Q-tea's guide to grayscales and gradient maps

[ShiroGEM]

please draw!!! your art is undeniably cute okay
omg i would die if you submitted items to Diana like actually your old item mocks were too adorable QuQ

[murmurlade]

uweh--- ur art is much, much cuter..
OTL but yes we all gotta do our best--

[ShiroGEM]

Stop lying. //pinches your cheeks/
Yea!! Go mur!!!

[Q-tea]

murmurlade

fff exactly!
sometimes I think that's a new one and then nope and I'm stuck with 20 replica's
oh who is this kyle?
I agree with Shiro, if you have some nice items made you should definitely talk to Diana. o u o

ShiroGEM

recoloring is honestly tedious work
but it's also nice to see the art transform
I find manual to be even more work, but to each it's own, ne?

[murmurlade]

Q-tea
He's a brushmaker/artist. http://kyletwebster.tumblr.com
Shir got his Megapack I think-- I bought his megapack/gouache/concept and idk a crap ton of other brushes (that i don't even use, RIP)
they're pretty dang fantastic!

buuut, as long as you spend a bit of time to sort them out it shouldn't be that difficult to get rid of the gradients ^^
i suggest grouping similiar hues together and then deleting from there?

[ShiroGEM]

Yep! His brushes make Photoshop more tolerable since Mac users like me can't use SAI. OTL Also his textures are godsend.
I think manual recolouring makes it harder to shade nicely because I'm trying to work with multiply layers but if the item has multiple colours... it just doesn't look as nice. You'll see what I mean on the 4th lol.

[Q-tea]

murmurlade ShiroGEM

oooo that looks so nice!!
I love the variety in his style * u *
it's so amazing and something I really enjoy doing myself

murmurlade

I'm honestly chasing time forever, I'm lucky to like find time to reply to one or two comments here and there, never mind draw something ; n ;

ShiroGEM

ahhh I think I know what you mean, but examples would help understand a little better . o .

[murmurlade]

@qtea
all good things must come to an end doesn't apply to windlyn but hmmmm yeah...
its not like your going to keep working indefinitely like this right? you'll eventually have some time off.

[Kyndreth]

Ugh... artsy people, everywhere!

Jealous! Need to find tablet and start working on being artsy again!

[ShiroGEM]

@Qtea
Like... putting polkadots on a different layer and filling them by hand every goddamn time. >_> Haha pain and horror
@/Kyndreth
You should!! It's never too late to take it up!

[Kyndreth]

Yeah, ordered a tablet. Better than the one I had before, I hope. Reviews say otherwise. -_-

[ShiroGEM]

Ooo which one? Honestly any tablet works but the thing that gets people annoyed are mostly the bugs lol.

[murmurlade]

The fill bucket tool is your friend.

[ShiroGEM]

Lazy... besides clipping layers are my best friend. ;u;

[murmurlade]

Correction, layer clips + tool bucket.
But I prefer to just lock opacity.