#acnl edit tutorial

Your Fleshed out Animal Crossing OC Photo editing skills Sketchbook Pro, Ibis Paint, Paint Tool SAI, or any drawing program Screenshots of your OC

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Picking Colours

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If you don’t know how to get Screenshots of your mayor in high quality please look around on either google or tumblr!

To start picking colours I use the Eye-drop tool to select photos straight from the image in my drawing program! For this tutorial I’ll be using Sketchbook Pro which is Free, has no Ads, and is the closest thing to PS cs6 in an app that I like! It also has line prediction which can help smooth hair waves!

Generally I like to try and get 4 colour variants from the original picture, this helps with light and dark and blending later on! For each attribute for your OC pick at LEAST 3 colours! I’m doing her hair, face, and feet! So I picked those colours here!

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Blending The Hair

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I do a new layer for all my edits EXCEPT Face edits (I’ll try and explain these later)!So we’ve selected around 4 colours for her little ear flipper...gills?You start by drawing the basic shape of what you want in the colour that’s most PROMINENT on the hair! This is our “base” colour. Adjust the shapes as needed, then start adding the darker colour where the shadow would be and then the lights where the lights would be! I used a blending tool to blend the colours and edges, it makes the photo edit look like it’s from the game!Save your darkest colour to almost “line” the finished product! Make sure to blend out the edge a bit so it isn’t a hard line. The best advice I can give for this step is take your time, look where the light is coming from, and observe how the colours look on the base photo!This same advice applies for any other non face cosmetics...like her flippers!!

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Blending the Face

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To remove an eye you’re going to use the selection tool and select the eye you want to be her “main eye”. Move it to the center of their face! Then you’ll need to blend the existing skin OVER the big white patch you made in their face. Select some of the skin colour and add it as you go! Now you can create a separate layer and place skin colour over the other eye, any harsh edges etc. I find the airbrush tool on a super low setting helps the face look more pixelated!

To add an Eye!

All you need to do is copy the selection you made of the “main eye”. Add this in the middle of the forehead or wherever you want it! Maybe their a fortune teller and have eyes on their palms!! Blend the edges accordingly and voila! They’re no longer strictly human! ╔═══.·:·.☽✧    ✦    ✧☾.·:·.═══╗

Adding Blemishes

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Can we all agree freckles are so cute? Or even some light blush! To do these, they’re pretty much the easiest cosmetic change you can make, that’ll still make your OC stand out!

Choose a brown shade, these here work fine but I prefer cool tone shades for freckles.

Make very small dots, in two varying sizes! I find having two sized freckles dispersed looks better than one size! More natural!

Pick up the main skintone and airbrush LIGHTLY over them! This will just make them look like theyre IN the skin not ON.