How Did You Do The Perspective Blur In Your Doof Piece :0 ?

how did you do the perspective blur in your doof piece :0 ?

Photoshop’s Gaussian Blur is my savior. I’ll try to do a quick walkthrough of how I go through the process too because I use blur A LOT, and not just for perspective – I switch between Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop CS4 for reference.

This first step is a personal preference one, but I’ll include it nonetheless. I use a very hard brush for my line art/coloring, so the first round of blur goes to soften the line art.

In photoshop, go to your top menu bar, click Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. For softening the vanilla image i usually do 0.4 - 0.6. The difference is very slight but very important to me, it gets rid of a lot of the pixelyness. NOW the main bit.

Time to put it through another round of Gaussian. I usually bump it up to about 6 - 7. I take the super blurry image back into SAI and put it on a layer above the first softened image. Using the eraser tool set on density (under the advanced options of the tool) I start dabbing away at the top blurry layer to reveal the cleaner one underneath. I don’t have any images from before I added more lighting over Doof but this’ll give you the idea of the effect it achieves. 

It gives the picture an atmospheric sort of haziness to it that I loooove. Some things need just a bit more of a push, like his leg for example, so I didn’t erase any of the top blurred layer airbrushed it with the background’s dusty color. That’s it!

Pardon me for such a long post haha but I hope I fully covered it!

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"overlay is da bomb!" tutorial

ever wondered how to put pattern effects on stuff? this is how i do them. :P (using paint tool SAI)

*other colors will change the color of your shape. tip: brownish patterns will give your shape an antique/vintage/old effect. orz i fail at explaining haha

lol i love the overlay effect! :D i hope this helped! :3 

For any other artists following me

I just found this website that has lots of free, transparent textures available to download. Useful for drawing clothes and things, or just to make a wallpaper or something ^-^

hhhhh your art is so beautiful u v u. I'm wondering if you could do some references on backs? Of course only if you have time and feel like doing so o v o;;;

forgive my handwriting I HOPE THIS HELPS A LITTLE BC IM NOT RLY SURE IF IT MAKES SENSE also here are some pics of rl backs which you can also locate via google 1,2,3,4,5(nsfw bc butt) 

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!