(that's a scarecrow reference... instead of 'brain'. You.. you got it... right? ^^;;)
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wicked Griff of the West
If I only had... some pants.
(that's a scarecrow reference... instead of 'brain'. You.. you got it... right? ^^;;)
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(that's a scarecrow reference... instead of 'brain'. You.. you got it... right? ^^;;)
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Rainbowtastic Antlerdragons
Hold on... to the niiiight... there will beee no shame
ok. So they are neither robots, nor unicorns. But... they're rainbow?
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two .psds
ok. So they are neither robots, nor unicorns. But... they're rainbow?
+ two .psds
Adventure Quetzals
One is questing... one lies in wait
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two .psd's... sort of. It may be little known that most older quetzals have been bred by mashing .pngs for generations and generations... even when the original .psd was available. (old breeding policy and all that) With these I had to dredge up parts of their ancestors and ended up using four old .psds and parts of the .pngs. I always make sure to make usable .psds out of them, so hopefully the future grandchildren of these won't have to be overlays.
and yes I totally took that fire off it's hand and put it on the lantern. (it's been Frankensteined on the parents in ways you wouldn't believe, and I thought it was time to put it to a more usable form)
+ two .psd's... sort of. It may be little known that most older quetzals have been bred by mashing .pngs for generations and generations... even when the original .psd was available. (old breeding policy and all that) With these I had to dredge up parts of their ancestors and ended up using four old .psds and parts of the .pngs. I always make sure to make usable .psds out of them, so hopefully the future grandchildren of these won't have to be overlays.
and yes I totally took that fire off it's hand and put it on the lantern. (it's been Frankensteined on the parents in ways you wouldn't believe, and I thought it was time to put it to a more usable form)
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Oiled Cloud Lunaris
Get it all slicked up
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Two .psd's thank goodness, but O LAWD do I have to??!? T_T
So the cloud babby is hugely complex, and yet much easier laid out, since it's a gen 1. The temptation to just use most of it is strong, but that is not the way!! Both Lunaris had a million layers wither way, so it was a massive puzzle of re-ordering, and lots of blend mode changing to get a not-garish result, especially on the body paint. It's tempting to leave most of those detail layers on with the cloud parent (there are like, a hundred on the body alone), but I've found turning them all off, and turning them on one at a time to see what they actually do, -and playing with blending modes if it doesn't quite look right- always produces the best results.
In the end I felt it still didn't have enough of the oil parent, (and I'd already done the other lunaris with that cloud parent, so I didn't want it to look the same) and I added some oil to the wings. >.>
+ Two .psd's thank goodness, but O LAWD do I have to??!? T_T
So the cloud babby is hugely complex, and yet much easier laid out, since it's a gen 1. The temptation to just use most of it is strong, but that is not the way!! Both Lunaris had a million layers wither way, so it was a massive puzzle of re-ordering, and lots of blend mode changing to get a not-garish result, especially on the body paint. It's tempting to leave most of those detail layers on with the cloud parent (there are like, a hundred on the body alone), but I've found turning them all off, and turning them on one at a time to see what they actually do, -and playing with blending modes if it doesn't quite look right- always produces the best results.
In the end I felt it still didn't have enough of the oil parent, (and I'd already done the other lunaris with that cloud parent, so I didn't want it to look the same) and I added some oil to the wings. >.>
Monday, April 25, 2011
Damselfly Braid Melos
If Laura Croft was a Dragonfly...
Um. I think the braid looks like Laura Croft. Or something.
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So, no .psd for the first parent, and it gets 3 babbys. Hmm.... I actually decided to just remake the whole pet onto a .psd, so it could have one, it was such a simple design. It ended up looking like this:
Pretty close eh?
So here are the babbys:
Having two .psd's made this breeding so much easier. The swirls off the braid parent were multiplied patterns cut up and placed all over the melo, which allowed me to pul them apart and use them on the old melo tail and the first babby's wings. All three got the wings, but, I figure, unedited-eye, old-line melos are a dime a dozen, and hard to sell. The owner will almost certainly want ones with wings, and sell ones without. Why throw still more hard-to-sell babbys into the market?
the black was to throw a curve ball and go for a little drama. White on black became black on white, not too far fetched I think. I bumped up the highlight on the hair on the black melo.
Um. I think the braid looks like Laura Croft. Or something.
+ So, no .psd for the first parent, and it gets 3 babbys. Hmm.... I actually decided to just remake the whole pet onto a .psd, so it could have one, it was such a simple design. It ended up looking like this:
Pretty close eh?
So here are the babbys:
Having two .psd's made this breeding so much easier. The swirls off the braid parent were multiplied patterns cut up and placed all over the melo, which allowed me to pul them apart and use them on the old melo tail and the first babby's wings. All three got the wings, but, I figure, unedited-eye, old-line melos are a dime a dozen, and hard to sell. The owner will almost certainly want ones with wings, and sell ones without. Why throw still more hard-to-sell babbys into the market?
the black was to throw a curve ball and go for a little drama. White on black became black on white, not too far fetched I think. I bumped up the highlight on the hair on the black melo.
Double Bejeweled Solis
Beadazzled!
Any other 90's kid remember those?
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So this was actually two breedings, but I'm combining them into one post because they're exactly the same.
For all that the pairs have similar faces, they're as well mixed as I could invent. (top two are one breeding, bottom another) My goal was to make all four babbys different from each other, despite going to two different owners. These were all four fairly straightforward mix, match, and hue-slide. The hardest part is turning silver to gold, and actually making it match. I had to paint the proper gold hues onto the silver jewelry, though I only needed to desaturate and adjust the levels (brightness/contrast, in simpler terms) on the silver ones. Aside from the gold colors, the only other painting I had to do was the offside eye from the haired parent, as the eye covered by hair didn't exist, and I duplicated, merged, flipped and warped the ear on the jade soli so it would have a back ear.
Any other 90's kid remember those?
+ So this was actually two breedings, but I'm combining them into one post because they're exactly the same.
For all that the pairs have similar faces, they're as well mixed as I could invent. (top two are one breeding, bottom another) My goal was to make all four babbys different from each other, despite going to two different owners. These were all four fairly straightforward mix, match, and hue-slide. The hardest part is turning silver to gold, and actually making it match. I had to paint the proper gold hues onto the silver jewelry, though I only needed to desaturate and adjust the levels (brightness/contrast, in simpler terms) on the silver ones. Aside from the gold colors, the only other painting I had to do was the offside eye from the haired parent, as the eye covered by hair didn't exist, and I duplicated, merged, flipped and warped the ear on the jade soli so it would have a back ear.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Lunar Laions
Lizards and Lions and... Stars? Oh my?
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Lion has a .psd, but lacer doesn't... time to cut it up!
So I made one lion, one laion, and one lacer. I think I divvied up pretty evenly. I got an effect I reeeeally liked with the purple one, linear dodge on a desaturated green rion base. With a bit cutting and masking, the second lion traded out the lion ears for lacer ones. Since I had the .psd for the lion, I just played with the existing layers, and pulled in cut up pieces of the lacer. The blue one I painted in some stars instead of the clouds and milky way for some variety. The last one required the most painting. I opened a blank lacer document, and pulled in the lion color layer. I had to paint in a new face since the original was on the lion, and painted a glow on the tail ornaments.
+ Lion has a .psd, but lacer doesn't... time to cut it up!
So I made one lion, one laion, and one lacer. I think I divvied up pretty evenly. I got an effect I reeeeally liked with the purple one, linear dodge on a desaturated green rion base. With a bit cutting and masking, the second lion traded out the lion ears for lacer ones. Since I had the .psd for the lion, I just played with the existing layers, and pulled in cut up pieces of the lacer. The blue one I painted in some stars instead of the clouds and milky way for some variety. The last one required the most painting. I opened a blank lacer document, and pulled in the lion color layer. I had to paint in a new face since the original was on the lion, and painted a glow on the tail ornaments.
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