will the garage sale be virtual? or just in that thing the people call real life?
drawing streaming party sounds fun
Real life/local, though I guess I could make a post ahead of time with my really good stuff for internet folks to have first dibs on…
Okay, so my plan is as follows:
Step one- Garage sale this weekend. Gonna be selling a ton of my books, movies, games, toys, household items, etc. etc. etc. When that is done, I will have a better idea of how short I am for moving costs. I have to have the rest of my deposit, plus first month’s rent, plus utility deposits, plus get a moving truck, etc, by July 21st in order to get the keys.
Step two- once I have a total for how much I need, I will post an official announcement to do a livestream donation event on July 18th. This is what I was thinking…
First three hour sprint will be a “let’s draw!” bonus story for the Dangerous Cute book… people in the livestream can help decide where the story will go and I’ll storyboard it live – on paper, with my fancy camera feeding the footage to the stream.
Second three hour sprint will be a doodle request, where I’ll draw anything within a rating for like 5-10 mins a piece or whatever on a timer.
Third three hour sprint will be a Campfire session where I come up with the prompt and have participants draw and submit their things and I’ll show them and post it in the end.
And then, uhmm… I’ll post everything, but people who donate any amount will get a nice PDF of the bonus story when it’s done…? IDK, anyone have any input? I can’t take straight-up commissions. I think it would probably kill me. But doing on-the-spot deliverables is doable.
So yes please ideas/feedback/input is welcome. <3
Okay, so my plan is as follows:
Step one- Garage sale this weekend. Gonna be selling a ton of my books, movies, games, toys, household items, etc. etc. etc. When that is done, I will have a better idea of how short I am for moving costs. I have to have the rest of my deposit, plus first month’s rent, plus utility deposits, plus get a moving truck, etc, by July 21st in order to get the keys.
Step two- once I have a total for how much I need, I will post an official announcement to do a livestream donation event on July 18th. This is what I was thinking…
First three hour sprint will be a “let’s draw!” bonus story for the Dangerous Cute book… people in the livestream can help decide where the story will go and I’ll storyboard it live – on paper, with my fancy camera feeding the footage to the stream.
Second three hour sprint will be a doodle request, where I’ll draw anything within a rating for like 5-10 mins a piece or whatever on a timer.
Third three hour sprint will be a Campfire session where I come up with the prompt and have participants draw and submit their things and I’ll show them and post it in the end.
And then, uhmm… I’ll post everything, but people who donate any amount will get a nice PDF of the bonus story when it’s done…? IDK, anyone have any input? I can’t take straight-up commissions. I think it would probably kill me. But doing on-the-spot deliverables is doable.
So yes please ideas/feedback/input is welcome. <3
Wow sorry for the negativity in that last post… I’m just feeling insanely discouraged right now. But I cried and then I finally ate and Aaron and my bro watched Jaws with me so I’m feeling a little better. Everything is still super messed up and stressful, but I don’t feel like jumping in front of a train at this moment. Also I picked up more meds today so hopefully I can avoid thinking about that stuff soon.
Ugh.
Wow sorry for the negativity in that last post… I’m just feeling insanely discouraged right now. But I cried and then I finally ate and Aaron and my bro watched Jaws with me so I’m feeling a little better. Everything is still super messed up and stressful, but I don’t feel like jumping in front of a train at this moment. Also I picked up more meds today so hopefully I can avoid thinking about that stuff soon.
no need to be sorry~ i posted a tutorial a while ago, here! the thing with the screentones is not covered in this tutorial, but that’s basically just applying patterns to the image.
here are my steps in photoshop after i made the screencaps black and white. sometimes the images come out really shitty after you used threshold on them so make sure you have the original cap open somewhere, it will help you with redrawing and adding the screentones ?
sure! i followed a tutorial in the beginning, but the person who posted it deleted their blog, so i sadly can’t link you to the tutorial. i can try to explain it though.
there’s three ways you can go about this: photoshop or photoscape or use both. i use both, and i’m starting with photoscape.
load the image into the editor:
at the bottom, click onto the button that says “bright, color” (don’t click on the arrow on the right) to change the contrast of the image. it’s not mandatory to use the same values i used as it varies from image to image. you can also try to change other options, just make sure it looks kind of high in contrast at the end (make dark parts really dark and light parts really light).
then sharpen the picture. it’s probably best if you use something along these values:
now go back to the button that says “bright, color”, but this time click on the arrow. from the list that pops up, choose “threshold” and change the value until you get a nice result.
save the image and load it into photoshop. make a second layer. draw on the new layer with white over the parts that you do not want in the image
(please don’t draw on the layer of your image.)
depending on how plain the background is, maybe you can even leave it. i erased it completely, and now it looks like this:
add a speech bubble (i drew this one freehand, but you might as well use a tool to draw it):
and finally, add text and textures:
i used the same texture twice with different gradient maps. here’s what my layers look like:
and that’s basically it! like i said in the beginning, you can technically do all the steps in either photoshop or photoscape, but i find it easier and quicker to do the first steps in photoscape when you have many images, while it is easier to clean and add text and textures in photoshop afterwards.
also, it depends a lot on your caps and how much you change the contrast etc beforehand, but it can happen that you’ll have to redraw a lot. for my makoharu edit i mostly had to redraw the hair, for the rinharu edit i had to redraw a lot of little things. so… be prepared… for the redrawz
