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Thought I’d give you all a quick heads up. 

I’m an European citizen, and seeing as the EU Link Tax, filter and content directives were approved today (Final vote is in January), chances are I’ll no longer be able to safely draw MLP, or any other copyrighted content for that matter.

And in the event that I do draw anything original, I may have to submit forms to ensure that no troll is able to claim that particular thing for themselves and have my page automatically removed for “theft”.

Overall, it’s a major headache and considering the huge fines and demands at stake, chances are Google, Youtube, Tumblr, Reddit and many other pages may just be operated separately in Europe, or completely blacked out.

This is dangerous. Even if you’re not in the EU, pay attention to what our politicians are doing. The world has never been as connected as it is today, so this affects all of us.

#europe
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I’m still alive!

Gonna try and sketch some things this week, so feel free to send me an ask with a request or two. I might tackle them. ^^

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A warning to artists (and a rant)

Okay, this will be a bit of a rant but after discussing it with a friend we both feel that I need to post this as a warning of sorts.

If you’re an artist or do anything that takes time and effort, DO NOT work for exposure. DO NOT join any collaborative projects without a clear goal or time-frame in mind.

I recently had someone approach me on InkBunny offering me a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to join their “Collaboration” project, which involves, in their own words, “countless of pages and chapters”. I’d be drawing the art and such, while they act as the author for what sounded like fanfiction involving their OC’s.

The funniest part was that they stated several times that this was a collaboration effort, so there’d be no pay but also (I struggled to decipher their broken English) somehow not free? Yeah, beats me.

At first I was going to ignore them and leave it at that, but after refusing several times I just got the most predatory and guilt-tripping message I ever had the displeasure of reading. It contained wonderful lines such as, and I quote:

“Lend me your Skill's then, I don't just offer you Exposure which you all depending on for without it you're basically no one, NO, I'm offering you a Chance, An Opportunity, A Cause, A Reason, A Purpose to become better as an Artist, a Brony and a Human, (...)”

I'm tempted to post their profile since it’s only 2 months old and has no activity whatsoever, especially since according to them they already got 10+ artists to join the project... so I will post something that people may recognize, since after a few weeks of back and forth messages they sent me what appeared to be a long copy-paste explanation of the project. It had this link in it.

PNG detailing reasons why you can’t refuse their amazing project

And their answer to my refusal: “Why Not? BTW, there's less than 5 Reason's which I will truly accept and your's are not one of them.“

Soo... yeah, that’s pretty much it! If you have any questions feel free to send me an ask, I’ll try my best to answer. Or if you happen to know someone who was recently approached with a similar offer, do give them a heads up and have them reach me for information.

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etyas-shenanigans

Here it is, the tutorial I’ve been asked about the most: Etyas liquids. I tried to make them as visual as possible, sorry, if it’s a mess for you c: Every gif is separated by numbers, and an explanations can be found below:

1) Lighting

 - After drawing your contours, think about the location of your main light.I’ll also add for myself some back light, like… Candle or something. Yeah.

 - Your main light will track down the surface of your liquid string from the side it is shining.  - Liquid itself will distort this light to the sides.  - Same goes to the backlight, just in a smaller amount~

- It doesn’t need to be picture perfect. Liquids tend to be chaotic in structure.

2) Cover lighting

 - Liquids are not just strings and tubes that hang everywhere. They can cover stuff too! With the following effects…  - Here’s our basic test tube. It has it’s own shine coefficient, but when we pour some liquid over - It implifies shining effect of the weird test tube, folowing the rules from the previous gif  - It also will make coloration of the tube a bit darker… I’m sure you’re familiar with multiplying layer effect.

3) Distorion

 - When the liquid crosses something, it will distort it, mixing colors with the background.  - I prefer to draw that effect above every layer in the pic, copying colors around

4) Colors and opacity

 - By adjasting colors, opasity and lighting strength, we can manipulate our drawing to appear like other liquids. There is nothing to show off here - you should try it yourself!

5) Viscosity

 -  Don’t forget about the viscosity of liquids. They can behave differently depending on their type.

6 - 7) Little tips

Drawing liquid covering an object without contours

- Apply your liquid via Multiplier layer effect or Screen effect with the gradient tool or airbrush. - Make holes in it wherever you want - Draw your lighting over it, avoiding the holes and bending the light around them a little - Erase the light where your gradient ends - Draw light around the borders of the liquid

Drawing puddles

- Draw basic shape vith Multiplyier or Screen effect, blur at some points, maybe add holes. - Puddles tend to reflect large amount of visible lighting, and less in the shadows - Draw your lighting, bluring it on the blured sections and bending aroud crisp borders Something like that. Hope it’s fine. Pawtreon Fur-mur p.s. Animations working?

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thexiiilightning-mod

Incredible tutorial! Much appreciated!

#nsfw
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thexiiilightning-mod

Here’s the first page of my small project!

I’ll be using it to practice and try out new things, so expect to see slightly (or completely) different styles from time to time.

#nsfw
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Here’s a rough screencap of what I’m currently working on!

First page is going to have a couple of styles since I’m still deciding on what to go with, but I’m rather tempted to go with simple clean-ish sketches and some shading. ex. middle left.

Though the upper left one looks rather cute, so we’ll see! Wish me luck ^^

#nsfw#artlightning#sketch
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I was messing around with a few brushes and thought I’d sketch up something quick to try and color. I’m posting it here because I could use some criticism, namely comments regarding what you prefer!

For the coloring style that is. The character was drawn hastily XD

  1. Simple rough sketch with added color - I’m going to try and sketch with that pencil from now on because it’s easier to detail and generally cuter without further additions.
  2. Colored Sketch - I tried using a new brush to directly color on the sketch layer. While this is normally done for B&W art, the effect is still somewhat visible. I rather like this style of shading, so I may try and paint some more pieces like that. It’s also easier for adjustments.
  3. Normal Lineart - There are two types of shading on this one. Painting, like the mane. And “cell” shading, more easily visible in the legs. I found that for painting, normal lineart makes it a bit off-putting, while “cell” shading gives it a more cartoony look. It’s a much faster method of shading so I may practice it as well.
  4. Colored Lineart - Funny how simple colored lines fixes the problem of “painted” shading. The gradient between lighter and darker colors is far less off-putting, and “cell” shading still looks good. I like it!

And that’s basically it! While I’m not working on commissions I’ll be experimenting with new styles, so hopefully, after a few more pieces I’ll have some noticeable improvements to show. If I can apply this to backgrounds, then even better!

I’ll also be starting a small project that I’ll most likely be uploading on Derpibooru and Inkbunny, but I’ll make a mention of it here in due time.

Thank you for reading this far and feel free to mail me some requests! I can’t promise that I’ll get to them, but it’s nice to have something to pick from if I’m lacking inspiration. ^^

#artlightning
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askcinnamondreams

Important warning for Windows 10 artists!

Do not allow your computer to install the Fall 2018 creators update (1709).

It breaks pen input with a new “feature” called pen scrolling. So basically, instead of actually drawing like I want it to, the pen now flings my canvas around for no damn reason. As far as I can see, this affects all tablets.

Thread on microsoft forums with M$ response.

There is no option to disable pen scrolling, and unfortunately I don’t have the option to uninstall the update. So basically, I’m fucked until microsoft adds an option to disable this garbage, or Adobe updates Photoshop to deal with this “feature”. So again…

DO NOT UPDATE TO THE FALL CREATOR’S UPDATE (1709).

vertexart

looks like there’s a possible registry fix for this issue. It can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/87y1ad/brush_tool_scrolls_canvas_instead_of_drawing/dx9bk8h/

askcinnamondreams

^^^This worked for me!^^^

To actually do this, click the first link (this one) to save the page as a .reg file. After that, just open it like a normal file, restart, and that should do it!

askcinnamondreams

I’ve seen some “fixes” floating around for Clip studio and other programs, and I just want to point out, that those are using a completely different method to process pen input, not fixing the problem.

Basically, you’re taking a detour around a pothole in a road, instead of fixing the pothole.

I’m not a user of those programs, so I can’t speak for how well that fix works, but if it doesn’t, give this one a shot!

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thexiiilightning-mod

Reblogging since I had this issue with Clip Studio.

Simply update! I went to their site and found a handy link for a patch. 

Just install Ver. 1.7.3.1 and you’re good to go.

Here’s a direct link to make it easier.

#clip studio
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