For @kyri45 New Update. We Have Lost A Legend. RIP

Tails Frontiers (Swap AU): SCENE 1

Next Scene coming soon!

i had a vision...

@troveoftrolls

Saw The Wild Robot recently and just had to do a quick drawing for it!!

Btw if you haven’t seen this movie yet, you are missing out!! It’s so good!! (It’s literally become my favorite movie)

No update yet but here is some shadowpeach to keep yall full until I serve dinner

He needs it

(Le gasp)

Cacoon Lex. Do it owo

Poor thing lets his fins get ahead of him and forgets how clingy seaweed can be. Or how easy it is to get tangled in it. He's okay, he's just dramatic.

-Luxx

How about something like when Whisper and Tangle first fused into Whistle without knowing?

Fu - Sion (Fusion) The act of two beings becoming one. Fusion uses the life energy found in living beings as a catalyst and intense emotions as a trigger. Common triggers are found to be fear, stress, or love.

I've waited 5 months to read this chapter as I listen to THIS song.

Alright folks time to bet how many months The ChildTM will take to cook. And about the pool I made: fuck democracy I guess bc I've been told that baby showers in China are AFTER the baby is born so you all will have to wait.

SBP - Second Star ( PREV / FIRST / NEXT )

Next Part is coming on May 1st, 12 AM ET (I'll have a workshop at 1PM)

i adore your paintings so muchhh would you happen to have any other tips or tutorials for your process? anything from thumbnailing all the way to final render

Thank you 😭♥ I appreciate that a lot!! To start with I've got my advice tag (both new and veeery old stuff lol), & my youtube has a couple of speedpaints on it, one with commentary including process, brushes etc

In terms of general stuff about how I approach painting, I tend to tailor the method to the desired outcome. I talk about it more in depth on this post here, I also link to some references & tutorials that I really enjoy/recommend!

Besides that though, I guess I can do a little walkthrough of the Whisper & Tangle painting I uploaded a few months ago, since I tried something new with it that I pseudo integrated into my workflow & could be fun to talk about? 🤔

SO yes, I do always thumbnail when I'm doing a bigger painting, and they're definitely not pretty LOL. I usually use the colour fill lasso just to block in basic shapes and values with a gradient map slapped on the top -- I ended up swapping the values around in the end because it let me use the fireflies as the sole light source, making it more character focused! Then it's the usual process of resketching it all & flatting in the base colours (I also added Whisper's wisps hehe), then adding shading:

This is how I usually approach it, w/ all the shading layers clipped to the original flats to preserve editing. Multiply, screen & overlay are the most common layer modes I use while doing this, and if I'm ever struggling I'll sometimes add a gradient map too in order to unify awkward colours etc. The new thing I tried for this painting was doing what's often nicknamed as a 'clown pass' -- which is using hard edged shapes to create an easily-accessible selection mask for each part:

It looks Super funny but I actually found it very helpful, and I ended up using it to select & cut out all of their body parts onto seperate layers, which were then alpha locked. It meant I could go ham w/ large or textured brushes, smudges etc without worrying about losing those edges, or accidentally over-rendering and screwing up the anatomy in the process!!

I've kept doing something similar since, though it's a bit more dialed back; mainly using the lasso select to chop it up directly and preserve specific/necessary edges, grouping up similar body parts on a single layer etc.

After doing all that, I sat down and started rendering. The background was all blocked in & detailed with a hard round brush and these amazing brushes from Devin Elle Kurtz. There isn't anything super insightful that I think I could type on how I render, but I do have that speedpaint I mentioned earlier that'll probably shed more light. It's just a lot of eyedropping & painting, rinse and repeat

When rendering is done I usually add a concoction of adjustment layers, as well as an overlay w/ a noise texture on it. I also sharpen it all after doing so! These are the ones that I ended up adding for this painting:

The dupe & blur is a fun thing that doesn't always work, but it looks super neat when the painting itself calls for it, especially when paired w/ that noise texture. It can make stuff look like an old/low quality photograph or recording -- here's another example w/ a shadow and amy doodle I posted a few months ago:

That's about it for this painting, the majority of the time spent on it was honestly me rendering those damn leaves 🥲 Very tedious but worth it & it was a really good learning experience. I'm not sure if any of this will prove useful but thank you so much for sending in the ask, & if you (or anyone else reading this) wants a similar breakdown for a different painting of mine, please do let me know and I'll try my best to do one!! 🥺💞

one of my fav sonic couples (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)🧡💙

*Record scratch sound* Oh shit- here we go again.

This is the first out of 3 Spin-Off of the ShadowPeach Bio Parents AU! (Write down your suggestions for the title) Updates will be every Thursday & Sunday at 1PM ET Starting from April 10.

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Extras: (coming soon)