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LOST BLADES - ferrum monoceros

Born into this life unlike other beasts of this world, the Lost Blades are a union of flesh, steel, and spirit. When a sword is lost deep in the woods, given enough time, it begins to grow. At the base of the blade, the sword will begin to swell. Slowly, a gnarl of meat will curl, pushing the blade from the hilt as the fetal ferrum monoceros develops. Eventually, the fetus’ tail will ensnare the tang of the blade - the metal core running through the weapons handle - separating it from the blade itself. At that central point, where the hilt meets the blade, the body of the animal forms. Cloven hooves, skin marbled and engraved, a wiry and unkempt mane. In time, the hilt of the weapon will split apart as the creature's tail grows in size, but younger blades tend to still have their hilts intact at the base of their tails. Throughout their lifetime, more of the original weapon is shed, but even mature specimens still show remnants of leather handle wraps and pommel ornamentation clinging to their whip-like tails. The magic that births these beasts dwells deep in the place of forgotten things, of lost socks and misplaced keys. There are many things that could produce a lost blade. A pebble underneath the wheel of a wagon, jostling a blacksmith’s produce onto the road. A brave hero’s last stand, outnumbered in unfamiliar territory. A mother and her child, frightened, armed, chased by all the things that might lurk in the shadows. Perhaps they were left behind by those who felt safe enough to lay their weapons down, finally at rest. Nothing more that might harm them, nothing left to fear. Who knows whether the lost ones remember the hands that once held them, the lives they might have protected, and the lives they might have cut short.

(still rendition)

Other creatures of The Continent: HOOKJAW HERMIT (PAGUROIDEA NERKA)

SPECULAR SAILFIN (MAKAIRA TINCTUS)

SLATE NAUTILUS (RASA TESTA)

Watchers come in a myriad forms, but most are known for a certain degree of body horror. Even when they adopt humanoid forms, most of them still display completely inhuman traits- Spilling eyes from a misplaced, body-wide mouth is not unheard of.

Hello! Today I bring a watcher, the original entities from my campaign! It's been forever since I drew one but I have been facing an art funk of late, and I thought it would be a fun way to get back in track. I hope you enjoy this spooky lady!

I had to delete my previous bokeh overlay pack because zight died on me and I no longer had the file, so here is a new one.

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you won’t 100% but this helps a little 💕

idk how many of you are using this already but hopefully it will help someone out when saving gifs. but basically in this tutorial kinda thing i’ll try to explain how to play around with your colour palette to have your choice of 256 colours bc PS can be a b*tch. 

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Okay so I know everyone does this differently, but I personally am very much a fan of doing coloring from scratch. Usually, I try to start with a color I know won’t pull from the body color. So for my purple set, finding something that was magenta already and only had to be tweaked to purple or changing something from blue to purple was pretty easy. If you look at my blue and purple set you’ll see I used the same scene from the LWYMD music video because it has a great steady background! Below I’ll show you what I do for this.

What you need for this tutorial:

Photoshop

An understanding of how to make gifs already

Some idea of how to use selective colors

I was asked to explain how I did the text effects for this Dinah Lance set and while I usually have no idea what the heck I’m doing, I thought I might spare some others the madness of figuring these out. 

It’s pretty easy and this is less explanation and more just a walkthrough but here we go

tutorial under the cut!

here’s a list of blogs you can tag in your edits/creations! :)

i’ve gotten a lot of requests recently asking me to make a tutorial for my ‘colorporn’ gifsets, and i think i’ve finally gotten over the traumatic incident 3 years ago, when i spent all day writing out a coloring tutorial only to accidentally hit backspace causing the entire thing to be wiped. so, here it is, buckle up folks! it’s going to be a long ride but here’s hoping it’ll be helpful.

so we’ll be going from left side (no coloring) to right (coloring & color porn):