dawn - not wanting to leave the warmness of the bed, loves to snuggle, furry friend lover, pretty journals, the briskness of the air outside, dreamy eyes and cloudy heads, rocks the messy hair look, soft colors
morning - sunshine child, brightest smiles, the best hugger, basking in the warm sunlight, tying your hair up or getting it out of your face, comfy sneakers and sweats, lounging around, artsy, plant parent
midday - the most active bunch, loves to play and be with friends, just wants to love everyone and every thing, probably has a pet rock, a breath of fresh air, likes to eat a lot, afternoon naps, windows open and curtains fluttering
evening - party animal, bright lights and pretty people, likes to cook, warmer browns or black, drifting through life, fading lights to dark rooms, cold drinks on summer days, best dressed always, heart eyes 24/7
dusk - tired and grumbly, just wants someone to take care of them, best at giving advice, has a few close friends and loves them to bits, knows all your secrets, has pretty handwriting, likes to tease and joke, actually really cool
midnight - sleepy stargazer, vivid dreams, city lights and moving cars, likes to drink a lot of tea, fluffy blankets, fun adventures at 2am, lots of stories to tell, keeps you guessing, rosy cheeks, leather jackets
Ok. I’m tired of the typical vampire, werewolf and fairy.I’m also tired of the occidental-centrism in mythology. Hence, this list.
I tried to included as many cultural variants as I could find and think of. (Unfortunately, I was restricted by language. Some Russian creatures looked very interesting but I don’t speak Russian…) Please, add creatures from your culture when reblogguing (if not already present). It took me a while to gather all those sites but I know it could be more expansive. I intend on periodically editing this list.
Of note: I did not include specific legendary creatures (Merlin, Pegasus, ect), gods/goddesses/deities and heroes.
(I have stumbled upon web sites that believed some of these mythical creatures exist today… Especially dragons, in fact. I just had to share the love and scepticism.)
Dokkaebi/도깨비 in Korea are common creatures that come up in stories that don’t seem to be on the list of tiny creatures… They may be in the goblin lists though
Yes indeed! It produces the best look and gives me an easy way to recolour/edit them later.
For people who are interested in my process, I’m going to run it down just for the fun of it. It’s not really a tutorial, just a step by step, “here’s how trashbag does it.”
The first thing I do is outline the whole sprite. I use vector lines, as I always do with my sprite edits and tutorials. The whole outline looks like this:
Then I do the same with the eyes; I outline the eyelashes. I can colour in the eyes after during base colours.
Just to make things easier on myself, I then get all the shadows down with vectors. You can easily do this without, just using a pen tool, as well as do it when you are colouring the whole thing… But I just like to get all the shadows on the canvas right away so I can just copy and paste things later.
With that, I’m free to do the base colours. The hair I always make gray so that I can easily recolour it another time if I want to.
With the base colours done, I use these, “rules,” that I made way back when. THE DIFFERENCE HOWEVER FROM FOUR MONTHS AGO TO NOW is that the water colour texture is no longer a multiple layer for me, and instead is now an overlay layer.
And that’s basically it. The recolours have just been me changing up the base colours. It can be absolutely anything.
An introduction: I use Paint Tool SAI. If you do not use Paint Tool SAI, your method of editing sprites may be different, but the idea is the same. If you have any questions(on the method or Paint Tool SAI), feel free to inbox/message me, but not on anonymous; that way, I can help you personally.
I am no means an expert, nor am I a good teacher, but hopefully this will help.
The main thing about genderbends is that I can give you tips, but the end result depends on the person editing the sprites; a reversed gender can mean a lot of things; different hair styles, body types, clothing, etc.
An introduction: I use Paint Tool SAI. If you do not use Paint Tool SAI, your method of editing sprites may be different, but the idea is the same. If you have any questions(on the method or Paint Tool SAI), feel free to inbox/message me, but not on anonymous; that way, I can help you personally.
I am no means an expert, nor am I a good teacher, but hopefully this will help.
Custom bodies and poses can be done in two ways; by making your own resources completely or pulling from others to have different arms and poses depending on what you choose.
What that means is draw out your own pose, whether by scratch or using a pose already made, completely covering it:
Don’t ask why they all have capes; it ended up being coincidental and dumb.
Or taking various parts to make one(hint: the arm) while keeping the rest:
I think the first thing to learn is what cell shading is.
Don’t mind me as I use my older male Kana as an example; that’s what I was working on when I received this ask. Also don’t mind the layer names; when I haven’t finalized things, I don’t name things seriously.
Take a look at the top of the hair. See that shading?
This type of shading is called, “cell shading.” Or at least that’s what artists I’ve seen call it; I dropped out grade ten art due to my teacher because it was not mandatory in my program no it was because of my teacher.
The shading below here, now, is called, “soft shading.”
hey!! i'm getting into editing sprites and all, but i have a question! how do you....well, change the color of sprites? such as their skin? or their hair? ; v ;
There are three ways to recolour things. All three ways sometimes require a bit of fixing, but let’s look at the two ways.
The first is to change the hue and the other is to make an overlay layer over something that is gray. The third is to use a multiply layer, but I usually do not recommend this.
For this demonstration, I’m going to be using my unit, Haruki. We’re going to ignore the error in his sprite where some of the gold parts are blue because I only noticed that while making this tutorial and I didn’t want to recapture the snapshots I had beforehand. See, even I make mistakes.
Disclaimer, this got a lot longer than I intended it to be.
Tumblr expanded its keyboard shortcuts on the Desktop Dashboard to add quick formatting for posts. Also, I’ve marked the shortcuts that require you to use the J key (forward) and K key (backward).
June 29, 2015 Update: Tumblr modified the keyboard shortcut for small text. It’s Command + Shift + Hyphen for Mac or Control + Shift+ Hyphen for Windows. Also, Tumblr added insert GIF (Command + Shift+ G for Mac or Control + Shift + G for Windows) in its Desktop Dashboard shortcuts guide.
