Month: January 2015

el-aatmik: OC challenge day 17: angry hey look a stereotypical vampire pic might be modern jael idk it honestly fits for any time period lol

el-aatmik:

OC challenge day 17: angry

hey look a stereotypical vampire pic

might be modern jael idk it honestly fits for any time period lol

mad-maddie:

You know what I think happened is

I think I had so much fun leveling in WoD and doing all the zones and searching for all the treasure and building up my garrison that the moment all of that was done and it was just garrison dailies and gearing I lost interest. I shouldn’t have rushed or something, I don’t know. Half the time I felt like if I didn’t make my play time count while I could actually get on the server I’d be wasting it.

How they can fix this: give me a little house on my garrison that I can build up and customize and let me dye my armor new colours. Let me work to achieve these things. Please. Fucking. Please.

The only thing I did was rush to 100. I’ve been super casual about everything else, and really the only solo content I have left to do is the garrison campaign and grinding up rep. 

I can’t help but think there was more solo content in MOP at the time, or at least the pacing seemed a bit better. 

You have such an awesome sense of color and create some really dynamic, cohesive color palettes. Any tips/secrets you can share?

fabcrabart:

BAWW thank you! :3c

I dont really have any tips because I dont know what I’m doing most of the time lol — I just put down some colors I have in mind and play with the sliders in photoshop until I end up with something I’m OK with lol.  

For the fire hawk thing it was SUPPOSED to be a shadow puppet kinda deal where all the figures are just black silhouettes against color backgrounds, but I had to paint the fire aaaaand I started abusing the dry brushes and opacity lol.  

Initially I took colors from my screenshots of the actual zone:

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The first picture I did was the Firelands background, and that kinda set the tone for rest of them

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But as I made more pictures they started getting more and more pink/red so I just went with it lol.  Fire, heat, bright — that’s all I was thinking of.

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I didn’t wanna use cooler colors anywhere cuz I was TRYING to limit the color palette to reds/yellows but it started happening a little bit anyway lol.

Once I finished the last one I put all of them on one document and adjusted colors and saturation and levels and stuff so they were all a little more cohesive:

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Besides that I don’t have any tricks, I just spend a lot of time being indecisive about colors lol