Coming Into A Fandom Late

Coming into a fandom late

Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.

Firstly, what you need are

— CUSTOM BRUSHES —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

— PATHS —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

For all my fellow fan-fiction writers and artists, here is a guide to the Detroit Become Human: Detroit Police Department.

I’m in the middle of writing a fic and as someone who really likes detail, I thought knowing how the DPD really looks like in the game would make it easier to navigate in a story. So I started up my game and explored a little!

It is surprisingly different to how I remembered it.

BLACK: Walls (except the reception desk whoops)

GREEN: Windows/Glass

BLUE: Doors

YELLOW: Stairs

IMPORTANT NOTES:

There are 12 android stations

Security guards at the gates

There is a large frosted window looking into the meeting room

The restroom is both male and female accessible

There are a number of large [TV?] screens around the DPD

-1 long screen above the reception

-1 TV screen on the right wall of the reception

-1 long screen above the android stations

-1 on the top wall of Fowler’s office

-1 screen the top wall of the meeting room

-1 TV screen on the bottom wall of the break room

Hand scanners by the Archive Entrance, Interrogation and Observation room.

Double door leading into the Archive Entrance Hall

Large circular DPD logo on the ground in the desk area -Purple semi-circles are data servers (computers storing large amounts of data)

SEATING:

Left Down: Det. Collins, Lt. Hank, Connor, Po. Wilson

Right Down: Po. Person, Po. Brown, Det. Reed, Po. Miller

If there is anything people would like to add, you are very welcome to do so. Please keep in mind the wall layout may be a tad bit off, but I tried my best!

I didn’t write down the officer names before turning the game off as I hoped I’d remember them all (unfortunately I didn’t) so if anyone knows who is sat in front of Gavin please let me know lmao.