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“That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song.” William Butler Yeats

No country for old men (2007) directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

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The Queen Anne’s Revenge.

The Black Pearl.

The Dying Gull.

The Black Dog.

The Ruddy Rose.

The Red Dragon.

Jeremy Love

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The Silent Mary.

Jeremy Love

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FX & CGI created for POTC 5.

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Looks like Jack didn’t get the Black Pearl back

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doom doodle after I watch POTC this evening… I was fangirling too much for young Jack Sparrow!!

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jack sparrow, will turner, and elizabeth swann (2003-2017)

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young Capt. Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

still can’t move on from this movie…especially this scene

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Jack:

1. -Captain, how are the negotiations going?    -Fascinating. 2. -Captain, why do You have the whole mouth in the…    -Mr Gibbs! What nonsense are You talking about?!    -But… 3.-Mumble!! 4.-Oh! You just look at this! A ship on the horizon! 5.-…This “Silent Mary”. You just went from there.   - I urgently need to go to the bridge!

Salazar:

1. -Captain!    -Mm?    -How are the negotiations going?    -Better than expected. 2. -Your epaulette!    -Oh. Well, suit old. 3.-But he is torn…   -Wait. 4.-This pirate seeking for something again! 5.-But captain!   -Later, Lesaro.

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Get To Know Me Meme: Favorite Villains ↳ Captain Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Pirates had infected the seas for generations. So I vowed to eliminate them all. But then…there was this boy. Jack Sparrow. He took everything from me. And filled me with…rage.

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ZoSan for coloring practice

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Fun fact: in the French Digimon dub, Palmon is voiced by Satan.

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yay finally winter break here^v^

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...!!!!

☠  O N E   P I E C E  (ワンピース)  fancast

luke pasqualino / nicolas duvauchelle / cintia dicker / robert sheehan / joe anderson / felicity jones / rick genest aka zombie man (to find one for chopper is quite impossible… same for franky :P)

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Beating Brush Lag in Manga Studio

Booooooooo… what is this, Photoshop?!

Lagging brushes are an occasional problem in any illustration software. Here’s a troubleshooting guide for Manga Studio if your tools are acting like molasses. (Some settings may be different on Windows or if you’re running the Clip Studio Paint branding of the software. For what it’s worth, I’m running Manga Studio 5.0.3 on Mac OS 10.7.5. Yup, I’m behind the times.) 

There are a few options to beat the lag: 

1. Quit Stuff Bye bye, YouTube. See ya, Skype. Later, Tumblr.

Save your computer’s processor by quitting RAM-hogging apps and tasks while painting. Streaming audio/video will drastically reduce performance, but even leaving browsers open can slow things down, so best to just close it up. Guess that rules out Spotify, but then there’s always ye olde Zune. Gotta love cringing through those high school playlists while working.

2. Change Preferences Easier than changing your mind, and quicker too.

Check under the hood of Manga Studio’s Preferences for a few speed boosts. Do the following in these sub menus:

Preferences/Tablet/Tablet Settings: Change from 1 to 6 (I believe this option is Mac only).

Preferences/Performance/Undo: Lower the Undo count. Try taking it down 10-15 notches from default. You could also turn up that long-titled setting (“Delay before recognizing new object…”) by 100 ms, but I haven’t figured out what that does exactly…

Preferences/Cursor/Display Position of Reversed Cursor: Make sure to check “No Delay”.

After changing preferences, it’s a good idea to close and reopen Manga Studio.

3. Modify Brush Tool Settings Your brushes may take it personally, but remember you’re in charge here.

The Tool Settings window is a wealth of options for customizing brushes. Some are more processor-intensive than others. Here are a few of the best ones to modify: (Note: the look and behavior of brushes may be affected. You may want to duplicate and/or export a brush before changing its settings.)

Tool Settings/Anti-Aliasing: Turn down to “Little” or “None”

Tool Settings/Brush Tip: Reduce the number of materials on your brush.

Tool Settings/Stroke/Space: Increase spacing, but not too much. Brushes are essentially a string of material stamps. A low space setting means a smoother brush, but more work for your computer. Picture it frantically scrubbing a rubber stamp across your canvas. On that note, also make sure Continuous Spraying is not on.

Tool Settings/Watercolor Border: If your brush uses this setting, turn on the “Process After Drag” option. This renders the effect after each brush stroke and saves computing power.

Tool Settings/Correction: Turn off (or decrease) Stabilization, Post Correction, and Brush Stroke.

Tool Settings/Starting and Ending: Turn off all this stuff. Pfffft, who needs it, right?

Here’s a speed test after fiddling with some settings:

 Woooooooo! We’re getting faster! Still a bit laggy, which leads to one last tip:

4. Rework The Canvas Might as well rework my life goals too.

Okay, disclosure: The two gifs in this post were recorded on a 4500x3000 canvas at 300dpi with a size 500 brush to emphasize lag. This third one is recorded on a 1080x720 canvas at 72dpi with a size 100 brush:

Yes! We’re cruising now! 

Canvas sizing and resolution has a big affect on brush performance. It’s a bit of a conundrum. Getting the best image quality means working at a minimum resolution of 300dpi, which can be taxing for brushes on large canvases. So what to do? Just like traditional paintings start with thumbnail sketches, digital work can start on a low-resolution canvas. Here’s the method:

Set up your canvas normally at the full target resolution. But before drawing anything on the canvas, use the handy tool under Edit/Change Image Resolution. Reduce Resolution to 72dpi. Use this smaller canvas for rough sketching, background filling, blocking in large areas of color, etc. Then increase resolution to 144dpi for building up the body of the painting, still keeping it loose. (I’d recommend switching Interpolate to Hard Outline when increasing resolution.) Finally, blow it up to full resolution and get into the nitty gritty of rendering. This is where you’ll do the crisp line work, highlights, details, etc.

The idea here is to work big to small. This will keep away brush lag by using large brushes on small canvases. As the canvas resolution increases, decrease brush size and work smaller, tightening things up in the process. NOTE: Increasing canvas resolution causes pixilation. Don’t worry about it. This can be cleaned up in the final stages of painting.

Hope this guide is helpful! If lagging persists, remember to check drivers and tablet settings as well. If all else fails, Google’s a good friend ;)

-Armin

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