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Here, have some Death pencil sketches~

(A bit of a rant after the cut, sorry!)

God, I am going through some pretty shitty art block right now (seriously, I hate everything I draw) so might be awhile before anything else is posted, I do like some of the sketches of Death and I've been rewatching my favourite movies and TV shows to get some inspiration, but I feel like everything I draw lately isn't worthy of going online, which is a terrible mindset, I know that it's important to share even the pieces you don't like, but I haven't done anything digital recently either! I usually love my art tablet but I just couldn't be bothered the last few months.

I've never really had bad art block before, usually it goes away after a few days but it's been like, weeks!

This all to say that posting will be even less frequent than usual, which should be impossible, honestly.

Thanks for reading my little vent thingy if you did

See you next post~ <3

Reblogging this on main because while I don't have many, I am currently writing three separate stories and plan to share them sometime lmao

calm down please

I completely forgot to post, but here's some oc art from the past few weeks including a Miasma redesign. I'm working on the first few drafts of my comic as well!

Got into Danny Phantom a few months ago, still on season one.

Here's some sketches, my camera's sorta dirty so they're kinda blurry-

His name is Themis and he's an Alchemist Artificer!

I've got art block!

So here's a sketch of a dnd character I tried to design in an attempt to get rid of it but it didn't work :D

The return of Miasma :)

#07 - The 80's

#83 - Perverted Orange

Thanks to @icedghostlatte-art for letting me use the colour palettes! I'm having a lot of fun with them!

I did it with an OC, her name's Angela

I've got art block!

So here's a sketch of a dnd character I tried to design in an attempt to get rid of it but it didn't work :D

Late night dnd character,

His name is Miasma and he rotates in my brain like a rotisserie chicken •-•

15 levels Rouge, 5 Levels Paladin, he's my first multi-class actually-

I finish art and then forget to post it, anyway-

Meet the train conductor for the dead

Miria.

My wood elf Druid named Percy. He's for a oneshot so it's a pretty impractical but self indulgent design lmao

Added lighting

I drew Annette digitally today, tweeked their design a bit

Traditional sketches of my oc, Annette!

hu tao! 🔥🦋

I loved this show so much :(

Might make fanart sometime

I learned from a friend how to render hair while drawing my character, James

I also experimented with the shading, I like it.

Tweet of the year

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

Did you find this helpful? If you’re able, maybe buy me a coffee please? :D

Sebastian <3

~ WARM HEARTS ~ CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY PROMPTS

Feel free to use and reblog!

starting Christmas preparations on November 1st

sharing a hot chocolate

baking their traditional pastries

keeping each other warm

going Christmas shopping

moments of contemplation

love confessions in the snow

quality time by candlelight

wrapping presents

singing carols together

collecting fir branches for decoration

moments of reconciliation

building a snowman

going on a sleigh ride

giving pleasure to others

snow shovelling

detailed research about the perfect gift

choosing a Christmas tree

preparing the Christmas roast

getting a sugar rush

searching for the hidden presents

collecting firewood

putting out sheaves for animals

looking at the different decorations in town

watching the same Christmas movies for the umpteenth time

sharing a blanket in front of the fireplace

getting tipsy on eggnog and mulled wine

watching snowflakes on the window pane

annoying everyone with Christmas songs

wearing matching Christmas sweaters

Usually I don't like Long posts but damn this is good

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:

An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).

I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

Ahaha

Learning how to paint digitally so I can post drawings because I can't keep them to myself anymore lmao

Titles for fanfics that you personally are writing are either I Have the Perfect Title for This Instantly or I Could Spend 5 Years on This and Still Not Know What to Call It.

There is no in between.