#ink--it

Unfortunately, I don’t record my process. But I can offer a step-by-step for this one, on account of it being a commission.

@ink--it #i genuinely thought this was traditionally done #love how good digital brushes have become at mimicking physical materials #awesome art

@paperbirds #OP. THIS IS. STIPPLING? OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD??#FAV #OP THIS IS FUCKING INSANE IM. HOLY SHIT THAT'S INCREDIBLE. AND YOU STIPPLED THIS!! #owls #NO SERIOUSLY THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL

I don’t want to mislead you, so here is as succinct a break down as I could manage. I’m usually more chaotic when doing art. I don’t tend to plan ahead much, unless it’s a commission or a larger project of sorts. 

Firstly, I make a simple line sketch and plan the values. With stippling, the illusion of a darker shade is determined by the concentration of dots in one area -- with ‘white’ having no dots, and black having only dots.

1) Simple sketch

2) Value sketch

In Clip Studio Paint (go here for free trial) there is a default airbrush tool called Tone scraping. I believe most painting programs have something similar to this, including the airbrush in MS Paint. The only thing it does, is create many small dots. 

You can vary the size and spread of the particles in the tool menu. Here are my settings for the owl, which was drawn at ~4000x4000 pixels and 300dpi. Vary the brush size to focus the intensity of the spray. The smaller the brush, the more concentrated tones you’ll get.

3) Draw the rest of the fucking owl

I’m bad with layers. I constantly merge them throughout and honestly prefer to paint on only one, if I can choose. However, this is fiddly work, and if you make a mistake, it’s easier to correct if you keep the main elements separate. 

I used three layers here (background, owl, and shadows), and I still managed to draw on the wrong one a couple of times. I used the lasso tool to section off areas in which I wanted a sharper edge.

I didn’t use any solid white while for this, only black dots. I recently learned that to “erase” with the same brush, you can switch from the colour swatches to the transparent square underneath.  I’m sure this was common knowledge to most Clip user, but it was news to me. This makes “digital stippling” a whole lot easier.

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HEADSET RAVE

I'm always baffled by the kind of reaching people do when they don't want to admit they're kinda homophobic. It's always the "wrong" kind of representation b/c it's not subtle enough or for other arbitrary reasons, but really the person just hates that there's one canon LGBT character in their sacred media. Shame that they had to be a Junkrat player though. Slandering the rowdy boy name. :<

well the reasoning behind it is pretty straightforward usually

they don’t want to admit to themselves that they’re homophobic 

or racist or sexist 

because usually this kind of person is a solidly ok human being. They get that homophobia is wrong, but either not what makes up homophobia or how it works. They, themselves, know that they probably don’t use slurs against LGBT people and they aren’t violent towards them or generally try to tell LGBT people that their existence is wrong.

But these people are still made uncomfortable by all things and people LGBT. It ranges from a little to a lot of generalized, but subtle, or internalized homophobia and transphobia. At some  level, they still find the concept of being not straight to be at least a little bit upsetting or disturbing. So when they see things like canon gay characters, it makes them uneasy

and they don’t know why. Since most of these people are generally ok human beings, they don’t want to be homophobic (because they socially know its wrong or personally feel its wrong) and they don’t view themselves as hating the gays 

so when they feel uncomfortable with Tracer’s sexuality or the like, they personally believe it cannot be related to homophobia, and try to look for some other source for why it feels wrong to them. Because it was handled wrong. It was hamfisted. It’s just pandering and not real representation

Because it feels awkward and wrong to them to some degree, and that’s the most plausible reason for them 

neep noop

There’s a toggle switch on your Blog Settings (specifically in the Privacy section) that makes it so people without a tumblr account can’t see your blog. That might offer some peace of mind.

i know she made one at one point with my name for the url