Happy Silly Season 2019
I wasn't sure if I would manage a silly season shenanigans this year but successfully squizzled one in. No story, just Taji and Rei spending silly season at the beach as a lot of people living along the coast of Australia do, and building a sandman because it's summer.
There was a bit of fun and games with this one as the dull mix brush (from a brushpack I downloaded) was feeling a bit awkward in one of the Krita point updates and I couldn't work out why. I temporarily replaced it with a wet bristles brush but could not get my brain to cooperate with it. I ended up booting the wet bristles brush out of my popup palette and deciding to use the the basic brush (that I use to colour because it's therapeutic even though selecting and filling areas would be a lot quicker) to cel shade which I haven't done for literal decades. It didn't look terrible.
And then I did the highlights and remembered why me and cel shading didn't last long.
I duplicated the cel layers and attacked them with a soft blender brush like I'd intended to before thinking the cel shading looked all right and was of course amused at seeing the colouring style that initially started me off trying to do lineless.
I then found and tried my favourite sketch colour brush again and found that perhaps a subsequent point update had gotten it back more or less to how I remember it acting and I just had to make very slight modifications to how I was using it (which was pretty quick). Sprat asked me if I was sure I hadn't deluded the entire "the brush isn't working" episode XD It's now back in its spot on my popup palette and while I technically had tomorrow to do it (silly season for me is Dec 23 - Jan 1) we got there.
I think this is the first time in a while I've drawn Taji (last time was in a notebook which meant during a class so...quite a while x_x), Rei has had a slightly more recent piece (this was harder to find than it should have been XP).
Hope you all had a safe silly season however you wanted to spend it and that next year is good.
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I so admire your techno skills.
Thanks! ^_^
I'm trying really hard to get both better and faster ^_^;
I like that one a lot. Gotta love the early 1990s Fresh Prince of Bel Air colored clothing.
The sandman looks very cute, like an alien mixed with a snowman and an insect.
The word 'sandman' reminded me of this song of one of my favorite movies.
Source
"A candy colored clown they call(ed) the sandman, tiptoes to my room every night..."
All the best for 2020!
xx
Figured they're pre-teens and it was Christmas so they could have ridiculously brightly coloured bathers ;D Glad you find the sandman cute, was trying to figure out how kids would make a sculpture as it's been a while since I've been a kid and the child that is inclined towards building sand sculptures tends to make villages :) The last time we were at a beach he made a tiny sandman while I was making a sandturtle so this one is very vaguely based off that (his didn't have the smile or stick embellishments because it was too small).
I was trying to come up with something other than "sandman" as I figured a lot of people would think of that guy that makes people go to sleep in all his various incarnations (Neil Gaiman's is my favourite purely because Neil Gaiman, closely followed by the Rise of the Guardians one) but alas I failed XD
Thanks ^_^
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I like the end result despite the finangling!
Thanks ^_^ This is a tiny amount of finangling too, a much greater amount happens when doing...anything past a sketchy really XD
OH I can imagine, layer madness and then just madness!!
AAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL the layers!
I can easily do over 100 as soon as there's more than one character and I think that's overkill but apparently some people do many many more because they're using way more effects than I am (I mostly use them for lighting/shading and occasionally dof and to split parts). Sheer madness for sure!
Lol, when I edge into double figuresi think I am being extravagant! :0D
Sometimes it's necessary! Especially if you use them for versioning which I just now recalled that my sister does XD
Such a funny and great tradition and I always forget you are in your Summer there. We've had a reprieve from the snow this past week with 'warm weather' for us 45 F but I'm sure snow will return.
Happy New Year!
I don't actually know how much of a tradition it is here because I never see them, but unfortunately I don't hit the beach as often as I'd like to so maybe I just miss them XD I just thought it would be an amusing contrasting thing to do seeing as there's a lot of emphasis on the white Christmas ;D
Your "warm" weather probably feels lovely after snow temperatures but still way too cold for me! Not that that's saying much as anything under 20C (68F) is too cold for me XD
Do you build snow sculptures when there's snow? :D
I do when we get it but we usually don't have it around long enough to sculpt much. My IDEAL winter temp is in Southern England (which I'm not there this year, but hopefully next) as it's like 50'sF and sometimes overcast and that English rain that seems like magic compared to the heavy torrential New England rain we get. I often curse my English ancestors for leaving my 'homeland' back in the 1500's, idiots!
I hope your New Year is good with SOME beach time! Stay warm ;)
What be this? Please edumacate me.
Like the one I made of you recently (chilling out on a patch of grass). They'll crop up in the background as the main characters run around doing whatever it is they're doing. I need to make background characters (because the setting is in populated areas) and doing people I know and like is much more fun than randoms ;D
ps you are allowed more than one, I do them in the order I get them but will prioritise people who don't have one yet.
Oh cool...I recall now. I liked that one you did in the grass!
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