I have problems. The aquatic kind. [drabble +some CG]

[soleil_et_pluie]

The Little Mermaid is really not appropriate brain-fodder when plunked into one's OTP. I should not be drawing Shisui as Prince Eric and Itachi as some sort of Ariel substitute poking him washed up on the beach x_x

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[nthcoincident]

osiajf no one's ever said that before, I am TRULY MADLY DEEPLY FLATTERED and I look forward to seeing your thoughts on the story! <3 Remember when I said I sit down and write stuff in a delirious quickie state? Not this one. It was difficult.

OKAY SUPER PHOTOSHOP FUNTIEMS
...bear in mind I don't know very much about it either, and also that I have CS4, but this should work there too.

So open up your line drawing, and then go to Image>>Adjustments>>Levels. A sort of...horrifying graph thing should pop up.

Directly under that, there should be three boxes with odd decimal numbers. There are three tiny sliders right above them. Sliding the first one around will adjust the thickness of your lines. The second one will adjust their darkness. The third will adjust the amount of gray matter (random scribblings, usually)--but be careful with this one, because once you move it you'll have to re-adjust the others.

The sliders under "output levels" are useful for cleaning up your background. The first fixes general darkness (good for, say, eliminating smudges) and the second, the darkness of the paper behind the lines.

Just play around with them until you get something you like :)

I find this useful for eliminating scribbly pencil bits and making nice dark lines that you can later vector if you want, like so. (That's the raw for That Cherry Blossom Picture, it was initially a vague sketch to help me write "What They Said About Contact.") It saves so much time on the inking *_*

[soleil_et_pluie]

Sexytastic. I always forget how sexy you make Shisui. IN ART AND FIC, COME TO THINK OF IT.

Thank you bb!!!! Photoshop funtiems indeed. i'm deep in that "fucking around with different computer coloring methods" stage, madly gobbling up coloring tutorials etc. Stupidly enough, all of my real-life painting knowledge does not transfer well, apparently. it's like GAH THERE SHOULD BE SHADOWS THERE BUT THEY LOOK STUPID DONE IN PHOTOSHOP WWWHHHYYYY and more pain & misery etc etc;;. i mean, watercolor like this sort of tomfoolery is more my speed but anime style is also weird on watercolor paper. x/

[nthcoincident]

/JEALOUS FOREVER goddamnit I wish I could paint! I will make starry eyes at your watercolors forever; why do you even want to learn CG!? I wouldn't want to, if I could paint like you :)

Shisui's entire point in life is to be Itachi's sexy mangekyou buddy, we might as well make use of that...

Yeah I...have mostly given up on digital coloring :) There seems to be a fine balance between "realistic" and "anime style" that the really good artists are able to see, but without an understanding of where that fine line is the whole endeavor is doomed.

[soleil_et_pluie]

Durrr thank you! ..i want to learn CG because there's something so sexy about the anime style. it's deceptively simple, too, which makes it harder. like sumi-e or something x_x;; and how would i draw Ita/Shi, otherwise?? Can you picture itachi and shisui as real people? I can't orz /fail

lies, he has a life all his own now, he's alllliiiiiiiivvee much like Frankenstein

YOUR DROWNING SHISUI WATERCOLOR IS COMING, I SUCK I'M SORRY. /morefail

[nthcoincident]

I CAN IMAGINE THEM AS REAL PEOPLE. Shisui would look like some old-school teenybopper actor. Probably Jesse Bradford in 10 Things I Hate About You.

...I disgust myself orz

[nthcoincident]

Actually it wasn't even 10 Things I Hate About You, it was that other movie...with...with cheerleaders...