ELKIUS

Howdy! There's many steps I take towards the end of my process to get that television effect.

This is actually my final step but I'll talk about it first since I'm sure it's the one you want to know about. Chromatic aberration! Better known as the 3d effect.

I have a tool in my art program that let's me achieve this (for all you alpaca users out there it's under the filter tab!) For me, it gives me an X and Y scale on where I want the distortion effect to appear most. Depending on what I'm drawing I go by the "less is more technique."

If you can't find that tool in your own software - I suggest finding tutorials on how to manually get a 3d effect using layers or find a photo editing app that may grant you this effect like Prequel.

Next tip I bestow is the sharpening and blur effect which uh oh spaghettios! It's more tools! (work smarter not harder.)

This is a rinse and repeat process where I blur my overall image (with gaussian blur specially,) and then sharpen the image the 'unsharp mask' tool. Once again 🦅LESS🦅IS🦅MORE. Yes, it grants you that aged cartoon effect - but the more you blur and sharpen, the more likely your image will become more crunchy.

Lastly is the grain effect which I don't use too often unless I want to make it seem like a really old cartoon. No tools this time! I use TEXTURES. Which you can either make yourself or get some from google and overlay them on your drawings!!