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GPose Guide: Dark-skinned characters

I got some questions about how to work with dark-skinned characters - and also heard some comments on how hard it is to gpose them. So here's a compilation of use cases, some techniques, and setups!

Posing in dark settings

This is where dark-skinned characters shine, pun intended. Point lights give a lot of flexibility, and character/environment lights are great tools to give volume and detach characters from the background.

In this example, 3-point sources are used to provide volume to the characters, without relying on character brightness at all. The Neneko Nikuman preset gives excellent brightness, contrast, and depth of field (DoF) options.

Posing in bright settings

Contrast is a powerful tool, and dark-skinned (and dark-clad) characters can use that to their great advantage.

In the following example, a hard white light is positioned to create a strong rim light for volume, with a support gold source for tone and a light purple point to bring up the character's face. The Neneko Cocktail preset gives rich metal tones and excellent contrast.

The second example is about color. The same preset (Neneko Cocktail) is used, with ADOF+BOKEH and ADOF+BLUR enabled to give a dreamy quality to the background. Light sources emulate the sky.

Colorful/Pastel clothing/scenario

You may have heard that dark-skinned characters don't go well with certain colors, like pink or white. That is not true: Dark skin palettes have as much width as pale ones, just in a different range - and light sources can bring them up.

The first example uses a very colorful background, with Neneko Lux driving the hue and brightness up. Instead of fighting it, we use the scenario colors to our advantage by projecting them around the character.

The second example is a portrait where we again use the scenario to provide hints about the light sources. Neneko Melonpan gives an excellent, smooth pastel treatment. Let's see the step-by-step from the original state to the final result.

The first light is placed to emulate a cyan reflection from the water. The second emulates the bluish reflection from the sky, and The third is pretty near and creates a sunny rim light.

With everything in place, we can enable the preset - and play around with DoF to decide how much we want to detach it from the scenario, taking away attention from the background and popping the character.

 Posing together with fair-skinned characters

We can borrow some practices from real-life photography. The most important: position your light sources around the dark-skinned character. This will give you enough contrast to play with, and lessen the amount that reaches the other.

Composition (Extreme)

Compositions with lots of glow elements make it hard to pop the character features: since armor and weapons don't emit real light, everything needs to be compensated with the three-point lights, plus character and manual scene brightness.

In this case, the character is positioned in such a way as to hide frontal reflections while still bringing his expression out a bit with well-defined rim lights.

Comment: The default in-game lighting leaves much to be desired

This is certainly true to an extent. The in-game settings are apparently tuned towards a common denominator between wildly different form factors (i.e. PC, Playstation 3-5), so a muted palette is used.

This results in ashen colors and small gradient differences between dark tones in certain situations; keep that in mind if you're looking for locations. Again, lighting can be used to remediate - but not eliminate - these limitations.

Final Thoughts

This isn't, by any means, a comprehensive guide. Dark-skinned characters come in a glorious amount of shades and tones, so I tried to keep it simple and discuss some basic aspects.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! It'll help others that may stumble over this thread.

And thank you for your patience!

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GPose Guide: Dark-skinned characters

I got some questions about how to work with dark-skinned characters - and also heard some comments on how hard it is to gpose them. So here's a compilation of use cases, some techniques, and setups!

Posing in dark settings

This is where dark-skinned characters shine, pun intended. Point lights give a lot of flexibility, and character/environment lights are great tools to give volume and detach characters from the background.

In this example, 3-point sources are used to provide volume to the characters, without relying on character brightness at all. The Neneko Nikuman preset gives excellent brightness, contrast, and depth of field (DoF) options.

Posing in bright settings

Contrast is a powerful tool, and dark-skinned (and dark-clad) characters can use that to their great advantage.

In the following example, a hard white light is positioned to create a strong rim light for volume, with a support gold source for tone and a light purple point to bring up the character's face. The Neneko Cocktail preset gives rich metal tones and excellent contrast.

The second example is about color. The same preset (Neneko Cocktail) is used, with ADOF+BOKEH and ADOF+BLUR enabled to give a dreamy quality to the background. Light sources emulate the sky.

Colorful/Pastel clothing/scenario

You may have heard that dark-skinned characters don't go well with certain colors, like pink or white. That is not true: Dark skin palettes have as much width as pale ones, just in a different range - and light sources can bring them up.

The first example uses a very colorful background, with Neneko Lux driving the hue and brightness up. Instead of fighting it, we use the scenario colors to our advantage by projecting them around the character.

The second example is a portrait where we again use the scenario to provide hints about the light sources. Neneko Melonpan gives an excellent, smooth pastel treatment. Let's see the step-by-step from the original state to the final result.

The first light is placed to emulate a cyan reflection from the water. The second emulates the bluish reflection from the sky, and The third is pretty near and creates a sunny rim light.

With everything in place, we can enable the preset - and play around with DoF to decide how much we want to detach it from the scenario, taking away attention from the background and popping the character.

 Posing together with fair-skinned characters

We can borrow some practices from real-life photography. The most important: position your light sources around the dark-skinned character. This will give you enough contrast to play with, and lessen the amount that reaches the other.

Composition (Extreme)

Compositions with lots of glow elements make it hard to pop the character features: since armor and weapons don't emit real light, everything needs to be compensated with the three-point lights, plus character and manual scene brightness.

In this case, the character is positioned in such a way as to hide frontal reflections while still bringing his expression out a bit with well-defined rim lights.

Comment: The default in-game lighting leaves much to be desired

This is certainly true to an extent. The in-game settings are apparently tuned towards a common denominator between wildly different form factors (i.e. PC, Playstation 3-5), so a muted palette is used.

This results in ashen colors and small gradient differences between dark tones in certain situations; keep that in mind if you're looking for locations. Again, lighting can be used to remediate - but not eliminate - these limitations.

Final Thoughts

This isn't, by any means, a comprehensive guide. Dark-skinned characters come in a glorious amount of shades and tones, so I tried to keep it simple and discuss some basic aspects.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! It'll help others that may stumble over this thread.

And thank you for your patience!

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Dreams...

Life...

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MORE SMUTTY PROMPTS BUT WITH SOME PLOT FOR EXTRA SPICE 🔥

1)  our muses are undressing each other for the first time and sender notices receiver’s scars they’ve never seen before. 

2)  our muses are undressing each other for the first time and receiver notices sender’s scars they’ve never seen before. 

3)  our muses take a shower together to wash blood off each other. 

4)  our muses impulsively have sex after committing a high stakes crime together  (  murder, bank robbery, etc. feel free to specify  ). 

5)  our muses have passionate,  adrenaline high sex after a battle/mission. 

6)  our muses have been separated from each other by circumstance for a considerable amount of time and have sex for the first time since being reunited. 

7)  our muses were broken up and have sex after getting back together. 

8)  our muses are broken up but have ‘one last time’ sex. 

9)  our muses are in a fight and have angry sex. 

10)  one muse uses sex to comfort the other one and coax in some vulnerability. 

11)  one muse uses sex to distract and avoid vulnerability. 

12)  muses clinging desperately to each other during sex,  holding each other close like they’re afraid to let go. 

13)  one muse giving the other who is injured oral while they’re recovering. 

14)  one muse comes over to comfort the other one and it unintentionally turns into comfort sex. 

15)  one muse utilizes orgasm denial to get information out of the other  (  whether teasingly or in earnest  ). 

16)  our muses are drunk/high and have some messy sex they don’t remember the next morning. 

17)  our muses aren’t romantically involved but wind up having sex out of convenience. 

18)  one muse accidentally stumbles on the other who is undressing, but they tell them to stay and seductively strip the rest in front of them. 

19)  one muse fingers the other while they’re having an important discussion. 

20)  one muse sits on the other’s lap with their cock or strap inside while they do another task  (  paperwork,  reading,  watching a movie etc.  ). 

21)  one or both muses have gone through breakups and have sex with each other to feel better or for revenge. 

22)  one muse has sex with the other in exchange for a favor. 

23)  one muse has little to no experience with sex and approaches the other more experienced muse to teach them. 

24)  our muses are on the run together and have sex while caught up in the thrill of it all. 

25)  our muses are enemies/rivals but a fight leads to sex. 

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(If I don't get to these, I promise I'm thinking of them)

prompts for those with a reputation.

“ i heard you were back in town. ”

“ you’re not nearly as quiet as you believe yourself to be. ”

“ discretion was never as strong a suit for you as your… other, talents. ”

“ when they first said you were back, i thought they were delusional. now i worry that i’m the insane one. ”

“ they tell me you’re the one to go to for… well. my particular problem. ”

“ you were great. are great. but… you could’ve been legendary. ”

“ people are rather interested in making your acquaintance. ”

“ you know the police are still after you, right? ”

“ look at you. smirk and all, like we should be kissing your feet for existing. ”

“ you’ve gained quite the reputation, you know. ”

“ i’ve seen you. in the news… ”

“ is it true? what they say about you? ”

“ i don’t believe any of it. how can one person manage to pull that off? ”

“ i… i thought you’d be taller, for some reason. ”

“ you might tell me how you did it, some day. perhaps over drinks? ”

“ people would give their right arm just to have a chance at talking to you. ”

“ the entire world knows your name. and still, we whisper it. ”

“ you’re both renowned and a complete and utter mystery. ”

“ goodness. all the rumors about you, and you look… nothing like what i was anticipating. ”

“ everyone who’s anyone knows the story about you. but do we know the truth? ”

“ you really should hear some of the rumors about you. comedic gold… ”

“ well, the stories are obviously all fake. right? ”

#meme

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Here are the prizes for my art raffle, in no particular order:

@bowhannataba @viridian-dragoon @flipmaxter (Twitter) @ObliviousDariri (Twitter)

It was a pleasure to draw your OCs. Thank you for your support!

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Brandt! I wanna win for my Brandt!

ArtRaffle Tiem! for coloured headshots.

To enter:

- follow @nichroous​ - reblog this with who you want drawn (SFW only) - for fun: share a fact about them

Same raffle running on Twitter; you can join both but not win both.

Ends Oct 09, 2020 12:00 PDT!

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I'm gonna write up an LFRP thing soon so that I stop being lazy and people can actually get to grips if they wanna hang out with Brandt or not. Just need a template and some time.

If you wanna do something over discord and want to get to know the lad that way though just shoot me a message. I can't play game right now because controller bad...

#brandt vedyrson #ffxiv balmung #ffxiv lich #male au ra xaela #ffxiv rp #really bad at this #promise i'm not a ghost #no really

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I'll bit the bait! 💕

“I suppose I have a lot to make up for all the lost time, my dear old flame.”

(Thanks for playing @brandt-highwind!)

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I created Brandt years ago because I thought Au Ra were cool looking. Along the way I slowly created a chracter for him, learned about the history of the race and gave him a backstory to align. But even before that I've believed that people, no matter who they are, should never have to suffer injustice, or be looked down upon. I realise a digital character and a fictional race being descriminated against is nothing, or less than nothing compared to the real world tragedies and hardships people face daily, but I had a choice to make Brandt's history and character be shaped by the racist actions performed by the Ishgardians in the lore. The people who have died in reality in the past few decades and before then for hundreds of years did not have a choice. Things need to change, because they should have changed years ago. I'm not in a position to offer any help, but I hope solidarity is enough to know that I believe in you all.

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Not tagged, just a thief.

Ignore the crown, it just looked neat.

𝙳𝙴𝚂𝙸𝙶𝙽    𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁    𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴    𝙰𝚂    𝚃𝙴𝙳𝙳𝚈    𝙱𝙴𝙰𝚁.

tagged by: @the-storm-chaser​ //I tried! xD

tagging: @rinrin-rinalys​ @whitewood-healer​ @white-witch-aurora​ @samurai-from-another-land​ @fae-fire​ @koko-works​ @mai-takeda​ @yuki-yukichan​ @ink-dreams-ffxiv​ @silvertail-ffxiv​

And anyone else that sees this feel free to do it too!!

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Reblog this if you roleplay or are willing to roleplay on Discord

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I'll try, although none of my real glams can be seen in group pics because it's on my main...

FFXIV Screenshot Meme

Send a symbol and I’ll give a screenshot for it!  (Note: some folks may not be able to take screenies of their muses to suit the prompt, so editing is allowed and encouraged for those who are so inclined.)

[I’m not a meme blog, and these memes I make are just as much for me as they are for you!] 

Send 🛡️ to see my muse in their current tank glamour(s)

Send 🔨 to see them in their current DoH glamour(s)

Send ⛏️ to see them in their current DoL glamour(s)

Send ⚔️ to see my muse in their current melee DPS glamour(s)

Send ✨ to see them in their current caster glamour(s)

Send 👗 to see them in a fancy dress

Send 👙 to see them in their underwear

Send 💖 to see them in their favourite outfit(s)

Send 👘 to see them in an outfit traditional to their culture

Send 🎩 to see my muse in their favourite headpiece

Send 👕 to see my muse in their favourite top

Send 🧥 to see my muse in their favourite coat

Send 👖 to see my muse in their favourite bottoms

Send 👢 to see my muse in their favourite pair of shoes

Send 🔫 to see my muse with their favourite weapon(s)

Send 💄 to see them in their going-out attire

Send 👀 to see them in something suggestive

Send 💍 to see them wearing an expensive outfit

Send 🎮  to see them in a cosplay of the mun’s choice

Send 🎀  to see them in a cute outfit

Send 🛌 to see them in their PJ’s/Sleep attire

Send 👎 to see them in something they’d never wear

Send 👾 for them posing with their favourite minion/pet(s)

Send 🌦️ to see them out in their favourite kind of weather

Send 🏖️ to see them in their favourite climate(s)

Send 🏠 to see them in their home or place of origin

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…..Deadly                 Sins….

@brandt-highwind

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Send 👎 to see them in something they’d never wear

(I know, I know, I'm late.)

"B- but why...?

"Haven't I suffered enough!?"

#ffxiv lich #ffxiv rp #glamour screenshot #ask #very late... #ffxiv balmung #ffxiv screenshots