Announcement for any Clip Studio Paint users who are behind the times like I am: Erase Along Edge is a game changer
I have been meaning to try it out for ages and finally did, holy shit. It makes mistakes occasionally but flat color cleanup just became 10x easier and less annoying.
Shout out to @pharantriestoanimatestuff I know you said this is a basic CSP functionality but I 100% never would've figured it out without you
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I can’t draw anatomy to save my life, so instead I drew fan art as a pet rock.
@8um8le I’m not sure how Cat would feel getting a pet rock based off his design
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What I ended up with for my random notebook decorating
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i love art i love drawing i love thinking of things and making it happen i love drawing my blorbos i love art :)
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After playing a bit more of @playwonderlands we started a Few bits on stream!
Sometimes you just gotta do a funky little dance!
Excited to do these pieces and give them to some #twitch #subcribers !
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A bit of graphics software fun and games, long haired beardless Obi-Wan because, well, I can and nobody is going to stop me!
The hair is courtesy of a male model; there are some gorgeous long haired men on the internet. The color style is inspired by one of my fics.
Anakin's reaction: OMG!
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I lied it's not actually new art. Is it new art if it's old art in a new medium? idk but let's do some science to our art, welcome to
ACID TIME
Here's a horseshoe crab I drew in ballpoint pen a while back. I took a short etching class and wanted to use this as my image—I've done a little etching before but not this much detail, so it was a bit of an experiment.
Quick etching explanation: You first cover a flat metal plate in a waxy substance called "ground", then use a sharp tool to carve through the ground to reveal your plate. You then dunk that into an acid bath for like 30 seconds to an hour, depending on how deep/bold you want the line to be. The ground protects most of the plate, but the acid will eat away at anything you exposed. When you put ink on your plate to print it, the ink will sit in those grooves and then transfer to the paper, producing a print!
(If you're interested in the specific chemistry: We used copper plates and a ferric chloride solution (aka iron (III) chloride, or FeCl3). Ferric chloride is an acid with a pH around 2 (strong!) and it reacts with the copper to produce copper chloride. Copper (II) chloride is soluble, so as the copper gets eaten away from the plate, the copper chloride floats away in the solution.)
You can also do multiple passes in the acid to get different line strengths. The next photos are some WIPs of the different rounds of scratching and/or etching I went through. The dark stuff is the ground, and the bright lines are the copper plate I've exposed—in the first photo you can also see where I've transferred lines from my original drawing to the ground that I haven't scratched yet.
(Printmaking reverses the image, so I had to flip the image while I was working so that it would print normally at the end—that's why it's backwards here.)
I ultimately did 4 rounds in the acid—I exposed the darkest lines first and put it in for 40 minutes, then scratched the medium-dark lines and bathed it for 15 minutes, then two rounds of light lines at 5 minutes. However, it's cumulative because the prior lines stay exposed (unless you specifically cover them with new ground) so the darkest lines actually received just over an hour of etch time.
And then here's what the plate looks like once the ground is removed! This is ready to be inked and printed.
Typically you have to re-ink between each print. This involves smearing the ink on, then using a cloth to buff it off of the surface of the plate while it sits in the etched grooves. Takes a few minutes and you can also control how clean or inky your plate is. I personally prefer more ink for a more shadowy print area and darker darks—left-hand is one where I polished it more, right-hand is one where I left more ink.
And there's the print!
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(okay they're not a real crab but that's the only emoji we've got rn, sue me)
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I am by no means an artist. But I love coloring books. I’ve found they help me relax and I can play with colors and coloring styles.
But my bad habit is looking for nice markers and color pencils to use. I found a marker set that I adore using. But still looking for pencils. What’s even worse is I found markers I love but I don’t want to use them. 🤣
I find markers, pens, or pencils I like and then don’t want to use them because they’re so nice. Am I the only one?
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