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Hello! Ideas To Playtest, an artbook of my game concepts from 2018-2024, is now on itch.io! If you'd be interested in exchanging $3.99 for 87 pages of content covering 30+ concepts, ✨you can get the PDF here!✨

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I don't know where it came from, but several years ago this idea popped into my head unbidden, and for some reason it tickles me. I don't know if it's funny, but I like it and I made it into a zine, I hope you enjoy it.

It lays out really nicely as 3-up spreads on A4 paper, so you can print, staple and fold it, then cut it into 3 zines. It made it really easy to print up 20 of them to trade at this art social thing I went to

micron, rotring and sharpie on printer paper, coloured and screentoned digitally, 2024

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Idk who this is for. The chess fandom?

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reblog if you sit at a computer and download faggot information to use later in life

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First bit of an SU 10th thing I'll probably finish in time for Stevie 20

🎵Perfume - Sweet Refrain (Original Instrumental)

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Filipiniana Miku!

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The finalized pantheon for As the World Ends ✨

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Ridha for @anokibuu !

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artfight attack for @pengogo!

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Final set of attacks! Pandora from @viladee Earth from @celestialimagination CR-O24 from @saintsofgraves and Abyssal Emissary from @capsulecomics

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Art Fight Dump!! 14 attacks in this year >:DDD Character Credits in Order: Story by Storylogue MINDFLAYER by OtherFishmonger Zerves by shortkingarthur Wind Sprite by Pengogo Deciry Mord by vitalviscera Fisher by GeckoeyGecko Chefanie by capsule_comics Mila by Mythic_0210 Dara Jackson by Natlovespandas Hausenberg Avery Dubois by FrenchLlama Apple Thorne by QueenEthelred Ilya Belov by Ilyaven sou by momonoko the Poet by viladee

if you own one of the characters I have attacked please let me know if you want me to change the hyperlink or credit a different social!

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i tumble these guys around in my head like rocks

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Source: Dyke Strippers; Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z , edited by Roz Warren

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Here are my Dungeon meshi stickers! I basically thought "hey. lots of people will have cute food themed stickers. And that good and well, but I want that serious stuff too!" So I decided to make a series for the main gang based on sense of self instead!

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Got any tips in shading stuff in black and white digitally?

Hi Anon!

You're in luck! I'm currently wrapping up a book which is shaded digitally, so I've been thinking a lot about this recently.

How I do this is by no means the only way, so take from these tips as much or little as you want! When I add grays and shadows to a line art drawing, I try to think about these things:

Preparing the image

I like to work with a file that has a white background and a layer with only line art on top of it. Between these two layers I add new layers where I use the pen tool and bucket to fill areas with black, then I lower the opacity for that layer to get a value that I want.

This method works well for me, and for simpler pieces I don't need more than 3 layers with different values - light, medium and dark grays.

I work in Clip Studio. Here's a picture of the layers of a recent drawing. Each layer is actually completely black but you can see the opacity percentages by each layer. Lower percentage -> brighter value. This makes it super duper easy to change the value of a layer, no need to repaint it, just change the opacity!

Value composition

For the best result, do a couple of value sketches with a limited set of values and find something that works well for the image. Getting the values right is what will improve the image the most! Here's a quick tutorial on muddycolors. Muddy Colors is a very nice art blog to check out. Looking at grayscale storyboard drawings or value sketches are great ways to pick up on this too.

I try to group values when working with grays. Take this image for example:

The character in the foreground has mainly dark grays, which separates her from the background, which has mostly light grays. Then the windows are white and the roof black.

Value composition is a huge and complex area and I recommend anyone wanting to learn to be more conscious about their values and to do value sketches. Analysing art you think has good values is great too.

Shadows

Not every piece needs shadows, but they can add a lot to an image! I use three kinds of shadows when I work in grayscale.

Inked shadows - these shadows are added during the inking stage and usually show areas where light would have almost no way of getting there, such as under this tent.

Gradient shadows - these shadows usually represent something getting further and further away from a light source or an area that would bounce light. This tree receives a tiny bit of light from a campfire on the ground and moonlight that bounces on the ground and up, fading as we get higher up in the tree. But mainly I add these gradients in ways that look cool and will help the overall composition.

Hard shadows - these shadows appear when a strong light casts shadows and can be used on a shape or to cover something. Here's a werewolf with shadows on its back, which gives it a better sense of mass and is interesting visually!

You can also cover an area in shadow like this, where the tree casts a shadow down on the archer and the cliff.

Texture

I like to add a layer of noise as a finishing touch. In Clip Studio you can create a noise layer with Filter->Render->Perlin noise... Find a balance of scale and amplitude that works for the image, then change the layer mode to "Vivid Light" and lower the opacity of the layer to around 30%. I like how this looks, it's not super visible usually but helps make the drawing feel less artificial and digital.

I hope that helps! Here are some nice links too:

Muddy Colors

Android Arts

Gurney Journey - Read his books!

Happy drawing!

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really factual recounting with no embellishments whatsoever