#basically i made this in krita

[akiretv]

cant stop singing sans and papyrus animatic i left very unfinished more than a year ago

my style has changed A LOT and im still without a proper animation program but this thing calls me like the goblin mask, should i try to finish it sometime?

[le0sulfurous]

had a bit of time so I did this little doodle of the Fridge teacher that only appears in like 3 shots in episode 5 of dhmis and has like 2 lines which he says in this goofy voice while flailing his arms around. Absolute king shit. I've loved him since I was 13 and will continue loving him forever. I am fridge's number one (and probably only) fan. Fridge forever. Fuck yeah

[kokelek]

Soural ref.1 for animation.

(edit. I fixed the arm)

[windydrawallday]

While organizing files a bit I stumble upon this sort of step-by-step in how I render and color-pick my detailed artwork. So I'm sharing in case someone finds it useful!

[drawnaghht]

Lineups and outfit ideas for my TMNT x USAGI mega-crossover! Pt 1!

Heyo! so this was done a while ago (summer and a bit of autumn) but I wasn't in the mood to post it yet as I was very busy this past year.

Here we have: Gen, Chizu, Kitsune and Usagi in undercover outfit ideas for when they find themselves in New York city in 2023, where they're found out by a few strange older turtles... and some of the 2003 cast from 2023! Don't worry, I have another sheet for Mikey and Donnie, they are not absent from this crossover :)

Hope you enjoy! These were very fun to draw and put together :) I'm particularly proud of that Gen and Kitsune!

[somelazyassartist]

FINISHED THE TINY LITTLE CULT OF THE LAMB OC ANIMATED COMIC PRACTICE,,,,,, I will wait to post it until tomorrow bc I want more people to see it and also I'm tired as hell + have a doctor's appointment tomorrow so I should sleep now lmao but I'm excited to show y'all :]

[senaridaes]

PATIENCE 066 + CHARITY RED

[upsidedownsmore]

that one parazon flip finisher from the Protea Prime trailer except it's volleyball lmao

I did this drawing for the Protea Prime Access giveaway I ran here on Tumblr until May 25th, link to it here! :)

Alt version with without the uniform (it was kind of a last minute addition tbh lol), as well as a couple example drawings I made quickly for the Tumblr giveaway post!:

Reference screenshot and wips below the cut:

The trailer reference screenshot I used:

Aaaaand a bunch of wips:

I would love to have a timelapse of this drawing cause it's one of the more involved ones I've done recently, but I'm at my parent's place with just my laptop and lord knows that thing can't fit gigabytes of timelapse frames in it lmao

[14dayswithyou]

How cutiesai made 14 Days With You

I've received quite a few requests in the past asking how I made 14DWY, what resources I used, how I organised my lore, etc. — so I figured I'd make one big post and share it with everyone else as well! It features a buuunch of helpful stuff I wish I'd known when I first made 14DWY, so hopefully this will help others too!

⚠ This is all copied & pasted from a Discord post I made back in early 2024! I'll also be adding to it over time, so feel free to check back every so often! ^^

What engine do I use?

14DWY uses the Ren'Py engine!

There are two preinstalled games (called "Tutorial" and "The Question") that give you a basic rundown on how to use the program!!

Zeil Learning's video called "Ren'py Tutorial For Beginners" is also a good place to start for those who have no idea where to begin with Ren'Py!

I also really recommend these Ren'Py resources:

Lemma Soft Forums

Ren'Py Discord server

Ren'Py subreddit

Zeil Learnings, ElaineDoesCoding, Visual Novel Design, and Ess Ren'Py Tutorials on YouTube

Searching through the "Ren'Py" tag on itch.io for community-made assets and resources (make sure to give credit if you use someone's asset(s))!

Feniks and Wattson offer some really helpful stuff!!

Not Ren'Py related, but helpful for creating a VN:

Obsidian and Notion for planning and worldbuilding

Visual Studio Code and Atom (comes preinstalled with Ren'Py iirc?) for scripting/coding

Pixabay and Pexels for royalty-free images and stock photos

DOVA-SYNDROME for music

Clip Studio Paint (paid) and Krita (free) for drawing

Toyhou.se to store your littol guys (If you need an invite code, I have over 300 to give away lmao ^^ Send in an ask to @cutiesigh if you'd like one!)

An itch.io account to upload your game for free and share it with others

General tips to keep in mind:

Make games for fun, not for fame. Too often, I see new developers create VNs with "trending tropes" because they see how successful it is and want the same level of popularity. As harsh as it sounds, this only makes your game feel hollow and superficial, and players will notice.

When using Ren'Py, it's better to have multiple .rpy files rather than putting everything into one large file!! It makes organising and finding things easier, and if something gets corrupted... at least you won't lose everything!

Plan everything beforehand, but give yourself room to expand and implement new ideas.

Start small and slowly expand over time. Don't start off with an overly ambitious project, as it can be disheartening when you put all this effort into something just for it not to gain any traction. Also, be grateful for your earliest supporters, as they're the ones who will lift your project off the ground!!

This is a personal preference, but I recommend starting off with itch.io as your main distribution platform. Most storefronts take a cut from your donations and revenue, and sites like Steam require a $100 fee just to publish your game on their platform. Itch is free, and you can even toggle off revenue sharing in your profile settings! (I like to keep it at 10% though, because I'm grateful for everything the site provides ♡)

If you ever need help with Ren'Py, you're always welcome to join the 14DWY Discord server and ping me in the help channel!

[tickfleato]

how to make cool blobby turing patterns in photoshop

i'll preface with i learned the basic loop from skimming a tutorial on youtube, but as someone who prefers written tutorials i'm sure many would appreciate one! also, the second part of this is some of the visual effects i figured out on my own using blending modes and stuff.

i'm using photoshop CS4 on a mac so some buttons and stuff might be in different places on windows and newer photoshop versions but all the actions are the same. my canvas is 1000x1000 pixels.

UPDATES (i'm hoping these'll show up whenever you open the readmore?)

it's possible to do something similar in krita using this plugin, made by the love @arcaedex

it's also possible to do this in photopea, a free browser alternative to photoshop! the results are pretty much identical.

FIRST off you wanna get or make a black and white image of some kind. it has to be one layer. can be noise, a photo, a bunch of lines, whatever. here's mine, just some quick airbrush lines:

now find the actions tab. idk what it looks like in newer versions of photoshop but you probably won't need to dig!

hit the little page thingy to make a new pattern. once you hit 'record', it'll record everything you do. the little square 'stop' icon will end it.

now you want to do a high pass filter. you can mess around with the radius to change the size of your squiggles, but the tutorial had it set to 6. experiment!

now add the 'threshold' adjustment layer. i use the adjustments tab but i think there's also a dropdown menu somewhere. keep it at the default, 128. merge it down. (control or command + E or you can right click it like some kind of weirdo)

and finally, the gaussian blur! the radius of this affects the shape and size of your squiggles as well. i like to keep it around 4.5 but you can mess around with that too.

after that, hit 'stop' on the action you're recording, and then repeat it a bunch of times using the 'play' button, until you have something you like, like this:

WOW!! that was fun!! and only a little tedious thanks to the power of macros. anyway, here's some fun layer blending stuff i like to do. it's with a different pattern cause i made this bit first.

anyway, using a black and white gradient (or a grey base that you do black and white airbrush on), make a layer with the vivid light. this will make the blobs look thicker or thinner.

then, for cool colors, do a gradient map adjustment layer over that:

and finally, my best friend, the overlay layer. just using a gradient here bc i'm lazy, but feel free to experiment with brushes, colors, and blending modes!

NOW GO. MAKE COOL SHIT WITH THE POWER OF MATH. AND SEND IT TO ME

also these are not hard and fast rules PLEASE mess around with them to see what kind of weird shit you can make. here's a gif. as you can see i added some random airblush blobs in the middle of it, for fun.

[prinz-myshkin]

Hello! I love your art! I am starting to get back into art after many years, and wanted to animate it. What app do you use to animate things? Do you have any recommendations how to get started? Thank you!

Hey thanks so much! I use a program called Krita, it's free, it's great, it's got the basics of frame animation which is all I really care about. I guess my best advice is that whenever you start an animation project you might benefit from starting simple and adding complexity later. Animation gets frustrating fast whenever something is off and it gets tricky to fix or "get right" when it's in the context of all the frames surrounding it. In my fish loops I started with drawing a ball that stretched and flattened as it moved around and then went over it and added eyes, fins etc. to fit the movement. I think I would have gotten frustrated if I started with a whole complex shape and wouldn't have known where to go next. It's a muscle though and gets easier as you do it.

Pretty much everyone getting into animation I think finds this ancient series of chronophotographs by Eadweard Muybridge showing a horse in motion

It's great and a cool bit of photography history, and I made an exercise of it to try and copy it when I wanted to get into animation. I felt it helped me make sense of what is important in making an image move in a fluid way. It's a fun and not too daunting task, you might want to try it yourself.

Tilting at windmills

Also, if you just animate the bottom half of the horse you won't have to do as much work, so you should do that

As for the program itself, you can make layers static or add keyframes to them to make stuff happen, click window > animation to change the screen to access that part. Make a drawing, hit next frame and turn on onionskin so you can see where you were the frame before

The krita forums are also really helpful if anything technical goes wrong

Hope this helps! And also wasn't too much or too little information :)

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

For scanning my works, I used the channels mode in photoshop, then I select the blue channel (and the blue one only!) and drag it down to one of the icons that selects the whole layer. Then you Invert the selection and in a new layer use the paint bucket tool to color in all the lines. Deselect and paint a new layer below the previous white.

Basically, you’ve just made a transparent layer with your pencil sketches.

Below is an example of the final result (with minor touch ups) and a grey background.

DANNY AND ARNOLD SPOTTED‼️‼️‼️

Thank you for this info! (And those are lovely drawings, wow :O) I might have to try that sometime and see if I like it, if krita or affinity photo has something similar.

[remidiy]

We Don't Gatekeep Art Resources | A Comprehensive List

Here's a list of some of the tools/sites I currently use or have used previously for works/studies. I'll separate it into Software/Utility, Reference, and 'Other' which will be just general things that could help you map out things for your experience with art. **[Free highlighted in pink, paid highlighted in green. Blue is variable/both. Prices Listed in USD]**

Software/Utility:

2D

Krita Painting app (PC) (my main digital art software on PC for 5+ yrs)

Clip Studio Paint [PC] [CSP 2.0+ allows for 3d modelling within the painting app and a lot of other cool features] [apparently allows up to 6 months free trial]

Procreate (12.99) [iPad/iPad Pro] (the GOAT)

Artstudio Pro [iPad/iPad Pro] (An alternative to Procreate if you enjoy the more traditional art app layout) -- I find this app handy when Procreate is lacking a feature I need, or vice versa. (you can easily transfer files between the two, but keep in mind Procreate's layer limit)

2D "Collaborative Painting/Drawing apps"

Magma Studio

Drawpile

Discord Whiteboard

Gartic Phone (Pretty decent for 2d animation practice, but has a hard limit on frames)

3D

Blender [3D Modelling, Sculpting + Layout] (PC)

Sculptris [PC] (it's an old unsupported version of Zbrush, but can help to get ideas out, and functions better than browser sculpting apps

Nomad Sculpt [iPad/iPad Pro] ($20) Works pretty well if you prefer a mobile setup, but it is a bit intense on the battery life and takes some getting used to

References + Study

Magic Poser [ PC and Mobile ] Has both free and paid versions, I've made do with just the lite version before

Artpose ($9.99) [Iphone + Steam]

Head Model Studio [IPhone] A 3D head, with both a basic blockout version for angles, and a paid version with more detail

Cubebrush [simply search "[keyword] pose reference pack"], they usually have good results + they frequently have sales!

Line of Action [Good for Gesture practice + daily sketching], also has other resources built in.

Quickposes Similar to Line of action, more geared toward anatomy

Drawabox | Perspective Fundamentals Improvement modules (Suggested by @taffingspy )

Sketchfab, this skull in particular is useful, but there is other models that can help you study anatomy as well.

Pinterest can be good, you just have to be careful, usually you're better off just finding reference pack if you have the money, sometimes certain creators have freebies as well

Artstation Marketplace can be decent [make sure to turn on the Aye-Eye filter so it doesn't feed you trash], a colleague of mine recommended this head model for practicing facial blocking, there is also this free version without lighting.

Local Art Museums [Unironically good for studying old "master work" if you're into that, or even just getting some inspiration]

Brushes + Other Useful software:

I personally have used both of these brush packs before making my own

(I actually don't know how to share my daily brush set because I frequently switch between Krita, Procreate, and ASP, but once I figure that out I'll be sure to do that lol)

Marc Brunet's Starter brush pack [Technically free but supporting him for this if you like it is ideal, there's some good brushes]

Dave Greco Brush Pack [$3]

Gumroad in general is a good place to find brushes and art resources. *Note; for Krita specifically, brush packs are a bit weird, so it may require you to find different packs, or import them in a particular way

PureRef [PC] - Reference Compiler/Moodboarding

VizRef ($3.99) [iPad] - Moodboarding/Reference Compiler

Artist Youtubers/Creators that helped me improve/guide me along as a self-taught artist from when I first started digital art to where I am today:

Proko

Marco Bucci

Sinix Design

Sycra

Hardy Fowler

Lighting Mentor

Winged Canvas

Moderndayjames

Swatches

Chommang_drawing

Marc Brunet (YTartschool)

+ Observing a lot of speedpaint art by people whose work I enjoy on social media/youtube, trying to dissect their processes

If you've gotten this far, first of all, congrats, you can read a lot, and second of all, thank you for reading and I hope this helps! I'll continue to come back and update this if I find any new resources in the future, or if my processes change :)

Much Love,

-Remidiy

[aegisofworms]

ohhh i absolutely LOVE the art you made of CAIN.. it’s literally so so cooool i’ve been tweaking about it for the past ten minutes. 🫀 what program do you use? i’ve been trying to get one that i like the feel of.

First off, thank you so much!!!

Secondly, I use clip studio. In the past I also used Krita though, which is a free option that has a similar feel. I actually work with a few replications of my old krita brushes in clip studio as a funfact!

Admittedly a lot of my Cain art has actually been tests outside of my typical style, as it's been a loooong time since I've done any painterly rendering, but its been a fun exercise thusfar!

My process is basically using a single mid opacity brush (or sometimes genuinely just my textured inking brush) and working with grayscale on one layer before before using a textured blend and then a TON of color passes which I then render on top of. It's a bit of a mess but these are meant to be experimental and less refined than my typical lined work.

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

benny in the rain. what will he do

made by me in krita in 56 minutes while listening to this

a bit(welp-) of vent under spoiler!

this was me trying to create literally anything basically? my depression mostly manifests as me not being able to finish projects / losing interest too quickly, so a lot of the time im just. sitting there, bored and frustrated. i have many little things that i started & wanna share with the world, yet idk how to? i always feel like things are too unfinished to share kind of? like. what do i do with drafty beginnings of a fic. or a half-baked v-tuber model.

drawings are special like that. it's something i can finish in one sitting. but oftentimes they feel not enough? my brain tells me things are somehow lesser if they don't get enough attention, so i've been forcing myself to make yt videos.

but at the end of the day, posting stuff online isn't a reliable dopamine source. logically, i do it because it can inspire people, and because it's a reminder that i made anything at all. and so i sit here, checking activity feeds. maybe i should turn my notifs back on.

thank you for reading. please don't worry about me much, i am medicated and have weekly therapy. maybe i'll keep yall posted, this is technically a blog.

on a more positive note, i've been going outside & seeing all sorts of different people! and my sleep schedule is stable for once! yay! i think im gonna go drink some water about it.

[bionicle-sprite-comics]

I made a video explaining the very basics on how sprite comics are made! I opted to choose Microsoft Paint because it's a simple program that's easily available on Windows.

If you use macOS, the closest fit would be Paint X, available for like $10. Of course, if you're going to pay for a pixel art tool, Aseprite is much better, and that program has an excellent manual. You could also start an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to get PhotoShop (or set sail and download a previous version from a fun place).

Free tools are available, like GIMP (because I'm old), Pixelorama, Krita, Paint.net, the list goes on.

Fonts I recommended:

Back Issues

Atkinson Hyperlegible

Transcript below the readmore!

Sprite comics are easy. You just need sprites and an image editing program.

Most comics in the BZPower days were made in MS Paint and they were not fancy-looking comics like mine. Most of them looked like this, and it works very well! In MS Paint, you only need to know two tricks:

The eraser tool has a right-click function that only replaces Color 1 with Color 2. This will help you recolor your sprites.

You can copy and paste sprites as transparent images. Click the dropdown under the selection tool and select "transparent selection" to filter out Color 2.

Here's some bonus advice:

People have huge resolution monitors now, so I recommend doubling your comic's size. In MS Paint, select Resize and then type 200 in the percent field.

The most common mistake is unreadable text. Always pick a font that is easy to read and simple. Opt for a "sans serif" font as they're easier to read than "serif" fonts. Here are two good default pixel fonts:

Small Fonts, size 20

System, size 24

If you don't want to use a pixel font, then you can use Arial or Comic Sans. There are tens of thousands of downloadable fonts, too.

For non-pixel fonts, I'm partial to Atkinson Hyperlegible by the Braille Institute. I also like having a comic book feel to my comics, so I use "Back Issues" by Blambot.

Be sure to pick colors that are easy on the eyes. Like, we can agree that this is kinda harsh. These colors are more gentle. Using gentle colors also makes your more colorful characters pop out.

If you're doing colored text on colored backgrounds, you want a high degree of contrast. Notice that when I apply this Chroma filter, you can see why the text is unpleasant to read; the lightness values shown here are way too close. I can make the background darker and the font brighter to help that.

You should also try to have a system when doing dialogue. People will read top to bottom, left to right. It makes sense for dialog to follow that pattern. If you're going to use lines to indicate who's talking, try to avoid making the lines cross. Plan your dialogue, rearrange the characters if you need to, etc etc.

If you're pressuring yourself and not having fun, then you're ruining it. You don't need translucent word balloons, you don't need fancy custom background art, you don't need to be super witty, and you don't need to obey this video! Just have fun. And send me your Bionicle sprite comics.