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63; Goodbye

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:52:57 GMT

Moving.
Hello everyone! I come with an announcement. I had been contemplating about whether I would close this community or simply put it under hiatus. revanche was kind enough to invite me to her community yarinige so from now on I shall be updating from there. Thank you to all of you for your support. The community will stay open so the icons will be available to you whenever you like.
Again, thank you for the support, and perhaps one day I shall return here. Until then, hopefully I will see you over at yarinige.

62; Tutorial

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:06:33 GMT

fantasma_arto asked for a coloring tutorial, so here it is :D I will try to finish up those requests still pending. Sorry its taking so long D:

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Program Used: PSCS2

WARNING: IMAGE-HEAVY. Not Dial Up friendly!

Alright, please be aware that this is just a basic outline on how I color my images. There are different ways to color or do some of these things. First off, I use a larger image to start coloring with in case I want to use it as something other than an icon. This is completely up to you though. If you want to start with a 100X100 base, that is completely fine ;3

Alright, this is our base. It is already cleaned and ready to go. (BTW, it was scanned and cleaned by me in case you were wondering)

So, we’re going to start by coloring Hitsugaya’s skin first!
01. Go to your lasso tool and choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Select all the areas of his skin.

02. Make a new layer and set it to Multiply @ 100%. Now, picking a skin tone is completely up to you. I picked #FEECD2. Fill in the layer. (Make sure you don’t unselect). *imported's tip, you should def. label your layers especially if you go into a lot of detail so you don’t accidentally delete an important layer! You can do this by double clicking where it says Layer 1 if you have your layers window open. What I mean.

03. Now, go to your brushes and pick a soft round brush size 35. (Depending on how large your image is, you will have to adjust the brush size). With this brush, we will be doing his shadows. Which brings us to the next step.

04.Make a new layer and set it to Multiply at 20%. I used color #F0CB96 for the shadows. In the picture you can tell the light source is coming from above and to our left side. Color parts of his jaw line, hair line, and the dark shadow part of his neck. This is the result (to see what I colored) Now revanche has a wonderful guide as to how to do shadows (as well as a great coloring tutorial) which you can find here. Usually I don’t pay attention to the laws of shadowing and pretty much make shadows all around. Make sure you still have not unselected anything.

05. Make another layer and set it to Multiply at 20%. Pick another soft brush size 9. We will be making more shadows where the bigger brush missed. Still using the color #F0CB96. Color in the dark shadow of his neck as well as his eye line and brows. Guide

06.Now you can unselect your selection either by Ctrl+D or going to Select < Deselect.

07. We’ll be coloring his hair next. Make a new layer and set it to Hard Light at 100%. The reason this is at Hard light and not multiply is to change the black lines into a gray color. Fill the new layer with color #BDBCBC.

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08. Make a new layer and set it to Multiply at 100%. This will be the inside color of his hair. For this color, I chose #F0F0F0. Looks okay right?

09. Now, its time to add some shadows to his hair. How much shadow detail you want to do is totally up to you. So, make a new layer and set it to Multiply at 80%. Still using the previous color (F0F0F0), use a soft brush size 35, highlight around the back of his ear and around the front roots of his hair.

10. I stupidly forgot to clean up the background parts of this image D: so, select parts with the Polygonal lasso tool behind Hitsugaya, add a new layer and fill it with white (#FFFFF). My apologies, I should have done that from the start.

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Tada! All done with the coloring! Again, you could hightlight parts of the clothing if you don’t want everything to look black. This again, is completely up to you.

10. Usually at this point I’ve saved my image and duplicate it so I don’t screw up the original image I just finished coloring. You can duplicate or not, its up to you XD

11. Merge all layers (Ctrl+Shift+E) or Layers < Merge Visible.

12. Make a new 100X100 image. Paste your image onto it.

13. Add this texture by kiho_chan (which can be found here) Multiply at 100%. Looks D: doesn’t it? Do not worry, we won’t be leaving it like this ;3

14. Add a new layer and set it to Saturation at 100%. Select #F0F0F0. Fill the layer. Oh no, all our hard work is now black and white! Don’t worry! Our hard work will not have been in vain! XD

15. Merge the layer filled with #F0F0F0 down Ctrl+E. See? Our coloring is back! Now, I think this texture has darkened the icon a little too much. We need to lighten it up.

16. We’re going to add some curves. You can either do this by:
Layer < New Adjustment Layer < Curves.
Input: 103
Output: 152.

Looks alright, but I want to add a little more :O to it.

17. Add this texture by indienotebook (can be found here) at Multiply 100%.

18. Rotate it Clockwise. Edit < Transform < Rotate 90º Clockwise.

19. Again, I think the texture makes the icon look too dark so we’re going to add curves.
Layer < New Adjustment Layer < Curves.
Input: 106
Output: 152.

Better, no? Not really right because OMG WHAT HAPPEN TO HITSUGAYA?! Lol, I’m sure you’re not being that dramatic. But I can understand that it doesn’t look that great. Not to worry though.

20. Now, I don’t really like the way it looks so we’re going to drag the texture until only the light blue part of the texture is showing. Aww, much better! :D Well sort of you say D:

21. Okay, almost done here! Now, in your layers window, we’re going to make our background and Hitsugaya layer no longer visible. Do this by clicking on the eye next to each layer.

22. Make sure your top layer is selected. Now we’re going to merge all visible layers.
Ctrl+Shift+E or Layer < Flatten Image.

23. Set top layer to Multiply & make the bottom two layers visible again by clicking on the empty spaces so the eye will appear again!

24. Result =

24.5 Okay, you could stop now or you can add some text like I did. I used SF New Republic Font size 30.

25.

So there you have it. :)
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And you are dunzo! Hope this was helpful. I know there was a lot of writing and image heavy but I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
If you have any questions, or something is unclear, let me know!

61; Requests

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:24:46 GMT

Managed to get some requests done. RL conflicts are getting in the way so I’m not sure when I’ll get the rest done but hopefully soon. Changed up the coloring a little bit since all the cool kids are doing it. Um, yeah. So enjoy I guess :)

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♫ Do not Edit
♫ No hot-linking please
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100 Watchers

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:15:52 GMT

~~REQUESTS OPEN~~
First 15 people get dibs!
Rules:
You must provide images for your requests.
Reserves are allowed.
TWO per person.

Requests are now closed!

60; Bleach

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:30:32 GMT

I had forgotten I had colored a bunch of Bleach stuff so I made some icons. Unfortunately, Photoshop is being an a-hole right now so I couldn't make more. And, seeing from the Poll, you guys want to see Samurai Champloo, which I'm happy about because its my favorite right now :3 Cleaning up those images is so time consuming though TT^TT. So for now, enjoy these 20 Bleach icons!

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♫ Comments are love!
♫ Credit is even better! Don’t know how to?
♫ Do not Edit
♫ No hot-linking please
♫ Manga images scanned by me :3
♫ RESOURCES

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Poll

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:34:38 GMT

View Poll: You Decide Pt 2

59; Bleach

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:42:53 GMT

I had no idea Ukitake was so popular! :O In any case, here are the top 4 captains (as voted by you) rest to come at a later time. These are just the samples since they will be customized for whoever wants one EXCEPT FOR #9-10. Those are take as is. ;)

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For the Big font what do you want? Your username, real name, what?
Small font?

58; Bleach

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:26:20 GMT

HELLO! I come with gifts! New icons! Who knew I would find some motivation and inspiration in such a short amount of time?! In any case, I did some experimentation and I’m a little nervous just because I’m not sure if everyone is going to like these as much as I do :3 Total 34. And there is a poll I need you to fill out. It has to do with the Captain Banners. I already have some done but I don’t want to waste my time coloring and making these banners for captains no one is going to use. So make sure you fill that out please :D Enjoy!

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View Poll: Captain Profiles

57; Bleach

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:59:40 GMT

Hey everyone. Long time no see. I have some good news, and some not so good news. Good news? 14 new icons. Bad news: I’m going on a hiatus. I’ve been feeling really uninspired lately and yeah. I am on Spring Break which means I’ll have lots of time to color more pages. I’ve been going through the Bleach mangas picking out pages I’d love to color. So maybe there will be a post but I’m pretty sure there won’t be. But don’t worry too much, I’ve been working on those captain profile layouts just like I said I would. So enjoy these, and til my iconing muse returns to me, see ya!

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56; Bleach

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:35:15 GMT

No icons this time around but I do have some goodies for you guys! Profile banners! I only made 6 because it was a spur of the moment thing and my eyes hurt. The rest of the crew is next. Meaning Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, Renji, the Vizards, captains, and maybe even papa Kurosaki ;) I don't think I'll do them all at once, or maybe I will. We'll see. This are just samples. Meaning, I'll be customizing these for whoever wants one.

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For the Big font what do you want? Your username, real name, what?
Small font?

Poll

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:13:34 GMT

Questions & limited answers. That is what I have for you guys this time around :D
This post is 100% Ikkaku approved so its be awesome if you participated :D

View Poll: Pollz times

55; Bleach

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:20:59 GMT

Okay, here are some of the colored version of yesterday's batch. Nothing like recycling old icons. I didn't do all of them because I'm lazy. And, this time around, I made 12 icons & 3 Friend Only banners. I don't know what size they're supposed to be so I made them whatever size I wanted.

12 Icons + 3 FO Signs

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5-8

9-12

FO Banners. If you decide to use, please upload to your own server please :)

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54; Bleach

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:21:34 GMT

Thought I’d try something new. Black and white. I think I’m going to go back and color all these in and repost afterwards. :3 And in case you didn’t know, I changed my username! I am no longer pencilmarks, I am now imported ^_^. Anywho, here are 18 Black and White Bleach icons. Enjoy!

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.Comments are love!
.Credit is even better! Don’t know how to?

.Do not Edit
.No hot-linking please
.Manga images scanned by me :3
.RESOURCES
.Enjoy

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53; Bleach (before & after)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:22:40 GMT

First, new layout. 23folds.
Second, I've been under the weather lately but I managed to do these.
And third, only 2 people left me some icons so I added some myself.
So the one the left is the before the one on the right is after. I think they came out okay. This was def. harder than I thought it'd be.

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.Comments are love!
.Credit is even better! Don’t know how to?

.Do not Edit
.No hot-linking please
.Manga images scanned by me :3
.RESOURCES
.Enjoy

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52; Bleach

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:11:53 GMT

I guess I can’t go a week without Bleach. So in anycase, I made 18 new Icons for you guys! That’s about it really. :D
Oh! Don't forget to fill out the one question poll. It'll me happy! :D

01	02	03	04	05

06	07	08	09	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

.Comments are love! They boost my ego XD
.Credit is even better! Don’t know how to?

.Do not Edit
.No hot-linking please
.Manga images scanned by me :3
.RESOURCES
.Enjoy

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