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Pigeon attempts to court falcon

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a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

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It's really strange seeing this place again

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The Cat has its Heart on the Outside

Available as a fanzine in Swedish with a translation note  here.

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shame

its a shame I cannot talk to some people from the past.. its been so long and old me and new me feel so different now.. its almost alien feeling

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they’re talking to each other omg (‘:

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Yay I did it, I finished the sketch ;3; I tried out some different thing from usual, particularly with the shading. I’m alright with it, but not as in love as I hoped. Background I was stumped on, just knew I wanted green :/

Also, was reminded the painfulness of colors. Especially with sun, he was painful for colors. Also wish I had kept with three rays on each side rather than the canonical four rays.

Time Lapse

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When you've had only 2 bags of chips and a coffee

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Would anyone like a drink?

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Amazing brilliant

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dogs riding dog

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Strange

its weird being here.. a lot of good and bad memorys.

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This... explains a lot