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Tips for drawing hands, by astrikos

Character Expressions!

A super-belated celebration of hitting 1000 followers. The challenge? Draw your OC’s expression in/reacting to the listed situations. Do them in order or have followers send asks. Remember to reblog, not repost. Have fun! :D

Dropping ice cream on the ground

Finally completing a level in a video game they were stuck on for months

“Don’t touch me”

Alarm clock just went off

Just got assigned a lot of work

Watching a fictional character they love die

“Oh what’s that thing”

“aAGH I SHOULDN’T HAVE TOUCHED THAT THING”

Just actually slipped on a banana peel

Being blamed for something they didn’t do

Just ran for an extended period of time

Being sent an email that’s entirely in wingdings

Receiving anon hate

Having money thrown at them

Just brought fast food home and looked in the bag to see it’s not what they ordered

About to be hit in the face with a rotten tomato

Startled by a doorbell

Getting paid very little for a tedious task

Getting paid a lot for a tedious task

Failed to make a bubble with bubble gum

Just received socks as a gift

Seeing their favorite animal

Seeing their favorite person

Someone pronouncing their name horribly wrong

Eating something gross

Trying hard not to burst into tears in front of a crowd

Someone accidentally touches their sunburn

Realizing they spelled their own name wrong on something they gave to a friend

Booing someone off of a stage

Being booed off of a stage

Getting flipped off

Receiving an email with the entire Bee Movie script

Realizing they’re about to fall down the stairs

Having a fan blown in their face

About to tackle-hug someone

About to receive a tackle-hug

Accidentally burned themself with hot glue

Looking in the mirror and realizing someone drew on their face while they slept

Seeing something they desperately want to buy

Eating something hot and realizing it was probably too hot to eat

How to draw a fist! 

Some people asked me to do a tutorial on drawing rocks, and since I found myself drawing rocks a lot these days, I thought I would share some things that I do.

Note: I am not a professional artist nor have I received much professional instruction. I am self-learned and thus prone to error. If you see anything wrong with the above contents, feel free to point it out, and generally, take this whole thing with a grain of salt. You don’t have to draw rocks this way.

And since this is my first time making a tutorial, feedback on readability/helpfulness would also be welcome, so that I can have a better idea of what to do in case I make another one.

Thing i learned some time ago!  hope you all find it helpful ( perspective grids can be your friend!)

Spider Noir got me fuuucked up.

Peter Benjamin Parker is living during the Great Depression, everyone is poor, people are starving, murders are running rampant. This is his life. He isn’t even 21 yet. Just a kid getting ready to head off to college, 17, maybe 18 years old. Then his Uncle is murdered, eaten alive by a cannibal Vulture, and Peter is the one who finds the corpse. He starts getting angry, gets a mentor who he thinks is helping him try to fight against the corruption in the city only to be betrayed. His Uncle dead, his mentor dead, he turns his powers against Osborne who is running this corruption. When Aunt May is almost murdered by the same thing that killed his Uncle, he fires a gun, killing at 18. And instead of being thankful, Aunt May berates him telling him “I dont want to live in a world where we kill each other like animals.” He defeats Goblin, but faces a new enemy. He gets beaten down, almost killed, and his only friend and ex-girlfriend of his mentor is attacked and permanently scarred because of him. One of his friends is lobotomized by doc ock. When Noir dies it is painful with his lifeforce drained, he was trying to save everyone. When Gwen goes to tell Aunt May, Aunt May slaps her, upset her Peter was some kind of vigilante monster.

Peter Benjamin Parker saw so much trauma, so much evil. He saw his family killed, his friends attacked and murdered, all before he was even old enough to head to college. He killed a man before he was even able to go to college. Peter tries so hard to do what’s right, he is a good man and that’s why he was cursed by the Spider Goddess. And now, even after he passed, even after he tried to help, his one true family member he had left disowned him in his death. Even in death Peter cannot find peace. Fucking, this is why Noir broods.

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Storm on Jupiter

image credit:  NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran

I made…. an icy wallskating bugboy

Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’: