back into the story. Any tips on how to overcome this? It feels almost as if I have lost motivation for writing the story but still have a passion for it.

I will gently place my hands on the sides of your face, lean really close, and say, quite loudly, "OUTLINE."

Okay, seriously, apologies to all you pantsers out there, but outlining will save your life when it comes to making story progress and pushing past the initial flare of inspiration. Also all pantsers should be held with the highest suspicion and may be liars. Or wizards. They are probably wizards.

Anyway, it is very normal to start strong and then hit a wall regardless of how much you want to do something, especially just starting out. Finding other ways to keep going regardless is how to keep feeding that urge. Some general tips:

Outline! Know how the next chapter goes? Get it down any way possible, as detailed or as minimal as you want. Whatever keeps the story going.

Worldbuild/Character Built. If you can't go straight, go sideways, filling out the details you'll use later.

Inspiration Hunt. Make that playlist, create that image board. You want to recapture that spark, and it's going to be in the stuff you surround yourself with.

Figure out what works for you. This might take a little bit more time, but when do you write best? Where? How can you replicate the situations that make you write best?

Sometimes you begin a project too soon, and it sputters right out of the gate. This is also very common, and it doesn't mean you're a bad writer, it means you need to shove that idea back to that dark corner of your brain where it can grow like a fungus. My current work in progress is based on a novel concept I had TWENTY YEARS AGO, so trust me - your ideas won't die, they just might take some time to get where they're going.

This is also hard, because you want to be working on something, and not writing is frustrating. Sometimes the best thing to do is to take those old first chapters and go through them, and see which ones have roots and which need more time to grow. Some people work great picking at several projects at once. Some people have to pick one project and stick to it, and you have to figure out whatever works for you.

So, in sum:

Sometimes the best way to write a story is to do everything but writing the actual story

Sometimes ideas need to percolate a bit longer and it's okay to give them time to grow

All pantsers are evil wizards that are not to be trusted

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