#CSP Application

[attyrocious]

What brushes do you use?? I love the one you use to sketch

the pastel/charcoal brush yes? it's #1 on here but here's all the other i tend to use lately

Blockaded Chalk Brush - (10 clippy points) im a one brush to rule them all kinda person so i use this for everything from sketch to rendering. you need good pressure and layer control to use it for blending and to carve out different values just using one color

YN Stripes - (20 clippy points) i like comb brush blending, its a remnant of dragon age artstyle days. basically for soft transitions and to give texture

Intoxicate Pencil Set - (free) very natural looking pencil brush, just as messy as the real thing

Smooth Liner - (free) usual lineart brush. i can use this to mimic traditionally inked lines for digital corrections and additions

Bear watercolor brush - (10 clippy) realistic watercolor brush and new bestfriend

Line drawing pen - (thank you for finding the asset moonpaw my light and savior) basically its a feathery but sharp edged hard pen. i combine this with the watercolor brush to make it look like a messy gouache

[kirstenly]

Okay guys I did as much as I could with what little time I had with my tablet before I had to send it away to be repaired. I didn't finish it, and I had the grievous error of not double-checking the canvas size before I jumped in... resulting in it being too small. BUT despite that, I am still very happy with and proud of the result.

[chiropteracupola]

the lines in your art are so delicious, I want to eat them. what is your drawing process like?

approximately as follows:

0. receive a push notification in my brain to the effect of Draw Now

sketch in the neon-est green I can find (favorite brush for this is autodesk traditional pencil 2)

1.5. futz around with this for an indeterminate length of time / number of iterations

2. inks in the neon-est red I can find (favorite brushes include autodesk traditional hard pencil, texture essentials pencil pal, and texture essentials dry marker)

3. flatcolor

4. recolor lines to dark brown, set lines to multiply, paint in surface textures and gradients over all relevant color sections

5. paint or multiply-layer shadows onto each area, repeat with highlights (favorite brush is autodesk art pencil)

6. background - paint a scene or paste in a texture and sketch out space-filling designs

6.5. sometimes a textured multiply / color burn / overlay layer of a single color to unify and brighten up the picture

[dandyshucks]

i think im going to just let my art style do whatever it wants for a while 😅 I have been trying to nail down a consistent style so I could one day do comms but,,,, there was an issue with applying for disability last week so now I have to not receive any income for two months (to prove some bullshit to the govmt), so I won't even be able to take comms for this stretch of time anyways, therefore I've got time to just have fun and play around and figure out what I'm doing with art :) <- desperately trying to see the silver lining in this all LMAO

[holopossums]

i think it's kind of interesting that i'm like many artists where i can replicate the Rise TMNT style To An Extent, but i really don't try too hard to make it look Exactly like the show either. i have little traits in my art that i don't want to lose because i like them and they're uniquely my own. i like to look at my art and see clearly that i made it, not another person.

[radladrobin]

[When he picks the statement back up, the words sound like they’re being torn from his lips.]

Alt. GIF versions below

Kinda low-res, sorry. I had forgotten his beard at first so now there's 2.

Anyway, I really pushed my application with this. Never making something of this scale in basic CSP again!!!!

I learned a lot along the way, though. ^^ worked on this on-and-off for a couple of days.

You can tell i watched a lot of Disney cartoons growing up - with the hair i was going for shego from kim possible, as well as Hello, John.

Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself.

I’m assuming you’re alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn’t try too hard to stop reading; there’s every likelihood you’ll just hurt yourself. So just listen.

Now, shall we turn the page and try again?

[publizero]

Beautiful story of a female truck driver in Nigeria a.k.a Queen of the road

Once upon a time, in one of bustling city in Nigeria, there lived a remarkable young woman named Omolade Taiwo Ademola also known as QUEEN OF THE ROAD. At the tender age of 24, Omolade had defied societal norms and carved a niche for herself in an unexpected profession. She was a female truck driver, and her journey had been nothing short of extraordinary. By publizero Omolade’s inspiring story…

[hansoeii]

could you possibly show your full csp setup? its looks like you have room for all your tools plus references on the side and i am super curious on how you do that :)

Hey, of course!

Not totally sure what exactly you'd like to know, so i'll just leave a screenshot right here:

The reference sheet is not in CSP, I use the application PureRef for it! It's insanely useful!

And besides that my canvas is always between 3000-5000 px and 300 dpi, because I print most of my work.

If there's anything else you'd like to know just let me know! :)

[ahrianee]

[🌌] A little star

I swear this started because I saw a post that I liked about tight-fitting Greco-Roman dresses, and I just wanted to do a little fabric practice, but it ended up in a full drawing.

Showing Rena's psychic power, she is not someone who likes to fight; rather, she prefers to provide support from the backline. However, she is someone who favors peaceful solutions, but let's be honest: in WH40K, there are no peaceful solutions. So yes, she knows how to defend herself and how to use her psychic powers.

This is the post

Here is a small Speedpaint of my entire rendering process, as I work in two different drawing applications, I always end up sending the sketch I have made on the iPad (Procreate) to the PC (CSP)

(I'm not going to pay for the CSP on the iPad, it seems too expensive, especially since I already have the computer version, just to save me a step ( ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡) )

You will be able to see how many times I improvise, and how many times I change things in just thirty seconds.

✨💕

[alkalinefrog]

Hi!! js wanted to ask what drawing application you use and what brushes you main? I've been looking for something akin to what you use for lineart and thought it couldn't hurt to ask. tysm!!

Hiya! I alternate between CSP on my PC and Procreate on my iPad, and my go-to brushes areeee:

CSP: Shiyoon Kim's Ink Brush Set (10000/10, bought the set in college and never stopped using them)

Procreate: Joe Lillington's Brush Set 6 (my all around go-to from sketch to finish with any drawing)

I don't paint so I can't speak to what's good for rendering, but if you have access to a program that can run Shiyoon's brushes LET'S GOOOOOO🔥🔥🔥🔥

[wrenkenstein]

OC creation musings + Juno retrospective

I was rewatching this video by Rea, and it struck me that this exact phenomenon happened to me in 2022, with the first inklings of Juno's design - back when I couldn't decide on whether or not her name would be "Juno" or "Kite", and desperately trying not to make her a scientist. She's obviously come such a long way since then, having now become a very well-known character in the fandom, but I often think of the fact that had she not become on of my artistic passions, I probably wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today.

Juno is absolutely everything to me. She is a representative of my passion for storytelling, and she connected me with so many of my now closest friends - one of which is currently living in my house! How crazy is that, man! All of which I can attribute to simply becoming so fixated on my own OC that I couldn't stop thinking about her, or drawing her.

Of course, that's come with some highs and lows. She's getting a professionally done cosplay, a 3D model and potentially a Battlefront mod - but she also has her own dedicated group of haters who think she represents the 'wrongs' of fandom, lol. I certainly have recieved my fair share of 'Juno hate' in my 3-4 years here, but the positivity and support make it well worth dealing with a few rotten apples. It's radiant and outpouring, like a warm ray of sun, and it keeps me going deep into the night.

Anyways. Total tangent. Want to see all her design iterations? Yea you do ;) Here's the first ever Juno ref!

I made this on my phone in 2022, at the tale end of watching TCW and back when TBB was just one season. You can definitely see that the idea was always there, just a bit disjointed in its application. That gas mask on her helmet ended up causing a lot of confusion, so I removed it in later iterations - but to this day, I think this one picture is what really captivated me. Something about the aura, man,, she scary lookin

Then, of course, I had to draw what her face would look like - if it hadn't been for a RP, I don't think I would have.

Woah - she's like a whole different person! And you can see the beginnings of her white hair streak, though back then, I wanted i to be really subtle. And I was soooo adamant about this lol. She also was almost beat for beat Ellen Ripley, and you can see me paint over a picture of Sigourney below with her OG faceclaim haha.

Then we have the Juno-ing... part two. Where I went darker!! Both in themes, and in her color scheme. This one still has so much personality, and I remember being obsessed with how I drew her eyes and face back then. Nowadays, I think it's hideous. xD This was also around the time I was phasing out her gauntlets and oxygen mask, but both still remained for practicality purposes, even if they didn't serve anything to the design. Oh, and the hair streak. Now it's a Thing :tm: but it isn't really flowing well with the design - not yet, anyways!

We finally get to a point where I, begrudingly, accept the fact that her white streak is going to be her facial focal point - and at this point I'm laughing about how much I tried to avoid it LOL. But here, we also see her get more and more refined. Her face is still a bit wonky, but the stern vibe and posture are starting to come together and tell more of a concrete story, even if the reference doesn't have as much color or personality as the last one. I also did this one for my senior year of college!

I even designed her some totally BS civvies - and I gave her a s2 paint job, which admittedly looks hideous LMAOOO but we ball regardless. The second design was scrapped anyways almost immediately. The civvies stayed!

And then, of course, THE FINALE! Her face went through so many iterations with her current ref, but thus far, it's been the longest standing and most accurate one. It atually started out just as me goofing off with a marker pen in CSP, that quickly changed to "hey... this could be something good." And I was right! This is the Juno that's currently circulating today, and I've been polishing and refining her as I go, since I still feel as though I could perfect things.

And then, of course, her various outfits, which I posted about a while back. Oh - and have you seen Baby Juno?

Well now you have. :)

I think it's so cool to see how someone can fixate on a character and pour so much love and thought into them, that this character becomes their entire brand. Juno inhabits every part of my brain space and is what I think about 24/7. I'm so proud of how far she comes, and she reminds me about how incredible fandom can be and continues to be! Something about her is just so intoxicating to me. I can't get enough of her, and I can't wait to keep developing her over the years to come.

Which then begs the question - what is your equivalent to this entire thread? Do you have an OC like Juno, who you're fixated on and who dominates your creative pursuits? Do they have multiple artistic iterations? Because if you do, share them!! I WANNA SEEEEEE.

Anyways, that's Wren's Ramblings for today ~ I got bored haha

SHARE YOUR OCS!!!! >:0

[empty-movement]

May I ask what scanners / equipment / software you're using in the utena art book project? I'm an artist and half the reason I rarely do traditional art is because I'm never happy with the artwork after it's scanned in. But the level of detail even in the blacks of Utena's uniform were all captured so beautifully! And even the very light colors are showing up so well! I'd love to know how you manage!

You know what's really fun? This used to be something you put in your site information section, the software and tools used! Not something that's as normal anymore, but let's give it a go, sorry it's long because I don't know what's new information and what's not! Herein: VANNA'S 'THIS IS AS SPECIFIC AS MY BREAK IS LONG' GUIDE/AIMLESS UNEDITED RAMBLE ABOUT SCANNING IMAGES

Scanning: Modern scanners, by and large, are shit for this. The audience for scanning has narrowed to business and work from home applications that favor text OCR, speed, and efficiency over archiving and scanning of photos and other such visual media. It makes sense--there was a time when scanning your family photographs and such was a popular expected use of a scanner, but these days, the presumption is anything like that is already digital--what would you need the scanner to do that for? The scanner I used for this project is the same one I have been using for *checks notes* a decade now. I use an Epson Perfection V500. Because it is explicitly intended to be a photo scanner, it does threebthings that at this point, you will pay a niche user premium for in a scanner: extremely high DPI (dots per inch), extremely wide color range, and true lossless raws (BMP/TIFF.) I scan low quality print media at 600dpi, high quality print media at 1200 dpi, and this artbook I scanned at 2400 dpi. This is obscene and results in files that are entire GB in size, but for my purposes and my approach, the largest, clearest, rawest copy of whatever I'm scanning is my goal. I don't rely on the scanner to do any post-processing. (At these sizes, the post-processing capacity of the scanner is rendered moot, anyway.) I will replace this scanner when it breaks by buying another identical one if I can find it. I have dropped, disassembled to clean, and abused this thing for a decade and I can't believe it still tolerates my shit. The trade off? Only a couple of my computers will run the ancient capture software right. LMAO. I spent a good week investigating scanners because of the insane Newtype project on my backburner, and the quality available to me now in a scanner is so depleted without spending over a thousand on one, that I'd probably just spin up a computer with Windows 7 on it just to use this one. That's how much of a difference the decade has made in what scanners do and why. (Enshittification attacks! Yes, there are multiple consumer computer products that have actually declined in quality over the last decade.)

Post-processing: Photoshop. Sorry. I have been using Photoshop for literally decades now, it's the demon I know. While CSP is absolutely probably the better piece of software for most uses (art,) Photoshop is...well it's in the name. In all likelihood though, CSP can do all these things, and is a better product to give money to. I just don't know how. NOTENOTENOTE: Anywhere I discuss descreening and print moire I am specifically talking about how to clean up *printed media.* If you are scanning your own painting, this will not be a problem, but everything else about this advice will stand! The first thing you do with a 2400 dpi scan of Utena and Anthy hugging? Well, you open it in Photoshop, which you may or may not have paid for. Then you use a third party developer's plug-in to Descreen the image. I use Sattva. Now this may or may not be what you want in archiving!!! If fidelity to the original scan is the point, you may pass on this part--you are trying to preserve the print screen, moire, half-tones, and other ways print media tricks the eye. If you're me, this tool helps translate the raw scan of the printed dots on the page into the smooth color image you see in person. From there, the vast majority of your efforts will boil down to the following Photoshop tools: Levels/Curves, Color Balance, and Selective Color. Dust and Scratches, Median, Blur, and Remove Noise will also be close friends of the printed page to digital format archiver. Once you're happy with the broad strokes, you can start cropping and sizing it down to something reasonable. If you are dealing with lots of images with the same needs, like when I've scanned doujinshi pages, you can often streamline a lot of this using Photoshop Actions.

My blacks and whites are coming out so vivid this time because I do all color post-processing in Photoshop after the fact, after a descreen tool has been used to translate the dot matrix colors to solids they're intended to portray--in my experience trying to color correct for dark and light colors is a hot mess until that process is done, because Photoshop sees the full range of the dots on the image and the colors they comprise, instead of actually blending them into their intended shades. I don't correct the levels until I've descreened to some extent.

As you can see, the print pattern contains the information of the original painting, but if you try to correct the blacks and whites, you'll get a janky mess. *Then* you change the Levels:

If you've ever edited audio, then dealing with photo Levels and Curves will be familiar to you! A well cut and cleaned piece of audio will not cut off the highs and lows, but also will make sure it uses the full range available to it. Modern scanners are trying to do this all for you, so they blow out the colors and increase the brightness and contrast significantly, because solid blacks and solid whites are often the entire thing you're aiming for--document scanning, basically. This is like when audio is made so loud details at the high and low get cut off. Boo.

What I get instead is as much detail as possible, but also at a volume that needs correcting:

Cutting off the unused color ranges (in this case it's all dark), you get the best chance of capturing the original black and white range:

In some cases, I edit beyond this--for doujinshi scans, I aim for solid blacks and whites, because I need the file sizes to be normal and can't spend gigs of space on dust. For accuracy though, this is where I'd generally stop.

For scanning artwork, the major factor here that may be fucking up your game? Yep. The scanner. Modern scanners are like cheap microphones that blow out the audio, when what you want is the ancient microphone that captures your cat farting in the next room over. While you can compensate A LOT in Photoshop and bring out blacks and whites that scanners fuck up, at the end of the day, what's probably stopping you up is that you want to use your scanner for something scanners are no longer designed to do well. If you aren't crazy like me and likely to get a vintage scanner for this purpose, keep in mind that what you are looking for is specifically *a photo scanner.* These are the ones designed to capture the most range, and at the highest DPI. It will be a flatbed. Don't waste your time with anything else.

Hot tip: if you aren't scanning often, look into your local library or photo processing store. They will have access to modern scanners that specialize in the same priorities I've listed here, and many will scan to your specifications (high dpi, lossless.)

Ahem. I hope that helps, and or was interesting to someone!!!

[skunkes]

Procreate is so overhyped it doesnt have half the features of any standard art application it doesnt even keep rasters outside the canvas so if u move something off the side its gone forever im #1 procreate hater its honestly embarrassing that its not even free

dw i am also a procreate hater I just already have it and csp ipad is raising their subscription price so i thot maybe i should learn it for the rare times when i do use an ipad to draw (i dont like screen tablets). But honestly maybe its just better to leave the travel/away-from-home art to my physical sketchbooks

[midday-headcanons]

FE3H Random Thought: Child Units (update)

Original Post ^^^

Found one of the designs for a child unit I drew in 2020 and spruced it up a little. (Bear with me, it's not my best work and the linework is old. Thank you CSP for having art assets.) I will update her design eventually as this is her as a child, not her at the age I had decided on.

Branwen von Vestra, Heiress to House Vestra

"Though he would likely never say so aloud, Branwen is Hubert's pride and joy. She constantly challenges herself, and has collected quite the reputation. I wonder if her motivation is driven by a genuine love for learning or if she's working towards some unspoken goal."

-- Emperor Edelgard

Class: Mage (Dark magic specialist)

Likes: Studying magic, foreign languages, challenging puzzles, her father

Dislikes: Willful ignorance, arguing, being interrupted, when things are too easy

[remnantof]

additional info and examples on notion

work is really putting me through the wringer lately, but moreover I just really enjoy making these digital dress up dolls. 60usd base gets you a full body OC render with hair and an underwear layer, other clothing items, hair styles, tattoos, etc are ala carte. please be ready to describe color and style preferences if you do not have a pinterest or other references for character and clothing. no slots, email for inquiry, payment is taken through paypal or ko-fi. i work in clip studio and output PNGs of each outfit option, but if you would like a csp or psd with all layers that can be provided. you can also request transparent pngs of each layer or outfit, or a different background color. commissions are for personal use and can be reposted by the owner, used as icons or for character sheets, tokens, etc with credit where applicable. i personally post finished art here on tumblr and on bluesky.

[saint-nevermore]

hey everypony ive mopped some floors on my patreon and decided to do something else with it, it will be more like a journal where i throw down all my background thoughts, because boy have i had a lot of those! i uploaded a big fat folder of CSPs and files i havent posted about Dragons, Dinosaurs, and Birds. other things i may include more are Taxidermy and 3D Modelling

at the moment im unable to work and im starting the application process for PIP. money has always been tight but itll get worse this winter. i was the only one in my house working. i figure if i can focus more on my art it would be a net positive until i can get into a better living situation. by supporting you would be making what i do possible ^_^

anything helps in this day and age, so i will also plug my kofi in case sub models arent your thing. thank u all for playing dragons with me, i wouldnt still be here creating if it werent for the kind folk here.

kestrel from memory for your time 🐦‍⬛❤️