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Hallo! ☀ My name is Anastasia. And here I create ~
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Anonymous asked:

i am in love with the 80s anime aesthetic you used for that amethyst drawing!! what programm do you usually use for drawing and how did you create that fuzzy effect?

concave-asscheeks answered:

hank you, im really glad you like it! I usually use SAI to draw and Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (yes its absolutely ancient i knooow) to add certain effects i cant quite recreate in SAI

to get that fuzzy effect, i have the entire image on one layer and duplicate it, changing the opacity of the copy to around 30-40%

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then i hide the copy for a bit, and select the background. there, i apply the “diffuse” filter found right here:

the “lighten only” mode, creates a base to get that “scanned pencil lines” look which helps to make it look more like a screencap of an older anime. 

(i found that this works best with clear lines and cell shading)

then, still on the background layer, i get a gaussian blur filter going, found over here:

a radius of 1-2 pixels blurs the whole deal out a little to make it look like its a good ol low quality screencap

then i go back to the other layer and, using the same gaussian blur filter but a radius of 15-20 pixels, get that foggy feel going!

this step is the most important as it creates that dreamy, foggy feeling which helps to make it look like ye olde animes

lastly, i clean up some highlights that might’ve gotten washed away by all the blurring, and we’re done!

of course you can always do more things like add a texture to make it a little grainy, or resize the canvas to fit the average dimensions for most old animes, or do something difficult and technical with the colors which i know nothing about, but i feel like this process is a pretty alright method to satisfy those ~ a e s t h e t i c ~ cravings!

(quick before/after)

i hope this helps, im sorry this turned out so long…..feel free to ask me to clarify if anything isnt clear!

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papiwolves

remember when i said i was doing a goth femme gem ?? well here she is ! this is coffinite, the living fuel cell

shes currently locked away in the borderland surrounding what used to be russia. she resides in that wasteland, trapped in a downed air raid weapon, an enormous light cannon

it has long since lost its ability to operate, but serves as her home-by-force. her gem, damaged and kept inside an ancient gem fuel cell, once powered the enormous vessel.

she’s highly radioactive. like rubies, she produces heat, but on a much, much larger scale, stretching between extreme temperatures into raw energy. her body is quite weak and brittle, which means she would easily succumb ont he battlefield-she is certainly not a soldier.

coffinites, in spite of their vaguely regal appearance, are pretty low class and typically used to fuel large ships or weapons. their radioactivity has little effect on gems, but can be extremely harmful to humans; although being around her is harmless, touching her heated skin can cause radiation burns and radiation sickness after extended exposure, resulting in hair loss, hemorrhaging, and eventually death.

she’s been trapped in that cannon for a thousand years, fueling non-functional weaponry. she’s stuck in a loop of exhaustion, unsleeping and constantly being wrung to her very limits byt he machine she was forcibly attached to.

that being said, a long time has passed. she’s not who she used to be. in spite of her dark, tired appearance, she’s actually quite sweet and guileless. she once hated earth and humans with it, but her loneliness has driven her to a change of heart. by nature she’s actually quite kind and sweet/cheery, though a bit morbid

she gets introduced via stevens dreams, invading them with a sense of extreme exhaustion and fear, just trying to draw anyone who could possibly hear her closer.

after being released, she turns out to be pretty sweet, just,,awkward, and fully embraces her new life with joy and exuberance. she tends to sound accidentally threatening, and it doesn’t help that shes, like, SUPER obsessed with the way humans die. her attitude is fairly positive and carefree in spite of how tired she is, left to rot on earth by homeworld.

her most notable ability is nearly too dangerous to be used-to humans, at least. she can essentially detonate her light form in an explosion of heat and energy nearly a mile wide-it’s huge and devastating, but would leave nothing but, like, a horrible irradiated shithole behind. plus, it’s really draining for her to do that, and will poof her automatically for a long period of time, which leaves her quite vulnerable.

she can melt her way through stone and metal, but just, like, clocking her on the head w a rock will knock her out. it takes her a really long time to reform and she’s quite bad as a fighter, so if u can catch her before she detonates, ur in the clear.

her summoned weapon is a sot of cattle prod which releases large amounts of energy and is p much completely paralyzing to gems, though it tends to just tickle or annoy humans

  • thematic instrument: harpsichord
  • dance style: foxtrot
  • voice: diana dors
  • speech pattern: slow and deliberate, occasionally dips into a whisper where normal emphasis would ordinarily be placed
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