Euphoria

Boring sunday is boring question #2, a potentially very heated debate.

but uh, i like a lot of things.

bacon cheeseburger pizza - burger sauce (ketchup+mustard), mozzarella cheese, beef, bacon, onions, and mushrooms

creamy garlic sauce with chicken and bacon is always great

braided crust with pepperonis in it with zesty herbs on top of crust, creamy garlic sauce, beef, bacon, onions, pineapple with more zesty herbs and herb&cheese blend

*whispers* look i did a thing

this is the entirety of Clan Aubade, listed by clan role!! 

i added the pastebin code to the original post! the excessive amount of notes at the top makes it look v messy but i promise it’s super easy to use.

nighttime art for the Training Fields, Woodland Path, Scorched Forest, Sandswept Delta, Forgotten Cave, Bamboo Falls, and the Waterway. I claim no ownership of the original artwork, I’m simply patching screenshots together and posting them for the community’s convenience.

feel free to crop and enhance for use in dragon bios! that is, after all, what this project is for!

How to do accents. First what is important is .psd

(I’m only using photoshop, I can’t really help much with other programs)

what’s important in .psd is “accent parts” folder

in accent parts folder you should have base layer, here named “accent goes here” and shadow and lines layers clipped to base layer.

(I didn’t downloaded .psds from the site in ages, so I don’t remember if all of them are organized the same way, should be similar. If not you can make  new empty layer that will work as your accent base and clip copy of shadow and lineart layers to it)

Shadow and lineart layer should not be edited, you can change their color, but that’s all!

What is important to you is “accent goes here” layer (which I will call accent base, or just base layer). Here is what happen when you draw on base layer:

shadows and linearts are clipped to the base so they will be there whatever you draw.

Now here goes your first trick. How to create mask to make your accent always stay within base

(gif starts with “hold ctrl, click on base layer”)

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So alternative way of adding masks

right click* on the dragon base layer then “select layer transparency“ in CS2,   ”select pixels” in CS6

right click* on lineart layer “add transparency mask”

click on the folder with accent parts

now go to menu layer>layer mask>reveal selection

*make sure you are right clicking on the little layer thumbnail image

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Now to the accents making part.

All you have to do is draw on the base layer.

here is simple tattoo style accent, one gray layer:

done

here is another tattoo style accent, this time with color:

it was done on multiple layers, later flattened together to create accent base layer and then had shadow and lineart clipped to it

now for other type of accent, that mimic accesories:

basically it’s image with it’s own lineart, own shadows and lights, that have orginal shadow and lineart on top of it.

here how these accents look finished.

Basically all you have to remember is for these two layers

to be there on top of your accent image and for nothing to stick outside off the base.

One more example of how it look on actual accent and not these small quick examples above

Skins work the same as accents, but they just cover more area.

And I guess that’s all that really is to it. The rest depends from your idea and art skills ^^