I’ve seen this a few times, but I wanted to give my take on some different races’ ears cos I enjoy it so much. I wanna do a break down of the different sub races (wood elves vs high elves, deep gnomes vs forest gnomes, all the dragonborn colours, that sorta thing) but for now this’ll do!
-I can’t focus on reading the text or making decisions right now and I don’t remember where I left off
-How about this book?
-Can’t focus on that much print at once right now
-How about this comic?
-It’s too long to finish in one night, and if I can’t finish it, then I won’t get that good good Task Completion Dopamine Boost TM
-How about a movie?
-I can’t think of a movie I want to watch, don’t want to scroll through Netflix for an hour, and can’t commit to making a decision for something that lasts that long
-How about doing chores that can easily be finished in a short time frame and require no reading or concentration?
-No.
-How about aimlessly scrolling through tumblr wishing you weren’t wasting your night?
This isn’t the sort of art I normally do, but I wanted a way to thank Taliesin for getting me into The Wicked and The Divine, and I remembered seeing people talking about how Molly was like a WicDiv god and this idea sprang from there!
I’m already so floored by the response this has had on twitter, this fandom is amazing 💜
I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.
Firstly, what you need are
— CUSTOM BRUSHES —
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:
- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%
- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
— PATHS —
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:
Hello, my name's Alex. What I post is pretty random. I'm a pround Sixth Gun, Eighter and Co-Miyavi, along with a whole bunch of other things. My posts are mostly related to Japan but not always. You should probably backtrack a few pages before...
