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considering taking up writhing as a hobby

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crazy that my body and mind are out to get me. bro you are me!!

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Daddy wants pills

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this was so comprehensive and informative!! thank you so much!! you really peaked my interest in mixed media ::::D

I'm genuinely so fascinated with your art! it's got an interesting texture if that makes sense.

I remember on Instagram you saying digital touch ups/mixed media but I have such a hard time telling what's digital and what's traditional because it all gels together so well!

if you've ever made a post about your general process that I've missed, I'd love to see it!

anyway thanks for the transformers content, it's feeding my family out four rn

Awh omg thank you so much ! Yes, I've been doing a lot of mixed media lately and I'm glad people think my mixed media art looks seamless ! I'll take you on a journey down my mixed media process ! More below the cut !

I start out traditionally ! I sketched this piece with a colored pencil and went over it with a very thin fine point sharpie (I don't have microns </3) When I'm done I take the picture on my iPad, depending on the room lighting or time of day results vary, but it doesn't really matter how bad the lighting is as long as the lines look crisp.

Then I crank the hell out of the exposure and play around with the photo settings, lighting things up until it looks like this

I don't have exact specific settings for this since it varies depending on how bad the lighting I started with was so I just play around until it looks relatively good. I'm going for bright background with no shadows and crisp lines. Then I pop it into procreate !

First order of business after importing, new layer, color pick the background, fill the layer with the background color, then put the blend mode on divide ! This will get rid of the yellow lighting.

I use Procreate's halftone feature to apply it to my lineart before I color, it just gives it a fun effect.

For coloring, I go on a new layer and put that blend mode on multiply, this lets me color within the lineart, I block out my shapes (usually characters) in one solid color and then as I continue to color I just add layers and clip them together.

Here's a speedpaint for this piece, audio warning for music and flashing warning, especially at the end when I play around with blend modes + gradient maps

The brush I use for drawing over my lineart is Procreate's default gel pen, I slightly adjusted it so that it has a rougher look that blends in with the traditional lineart (the only thing I changed is the jitter amount)

Other brushes I used include; Abbie Nurse's Pan-Dem-Ink's Brushset (Skadouche and Blotto) for my onomatopoeias + blood, paper textures are from one of thedawner's procreate brush packs (I believe volume 3 or it might have been the mixed texture pack, the brushes are just called paper tex 4 and paper tex 5), 1 also use true grit supply's procreate texture bundle a ton for the ink splatter look next to some of the lines as well as the blood (drrty detail 4 + grunge shader - detailed)

For paper textures, I kinda layer them on and play with the opacity to give the piece an almost withered or worn out effect

When I'm done with the piece I slap more halftone on it and play around with the opacity until I'm happy

That's essentially it ! My process is mostly lost of experimenting and playing around until you find that sweet balance

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I saw you again in a dream, or maybe it was a nightmare

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the alien force trio is iconic cause here you have two cousins who could just ascend to godhood whenever they want and almost actively have to choose not to in order to retain their sense of humanity and then you have guy who can turn into wood sometimes :)

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at least I've been studying 😔

does anyone know if we have chronic pain tomorrow

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suburban town where no one lives there but you and all the stop signs say "start" instead

is that anything?

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wait I thought we had it today??

does anyone know if we have chronic pain tomorrow

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Oh my god I finished (not really I gave up on the rendering) a half decent art piece?

Yes I wholeheartedly believe Adaine is paranoid enough to keep the sword of sight under her pillow girl has been kidnapped like twice and has a frog blanket

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Why do you use It/Its pronouns...

i got tagged in elementary school and never recovered

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new oc. king of the elves that's been alive since the beginning of time and has magic dementia that leaks out his brain

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their polyamorous swag

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i love when ppl draw elias bouchard wearing like anachronistic ass emerald green waistcoats and a monocle in their fanart bc it makes s1 so much funnier to think about. like you know what? yeah actually if i was jonathan sims and my fucking freak of a boss dressed like that and did an evil monologue voice at all times and paid me to read ghost stories in his basement all day, i would also probably be like "yeah this is a deeply unserious job and i am the only normal person here. sick paycheck tho" and then clock the fuck out without ever thinking about those fuckass statements again!! like what are we dunking on him for!! who would chalk that up to anything other than "my weirdass boss has clearly taken his eccentric edwardian magician LARP too far but goddamn if that check doesn't come in every month"

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Android ship of Theseus.

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they get a lot of flack for how dumb their plan is but tbh I get it. the sea is a horrifying expanse and sometimes it touches the sky in such a way that makes you feel like less than an ant and I don't fuck with that.

team magma was into something and I think we should abolish the sky too tbh