“It took you about 4 years to be good and another 4 to be confident in what you were actually drawing?”

“Yeah maybe something like that I don’t think I was good 4 years in but I was better than others so”

“Ok thanks for the tip”

“Yup and now here we are 8 years after I started learning how to draw and now I draw yaoi daily”

“HUH”

Chat all you need is motivation

Mint Tea, Chapter 4: Rocket Salad -- rated E, ~ 4500 words

Anthony has a proposition and some wardrobe suggestions. Aziraphale gets a package.

"You’re to dress properly.”

There was that edge in his voice. Just the hint of it made Aziraphale feel a little weightless, a little fluttery.

“Upstairs.”

He’d yet to bring Anthony up the stairs. He was suddenly conscious of the fusty decorations – the indifferent floral oil painting at the landing, the tatted lace cloth on the occasional table beneath it, undisturbed since he’d taken possession. The staircase carpets were a faded gray-pink, the wallpaper a busy William Morris design of grouse and zinnias on a blue background.

The big cherrywood wardrobe stood facing the foot of the big bed in the small bedroom. It suddenly seemed very small.

Read On AO3

by using this site. tutorial below if you need it

no worries, I don’t think I’ve answered it before! 😊 

I use this reshade preset by @okruee with reshade 3.0.8. And I use this psd by @mrsbobpancakes over the top, usually at 50% but i can adjust depending on how i want the colours to look, and I only really use the filter, without the optional light leak. 

my process is fairly simple, i have a few premade actions that i found online, (they’d probs look awful otherwise) I have my image open in photoshop, with the psd below it just so it’s easy to access. 

now i can’t actually find the one i use on my edits, but here’s a link to a few i could find. I let that play out, then i use this action (i think) and another one from here afterwards. (again i’m not too sure which i actually, i downloaded them a while ago and very randomly😅)  

Then I use smart sharpen to get a crispier image, 21%, 0.6px radius and gaussian blur.  

after that i grab the burn tool, on about 59% and go over the shadows, faces anything i feel needs to be darkened. And the Blur tool to go over the outlines of chins, hair, arms, clothes and anything that looks too sharp. 

Then I zoom in to add some brightness wherever needed with the dodge tool. It really depends on if I want the highlights brighter than normal. (i tend to add it to the nose, eyes and lips)

Then I’ll pop the psd over the top, sometimes if the image is took dark or w/e i’ll play around with curves, but i’m not too great with it so i tend to do it as little as possible! Once I’ve finished messing around with it all I use @smubuh‘s white border action, you can find it here, to merge and resize the image to 1000px, if i’m feeling like it i’ll add a white border but usually I stop after the resizing! 

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@okruee‘s tutorial is what helped me out so here’s the link to her vid, cause i wouldn’t be anywhere without it!