Making A Comic Background With A Photo Tutorial

Translation of K's glossary, bluray/DVD vol.5

A lovely Japanese friend of mine recently showed me the K glossary that came along with the blu-ray/DVDs, which actually features quite a few extra words than what’s posted on the official site, along with, well, going beyond the 8th episode. These are the keywords that relate to episode 8 and 9. After receiving my copy of vol. 6 and vol.7 of the blu-ray, I hope to eventually compile all the glossary terms into one big masterpost, but here are terms from episode 8 and 9 for now.

Blues What outsiders call SCEPTER4 members. It’s a term mostly used behind their backs, and one that reflects a sort of jealousy common people feel towards what they consider to be a group of authoritarian and high-pressured capital policemen, made up of supernaturally empowered individuals.

Claudia Weismann The older sister of Adolf K. Weismann. Like her younger brother, she belonged to a state-operated research facility in Dresden, and partook in the research concerning the “Slate”. However, she died during the indiscriminate bombings in 1945. Her death would greatly impact the actions of her younger brother Adolf and the Japanese lieutenant Kokujouji; in other words, individuals who would later become the First and Second Kings. 

Boss glasses and mean glasses According to her impressions of them, Neko nicknamed Munakata Reisi as ‘boss glasses’ and Fushimi Saruhiko as ‘mean glasses’.

Ex-A/Extra-Alpha The academic term for a supernatural “King” used in the show. Organisms who exhibit characteristics of the Extra-Alpha group are able to display overwhelming capabilities and charisma, and will create a sturdy organization(clan) centered around themselves when thrown into a crowd of similar organisms. 

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HABASHIRA RUI!!! 

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.