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As an Italian, this means a lot.
Reblogged opentheskies
every person who posts ai should be embarrassed
the ghibli trend really pissed me off more than anything because it shows how disconnected you are to anything real. if you knew anything you would know why it's so deeply disrespectful.
^^So true and I genuinely believe that people who “innocently” generate these images for fun are just as guilty of this disrespect as the AI bros who shit on artists. At this point, there’s NO way you can be online and not have heard both the ethical and environmental arguments against it. Especially on a website like Tumblr. So those that are obviously choosing to ignore it or let it slide - that’s very embarrassing!!
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I’m so sorry 😢. Of course I’ll share.
Reblogged botanicalbonelord
so true <3
would you ever consider selling prints? <3 i would personally buy sooo many the atmosphere and emotions in your art are stunning !
Thank you so much 😭❤️
But no, I don't sell prints of my fan art. I never have and don't think I ever will. But I don't mind if people want to print my stuff for themselves. I can always send you a higher quality file of anything I've made for printing if you'd like.
Hi, idk if you’ve answered this before but may I know what program u use and which brushes? Ur art is breathtaking.
Thank you ❤️😭 that’s sweet
I use a combination of Procreate and Photoshop. I render everything in black and white in Procreate and then bring it into Photoshop to add color and noise effects.
For my X-Files stuff, the main brush that I use is called Sugar, and it’s from this Gal Shir texture pack. It’s really good for building up values with pressure, and it’s very soft. Usually I sketch things out with the one of the basic pencil brushes and then render everything over that sketch with that Sugar brush.
There’s also a good default Procreate brush that I like called Lightleak, which is good for adding bursts of light behind heads to make them stand out more, etc.
I also put some texture layers on low opacity over that sketch. The main one I use is a default Procreate brush called Plimsoll. I put it on top of my artwork in black and then bring down the opacity really low so that it makes things look less digital.
Then I bring the black and white artwork into Photoshop and add color. I don’t really like to think about color that much so I usually just put a Gradient Map over it and play with the blending modes and opacity until I get something I like. Then I might go in with a standard round brush and fill in specific areas (like skin) that might need to be a different color and set those as a blending mode (whichever looks best). I also always add noise in Photoshop to add more texture. And then sometimes effects like Diffuse Glow to bring out light areas more.
Anonymous asked:
Hiii! Just wondering if you sell your art anywhere? I would love a print of one of your x files pieces!
Thank you 😭💕
But no, I don’t. I’m fine with people just printing my stuff themselves (as long as they aren’t selling them obviously. because that’s not cool.). But if you hmu I can send you a file to print.
I was just taking my artist sister through pages of your art; and she (and I) were losing our minds over every. single. aspect. of your work-- making caveman noises unironically, scrolling and scrolling, eating up every. single. picture as we plunged further down the rabbit hole.
I don't say this lightly, at all: I'm positive you can excel at anything. Your talent and abilities and hard work and skill are incredible.
(Sidenote: Sis saw your comment about not knowing how to draw faces; and said, verbatim: "I genuinely want to know-- I'm actually curious-- genuinely, 'what makes you say that? how have you reached that conclusion?''")
Omg wow thank you 😭💕
Damn I don't think I'm worthy of that much praise but that's really so nice of you to say 😭
Also faces are so difficult to get right especially if you're trying to get a specific persons likeness down realistically. It's easier to notice if something is off. I've definitely made a lot of mistakes there 😅