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The colonel! Kinda proud of this honestly. @markiplier

How to edit traditional art for social media

Being a mainly traditional artist myself it always irks me a little when I see sketches or even full illustrations being posted without any proper editing, making for a terrible presentation of an otherwise great piece. 

So here are my tips for making your art not look shit in just a few easy steps. 

You don´t need a fancy scanner for this, but if you have a digital camera at home I´d recommed you to use that instead of your smartphone. (However smartphone photos are also okay! Use whatever you have on hand)

Take a photo of your piece during the day in ambient lighting and try to make the paper lie as flat as possible. Avoid direct sunlight and artificial light as both will lower the quality of the picture. The inital photo will look something like this:

Not exactly breath-taking, huh? but don´t worry, we´ll get this prettied up. 

Open the photo on your computer and turn + crop it 

For the following editing I use Adobe Photoshop CS2, which is legally available as a free download, so there really is no reason not to get it. It comes with everything you´ll need for the edit.

(Unfortunately I have it set to German but I did my best to make my steps understandable)

Now, let´s get on with the edit! Select “Image” (Bild) in the top bar, go to “Adjustments” and first of all set the “Saturation” to zero (if you have a black and white drawing)

After that, pick “Brightness and Saturation” (also found in “Image” –> “Adjustments”) to brighten up your piece some more

Aleardy much better, hm? But as you can see, the bottom-left corner of the image is quite a lot brighter than the upper-right one, which prevents you from getting an even result. 

Thankfully, this problem is easy to fix.

This way you can even out the brightness of the overall piece and finally use the “Brightness” and “Contrast” sliders one last time to get a clean result

This is already pretty good, but if you want to go the extra mile, you can use the eraser tool as well as filters (such as the liquify tool and sharpness) to remove little sketchy lines or fix small mistakes (classic example: adjust the position of the eyes to make them look more symmetrical)

And that´s it! With just about 5 - 10 minutes of editing you can get your drawing to look clean and presentable! (Coloured illustrations are usually easier to edit, just play around with “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Color Balance” and “Saturation” until you manage to emulate the original look of the piece.)

I hope that this tutorial will help you level up your own editing from now on. Play around with new settings and see what works; you might discover even more useful options in the future!

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

W.i.p of @crankgameplays

Reminder: We are visiting Yancy on 17th November. Reblog to claim your seat on the bus to the penitentiary.

Memento Mori. Unus Annus.

The Host Headcanons

I finally have some time to write some headcanons that have been regurgitating in my mind on a daily basis about one of my favorite egos. Oh, to be an unidentifiable entity in a trench coat with bloody eyes narrating someone’s death. The mystery. The intrigue. This is Peak Character Design. I am living for this.

Origins

The Host is the end result of the psychopathic murderer known as the Author, who, after being shot by Daniel, was left to die in his cabin in the woods. 

The Author, having discovered his supernatural ability to control one’s actions with his writings, began tapping into forces that would eventually lead to the Host’s creation the moment he put his pen to paper.

Something happened in between the period of the Author being shot and the Host sitting in the ego office. As the Author was dying, he was visited by the manifestation of the forces that gave him his power. It is unknown if this manifestation was physical or simply a vision. The forces offered him survival, but at a costly price. The Author agreed without hesitation, and without knowing the price.

The forces used the Author’s body to fashion the Host. The price was the Author’s freedom, independence, humanity, and eyes. This transformation led to additional changes in both its physiology, personality, and appearance.

What It Is

After losing its humanity, the Host lost its right to be called “he.” It is not a person anymore. It is an extension of the forces that created it.

Whatever forces created the Host are not benign, but they do follow a certain order or code. No one knows what that code is, but it involves the death of selected, unrelated individuals.

The Host cannot physically break that code. It was made by the code. To break the code would be to kill itself. 

The Host does not live by our rules. It can exist at any point in time it needs to be, while simultaneously living in its own illusioned time. Its old-fashioned clothes, its 1900s microphone, and its garishly yellow studio light have all been chosen by the forces that created it, and it is a part of the Host. 

The Host cannot change its appearance, cannot age, and cannot be killed.

The forces have a sense of irony. The Host cannot see or read or write, but it can see far into the future and is selectively omnipotent. It knows everything about its victim, as well as future occurrences that will happen in the world. 

Abilities

The Host can see its victim’s entire life, as well as their death. It can accelerate occurrences in their life to happen in an instant, or change them completely. It almost always leads the victim to their swift death.

The Host, while unable to see the path in front of it, is able to move from one point to another, say a room. No one has seen it walk, however. 

Despite its lack of sight, it’s known on occasion to look directly into its victim’s eyes before they die.

Exactly like the Author, anytime the Host narrates the victim’s actions, the victim will be compelled to do so. If something it narrates something happening to the victim, it will happen.

There is no known defense against the Host.

looks like you unused in the wrong annus, bud

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You can use these an the old ones if you want :>

Ight im doing this shit again so beware spam-ish for a lil bit ALSO i will be posting transparent ones on here this time an like last time I'll make a separate post for the other lesbian flag

Mark really gonna be like, "Hey guys, here's AHWM! Hope you enjoy!" Wait a week then throw us another cryptic series for us to understand. He and Ethan really gonna do that to us?