#Duplicate Shares

[st-hedge]

Timelapse for this painting I posted

[synthaphone]

If it's not too much to ask, how do you shade complex patterns easier?

Its not too much to ask at all!!

My easy trick for shading complex patterns in cel shaded Neopets style art, where you'd want to hand pick your shadow colors for each element:

First, I make a flat base layer, and put each unique color on its own layer that i clip to the base.

After i finish the flats, i then duplicate ALL of those layers, lock them, and recolor each duplicate with the color i want to use for that element's shadow. these are now effectively my Shadow layer, and i rename the base duplicated layer so i know its my shadow base.

and then i use a layer mask on either the base layer or a folder i put the shadow layers in- i use this to paint in the spots where i want the unshaded areas to be.

This method makes it really easy to change my mind on a shading color for a specific area without having to carefully repaint the shadows, or tweak where i want the shadows to fall without having to worry about matching the colors, similarly to having the shadows painted on a multiply layer.

if i'm using a PSD where I already made a shadow layer, like my basic Centibyte base, i just duplicate all of the clipped areas from the flat color base, clip the dupes onto that shadow layer, recolor it to be the shadow color for the base color, and proceed from there.

You can do this trick for highlights also- I've noticed that highlights are typically used sparingly in Neopets art though, so I kind of just go with whatever i think looks right.

For Tyrannian, I decided it looks fine with solid white highlights at a lowered opacity of 70%, so i didn't bother coming up with a unique highlight color for each area. Sometimes I'll make the highlight layer an Overlay layer since that can help the highlights with not looking washed out, but it feels a little inauthentic and loses contrast over certain colors, and in this instance Normal ended up looking better.

I hope this was helpful and not too unclear! I'm not super experienced with making tutorials, but I'm always happy to share what works for me as best I can!

[i-am-the-oyster]

Now hold on one gorram minute

[meowrimo]

“amy, we need you to improve the processes for A B C, even though it’s not your job.” cue me spending 3 hours on learning the current processes, developing steps that would save time + energy, only to be hit with, “we’re going to keep it exactly the same” . . HUH

[d1tz]

Cheesecake part 2

[misterbaritone]

My favorite trope in Christmas related media is Santa proving he’s real by telling someone, be they child or adult, about some hyper specific thing they wanted when they were a kid

[slav-every-day]

[duplicityvn]

**read from right to left, i got my visual board going all wonky LMAO

Griffin's a baby when it comes to caffeinated drinks. (￣▽￣)"

He also values your opinion except when it comes to seltzer water.

[fadewalking]

I am reconsidering some things for this blog.

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

y'all i caved to peer pressure and made one of those lists of books. I got to be the first person to add some books by tumblr mutuals to this list website, apparently, so that's pretty cool. anyway pls tell me if you have read more of my books than I have bc I honestly need motivation to get through my tbr piles of shame.

[amberlin1]

Don't worry if you don't hear the voices of your deities. Sometimes, it's really just about the vibes. And sometimes the vibes are just the urge to put this thing meant for you on the altar. Sometimes, it's an almost ghostly noooooo in back of your head, when they really want the thing, but you're putting it away where you usually put things of that nature. Maybe you just can't get the backing of the sticker off.

But it's fine.

The vibes are there. The gods are there.

Sometimes it's really just the vibes. And the vibes can take you very far

[comrademango]

Hello,

My name is Anas Al-Burri. I am 17 years old and live in Gaza. My sister developed jaundice after giving birth to her child in an unhygienic area during the war. She has no medication, and her condition is worsening, nearly becoming life-threatening. She is so ill that she cannot produce milk for her baby, and we cannot obtain milk from anywhere else. I also have no medication for my diabetes! I am in desperate need of insulin, and my blood sugar levels are critically high, often exceeding 180 and sometimes reaching 400. I suffer from hyperglycemia attacks and cannot reach the hospital because we are in the northern part of Gaza.

Three months ago, my 14-year-old brother Ahmad was searching for something to eat when he was shot in the chest by snipers from a kilometer away. The bullet went straight through his body. He was just a child! We still can't believe it and keep thinking he will return at any moment. We didn't even have time to mourn him before other family members were killed.

The suffering my family and I are enduring is beyond what words can describe. This is our last resort.

We are reaching out to you with a desperate plea. We need your help to survive. Your donation can provide us with the life-saving medications and food that we so desperately need. Every act of kindness brings us closer to safety and restores a glimmer of hope in our hearts.

With your support, you can give us and many other families in Gaza a chance to survive and rebuild our shattered lives. Please help us survive and leave Gaza so that the last of our family does not perish.

[https://gofund.me/ecf94b00](https://gofund.me/ecf94b00)

Thank you for your compassion and kindness.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Anas Al-Burri and Family

[greatloss]

canon divergent in many ways now but one is that my five is absolutely one of the fives that did not elect to stop The Cycle. the minute he put together that mending the timeline fractures, which were apparently caused by the marigold that born them for some reason, a.k.a reginald's actions, would require that his family cease to exist, he slams on the breaks. he would gladly hop them all timeline to timeline in an endless cycle of apocalypses than have to intentionally create a single universe that reginald gets to continue to exist with or without his dead wife at the cost of his siblings' lives. he is that petty and he is that bitch.

[momo-shut-the-fuck-up]

Playin around in life makeover again

I got these contacts and im suuch a sucker for heterochromia man

I made this in the process of fuckin around w em but i dont have dyes for the jacket so its black and white in reality :(

Its more on brand for me than the other stylings methinks

[ena-shinonome-official]

Current list of all duplicate PJSK-official and the current pronouns used for the character on each blog.

This whole post is OOC. Idk if that needed stating but it has been stated!

Ena

shinonome-ena-official: They/She

ena-shinonome-official (Hey that's me!): He/Him (it's later gender has been transed)

Emu

emu-otori-official: She/Her/Neos

Otoriofficial: She/They

Tsukasa

tsukasa-tenma-officiall: He/Him 

tenma-tsukasa-official: He/Star

An

an-shiraishi-official: ??? (No listing on blog, and given it’s inactivity I don’t know if pronouns will be added.) Probably fair to go with Canon and say She/Her then

shiraishi-an-official: She/Her

Kanade: 

kanade-yoisaki-official: She/They

yoisaki-kanade-official: She/Her

Mizuki

mizuki-akiyama-official: They/She

amiaaa-official: They/Them

[creepyjirachi]

I also finished my first two Stock the Pond pairs! Houdini and Merlin (fog x cantaloupe) and Aniso and Optera (mist x peach)! Together, they span the entire color wheel :>