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THE POWER FLICKERED THREE TIMES

IF WE LOSE POWER I’M QUITTING

JUST GIVE ME 20 FUCKIN MINUTES FOR MY CHICKEN NUGGETS TO COOK PLEASE

please

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✨MINI ART TUTORIAL✨

A couple people asked how I make these sorts of golden/colorful patterns

on artworks like these:

I work in Photoshop so my advice might be PS-specific in places, but I am 100% sure you can do at least the first 2 in other programs as well.

There's a couple methods I use depending on what effect I'm after:

1. Just Painting:

sometimes I just paint them by hand. I like to use brushes that have visible texture for this and use the dissolve brush mode (it creates a speckled/grainy effect).

To achieve color variation between the dots easily, I recommend enabling Color Dynamics for your brush of choice and unchecking Apply Per Tip - this makes it so color dynamics only change the color of the brush tip once you finish a stroke and lift your pen. It's super easy to paint a bunch of varied dots this way :D

2. Custom Brushes:

If I know I use a certain pattern/shape a lot I'll just make a custom brush in that shape, like so:

To achieve this look you just have to make shape that will be the tip of the brush, make it into a brush in your specific software and then increase the spacing in brush settings to your liking.

Making brushes in PS is super easy, you can find a million tutorials for it - or follow my ancient one here haha -> https://www.tumblr.com/zuzartii/179635817705/some-photoshop-tips

For extra juicy effects you can layer textures on top of your layer with the brush pattern, and try out different layer effects.

This one for example is a gold texture clipped to my dots layer, with the dots layer itself set to Lighter Color

3. Shapes + Patterns

(This might be just Photoshop specific, I'm not sure)

Another fun option is to play with the Shape and Pattern options in Photoshop. Create a Shape from the available options (I use this a lot for circles), and then choose a pattern from your library for the Stroke option and adjust the scale/angle. Patterns are just as easy as brushes to create, so this option is really handy :D

If your software doesn't have Shapes, you can achieve the same effect just by drawing/making a circle and clipping a texture of your choice to it. You won't be able to adjust the circle size/thickness as easily as with a shape, but it's an easy workaround.

4. Paths and custom brushes

This is my fave option for many of these patterns :D

It's very similiar to number 3, but instead of a Shape you create a Path. Paths are vector-based outlines and aren't part of the image untill you use them to create a shape or drawing. Paths don't come with an instant fill/stroke option like Shapes do, but you can use your brushes on them by using the Stroke Path command.

You can easily ctrl z the stroke and retry it with a different brush or a differently sized one. You can also check or uncheck the "Simulate pressure" option, which will give you different results:

I use this aaaaalllll the time for trying out different patterns on my illustrations (especially all the circles everywhere, since this way I can make the brushes bigger/smaller depending on the circle placement).

I also often mix and match between all the options I mentioned. I will typically slap on some extra texture + paint in extra bits by hand on my created shapes to achieve that more traditional look

That's the most of it, I hope it's helpful to the ppl who asked :DD

If anyone wants to know anything else/explain smth better let me know in the comments!

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gave xier a ref. worlds worst dragonborn

some other quick doodles of him

hes also on art fight (i want to draw some other ppls tes ocs this year regardless also so shouting out my af page). main fit cred also

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another xier doodle he has priorities

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Art Fight attack for @jckpot :]

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my friend got me to finally start playing bg3 this is skuttle

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Good hiding spot

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The gods really said fuck this one khajiit family in particular

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Are dragons really capable of love?

Ko-Fi

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Been away on a short holiday but here's a lil WIP of mine and my brothers eso characters.

"Scelyth and Fin the lizard"

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Nevar, argonian mage 🔥

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I’m not dead!! Just in grad school!! Please accept this sketch of my Ayleid tank from ESO as an apology for a very long absence. His name is Myndilon, and his one brain cell convinced him it was a good idea to steal from Meridia. 

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Bellos outfit refs this time, just Menanok's to do and i'll have all my Ocs ready for Artfight.

Think I'm just gonna keep making oc refs to have a few more options because what I thought was gonna take a month ended up taking only two days 🧍

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Menanok refs done for art fight aauuguhgh. His Creed Master outfit (middle) took 9 hours. Suffering. But! The way I drew it means I get to take his crest off for his wardrobe on toyhouse here Also my Artfight account

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How does Dippy remain active in Skyrim with such, well, relatively minimal attire? My egg-brother "Three-Eyes" lives up in Whiterun and has to wear at least three layers of clothing whenever he goes outside during the colder months or else he starts hibernating, but Dippy is running around baring his midriff like it's Summertime in Lilmoth. What's his secret?

well apart from the fact that this is a scarf, it also happens to be enchanted

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Our dnd party for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, but every member is already gray-haired and broken Fareela (@gvardi-l), Riztel (@mrachniy) Rakhee (@/Pale_Naga), Halros (my disaster)

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Can the Dragonborns stop turning into dragons for TWO SECONDS