Thing I Learned Some Time Ago!hope You All Find It Helpful ( Perspective Grids Can Be Your Friend!)

Thing i learned some time ago!  hope you all find it helpful ( perspective grids can be your friend!)

will you upload progress pics of your art? e.g. from rough sketches till you colour it

I always use Overlay layer for my art.

Tone Layer + Overlay Layer

bec!! how do you do the inifinite loopy background thing? i dont know if youve answered this before but i wanted to do something like that too!!

I actually used a little trick that I learned years ago, but sadly I can’t find the tutorial anymore, so I’ll see if I can recreate it!

You make a new canvas with a relatively small size and make sure that it is a square! For this example, I used 300x300. And then try to cram everything in that one square.

Then you open up Photoshop and go to the Filters tab, find Other, and then select Offset (I believe CS2 and above is capable of doing this).

And then you mess with the numbers a bit.

I heard that setting the Horizontal and Vertical values to half of your canvas width and height might help (for example, 150 and 150 since my canvas size is 300x300). I haven’t tested it but you can definitely try it!

Hope this helps!

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An introduction to the finer details of menswear, and how to get them right in your… aw, hell, why am I describing it here? Read the intro!

How to make a pumpkin head

Since I defs didn’t want to carve a real pumpkin to put on my head and get nasts pumpkin insides all over my hair I decided to paper mache one. Unfortunately there was no good tutorials anywhere so I will share my trial and error knowledge.

First I got some supplies: 1 Punch balloon (they’re rounder and larger they regular balloons), some paper mache stuff in a bag, cardboard, a glue gun, paint, sculpey clay, tape, some news paper and some water and flour mixed together.

I then put at least three - five paper mache layers of newspaper with flour water on the balloon. I also measured my head and left an opening at the bottom. (NOTE: Don’t put tape on the balloon and try to peel it off after you’re done paper macheing, RIP)

After that’s all dry I put glue gunned some cardboard onto it to give it some pumpkin like ridges.

Then I filled the gaps between the cardboard and the newspaper with the paper mache in a bag stuff. Wait for it to dry. (Note: Don’t pop balloon until the paper mache in a bag stuff is dry cause it holds a LOT of water and your paper mache project will sink, RIP) After that I popped the balloon and lightly dampened the top with a sponge and water until it was wet enough to slowly press down into more of a pumpkin shape.

After it’s all dry I taped a stem I made out of card board on the top and put another layer or two of newspaper mache over top.

More drying wait time (you can use your oven on the lowest setting to make it dry faster) then I sanded it down and cut out a face with an exacto blade.

I added a little bit of backing behind the face on the inside with the paper mache in a bag to give it more of a 3D look which wasn’t that noticeable but oh well, it kidna worked… After all that stuffs done I painted it all white otherwise the newsprint would bleed through and make my colours not as bright, I also added some sculpey clay to the brow area to give it some more emotion in which I used an iron to dry it with cause it was too late to put it in the oven with paint all over it (Note: Put clay on before painting).

I sprayed it with a sealer before painting colours on it cause I find acrylics do weird things sometimes. After it was all dry I begin to paint.

I also painted the inside a red and added a kinda head rest thing on the inside since when I pushed the top down it made an uncomfortable point at the top when putting it on your head. Then once it was all dry I sprayed it with some more sealer, added some cool stuff like stitches with some ribbon and blood which I used nail polish for a shiny effect and put in some lights which weren’t very effective when my head was in the pumpkin but that’s okay, it still looked cool.

And that’s that!

Hope this helps some people, Enjoy!

SAI to FireAlpaca translations

Basically for when you see some awesome tutorials and/or brush settings for SAI and you want to try replicating them in FireAlpaca (sort of)

SAI has a bunch of brush settings that aren’t available in FireAlpaca, so if you’re at a loss, you have to make due with ingenuity until FA improves with more Brush settings D: (Some settings and effects can be created with the help of a Bitmap, Scatter, or Scatter Watercolor Brush, if you know what effect you’re going for.)

In order to edit some of these settings, you usually have to make a new “Watercolor” style brush in FA.

“Stabilizer” (drop down option) = “Correction” (drop down option)

“Blending” in SAI = “Ease of Mixing Colors” in FA “Persistence” = “Load Color” “Density” = “Opacity” (although please note that in FA, opacity with Watercolor brushes is extremely tricky to manage. Even at a low opacity, brushes can still be pretty opaque, which can yield some undesirable results.) “Min. Size” = “Min. Width”

Press: (checkboxes) Dens., Size, Blend = “Opacity by Pressure”, “Size by Pressure” (Blend by pressure isn’t available as a setting)

Also, with Watercolor brushes, the hard/soft edge of a brush is usually an all-or-nothing sort of setting in FA. So good luck, and happy customizing!