Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster. 

Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.

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This is exactly how I do my flats.

This is how I do my flats! Really quick and easy!

Worth sharing because this is exaaaaactly how I do my flats!  I get this question all the time when I post my process videos, and this explains it far more succinctly than I ever could. :)

This is also how I do my flats but unfortunately with lines that are see through (or sketchier) you get a lot of jaggies all over the place. So I play with channels!

So alternatively step 1.5 is to click on the channels tab, and create a new layer. Fill the areas that you magic wand(ed) with black (leaving the characters/whatever you want to fill white). Click out of the marquee and use gaussian blur (i use 3.0 on a huge image, sometimes you need to go down for a smaller image)

Then you go to image/adjustments/levels and put in–and this is where I sound like a mad scientist–88 1.42 and 122. Which cleans up the edges so they’re pretty clean! 

Then all you do is click on the circle at the bottom of the channels area (”load channel as selected) and then go back in to layers and click on a layer to load your original view again! and then do the rest of the steps. It will cause you to clean up corners a lot but it saves me a whole heck of time since i have a rougher inking style. This step takes all of 3 minutes at most but otherwise I’d have to base everything by hand :I Or spend a good 40 minutes cleaning up jaggies.

TL;DR alternative step if you have rougher/sketchier lines.

Oh! Since my lines often don’t join correctly, I create a layer underneath and fill any holes before i do selection (with “select all layers” ticked off) which is admittedly tedious but again. Way quicker than doing it by hand! So yeah if you see this and are like oh gee whiz this doesn’t work with how I do stuff, try this added step?

(this is also how to do a stroke around an image that is cleaner than what you get from the layer styles box– I adapted these steps originally from a DA tutorial on how to get clean strokes!)

Gerard Way is Mettaton if he liked screaming his songs

i managed to make it worse

MCRTALE: an AU where everything is the same, but Mettaton speaks only in MCR lyrics

Subbed the One Punch Man Vol. 5 DVD OVA, The Sisters Who Have Too Much Going On. Enjoy~! (The video is NOT MINE! Source video with Chinese Subs)!

Subbed the One Punch Man Vol. 6 DVD OVA, The Murder Case That Was Too Impossible. This is the last OVA from the first season’s set of DVDs! Enjoy~ (Video Source)

Can we just appreciate how Genos says he would testify for Saitama in court even if he knows that Saitama might possibly guilty? I can smell the Villain!AU fanfiction a mile away…

METAL BAT WITH HIS HAIR DOWN, THOUGH

the #1

How to open a beer with a banana

《Hustle》

……..Get a room.

The first few seconds of my Undertale animation… (it will be a video later when completely finished…I hope) ummm (>///<) This is how I imagine this scene from the game! It’s totally not canon!! This is just my personal taste… (I still hate drawing backgrounds (〃´ﾉω`〃)…)

‘We’ll never let them get to US’

I JUST WANNA GET FACKED

Source

GIVE ME A FUCKING SOURCE

Nick gets jealous Judy talking to Tigers

Cuz I think Tigers in Zootopia are the most handsome of all

If someone isn't available during your most crucial time, then their presence any other time is useless.

This isn’t realistic for adults. I’m sorry it’s just not.

Don’t fall into believing that, “if they’re a true friend they’ll drop everything and run to be by your side!” crap.

As a responsible adult there will be times that your friends are hurting and you won’t be able to go to them.

There are times that you will have to go to work, or take your sick kid to the doctor, or do many other things that will prevent you from being there for your friend.

When your friend calls you and they’re falling apart and it’s ten minutes until you have to leave for work, you’re not a bad friend for saying, “Look, I love you. I’m sorry this is happening, but I have to go. I’ll call you back tonight when the kids are asleep.” Or “I’m so sorry this is happening. I love you and I want to be here for you but I’ve got to get to work. I’ll call and check on you during my lunch.”

Adult life is hectic and busy with important things all the time and unfortunately it’s also full of shitty things happening to people we love.

Do your best to be there for the people you love and ask for support when you need it but be understanding when being a responsible adult comes before helping you.

The idea that people need to be there any time you need them is really damaging and unhealthy, too. You can’t place value on a person or a relationship based solely on whether or not they’re available, no questions asked, whenever you need them.

In addition to the above: sometimes, someone simply does not have the energy to help. Maybe they’re coming out of a rough patch themself, maybe they have been busy all day,maybe a chronic illness is flaring up. There are a myriad of reasons someone may not be able to be there.

Obviously, if someone is taking you for granted, and never seems to care how you’re doing, that’s an issue. But to write someone off because their life and your life didn’t line up quite right at a given point in time, or maybe even on more than one occasion, is not a healthy way to handle things.

Amy Rose wearing a cute kitty keyhole lingerie.

I did the inks and flats and NitroDraws did the shading and effects!