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Simple skin & accent tutorial!

I'm only familiar with making accents in CSP so some of the things you see here might be program specific, but for the most part it should be generally applicable.

Okay with that being said, here's a very basic tutorial, under a readmore because it got long (image heavy)

Assuming you already know roughly what you want to make and what breed pose you want to make it on, go to the custom skins page on the sidebar then download PSDs. For this step I'm choosing coatl F!

It should download automatically, the file will be compressed (zipped). I normally just open the folder and move the top file (without elements_friendly) to my accents folder to access it from my art program:

Open your preferred art program and open the file! It is a PSD file so it should be compatible with most art programs. When you open it, everything should look like this:

The layers probably look complicated, and it isn't super clear where you can and can't draw- but I promise it will get easier to understand! Before I even start drawing I do two things: I resize the image (changing the image resolution) to 700px by 700px. This means the image the resize better later on when I need to downscale it to 350px by 350px. Next, I make a new folder under both the existing folders with a single, full white layer in it. And set everything in "Through Skin Parts" to 50% opacity.

Lastly, put the bottom two folders completely out of your mind, we won't be touching them at all. The only folder that matters is "Through Accent Parts". As I'm drawing the accent itself, I make the lines and shadows layer invisible because they can just be distracting, like this:

That layer beneath both lines and shadows layers? The one labelled "Accent Goes Here"? That's where you draw, and you can make more layers to draw more on later. For now you can sketch your design on that layer. Here's my sketch for my skin Strawberry Pavlova:

It's pretty rough at the moment so I want to add another layer to draw my clean line art on, in CSP this means just adding another layer and turning off clipping which automatically applies as the layers above it have clipping turned on. When that's done it should look like this:

(You can absolutely use more layers for lining if that's what you prefer!)

Next is adding colour. An important thing to note for this step is to avoid using colours that are very close to black, and to avoid using black altogether. This is against skin and accent rules as you need lines and shadows to remain visible over your design, and very dark colours make this a lot harder!

When I typically colour my skins and accents I will separate out design elements (so for example all plants on one layer, all blue cloth into another layer, all jewellery on another, etc etc.) into different layers- this is purely to make recolouring easier and isn't necessary. In this case I didn't have my colours separated out as I had no intention of recolouring this skin! This is what this skin looked like when I was finished colouring:

Now I just need to do some final finishing polish on the design! For this one it involves adding a bit of pink transparent colour behind the strawberries, adding pale transparent colour under my lace and of course- adding sparkles! One of the final things I do is recolour my own line art to a red-pink colour (in this case I had it set to multiply as well- but this isn't needed!) this takes some of the harsh edges out of the accent and make the design feel more cohesive imo!

And the design is finished! The final step before we can submit this is a big one! We have to change the lines and shadows that we've been ignoring this whole time. For this I flatten all the art work into one layer, like this:

Why do we have to change the lines and shadows? Well...

The default shadows are pretty high opacity and very grey, they cover up my accent and make the details harder to see. And the default line art is black. You can edit these layers to make them much nicer. You can edit them manually- making sure to lock transparent pixels so you don't edit the coverage of the lines and shadows. Or you can do this: (You can ignore this next part if you're finding it overwhelming) Duplicate your accent design twice (so you have three layers with it on total), set both your lines and shadows layers to normal and unclip them. Your layers will look like this:

Ignore what the accent looks like for now. Next move the copied layers so one is above the lines and one is above the shadows, keeping only one in the original position. And then clip these duplicated accent layers to the layers directly beneath them, it will look like this:

Merge the accent copy layers with its corresponding lines or shadows layer, you should still have 3 separate layers when you're done: The lines, the shadows and your original accent design. Like this:

Then clip both of the lines and shadows onto your accent design layer and set both lines and shadows layers to multiply. Like this:

If you've done it all correctly your accent should now look like this:

This is a lot better than the default lines and shadows already! It's pretty dark in spots and my lines are definitely too light in other places though. So next I usually start by setting my shadows layer to 50% opacity and then going over both lines and shadows layers manually recolouring the lighter parts to a darker colour so they are visible on top of my final design. When you downscale your art to submit it, lines and shadows that were super obvious suddenly vanish- so don't be afraid to downscale it and keep editing the lines and shadows.

Here's what the final product, downscaled to 350 pixels, looks like:

This got accepted first try by skin mods (just in time for valentines!) Important things to note: places where my design is less opaque the lines and shadows are also less visible, this is completely fine! You don't have to fix this. Lines should always be visibly darker than the shadows they're on top of, this means sometimes they will have to be black to get them to show up or you may even have to make your accent underneath lighter to get everything to conform to the rules! Lastly, lines and shadows are subjective and you may end up getting rejected a few times before they're to skin mods liking. Its one of the harder parts of skin making and you won't always get it right.

Community feedback is your best friend, don't create in a vacuum! Go join discord servers where other people are making accents too, ask for help! Now go forth and make!

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Volume 3 is finally OUT! The theme this volume was focused on was the Trading Post. You can view and download it with this link here!

Special shoutout to having one of the applicants creating the cover for this volume as well! Thank you @tigercomplexes!

With this release, we will also sadly announce that this will be the final volume we will be working on. The two mods on this now have full time jobs and we couldn't give our full focus on this fun project. So we would like to thank our applicants and the FR fandom for giving us the opportunity to do THREE volumes of FR focused pages! <3

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My piece for @sornieth-zines !! This was my first time participating in a zine, it was so fun getting to see everyone else's pieces before they were finished! Thank you to the mods for organising everything :D link to zine >:)

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flight rising dot com 😩

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im fighting for my life in school irl rn but i did make up some animals today

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thank you everyone we did it

I have some hatchlings for a lore breeding project that aren't the right colors, so if you want to have a canon sibling to a seeliragh lore dragon, these guys are pwyw! each one will have a name suggestion in bio/an alternate scry that looks kinda nice. cr me and i'll even make up a little bit about them on the spot if you want

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you want a lore baby?? you can have one . for free. take these dudes out of my lair its making me kinda sad to think about exalting them

I have some hatchlings for a lore breeding project that aren't the right colors, so if you want to have a canon sibling to a seeliragh lore dragon, these guys are pwyw! each one will have a name suggestion in bio/an alternate scry that looks kinda nice. cr me and i'll even make up a little bit about them on the spot if you want

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HEEHEE thank you.. she's like a scoby for undead abominations

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🍓Biggest dragon in your lair (based on in-game sizes) and biggest dragon in your lair (based on lore sizes):

okay so um. i made a spreadsheet of all 96 current lore dragons in my lair and their lengths, wingspans and weights to answer this question because i wanted to know and ive had a lot of time on my hands these last few days. and it turns out, Niidria and Fiachte are completely massive at 30m long. Niidria has the longest wingspan too.

weirdly I think the canon sizes of all of my lore dragons fit pretty well with what I was imagining for them, but I think the largest in-lore is actually Scula, who's undead and fucked up and most of the way to becoming a one-dragon emperor all by herself. I think it'd be cool if she had like that huge and elongated darksouls boss thing going on.

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FR-Themed Ask Game

🍓Biggest dragon in your lair (based on in-game sizes) and biggest dragon in your lair (based on lore sizes)

🍌Three headcanons about how magic works in your lore

🍊A dragon you like based on looks

🍇A dragon you like based on personality

🍑Show off an expensive regening project

🍐Feathers, fur/fluff, manes: your Opinion

🍎Show off a Special-eyed dragon

🍏A weird name of one of your saved searches

🥭Share a snippet (3-5 sentences / 1 paragraph) of lore you wrote and give us the author's notes/director's commentary!

🍍Favorite (& second favorite, etc) Elemental Festival and your reasons why

🍌A dragon + their theme song

🍋A dragon you regret exalting

🍉Favorite dragon breed to draw

🍈A dragon you hate (/pos) based on personality/lore

🍒Show off a fodder rescue

🥕Your strategy for grinding (Glim&Gloom, coli, etc)

🥑How many Scattersights are in your Hoard/Vault right now?

🍅How many familiars have you Discovered?

🥝Show off your random Progen!

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🍅🍊!!

🍊A dragon you like based on looks:

Salfarix! I got him as fodder because I thought his colors were just so pretty.

🍅How many familiars have you Discovered?

I will be honest with you . I've been on this website for like 9 years now and I have.. not been diligent with my bestiary. I think I've got about 670 to go. I only get the ones I want for lore reasons!! it's not my fault!!

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i should make one of those gigantic crazy relationship charts for all the seeliragh verse characters. im afraid it would get way way too chaotic and unreadable too fast though

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🍓

🍓Biggest dragon in your lair (based on in-game sizes) and biggest dragon in your lair (based on lore sizes):

okay so um. i made a spreadsheet of all 96 current lore dragons in my lair and their lengths, wingspans and weights to answer this question because i wanted to know and ive had a lot of time on my hands these last few days. and it turns out, Niidria and Fiachte are completely massive at 30m long. Niidria has the longest wingspan too.

weirdly I think the canon sizes of all of my lore dragons fit pretty well with what I was imagining for them, but I think the largest in-lore is actually Scula, who's undead and fucked up and most of the way to becoming a one-dragon emperor all by herself. I think it'd be cool if she had like that huge and elongated darksouls boss thing going on.

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still sick here are some of my all time favorite scries that i wish were real

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Inescapable Rain

Antique || Phthalo || Overcast

Chrysocolla || Flair || Koi

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your brown range ringlets spiral is the most beautiful dragon in the world btw

AW thank you heehee!! he's auburn/white xxy if you would like one of your very own

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it can be difficult to work with but when it DOES work ohh boy

Can people reblog and show me their dragons with ringlets? It’s a gene I’ve always hated but I NEED to be shown it can work.

Reblog with ringlet dragons plz

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hi everyone im massively sick with the flu so im doing. this