#blinkie tutorial

websites / apps: blinkies.cafe , ibis paint x , ezgif.com !

STEP ONE !! go to blinkies.cafe and select a blinkie. i reccomend going to old and selecting one of the very simple ones !! DO NOT SELECT THE GRADIENT ONE YOU WILL SUFFER

STEP TWO !! click on it btw. anyways, since spaces won't work, put "‎ " !! it will register !! this is also how to make videos on yt title-less i think... anyways, choose the biggest size

then click generate and download the blinkie!!

STEP THREE !! import into ibis paint !!

now i reccomend putting a reference of whatever character in your ref window. won't explain that, look it up.

STEP FOUR !! choose colors and recolor with bucket tool on 0

wow, look at that !!

STEP FIVE !! import a transparent image of your character and put the text of your choice.

heres the font i use !!

advice for choosing colors of the text: make the body the color of the blinkies border and the outside the brightest light !!

STEP FIVE AND A HALF !! this is optional, but i make a very small border around the text. duplicate layer and bring it on top, make all other layers invisible, alpha lock, make it the color of the border, turn off alpha lock, use bucket tool on expand 0.5 or 1 and tap a few times on the blob, turn other layers back on, put the duplicate under the original thing and merge so it's a small border. it's very subtle but i like it.

see the difference?

STEP SIX !! download it, then flip ONLY THE BLINKIE LAYER horizontal and vertical then save again

if you want another set of words, add them now!!

STEP SEVEN !! go to ezgif.com and imput them

the click upload files. then click make a gif :3

this tutorial is a direct add-on to my first stamp tutorial, please follow that one before attempting this one!

I will be using Procreate for this, which is NOT a free app, but it works almost the same as Ibis Paint X, which IS a free app.

First off, open your stamp canvas again!!

if you select the frame layer, you can choose which blending mode to set it to. Right now, it’s at normal.

Now go ahead and change the blending mode! I usually use Overlay or Soft Light, but play around and figure out what you like.

For this to look it’s best, the image has to be touching all corners of the stamp (as you can see, this picture is NOT, so that’s why there is red peaking out at the edges)

so I just went ahead and resized the image, so it reached the borders. Now you can see how it “carries” to the stamp frame.

again, PLAY AROUND!!!! I usually like turning up the lined layer for these, idk I just like the look of it more.

BOOM STAMP!!

I’ve also found doing this blending mode for pride flag stamps looks really good?? Idk that may just be my opinion lol.

unfortunately I don’t quite know how yet to use this transparent frame for a gif stamp, so if anybody knows please lmk!!

This tutorial is for Procreate only. This might work for other things but idk I only use procreate

^ everything you need is in there

Import the blinkie psd to Procreate.

2. Open Procreate. Open the blinkie.

3. Turn on animation assist. This can be done by pressing the wrench, then pressing “canvas” and flipping the switch labeled animation assist.

4. I have no idea how the text will react if you don’t have the font downloaded. You can either download the font linked or use the pixel brush linked to write your own letters. If you need tutorials on either of those things, here’s a font tutorial and here’s a brush tutorial. You might need to move the text up so it shows up on screen.

5. Time to change the colors! You can use color fill, I trust you to be able to change the border and background. For the dashes it’s a bit harder, however. First, make a new layer on top of dashes 1 in frame 1, then use the color fill to fill the entire layer with the color you want. Then, press on the layer and press “Clipping Mask”.

Nice n easy, right?

6. Then do the same on frame 2, except clip the color you used to dashes 2. This is how you get the blinking effect!

7. For your second color, just do the same, except clip it to dashes 2 in frame one and dashes 1 in frame 2.

8. When exporting, export as “animated gif”. If you don’t like how fast it’s going, turn down the frame rate. Also turn off dithering (unless you prefer it idk)

And there you go! That’s how you make a blinkie in Procreate.

You can customize this to your liking. For example, you can hide the border layer to make a solid color, hide the background layer and activate background2 layer to make the border transparent, and more!

If you have any questions feel free to ask, I don’t bite. I did this at like 3 am so this may be incoherent

credits:

blinkie base: Blinkie cafe

font: EXEPixelPerfect

pixel brush: me