1700's medical illustrators be like "hey boss can I put a rhinoceros behind this anotomically correct sketch of the human skeleton" and the boss be like "only for the books being published in these specific european countries" and then they high-five and go out for drinks
Time for some kitchen charts to help you adult better ;)
Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.
DEACON - liar, liar, plants for hire
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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!
I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.
By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.
Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.
This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.
I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.
I think it would do fandom a lot of good.
If you listen, her tapping very much adds to the music.
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