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HATE THIS GUY!!!! UNhappy birthday fuck you!!!!!!!!!!

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to better listen for luffy getting eaten by wildlife

miqo'te ace comm from @where-does-the-heart-lie!! + a few doodles of my own w elezen sabo

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miqo'te ace comm from @where-does-the-heart-lie!! + a few doodles of my own w elezen sabo

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el wanpiss

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axl adventure 2

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el wanpiss

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happy birthday

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truly

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GPose Tips: Portrait Photography

Let's put our Warriors of Light front and center by borrowing some IRL photograph techniques, and adapting them to gpose!

From Wikipedia: "Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses."

Given the nature of this theme, we'll be relying heavily on facial expressions. If you want to learn more about how to use the gpose tools for that, check out this guide on Facial Expressions.

Subject Focus

While backgrounds can help tell the tale, we want minimal distractions.

We can do this by choosing neutral backgrounds or negating a rich background by diffusing it.

We can also draw attention to the subject by creating strong contrast zones that detach the focus from the background. In this example, the soft blue and the medium yellow sources contribute to the contrast with rim light zones:

Being the focus of portrait shots, the subject's expression is front and center. And no element brings more attention than the eyes:

Three-Point Lighting

We'll touch on the concept to explain one of the most commonly used composition setups. We'll use the three Point Lights available under Lighting Settings.

Key Light: gives shape to and emphasizes features;

Fill Light: placed opposite the key light, creates a counterpart to it;

Back Light: helps delineate hair and headpieces.

Keep in mind that the Three-Point Lighting setup is not a mandatory rule. Feel free to play around with placement and intensity; I often use the 3 Point Lights to enhance environmental light sources, for example:

Butterfly Lighting

Another option I often use is the Butterfly setup. With two light sources (a key light placed top-front, and a fill light placed bottom-front) it creates a very clear delineation with sharp features.

Slight variations in camera angle can bring completely different shadow areas and focus; give it a try, and you may land in unexpectedly nice shots:

With these hints in mind, let's pick some compositions apart!

This one, for example - Strong DoF negates details, and environmental light gives emphasis to the character's face:

DoF again, with two layers of diffusion (the bookshelf and the background), with environmental light providing contrast zones:

Did I mention DoF? Yes, let's use some strong DoF to detach the character, and enhanced natural light to pop the features.

By now you may have noticed that I use these tips a lot: for example, most of my 'poster' and Eorzea Collection shots rely heavily on these tips.

Give it a try, and share your results!

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yo this chao looks kinda weird

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casually v v indulgent question but what ffxiv jobs do you think the mp100+brba/bcs characters would have and why

genuinely hilarious that you’d come to me for this. because i drew these back in like, february and never posted them

^note the time stamp

now that i’m better versed i would specify that serizawa’s progression went pld-> drk. And also that teru being blu might be both funnier and more real

anyways my roommate and i had a dumb bit about mob being like the greatest black mage to ever live but wanting to learn white mage instead. reigen knows like. cure ii at best but that’s not going to stop him.

as for brbabcs my every past attempt to class them has slipped right through my fingers no matter how much i try to believe it’s just for the bit. mcwexler is a toxic tank/healer bunnygirl/normalguy couple though. kim would make an excellent paladin and this is why i firmly believe xiv NEEDS an evil-coded healer job so i can do stupid jokes like this. if he’s also whm like reigen though that’s hilarious. typecasting.

but here’s which characters would be catboys: jesse. lalo. and i guess by extension all the salamancas because that’s how genetics work.

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tenth sun of the third astral moon 🧹

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yeah let the illiterate guy join the math guild he’ll do fine

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full comic for those bottom two panels lol

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