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Posted 4 years ago
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new char :3 !!
did some traditional watercolor this morn + post processing ^0^
will get around to a full body ref eventually lol
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new char :3 !!
did some traditional watercolor this morn + post processing ^0^
will get around to a full body ref eventually lol
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Posted in Demon Den - A Lurker's Home
Posted 4 years ago
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oh cool! i heard from someone abt the smackjeeves thing, that's pretty unfortunate :-/
i remember like a decade ago(?) a friend of mine had a comic on there and it seemed like a common platform for indie webcomics (hmmm are all webcomics indie, is that redundant lol ...) but the site definitely looks very different now (which isn't bad in itself, sometimes redesigns can be good) and i'm guessing operates on a different model now though
that's nice that comic fury seems like a good platform though :3
what are you doing for ur own site?? like ru doing it all from scratch, or ?
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oh cool! i heard from someone abt the smackjeeves thing, that's pretty unfortunate :-/
i remember like a decade ago(?) a friend of mine had a comic on there and it seemed like a common platform for indie webcomics (hmmm are all webcomics indie, is that redundant lol ...) but the site definitely looks very different now (which isn't bad in itself, sometimes redesigns can be good) and i'm guessing operates on a different model now though
that's nice that comic fury seems like a good platform though :3
what are you doing for ur own site?? like ru doing it all from scratch, or ?
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Posted in Aisu's Ambitions (Open! Come chat?)
Posted 4 years ago
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lol nice, i love all the creature avis i've been seeing since the krampus set came out
i don't think i've made anything w a red base before :-0
it's harder to find arm mods in non-default colors, i didn't realize summer dear had red arms ... ? (or ...? honestly i can't tell what ur arms are lol what am i looking at here...)
yay i'm glad!! both the sleeping better and also crossing stuff off the wishlist lol
what else do u have left? :3
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lol nice, i love all the creature avis i've been seeing since the krampus set came out
i don't think i've made anything w a red base before :-0 it's harder to find arm mods in non-default colors, i didn't realize summer dear had red arms ... ? (or ...? honestly i can't tell what ur arms are lol what am i looking at here...)
yay i'm glad!! both the sleeping better and also crossing stuff off the wishlist lol
what else do u have left? :3
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Posted in Lina’s Quest
Posted 4 years ago
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haha ok! i might put off selling for a bit cuz i might be mentally elsewhere for the next two months ish
orrr idk maybe i'll put it up for sale when my volts get too low (which they are approaching lol)
which event items do u have left :3 i feel like i've seen a lot of the winter 19 ones around the exchange
i joined in may! feels like it's been a while though haha i guess i spent a lot of time on here this year >0>
it's kind of interesting though like when i joined i was like oh this site is full of internet strangers , being on voltra is like chatting w internet strangers! like i didn't know anyone so chatting w any person was just like chatting w any person (if that makes sense)
but the longer i'm on the more it's like, oh i'm chatting w friends, this person is like this and that person is like that, this is like a whole community, and also here are a lot of social dynamics i had no idea existed before lol
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haha ok! i might put off selling for a bit cuz i might be mentally elsewhere for the next two months ish
orrr idk maybe i'll put it up for sale when my volts get too low (which they are approaching lol)
which event items do u have left :3 i feel like i've seen a lot of the winter 19 ones around the exchange
i joined in may! feels like it's been a while though haha i guess i spent a lot of time on here this year >0>
it's kind of interesting though like when i joined i was like oh this site is full of internet strangers , being on voltra is like chatting w internet strangers! like i didn't know anyone so chatting w any person was just like chatting w any person (if that makes sense)
but the longer i'm on the more it's like, oh i'm chatting w friends, this person is like this and that person is like that, this is like a whole community, and also here are a lot of social dynamics i had no idea existed before lol
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Posted in selling stones
Posted 4 years ago
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@kittyzilla: can i buy ur moonstone?
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@kittyzilla: can i buy ur moonstone?
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Posted in Demon Den - A Lurker's Home
Posted 4 years ago
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ooh nice! i just looked thru ur comic ouja ^^ fun and i love the themes :3
can i ask how it's hosted / what u think of whatever you're using for hosting?
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ooh nice! i just looked thru ur comic ouja ^^ fun and i love the themes :3
can i ask how it's hosted / what u think of whatever you're using for hosting?
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Posted in Lina’s Quest
Posted 4 years ago
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aisu i got an alice from the mad tea party raffle :0 lmk if you'd want me to hold it for u or anything?
i was kind of wondering if i should try to sell it or not ... it's a rly nice item just not my personal style i think :0
also i didn't realize you joined w/in the year!! i guess anyone who was here before me i just assume has been around for a while lol
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aisu i got an alice from the mad tea party raffle :0 lmk if you'd want me to hold it for u or anything?
i was kind of wondering if i should try to sell it or not ... it's a rly nice item just not my personal style i think :0
also i didn't realize you joined w/in the year!! i guess anyone who was here before me i just assume has been around for a while lol
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Posted in Aisu's Ambitions (Open! Come chat?)
Posted 4 years ago
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aisu i'm loving ur current avi!!!
aww omg ty!! i wanna give credit where it's due tho, grid was the first person i saw w a baseless avi
i was like omg i didn't even realize that was an option!!!
aw i hope both you and your son have been sleeping better lately <3
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aisu i'm loving ur current avi!!!
aww omg ty!! i wanna give credit where it's due tho, grid was the first person i saw w a baseless avi
i was like omg i didn't even realize that was an option!!!
aw i hope both you and your son have been sleeping better lately <3
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Posted in Ꮚ≗ꈊ≗Ꮚ ten.eleven
Posted 4 years ago
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yeah i was surprised at how rainbow some of the items were :0 i thought maybe it was like for a one off event kind of thing ?
eventually i picked up that it is like, a regularly occurring color scheme here lol
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yeah i was surprised at how rainbow some of the items were :0 i thought maybe it was like for a one off event kind of thing ?
eventually i picked up that it is like, a regularly occurring color scheme here lol
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Posted in Ꮚ≗ꈊ≗Ꮚ ten.eleven
Posted 4 years ago
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ooh what games have u been playing ^^
omg a month is a long time :0 sounds intense ... do u think anything changed that they stopped?
haha i always wanna ask ppl who they're drawing for the art exchange but it's .... supposed to be secret!! lol
is there anything u have on ur gift wishlist? ^^
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ooh what games have u been playing ^^
omg a month is a long time :0 sounds intense ... do u think anything changed that they stopped?
haha i always wanna ask ppl who they're drawing for the art exchange but it's .... supposed to be secret!! lol
is there anything u have on ur gift wishlist? ^^
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Posted 4 years ago
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@keturah: oohh so fun :3 do u enjoy being able to see all the sets in advance??
oohh a lot of fantasy ? i read invisible cities by calvino for a class once :0 it wasn't like a novel though, iirc it was like each chapter was a small world?? the class was digital illustration orrr smthg and the prompt was to pick one of them and illustrate it i think? ^^
i've been reading octavia's brood (short story anthology, speculative fiction) and a hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez, magic realism) currently! i think before that i was reading pet by akwaeke emezi (so good!!) and iq94 by murakami (i'm v close to the end but never finished lol)
i like that u stopped when u weren't enjoying a book! lol
no need to keep going just for the sake of it...
and thank u!!! i was super anxious abt it cuz i was like so many things can go wrong lol ... luckily i am finally on the other side :-) i've only been here a little over a day but i feel like it's been a while already lol ... time is so unreal haha
i'm only here for two months, i'm going back early feb :0
and omg tysm!!! yeah i remember that first piece i did for u, i feel like embarrassed ahahaha i was so rusty with painting honestly ...
i still don't have a standard process down but it is starting to feel less daunting / am learning to trust the process a bit more / try to push past the "ugly" stage of paintings lol
(oops i intended to keep this post short and it got v long ahaha no pressure to reply to all of it)
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@keturah: oohh so fun :3 do u enjoy being able to see all the sets in advance??
oohh a lot of fantasy ? i read invisible cities by calvino for a class once :0 it wasn't like a novel though, iirc it was like each chapter was a small world?? the class was digital illustration orrr smthg and the prompt was to pick one of them and illustrate it i think? ^^
i've been reading octavia's brood (short story anthology, speculative fiction) and a hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez, magic realism) currently! i think before that i was reading pet by akwaeke emezi (so good!!) and iq94 by murakami (i'm v close to the end but never finished lol)
i like that u stopped when u weren't enjoying a book! lol
no need to keep going just for the sake of it...
and thank u!!! i was super anxious abt it cuz i was like so many things can go wrong lol ... luckily i am finally on the other side :-) i've only been here a little over a day but i feel like it's been a while already lol ... time is so unreal haha
i'm only here for two months, i'm going back early feb :0
and omg tysm!!! yeah i remember that first piece i did for u, i feel like embarrassed ahahaha i was so rusty with painting honestly ...
i still don't have a standard process down but it is starting to feel less daunting / am learning to trust the process a bit more / try to push past the "ugly" stage of paintings lol
(oops i intended to keep this post short and it got v long ahaha no pressure to reply to all of it)
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Posted 4 years ago
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aww scheduled video chats :3 how far away are they? are they weekly or?
i think we usually just call whenever we feel like it lol ... having it scheduled regularly is probably p nice tho :0
omg i never watched jojo ... is it worth getting into lol
ahahaha how many times ?? fma is super good but when i watched it as a adult i was like wth this is so heavy???? i can't believe i watched this as a youth and was just like oh ok ??
edit - oh also all of my crunchy roll shows have been free ?? :0 do ppl pay for cr?
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aww scheduled video chats :3 how far away are they? are they weekly or?
i think we usually just call whenever we feel like it lol ... having it scheduled regularly is probably p nice tho :0
omg i never watched jojo ... is it worth getting into lol
ahahaha how many times ?? fma is super good but when i watched it as a adult i was like wth this is so heavy???? i can't believe i watched this as a youth and was just like oh ok ??
edit - oh also all of my crunchy roll shows have been free ?? :0 do ppl pay for cr?
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Posted 4 years ago
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@hachi: oohh how do u do ur shading and post processing ?? :3
and what's the discord emoji :0
honestly i'm not even sure what my process is like lmao, i still do it slightly differently every time haha @@ still figuring it out tbh
but typically i do:
1) sketch
2) flats
3) shading ?? (but sometimes i shade in the sketch phase instead)
4) layer on top for paintover , painting on one layer
5) post processing (lots of clipping mask layers and overlay/soft light w fun colors)
6) final step: canvas texture on multiply + add noise
i've been experimenting tho, i used to do everything on one layer but more recently i've been using separate layers for diff colors? honestly i don't know what i'm doing Lol
for brushes i usually use textured brush packs i found for free online
i haven't used the same ones every time tho, some don't come w good opacity/flow/size pressure so i just kind of pick one at random and see if it works or not lol (sometimes it doesn't!)
more recently i've been going back to the default brushes though (the circles and the airbrush circle), kind of like to brush up (aha) on basics lol
hmm what else ... i usually save a piece after each phase, and i'll also group stuff and merge together before moving on to the next phase ... i have progress files for the last painted piece i did (the one on the first post of this thread - can click to see it in full ^^) and i thought abt compiling them and posting in my gallery thread ... but i was like does anyone even look at this thread lol idk if worth the effort ...
w/ painting i always feel like there's an "ugly phase" and i always wanna quit lol but i'm glad i don't and keep going! i think the post process stuff makes a big diff for me too so i gotta make sure i get there :0
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@hachi: oohh how do u do ur shading and post processing ?? :3
and what's the discord emoji :0
honestly i'm not even sure what my process is like lmao, i still do it slightly differently every time haha @@ still figuring it out tbh
but typically i do:
1) sketch
2) flats
3) shading ?? (but sometimes i shade in the sketch phase instead)
4) layer on top for paintover , painting on one layer
5) post processing (lots of clipping mask layers and overlay/soft light w fun colors)
6) final step: canvas texture on multiply + add noise
i've been experimenting tho, i used to do everything on one layer but more recently i've been using separate layers for diff colors? honestly i don't know what i'm doing Lol
for brushes i usually use textured brush packs i found for free online
i haven't used the same ones every time tho, some don't come w good opacity/flow/size pressure so i just kind of pick one at random and see if it works or not lol (sometimes it doesn't!) more recently i've been going back to the default brushes though (the circles and the airbrush circle), kind of like to brush up (aha) on basics lol
hmm what else ... i usually save a piece after each phase, and i'll also group stuff and merge together before moving on to the next phase ... i have progress files for the last painted piece i did (the one on the first post of this thread - can click to see it in full ^^) and i thought abt compiling them and posting in my gallery thread ... but i was like does anyone even look at this thread lol idk if worth the effort ...
w/ painting i always feel like there's an "ugly phase" and i always wanna quit lol but i'm glad i don't and keep going! i think the post process stuff makes a big diff for me too so i gotta make sure i get there :0
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Posted in SECRET ART EXCHANGE 2020 [gifts posted!]
Posted 4 years ago
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oohhh do itt :vichardhappy:
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oohhh do itt :vichardhappy:
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