#anonymies

Androxgynx/gynxndrox/andrxgynx/gynxandrox

Gynx: a gender inbetween female and androgyne. Androx: a gender inbetween male and androgyne.

Versandrogynous or androgyneflux

Versandrogyny (versatile androgyne): an androgyne whose amount of femininity and masculinity fluctuates (a versandrogyne may go between being femandrogyne and being mascandrogyne).

Gynandroflux/Androgyneflux (androgynous genderflux): a state where you have fluctuating feelings of masculinity and femininity, but your gender identity stays the same.

Don’t worry, you’re not bothering me! But to answer your question, well!…

I made a simple tutorial about it here, but I have different styles of pastel and that style is more of a de-saturated type, whilst my newer klance icons have more of a ‘light and soft’ effect.

This style requires a bit more patience.

I go straight to the ‘Selective Color’ adjustment layer. I make a bunch of these. But let’s start with the first layer.

First thing I do? Reds at -100%, so Keith’s paladin armor has a soft red tone to it. For this you have to be careful, because at first the skin will be lighter. Do not worry, this will be fixed.

Next is Blue’s at -100%, to lighten the blues of Lance’s armor. I also put Cyan at -75% so you can still see the glow, but it’s not as prominent as other colors.

NOW, you fix the skin color. Change your yellows to 100% black. Still too light? Make a new adjustment layer and make your yellows to 100% black again. If it’s still too light, duplicate that new layer until the skin is dark enough!

And lastly, I set the gamma correction to around 1.10-1.30ish. 1.20 was a good match for the lighting of this scene, so I choose that.

So now you can see the difference:

Original

Pastel

If you guys want, I can post the PSD, but you still may have to adjust layers accordingly depending on the lighting/skin tone.

P.S.

For Allura, I had to duplicate her image layers and set them to ‘multiply’ since her skin tone has more magentas than yellows. You can also use that to darken the tones!

Send me a character + an aesthetic and I’ll draw them!

thank you so much! ;w;

thank you! :D i love experimenting with the adjustment layers, so i usually come out with a bunch of different ways to alter the colors.

i’ll let you in on a secret:

the selective color adjustment is your best friend!

you can change the tone of certain colors/shades, which makes it really simple to create pastel colors! and with poc characters, i always make a new selective color layer JUST for the skin tone and i drag the yellow/red/magenta ‘Black %’ sliders all the way to 100%, so that the rest of the psd is pastel while the skin is still dark!

i also use the channel mixer adjustment to shift color channels slightly to give it a nice effect!

i do have a few!

here’s some links:

x || x || x (you’ll have to download the file on the last link to get coran’s tho)

i’ve liked her since late february and i was constantly flirting with her but she just never knew BUT EVERYONE ELSE KNEW including her best friend

and she came to seattle and we met up and she DELIVERED HERSELF TO MY DOOR and i was so nervous i felt like my heart was gonna throw itself out of my throat and the first thing i said was “WOAH? you’re here? i don’t know whether to hug you or-” and then she threw her arms around me and at that moment i knew

i was gone

and we spent the next few days together and with her best friend too AND

ONE DAY………JACKIE WAS DEADASS ASLEEP AND SHE GRABBED MY HAND AND WOULDN’T LET GO

but i thought it was just a jackie thing bc she also held her best friends hand

and then cue me getting drunk and telling her on rabb.it and then immediately leaving and I WAS SO EMBARRASSED

but turns out she was also gay

Send me a character + an aesthetic and I’ll draw them!