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Magnus “the Fish Friend” Burnsides

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Firemind Prodigy | Monastery Birdkeeper | Nightmaw Priestess | Elder Egomancer From a series of dailies I did last year.

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7 amazing Photoshop extensions and tools for digital artists

Hello!

After a period of silence on the articles’ side of the blog, we are back! And this time with a new great list of PS extensions and tools that designers and painters will love!

1. Colour Constructor

Colour Constructor is a brilliant little program that helps you design colour and values in a very simple way. Especially for painters, this program demonstrates how colours, shadows, and lights of your choice interact on a 3D object.

Colour Constructor is a study and workflow tool that is designed to help you design the colours and values for a painting or image you are making according to a light source and ambient term.

Ahmed Aldoori made a test video of the program and you can watch it here.

2. Coolorus

Coolorus is an amazing colour weel plug-in made for Photoshop.

Coolorus is the right choice for creative people willing to improve their painting workflow. It saves time, and helps you choose better colors thanks to Color Schemes, Gamut Lock and the power of triangle HSV representation.

3. Chameleon Adaptive Palette

Chameleon Adaptive Palette is a flexible - and very pretty - palette panel designed for the love and happiness of concept artists and digital painters.

Chameleon Palette is a single panel that changes according to your needs. Each of the strips provides a different color function, but they all have the same principle.  They automatically and intelligently generate ranged colors swatches or palettes based on the one you just selected. From whatever source, canvas included.

4. Prisma Palette

Prisma Palette is a particular Photoshop plug-in that generates different colour palettes for areas in shadow and areas in light.

Prisma Palette generates individual gamut masks for any number of light sources; mapping exact local colours to lit colours within the colour space.

5. Lazy Nezumi

One of the most popular applications used by designers and digital artists, Lazy Nezumi lets you take control of your lines. This powerful Windows app helps artists draw smooth lines with different features and options, such as Position Smoothing, Pressure Processing, Scripting, a set of rulers, and more. 

Lazy Nezumi works with Photoshop and many other art programs, 2D and 3D. You can check the list of supported products here.

6. AD Brutus Symmetry

AD Brutus Symmetry is a Photoshop CC panel that helps artists work with almost realtime symmetry.

AD Brutus Symmetry uses Photoshop guides (vertical and horizontal) as Axis for the symmetry, but it’s not limited to guides, it also works with selections and for fastest use we can assign shorcuts to the main functions.

Note though that while Photoshop still doesn’t have any mirror painting tool, other softwares such as Corel Painter, Krita, and CLIP Studio Paint do.

7. BrushBox

There are many Photoshop extensions and panels that help artists organise their brushes in folders, but we’ve found that BrushBox really outshines them all. Though a bit pricey ($15), especially considering that similar products can be found on Gumroad for less or even for free, BrushBox can do everything and more when it comes to managing brushes. 

Like with a layer panel, artists can organise brushes and tool presets into groups, colour code them, search through presets by name and type, and much more.

Note that the brush preset panel in the new Photoshop CC 2018, however, has this same management feature.

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it’s depresso season and stars war is my comfort movie

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rose fall

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Close-up of the reference profile image that I did for the character meme for Geridin (tagged by @inquisitoramell)

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Was tagged by @inquisitoramell to write some shit about my Warden Geridin. He’s not an Amell like canon Hero of Ferelden, but this is due to me and Jess working with our Wardens together and her character being the Amell.

B A S I C S

Full name: Geridin Feravell

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Demisexual? Greysexual? (Really has only slept with one person so...)

Pronouns: He/him

O T H E R S

(Living) family: Son – Kieran.

Birthplace: Seleny, Antiva

Job: Warden-Commander of Ferelden

Phobias: Mild Taphophobia (fear of being buried alive/being trapped underground). Eventually develops a mild case of Trypophobia (fear of holes) over the years.

Guilty Pleasures: being a goddamned bird spying and eavesdropping

Hobbies: reading (non-fiction), travelling, practicing shapeshifting magic

M O R A L S

Morality alignment? Mostly Lawful Good

Sins: desire / despair / envy / fear / hunger / pride / rage / sloth

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

T H I S - O R - T H A T

Introvert/extrovert: introvert? Easily fits either category TBH so technically ambivert

Organized/disorganized: organized

Close-minded/open-minded: open-minded, more-so after wandering

Calm/anxious: calm

Disagreeable/agreeable: eeehhhhh…middle somewhat. ‘Tough-love’ kind of individual

Cautious/reckless: cautious

Patient/impatient: patient

Outspoken/reserved: reserved

Leader/follower: leader

Empathetic/unempathetic: in-between > leans more towards empathetic but less likely to empathize given his history

Optimistic/pessimistic: pessimistic but is more likely a realist – tends to hope for the best but prepares for the worst

Traditional/modern: modern surprisingly, has little faith in the Circle or Chantry and chooses to put his faith in action over tradition and custom

Hard-working/lazy: hard-working

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

OTP: Geridin/Morrigan

Acceptable Ships: …just Morrigan pls the man is actually not cool with any sort of relationship

OT3: Doesn’t really have one? His friends don’t really hang together for the most part.

BroTP: Geridin & Miriam (@inquisitoramell‘s warden/inquisitor oc), Geridin & Alistair, Geridin & Sten, Geridin & Justice

NOTP: Geridin/Anders (Geridin hasn’t liked Anders since their days in the Circle together and he’s never grown to like him since, and it’s gotten worse since DA2 upon finding out the whole Justice + Anders merge)

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doodled The Hunger/some hangry assholes over the weekend

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I thought of this at work one day and got really excited and had to make it!!  Between life and other projects, it took me a while to finish it (and yes, this is as finished as it’s getting), and my design for the IPRE robes changed halfway through…  But I’m still proud of how it turned out!! Big thanks to the Stream Team for getting me through this project, you guys are the best! ^O^/

On Youtube Boards Fandom: The Adventure Zone Program used: Toon Boom Studio 4.5

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I am a: ⚪️Man ⚪️Woman 🔘Non-Euclidean mass of eyes and tentacles Looking for: ⚪️Men ⚪️Women 🔘Library books

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Oh Billy, you look so small right there…

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14/5 - 20/5: A Small Catalog Of Very Reassuring Things

Here are four things that are very, very reassuring to find on land you’ve recently moved to. Definitely good signs.

1. Poorly concealed underground …. thing.

2. Small purple flowers twining around a skull. This species of flower does not seem to be present anywhere else on the property, and you’ve never seen it before. The skull is too large for a rabbit, too small for a deer.

3. Fallen signpost. No text remains.

4. T h e   d o o r

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Congrats to Clint, Carey, & The McElroy Brothers for making #1 NY Times Best Seller!!!

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The amazing concept art of Vance Kovacs for God of War

The Art of God of War

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Alistair