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[superscourge]

hey!! I really really like your art, you have such insane skill and literally every piece is awesome 😭

if you’re comfortable, can you do some sort of shading tutorial? I struggle with good colouring/rendering and I really want to learn from a professional. art is what I seek to do as a profession when I’m older, and even if my artwork isn’t that good now, I wanna learn as much as I can while I’m still young!!

Sorry if this is weird or awkward, I don’t wanna force you to do a tutorial or anything, but I just wanted to drop by anyways to say I’m a big fan and think your art looks peak!! hope I can get that good someday ;-;

first of all, THANK U SOOOO MUCH IT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME FOR U TO SAY THIS !! ;v; <33 and no worries--its not weird or awkward!! i love to help and share my tips and tricks and processes with other artists!

second, so sorry this took so long...! i had to find time and energy to make this, but i finally was able to get around to it! hopefully it makes sense..

i wish u super luck with art going forward!!! if i can do it so can you <3

also if you see a typo no you dont.

[lalasimmer]

Went ahead and updated my tutorial because I've been getting more questions lately than usual and my old tutorial used Maya. I'm glad so many people are trying to learn to convert! I hope this helps answer any questions. I'm also here to answer all questions as always 💗

@nakiri88 @simbianstudios @ghouzlss

[lonarlamb-comics]

Hi, sorry to bother ya, but is it alright if ya could give a tutorial on how to draw hands in different angles and positions? I love how you draw them. Hell, I love your art IN GENERAL.

AW, thank you and no, you do not bother me❤️

WELL OKAY. I AM NOT A GOOD TEACHER BUT I WILL TRY TO MAKE A LITTLE, MODEST TUTORIAL

(click for better quality. Worth it)

Focus on drawing the base of the hand, then (avoiding drawing the entire fingers) draw the tips of the fingers in the shape of scales in the specific place where you want the fingers to end. Then you can play connect the dots and work on the outline of the entire hand drawing :3

I apologize if these tips sound a bit basic or lacking in detail. However, I may draw more types of hands in the future and use more detailed language to help you learn to draw.

If you help me increase my reach and it turns out that I am actually helping someone, I will feel more confident to continue this type of tutorials❤️

[cheapshrimpysheep]

How I make my Covers and Dividers

Hi.👋 So, the idea to make these posts came about because @cat1705 asked me in private how I made my dividers and that made me wonder if other people would be interested in knowing how I made my covers and dividers. I made a poll and a lot of people were interested in knowing how I made them.

I make them in Canva, so anyone can make them, but I would like this to be more of a help for you to create your own and not for you to do exactly like me. Even though I'm always playing around with the font and the way I place the images, I have a guiding line, so to speak, and that's what I'm going to try to show you.

👉COVERS

Well, first things first, apparently I use the dimensions of an Etsy cover photo template. I just chose it because the dimensions looked good. Choose any one and delete all the elements in it until you have only the white background.

To make covers with several characters I use these frames that serve to drag the image inside and adjust it within the defined limits.

I always use only official images from the game so as not to steal anyone's fanart. I usually get the images from the wikis.

You can also upload the image by just dragging it.

To make sure the title won't cover the characters' faces, I put some temporary text on top to adjust the images.

After uploading the image, drag it to the correct frame and drop it.

To adjust the image, double-click, enlarge, rotate, reduce and move it as you wish. When you think it is ready, click outside the image or press the enter key.

When the image is ready, I remove the text and download the image with the characters.

To download, click the button in the top right corner that says "Share". Then click on "Download", the first button on the last line. It should already be in PNG format, so you won't need to change it.

Attention: If you have more than one page: in "Select pages" choose the option "Current page", click “Done” and only then click on "Download". Otherwise, you will download ALL the pages you have and not the specific one you want.

On another page I usually have a gradient background and a little frame. I make the gradient by clicking on "Background color" and in "add a new color" there is the option "Gradient". I don't remember where I got the frame I use, but you can look for some free ones in "Elements".

Use the colors that you think look best, I usually put the light color in the center and the dark color at the ends. For this example I will use white and a golden yellow.

Then, I upload the previous character image and make it 50% transparent. On top of the white frame too (It's just my thing, I don't have a reason to do it, I just think it looks good)

Then I'll put the title. I usually use the "Chewy" font. The font size depends on the size of the title I decided to give it, but it's usually around 80/90. And I add the Effect: "Neon"

To finish, I look for some images in "Elements" to decorate a little more. Searching for "line art" is usually a good tip.

When you're ready, download the image and you're done.

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👉CHARACTER DIVIDERS

The dividers follow a similar pattern to the covers to match. Create a new page with the same background color gradient.

For the background, I use game backgrounds that match the theme of the fic. For this example, I'm going to make a generic Riddle divider with an image of his room with transparency at 50%.

Then I reduce the height of the image until it is half the height of the canva and place it in the center. Remembering that you can adjust the image by double clicking.

I keep the color of the ends the same, but I adjust the color of the center to the color of the dorm to which the character belongs. In this case, red from Heartslabyul. But I will leave an image with the colors I use for each room, taken from the colors of their personal icons.

For the character name, copy and paste the title, as the font and effect is the same, and adjust to the size of the divider.

And also change the color of the letters to the dorm color.

Then I upload the png image of the character's chibi that can be found on the wikis. In this case I'll use the chibi with Riddle's dorm uniform.

I crop the image to help me orient myself better, but you don't need to do that.

Then I upload the character's personal icon, also found on wikis, adjust the size and set the transparency to 60%.

To finish, I download the image and crop the top and bottom in Paint.

Yes... in Paint... it works ok, shut up!

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👉LINE DIVIDERS

Finally, for the line dividers, you can copy the Cover because the background colors are the same and erase everything except the image with 50% transparency.

Then I cut it in half, like in the character divider, and again in half to make it thinner, and I place it in the middle of the canvas. (These measures may not be exactly the same as the ones I use today, but the logic in the beginning was this.)

I replace the image with one that seems to fit the theme of the fic. You can do this by dragging it. I usually use game backgrounds, but when none of them seem to look good I look for images from Canva, in "Elements"

That's what I'm going to do to show you. In Elements, write what you want to search for, I'll simply write "background" and choose one of the images without the crown icon (this icon means it's a paid image).

I'll choose any one.

Then I upload the personal icons of the characters that are the focus of the fic. For this example it's the overblot students (because they're my favorite)

Drag them in, place them in a line and adjust the size to that of the line. You can do this one at a time or all at once by selecting them all.

When it's just one character I put one icon upright and the one on the side upside down.

To repeat the pattern, select all of them, copy, paste, and drag until the new set is next to the first. Repeat until the entire line is filled.

Then select all the icons again and set their transparency to 50%.

And finally, download the image and crop the top and bottom parts in Paint. Or wherever you want.

Aaand... I think that's it.

If there's anything you'd like me to explain better, you can ask in the comments. I hope you enjoyed it and that it can help you if you create your own covers and dividers.😘

[sofayya]

in case this can help anyone trying to learn how to decimate when converting sims 4 cc to the sims 3 ❤

[anyrava]

I made a detailed rock painting guide (Includes some rendering basics too!)

You can find more tutorials on my Ko-Fi Shop if you've found this helpful! 🫶🍃

[batbaffle]

the people have requested a tutorial:

just need three key things for this

1. an art/photo editing application with selection tools. use whatever youre most comfortable with. the glitter police wont go after you for using ibispaint or whatever.

2. a glitter texture. you can download an image, or make the texture yourself. for example, this other tutorial uses the noise tool.

3. a gif maker. can use an online gif generator or an animation application. look up gif maker options if you dont already have one.

i'll give a little demonstration of my process so you guys can get the gist. i dont expect anyone to do the exact same things as me tho.

first i select the area i want to glitterfy, and make 3 copies of it

the key thing here is to shift the placement of the glitter on each layer so they arent identical! otherwise the gif will just look like a still image.

then i clip my glitter texture (a stock photo in this case) to each layer. i mess around with the layer modes until one of them looks good (overlay and luminosity are my usual picks).

alternatively i would just use the paintshop pro noise tool to give each layer a glitter texture, like in the guide i linked above

next i like to export my transparent layers and the base image into paintshop pro so i can use the sparkle plugin to make it extra sparkly, following this other tutorial.

you can skip this step entirely or use a different method to add sparkle! i am a weirdo for doing it this way, you dont need to copy me! a custom brush or hand-placed sparkles will definitely suffice.

once i have everything as sparkly as i want it, i merge each glitter layer with a copy of the base image layer, and then save each as a separate image file. i title them something like [name]A, [name]B, and [name]C for clarity.

to finish, i upload the images as frames of a gif, and set it to display each frame for 8-10 hundredths of a second. i like using jasc animation shop as my gif maker.

aaaaand that's it! not very hard if you already have basic editing skills.

guess who just learned how to make glitter gifs. THIS GUY

[improvewithtutorials]

MOAR Dragon Tutorials

I found out the artist that I shared a tutorial yesterday has more on the same topic. As I do not want to use several days on the same topic and artist, I decided to put all the links in one post. Enjoy:

[doppel-doodles]

How to draw: A skeleton skull

Made this for a friend on discord, it was funnier in my head

[tabacore]

Oooh cool! Thank you for this! :D

Can you do a small tutorial of how you color in the style of tbhk? the colors are so good! it look almost as if Aida made it.

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Thank you, ofc I can!

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[never-obsolete]

Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

[nikoco11]

my recipe for drawing hands!

(small note that this is a shortcut that is more abt style and ease than anatomical accuracy. it helps to take time to really properly study hands, makes it easier to bend the rules a bit like this and have it still look good!!)

(learn rules b4 u break them or whatevah)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

how to wave magic wand by 街头尬术师【魔法披风】

[felidae-sims]

thanks a lot!

TS2 Light pattern TXMT settings:

color values and tips for CC creators / SimPe users

Additive TXMT settings (stdMatAlphaBlendMode set to 'additive') allow you to create many colorful glowing variants of one gray texture (ExtRaw8Bit format). These are used first and foremost for lights - wall lamps, table lamps, neons.

Top pic features my 'Everglowing Flamingo Neon' recolors, all done with one 8bit texture and TXMT settings.

Here are some RGB values for StdMatDiffCoef + StdMatEmissiveCoef - as shown in the pic below, a combination of these two works best.

Basic colors: green / red / blue / cyan / magenta / yellow - are easy, you just pick the color from the drop-down palette in 'Categorised Properties' tab.

In case of intermediate shades, it's a bit tricky - some colors look almost the same in game - like these three:

Color chart comes in handy:

If you need less saturated shades, you can copy color value to RGB color editor of your choice and desaturate it slightly - then copy that new RGB value into StdMatEmissiveCoef field.

I don't recommend setting darker RGB color values to darken the lightpattern. Instead, you can lower stdMatAlphaMultiplier value - default is 1.000000. Setting alpha to 0.500000 will make it around half less bright.

Alternatively, you can darken the ExtRaw8Bit texture itself. I use "Curves" or "Levels" for that, since simple Brightness sliders tend to lower contrast and texture is slightly dull-looking.

Related tutorials:

How to export/import TXMT settings from one recolor to another.

[laboratoryrats]

Excellent tutorial to drawing cubby body types

“Some chubby guide for y’all!”

Source: paggiart on twitter