I Know Ashe Is The Spotlight But Can We Just Take A Moment To Appreciate Just How Tender These Two Are

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A Twitter thread of mine that I think some of you may find useful here as well! I’ll update this periodically when I update the Twitter thread.

Today’s episode on the Powow Workshop (Formerly Stringbing Workshop), I introduce the animation breakdown, what it is, and how it can be used.

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Music: Boom de Boom - Aaron Lieberman FunkDown - MK2 Happy Mandolin - Media Right Productions

hope this tutorial helps, anon!! a lot of this is a result of experimentation and seeing what looks best based on your picture. what i’m essentially doing is relying on the overall “mood” bg colour tie everything together cohesively by putting the local colours over it on the “soft light” filter. the other changes i do, such as the blue light on him and the flavour elements are all based around making it more cohesive, e.g. the glow from the pool is all over the background AND the subject, instead of just the pool, pulling them together, if that makes sense! 

of course this also relies on having some sense of what a realistic version of your scene would look like - for this comic i looked up “pool scenes night” on google to gather references i could take the colours from, and looked up lighting references for the way light would hit a face if coming from the bottom, stuff like that.

the other example is from a commission i did: 

in this case, the lighting situation has a lot more light, and isn’t as atypical as pool-at-night lighting. so it was easier to rely on my usual method of colour layering, i.e.

local colour on multiply (as opposed to soft light) 

monochrome shading on normal

again, experiment experiment experiment! hope this helps! 

hopefully no one has done this B99 parody yet

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

Made a thing because I’ve been asked a few times what my main brushes that I use are!

Johnny Blaze/Zarathos

I recently read a lot of Ghost Rider comics with Johnny Blaze. Now I’m wondering if I’m really the only one who kind of ships Johnny Blaze and Zarathos? Not in a “I want to see you two in bed together” kind of way [Hell no, that would be more than weird], but in a “I need to see more of you two together, because you’re awesome” kind of way. I just love to see them fighting for control, having to accept that they need each other or bickering like an old married couple. Seriously, it’s hilarious. They’re probably my favorite Marvel characters at the moment.

some friends wanted me to share my brushes so here they are!