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In the event that my account is deleted

since I have an NSFW sideblog

it’s been real y’all, goodnight and I love you

if you want to view the madness of the blog before it goes go ahead but it’s pretty nasty lol

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Not sure about making a Newgrounds account yet. I just wanted an excuse to draw some TankMen

Anyways! I don’t think anything will happen to this blog. I’ve tried to keep it rather safe, but you never know! If nothing happens I’ll keep posting like normal. But if it gets deleted you can find me at

 https://twitter.com/HernyEd  For regular art. 

 https://twitter.com/Somewhatlewdart For the naughty stuff

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NSFW Tumblr Blogs: We tag our stuff as NSFW so people who don’t want to see it won’t see it because of the safety filter

Tumblr: We’re banning all the NSFW stuff thanks for tagging it

Porn Bots, who never tag anything: (:

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“A young man stands at the edge of a cliff, carefree, as he sets out on a new adventure”

Zeke, my Aarakocra Rogue as The Fool card

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Daily Art 159, the finished versions of a couple of the monster WIPs ive been posting! #dailyart #myart #monster #monsters #werewolf #anthro #ghoul #zombie https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqq7ySjH-Lu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19frc0h06500u

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Daily Art 150, my Destiny 2 Hunter! The game has its problems, but I’d be lying if I said I don’t enjoy the gameplay flow that I get into playing it #dailyart #myart #penart #destiny2 #destiny #destinyhunter https://www.instagram.com/p/BqUKyVAHKHx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=barn90mo874

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“Some of those Jackrabbit upgrades worry me. I think some of those guys would prefer to never take their helmet off, stay on duty a hundred percent of the time. Run and fight until there’s no steam left.” Daily Art 141, Jackrabbit! Been a while since I visited these guys and this setting, still love ‘em! #dailyart #myart #pencilart #sketch #classdoodles #cyborg #jackrabbit #rabbit #bunny #runner #cybernetics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp8vR1NHrhT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=49o0knrm817c

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RIOT makes some good dubstep and Overkill is good Also idk maybe I’m feeling a lil rage-y today Daily Art 140 #dailyart #myart #pencilsketch #riot #overkill #monstercat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3skdpnuvh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fc13j1mny9vx

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Character Design Tips

Some people have asked how I went about drawing the Overwatch cast, so I threw together a list of things I think about when designing characters: shapes, silhouettes, colors, and inspiration.

1. Shapes

There are three basic shapes in my toolbox: round, box, and triangle. If I follow my intuition, each shape conveys a personality. For example:

Round = charismatic, harmless, endearing

Box = reliable, uniform, traditional

Triangle = cunning, dynamic, competent (downward pointing more aggressive)

Shapes can also be combined for more complex characters

2. Silhouettes

Block in the character. If I can still recognize who it is, then it has a strong, readable silhouette.

3. Color

Sometimes less is more. Limit the palette for unity and impact. When working with three colors, keep the 60-30-10 rule in mind. Pick one color to make up about 60% of the character, a second color to make up about 30%, and the last color is about 10%.

When working with just two colors, use the 70-30 rule. One color is about 70%, the second is about 30%.

4. Inspiration

Designs come to mind easier when I’m listening to music, or when I have a mental image of something in mind. For example, I was listening to Klezmer music when drawing Reaper, and I was thinking of a chicken when I was drawing Lucio. It can take a while to warm up, so a good source of inspiration is important to stay motivated.

Beyond that, it’s up to you! 

[If you want to see the specific artists I drew influence from, click here to see my influence map.]

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I’d love to believe this headcanon and honestly I’d much rather have Saurfang come back and get her to understand things from his point of view with her remaining as Warchief but actually listening to the other leaders (like Baine) but from reading the lead up book Before The Storm she seems to view everything through the game of power lens (acquire power, hold power, keep others from power,) and how she can control things as much as possible in order to continue the survival of the Forsaken, which isn’t a bad goal by itself, but it becomes bad when that goal makes her end-game objective “plague bomb Stormwind until everyone in it is a new Forsaken”

and admittedly, I’m saying this from an Alliance perspective. But it really does seem unbalanced even from that perspective for the Horde to go through three different Warchiefs so quickly only to have the implication be that Sylvanas is about to go full Lich-Queen and she’ll be BFA’s final boss like Garrosh was for MoP. I really hope it doesn’t go that way 

You will drag cold and calculating but empathetic and caring Sylvanas from my dead hands.

YOU WILL DRAG EMOTION FEELING SYLVANAS FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

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“Home! Where everyone knows my name And my mom’s name And my dad’s name! And that time I put a kid in the hospital” Daily Art 138, Human Mae! Night in the Woods is an excellent game. It invokes this very weird sad nostalgia and is just an all-around treat with gorgeous color design, awesome music, great dialogue and truly unsettling spooks #nightinthewoods #nitw #mae #maeborowski #myart #dailyart #videogameart #gameart #greggrulzok https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyOgRiHVr9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uokf2o2w3lm0

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Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

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Drew My Aarakocra boy Zeke but in a modern outfit, there’s a flight jacket in Fallout 4 that I want IRL so badly #myart #pencilart #sketch #classdoodle #aarakocra #dnd #avian #secretarybird https://www.instagram.com/p/BptbE-qHadj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mrjrfr7iacxd

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Daily Art 136, Hipster Beard Dude I kind of want my hair to be this color #dailyart #myart #gelpens #beard #noshavenovember https://www.instagram.com/p/Bptawxsnj4m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t8lobc45b40y

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31 Days of Inktober! My most successful go at this undertaking so far. I look forward to doing it again next year! #inktober #inktober2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpoF0vXnOdn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=illzxt1vrtsg

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Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

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I ghost wrote this