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Okami
I finished Okami woohoo! It's funny that the game came out two years a go and I'm playing it now, and I know it's been said a thousand times before, but: OKAMI IS EXCELLENT.
I love the sumi-e effect, and, drawing to attack, searching through nippon to find brush techniques? Aaaahh this game has everything!
I specially loved the illustrations and the music, which is really nice to hear!
I started it again just because it's awesome. So there.
And yeah, I made fanart; I'll upload it later as a deviation.
And, I support Ammy/Oki lol

and 'Kung Fu Panda'
I just got home from the cinema, about one hour ago. And I did a sketch of my favourite character:

You know, when I saw the first posters of the movie a while ago, I thought she was actually a male. Anyways she was my favourite before I even saw the film. I'm still not sure if she's a boy or a girl haha .
Also, my second favourite was Po, of course (:
What I like the most about this film is the characters' design, it is somewhat similar to Madagascar... veeery similar... the same actually...
And I thought of a pairing for this one aswell: I think Po/Tigress would be interesting |D


ok, I'm off to watch Pushing Daisies!

MS Paint Tips [link]

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It was so long I had to make a new entry or the page would look too deformed. You can see the tutorial thing here [link]

Also, check out my Shoutboard! I added everything I wanted there, it looks awesome. No, really, go and check it because in about two and a half months it will be gone... so, yeah... unless sb buys me a subscription, that'll be cool B)

Day Have Nice A!

MS Paint Tips [link]

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Hey people! I finally made that tutorial thing I said I was going to make.
Well, I wouldn't call it tutorial, more like, tips fo MS Paint.

I hope you all understand it, and if you want to ask something or if you
have any doubts, comment on this journal!

Let's get rolling then:



I jumped a few steps to make it faster. Basically, I sketched the picture
in soft gray with the pencil tool. Then I 'inked' the sketch with the brush tool and in black. Then you have to clean the picture, and the easiest way to do it is to fill every white space with the color you used to sketch. I used soft gray to sketch, so I used the very same gray to fill the white pockets in the whole picture. Then, when you fill them with white again, the sketch under the inked version dissapears.
When you're done cleaning, then you have to clean again! with the eraser
tool, make the corners edgy, clean out of place pixels and anything that
can be fixed.
Afterwards, you add the character's coloring. I use the pencil tool to
outline the shadows, then I fill them with the right colors. Try to use the
shadow's color to outline them.

side note: I like to save the sketch, inked and colored and cleaned version in three different files, just in case



Now, let's talk about the background. Here I used one of the stock backgrounds I have (Because I save the bg and the character in different
files, and the finished picture as a third file*). Basically, I make the
canvas bigger so that I can copy and past the character, then I fill the
white spots inside the character with red.



Next I select the character and move it into the background (don't forget
to turn the transparency on). When I have the image on the right place, I
fill the red spots with white again.



Finally, I make the canvas smaller, and here's the finished piece:




I hope you found these tips useful, and comment if you didn't understand something.
About the sketching and inking part, *MyNameIsMad has a better tutorial than this one [link]

I don't no what else to say, so gtfo now.


*In conclusion, when I make a drawing in Paint, I use five different files: sketch, inked, colored and cleaned character, background and the final picture.

apparently, PNGs don't work on the IE editing page ):<

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It took four hours and it's really simple, but I'm pleased with it (:
Sadly, I can't say the same about the header.
And I don't know why the date won't appear ):

And now, stamps everyone! (these are the ones I have in that shout board thing). I shall add more to the collection in this journal entry:







And there was another stamp I wanted, it had a kitty sprite and on the right side was a typing space, and the 'owner' typed different things and the cat would obey and do as the typer said. In one part of the animation the kitty's tail suddenly disapears (). If you saw the stamp before, you'll know what I mean

I have few things to test with this subscription, but I still have two and a half months to do so

apparently, PNGs don't work on the IE editing page ):<

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I have great news!
Last night my cat Lola gave birth to seven healthy and beautiful kittens. Three boys and four girls.


And this one's my favourite:


I love my cats

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