Sugarpoultry's Homeroom

Okay, here we go. I tried something a little different, if you don't think it works it's easy to fix.

That is much better. She looks better in color, much more focused now. ^_^

Thank you. Oh! Sugar! I saw your wolf and I want to share a tip with you! ^_^ I love doing hair and fur, and I want to share with you my method of making smooth fur, like my Epona right here: OniLink4.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (look at her hocks and tail, they're more flattering. :3)

Okay, first you duplicate in a layer whatever you're furring just in case you don't like it. Then go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and uncheck monochrome, because nothing IRL is completely monotone. Set it to something like 10 or so, or smaller for a smaller piece. Click Okay.

Next, you take the smudge tool (or its equivalent) and go to brush presets. Uncheck Shape Dynamics and Scattering, and in Other Dynamics turn the strength jitter to 0. You then set the smudge brush to something like 75-80-or-so percent strength, with the mode set to normal. Now pick a small brush roughy the five times the size of a strand of fur (it can be changed if need be, I often have mine set to 4, 9, or 13, depending on size of the piece). You then 'fingerpaint' in the fur, you'll see that the noise allows you to see each stroke you take, while the shape of the brush makes it act like fur. You are to follow the direction of the fur as you do this or it looks weird. This part takes a while as you paint in each strand - I suggest working from background to foreground, so that the strands on top will cover the roots of the strands on the bottom. Make sure you go over it to double check that no rainbow noise is showing. Now, the outline is bound to look smudgy and fake-y, like this example of my earlier pieces: KlaarIfan1.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting or http://images.wikia.com/swfanon/imag...a_Democles.jpg

To fix this, you set the smudge brush to a size of 1 and go around the edges, so that it will look more like individual strands. My best example of this is my Epona image from earlier, though I don't really like the tangly-ness of it. If I can find a better example I'll show you.

I just wanted to tell you that.

Ah, never thought of doing it that way. It seems pretty simple. I might just try that. Thanks!

Double post, for Assignment #5 is now up!

Gah, I don't like trying to make things with just brushes... sorry, I know it's not very good... But I tried...

(And sorry for being lazy and only just finishing it as well...)

HALLO .
can i msn u instead ?
coz yea i have no idea wat this forum is about, and i dun liek sending messages with forums account D:!

Originally Posted by Nivek535

HALLO .
can i msn u instead ?
coz yea i have no idea wat this forum is about, and i dun liek sending messages with forums account D:!

Sorry, I only teach through my homeroom.

And sorry Dog Dog 123, I haven't even critiqued your piece yet. I just got done with school so hopefully now I can keep up with it.

Well, its very plain, in fact, I had a sig using those very brushes a while ago. LOL Anyways, there really isn't anything to critique. Think you can try again? You can use more than one type of brush. Use several and see if you can make something abstract.

i know im not supposed to put text on it@_@...
but its a petpeeeeve D:!! (i feel liek im repeating myself, coz i tried posting this once without logging in HAHAH )
must
put
name
on
everything!

and okies. ill message u hahehaueh

EDIT: WAIT, accept me on msn anyways!! i wont bother u with PS questions. =D.
btw i have DA too!!!!!

I don't like adding random people on MSN, sorry. I'll check your DA out if you link me to it. And I take it your my student officially now?

Out of curiosity, how did you find out about me? Seems your only point of coming here was to be in my homeroom.

Well, you sure do know your stuff. The transparency is awesome, but I wouldn't have it cut through her head. The effects are awesome, can you show/tell me how you did that? Text is meh, at least the font is. Other than all that, it's a decent tag. Lighting is fine, and the outline around Samus actually helps it.

LOL okies then XD.
oh yea check ur PM.

well i googled SSBB sigs.
then i saw this other place with a bunch of sigs posted by you. then i looked at ur sig, and i was liek HOLY****ZOROMFG thats pimp. so i checked out ur other stuff.
then WHOA u teach ppl o:!!! so yea thats kinda how i found u LOL! =D

LOL rite, i guess it looks kinda effed up with that thing going right through her head LOL!
"The effects are awesome, can you show/tell me how you did that?" which effect ._.?
nvm, since i got nothing else to do...
-the lil sparkly things -> smudge with f5-randomly-modified-brushes set to Colour Dodge mode.
-main background -> multiple samusus blurred XDD!
-other stuff -> um... applied image, filter -> stylize -> glowing edges, then set to soft light mode.
i think thats it LOL.
i was gonna stick a c4d in, but then i didnt find a good position to put it ><~.. and it looks too random when i put it in ):....T____T

edit: so yea, wats this zeldauniverse about ?

EDIT II : OMGGGGG
wat does "apply some curves" mean?
and wats a photofilter @_____@? LOLZ

Originally Posted by Nivek535

LOL okies then XD.
oh yea check ur PM.

well i googled SSBB sigs.
then i saw this other place with a bunch of sigs posted by you. then i looked at ur sig, and i was liek HOLY****ZOROMFG thats pimp. so i checked out ur other stuff.
then WHOA u teach ppl o:!!! so yea thats kinda how i found u LOL! =D

Ah, well its cool you found me through google. haha

LOL rite, i guess it looks kinda effed up with that thing going right through her head LOL!
"The effects are awesome, can you show/tell me how you did that?" which effect ._.?
nvm, since i got nothing else to do...
-the lil sparkly things -> smudge with f5-randomly-modified-brushes set to Colour Dodge mode.
-main background -> multiple samusus blurred XDD!
-other stuff -> um... applied image, filter -> stylize -> glowing edges, then set to soft light mode.
i think thats it LOL.
i was gonna stick a c4d in, but then i didnt find a good position to put it ><~.. and it looks too random when i put it in ):....T____T

Nice stuff. Do you use a lot of tutorials? I know those help me a lot. Check out the first post, I added a ton of resources for sig stuff.

edit: so yea, wats this zeldauniverse about ?

The Legend of Zelda, basically all the fans come together and discuss the games, but its got an open community with just about anything else you can think of. It's pretty decent, while you are here, you should check it out.

EDIT II : OMGGGGG
wat does "apply some curves" mean?
and wats a photofilter @_____@? LOLZ

Um... not sure to both of those. When did I or someone say apply some curves?

@ a ton of resources.
thanks a bunch.
and, i dun use tutorials that much. sometimes i look at the result, find the effects i wanna laern, and skip the steps etc hehe .
@legend of zelda fans.
hmmmmmm i shall >=D! i got the zelda game for wiii too !! except i havnt played it at all XD. (been a few months since i got that game. [pirated])
@apply curves, and photofilter.
they're found in the halo sig tutorial in assignment #2 for Photoshop.

EDIIIIT:
ahhh i just realised the CURVES and PHOTO FILTERS are in Layer -> New Adjustment Layer! !
so if anyone runs into that, u can telll them hhahaha ^_^

Well, you can start on the second assignment and catch up with the rest whenever you are ready. Once you've finished all the assignments I'll post a new one. No rush though.

Curves and Photofilters are both types of filter layers, found in the same place as the Gradient Map's.