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Hello Loaf,

I just wanted to ask about your philosophy on shading and color. I noticed some of your works have shading while others don’t. Or am I overthinking the process of coloring and shading? Sometimes I think I might be selling myself short on the on where I am at and that I might already know how to do it. I noticed in your speed paint from away back, I think you used fill coloring. Is that what you usually do?

Thanks a lot for the help.

To make this ask less of a drag. Do you have any favorite A Salmon Good Time characters or do you like them all the same?

One last thing, please let me know if these asks are too long and tedious.

For my movie scene illustrations, most of the time the characters are drawn with flat coloring. For the ones that do include shading/lighting, it's usually when there's a strong, distinct light source (like a spotlight on stage) or to convey strong emotion (joy, sadness, fear) within a scene.

Another instance I use shading is for general full illustrations, like promotional art for example (or like my current profile picture... which I feel needs a good update, so I'll most likely redraw it haha)!

But in most cases where I don't use shading, it's usually for quick sketches, character reference sheets, or small doodles for when I just wanna get the idea down and not focus much on details/light sources!

That's correct! When I get to the coloring part, I use a magic wand tool to select the areas I wanna color, and then use the fill tool to add the colors in.

Oh, don't worry about the asks being long! I'm always happy to help— I like to think someone else seeing these could find these kinds of tips/advice asks helpful to them as well! ^^

(Hmmm... my favorite A Salmon Good Time character? At this point in the project, I actually still have a few characters I've yet to reveal. But with the cast I have now, I wanna say my current favorites are Goldie and Frank!!! ❤️)

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Hello again Loaf, :)

I wanted to ask if you had any tips on making a Don Bluth like style. So far my progress has been going good, I know there is still room for improvement though.

Thanks a lot for the previous tips and advice as well.

I know I have said this before but I really hope I did not flood this blog with asks overtime.

These pictures below are my latest practice drawings.

Hi again! Oh WOW you really made improvements since the last time I saw your drawings 🤯 Great work here!!! 🎉🎉🎉

For the Don Bluth style in particular, a detail I'd notice about the way characters are drawn in the film is that there's often wrinkle lines or zigzag lines!

'Wrinkle lines' are often drawn where the body bends/curves (like under the neck, under the wrists, etc); while 'zigzag lines' often appear where there's a crease or variation, like clothes, hair, or along the outlines inside the character (like a fur/scale/feather/etc pattern, clothe designs, etc)

I'll have to find some screenshots from some of the Bluth films later on as examples, but for now here's a few that appear in my own attempts at the Bluth style! (I circled where the wrinkle lines and zigzags appear)

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hope this isn't an annoying message but I didn't see you post about it - make sure to toggle on to prevent AI scraping in your blog settings and all sub blog settings.. Tumblr just sold all our data to midjourney and I don't want your hard work to get eaten by lazy ass ai "artists"

no anon im so glad u sent this ask because what the fuck???? at this point im honestly not surprised ugh,,, i had to speedrun to all my blogs' settings.

RELAYING WHAT ANON SAID TO THOSE THAT AREN'T AWARE:

tumblr is now allowing midjourney to be able to train its AI on artwork posted on blogs BY DEFAULT.

so if you DO NOT want your art to be trained on these fuckass machines:

go to your blog settings FOR EVERY BLOG YOU OWN!! (NOT JUST YOUR MAIN BLOG, BUT YOUR SIDE BLOGS TOO)

find the "Prevent third-party sharing" setting and TURN IT ON ASAP

It should look like this (example used from my splatoon side blog):

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Rigging/animation test, featuring Sammy looking around!

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What's this? Sammy got turned into a spinning 3d model!

I recently started using Blockbench for making lowpoly 3d models, and had a thought: how would A Salmon Good Time look if it had a video game adaptation? Surely like the game its universe is based in (Salmon Run in the Splatoon series). But I've imagined if ASGT was its own standalone universe, it'd be a Nintendo 64-styled game!

This model is a work in progress! Once I finish modeling/rigging Sammy, I'll made a 3d model of Frank!

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Hey guys, it's Loaf here!

I've been pretty much inactive on this blog/project for the past several months. While it's already February, I never got a chance to say this here yet: Happy New Year! ✨🎉 I hope January has been well for y'all!!

On my end, I've last mentioned here that my activity would be heavily dependent on my "college era", with me trying out college for the first time (I took it online). A few months ago, I had taken finals and finished my Fall term. After that, it's my Spring term.

Well, I have an update on that: ...I dropped out!

As someone who's grown up with a sedentary lifestyle (meaning I'm mostly spending my time either laying around, sitting a lot at the computer desk, not physically active, etc) and as someone with a very sporadic sleep schedule, I realize I never really made room in my life to take on academics again. I was never interested in college to begin with or with getting a degree.

Maybe in the distant future I'd try college again, when my life's more in order...? Who knows, LOL

Also in terms of inactivity: my focus has been on other things, like just drawing general fanart and working on other smaller projects.

This inactivity does not reflect my feelings towards A Salmon Good Time. I'm still very, very passionate about this silly project, and have no plans to abandon it! As I've mentioned above, my attention's just been on other things recently.

I feel like I've said this a lot, but I do apologize for the lack of responses to Asks! I've looked through my Ask inbox and see the questions & requests that've been sent to me over a month or several ago... I will get to answering those eventually!

Until then, keep an eye out for some movie scene drawings, answered Asks, and a small treat that'll be posted right after this post... 👀

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Good afternoon

I was wondering if the salmonids in A Salmon Good Time battle the same way as they do in the game? I remember that one of your first ASGT posts saying how the salmon may leave the casino to protect the golden eggs.

Here’s the funny part of this ask. I can hardly imagine your version of Cohozuna belly flopping the enemy. Does he battle in the same way like in the game or more like a fist fight? To make this even funnier/interesting I always imagined Cohozuna having a brother that did fight like cohozuna does in the game or a mixture of the two. Anyways thanks and your art looks amazing. I hope you found this ask as funny/ entertaining as I did.

Hey there!

All the Salmonids do fight like how they do in-game! I think ASGT Cohozuna would fight similar to Cohocks (with how they weild bigger pans than the others), but it would be funny to see him belly flop enemies like the game version! It could be a fun reference to the game when he does it once in the movie, like "hey that's the move Cohozuna does in the game!"

Thank you for sending this ask, it was definitely a fun one haha 😂😂😂

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Look, it's Mr Grizz!!!

i got a chance to draw mr grizz and I kinda forgot the logo on his hat @a-salmon-good-time

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Hello

I hope today is going well.

I was wondering since a Salmon Good Time is something similar to a head canon, would your salmonid oc’s from your other blog be part of it. Like would the sea lurkers, drummers, and bazookas be characters? Also what about your king salmonid that was based on the tri stringer?

Oooo I haven't thought about that! I'll definitely have to consider adding my own salmon guys in... 👀 I'll have to find out what roles they play!

(In case anyone hasn't seen them before, here is: Bazooka, Drummer, Sea Lurkers (⚠️ fair horror warning for Sea Lurkers!), and the Tri Stringer King — all links lead to posts from my main blog, which is also Safe For Work like this blog!)

That reminds me, I still need to come up with a design for Tri Stringer King haha- their original design used to be how Bazooka looks now

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is it alright to make fanart of your characters?

Absolutely!!! Anyone's free to draw them if they'd like, I'd be happy to receive any fanart of my characters!

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Hey, found your blog recently and it’s very fun! I’ve got a question; we see Mr Grizz in the flesh here, but in the games he’s pretty secretive for the most part. In this universe, does he appear in person more often? I’m just curious, also sorry if I phrased it weirdly

Thank you! A Salmon Good Time! is moreso an alternate universe of the founding of Grizzco Industries & Mr. Grizz's first appearance than a direct word-for-word retelling of the canon plotline. I actually imagine A Salmon Good Time! having at least 3 or so movies, with around the 3rd film being when Mr. Grizz's appearance is a lot less frequent (when he appears it's serious business) and gets to the part where his fuzzy ooze plan comes to an end!

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Looking for certain posts or want an easier time finding them? Here is a directory for the tags that I frequently use to categorize my posts! Newer tags may be added to this overtime.

Note: 'ASGT' is an abbreviation that's short for A Salmon Good Time!

Tags Directory

#a salmon good time! - all posts relating to A Salmon Good Time!, including asks and art/general posts

#asks - all answered asks

#general post - pretty self-explanatory! Posts that aren't directly about ASGT; can also include updates!

#movie moment - all ASGT movie scene drawings!

#concept art - sketches and drawings for ideas in ASGT that aren't finalized, like characters designs or storyline; early stages of finalized ideas also go here

#character art - reference sheets and final design sheets for characters that appear in A Salmon Good Time!

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It's the big bad bear! 🐻 This was very nice to wake up to, thank you so much!!!!

@a-salmon-good-time’s Mr Grizz!!!

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I hope today is going well. I was wondering what art tools do you use? I am trying to research coloring and line art in Disney styles but I am having a bit of a hard time. I have tried drawing with pencils, pens, and brushes. Though they do not create this loose and flowing style.

Also I had another question this one being a bit funny. You mentioned that Cohozuna has an abandoned shipwreck where he does bargains and other business. Is the shipwreck a reference to how in All Dogs Go to Heaven where Charlie has a casino that is a boat? Also what is Cohozuna’s other business?🤣

Thanks a lot once again. I wanted to lighten the mood with this one. Has anyone else guess that about the boat?

Hello, my day's been going great!

Since I draw all my art digitally (using Paint Tool Sai as the art software) I use a custom pencil brush for my lineart and coloring! There's no one-and-true perfect pencil brush to replicate the disney style, so I say experimenting with different brush tools until you believe it "looks and feels" like disney is highly recommended!

If you want to capture that disney-esque flowing feel in your lineart, you can try (using any brush/tool) making quick, smooth motions with your brush strokes! Here's a visual example of what I mean:

Like in the GIF above, I like to make quick, sweeping motions with my brush strokes- so that way I have more emphasis on flow and shape rather than the details!!

And also:

YESSS YOU'VE GUESS IT, THAT SHIP IS THE REFERENCE FOR COHO'S SHIPWRECK!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I haven't seen anyone mention about it yet (unless someone did and I missed a comment about it!)

In case anyone seeing this doesn't know what we're talking about, this is the casino shipwreck from All Dogs Go to Heaven that Cohozuna's is based off of:

I've always loved the concept and when I thought of the shipwreck from the Marooner's Bay stage in Salmon Run, I knew right away I had to do something with that concept for A Salmon Good Time!

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lol what would it take to make this a real movie

I'll need 12 million power eggs to make it happen 😈

I think it would be cool to actually have this project as an animated movie (if it happened, I'd post it on YouTube). Realistically, it'd be best if I held like... an interest check to form a team to make it happen: Having a team of animators, voice talents, musicians, etc. At that point, A Salmon Good Time! would be a collaborative project. Even if it's not the entire story animated, having like... 15 minute clips even would be a dream come true!

If that happened though, I'd feel a lot better having all contributors (artists, animators, voice actors, etc) for this project paid but I've never been employed nor do I have a steady flow of income, so I have no way to pay them. So, for now, I'm the only one working on this passion project, which is why I'm leaving it as a smaller thing rather than something huge haha

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So it's 3AM and I'm starting to look up voiceclaims/voice soundalikes for the A Salmon Good Time characters and I found out about this site called GoVoices and I already found the perfect voice for how I imagine Cohozuna!!

The voices on there come with demos (like for commercials, animation, etc), and this voice even has a singing demo!

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HEY yr blog is fucking aweshome. i was wondering if ppl would be allowed to like... draw their salmonid ocs and whatevs in the same kind of style you draw these guys in!? (eg: what with the little flipper feet and the little hand fins and everything.. cause i think it ROCKS!) just for funsies

Hi!!!! Thank you so much!!!

YES, ABSOLUTELY!! ✅ Anyone's free to create a salmonid oc inspired off of or based around the A Salmon Good Time universe, or draw them in a similar design/style to it!