had someone ask for a tutorial of how i make my skins/accents and here's the relatively condensed version of the process :v
many images under cut
i exclusively use Paint Tool SAI for the whole process
750px - 1500px canvas, resized with the DPI function usually
usually i get directly into lineart, but for here :
- make a really vague sketch
- start drawing from there
- flat colours
- very basic shading
- clip and line
in skin making, since many things will be compressed into 350px, every detail counts. that is why many might see a shift to more UMA artists doing simpler cleaner designs, and letting the official shadow do most of the shading. also you save a lot of time
there was a few cases where i was doing pixel art skins which is more funnier because you have to work at 350px or the art would be very muddy if resized. the process is essentially the same but using the binary brush + aseprite for gradients, but you can also use this site for making gradients
dithering, the heart and soul of every pixel artwork ever
look i am forever on board with no crunch culture forever. that is what all companies should strive for and what we all should do. but it's like........it started in 2018.
i thought the big fish dad was gonna come back 2020 tops.
FR was really loose with the lore anyway so why suddenly be terribly restrictive.
just say new land was formed, energies revived them, new breeds.
have general keywords/ideas for 11 breeds all the way back and really rough set of concepts to help future you, right now it seems they are doing from scratch every new breed, as it's going on
@ FR we aren't asking for the entire Silmarillion of the site/world bro. I genuinely don't believe 10 years would be that hard to have an overarching idea / general story points of the things you wanna write. ya gonna actually prove to me that fanfic writers can do more research and develop an entire world on their own from scratch in like 3 months full dedication, as compared to however long y'all have run the site for...
Snorted when I saw your tag about me. Bcs I genuinely thought I was losing it. I liked your post on your other blog, closed tumblr, refreshed and then saw the same one and I was like "huhhhh?? Didn't I like this already???" sjfkfklf
SORRY fkdsfsdjhf i was so used to posting personal shizz on the other blog and just being angry in general i forgot to check where my dragon post was going to OTLLLLL
@ FR we aren't asking for the entire Silmarillion of the site/world bro. I genuinely don't believe 10 years would be that hard to have an overarching idea / general story points of the things you wanna write. ya gonna actually prove to me that fanfic writers can do more research and develop an entire world on their own from scratch in like 3 months full dedication, as compared to however long y'all have run the site for...