Latest Posts by end-the-calamity - Page 3
linus takes a trip to the nether. birthday gift to my sister
It’s The Magnus Purrotocol Gang! (Thank you @thirdchildreblogs for the name, it’s really good)
From left to right: Gwen, Sam, Alice and Colin!
If it is okay to ask, what brushes would you use when it comes to drawing in the Professor Layton Artstyle?
Hi!! if you mean for sprites like these:
then i just use the basic lineart pen that can probably be found on any art program. for csp it's the G-pen and my settings look like this:
i set the pen pressure to a lower range just to have more consistency
if you mean for the box art style like this:
then i still use the G-pen for the lineart, but i use the basic default round brush which can again be found on any art program for the shading, for csp i used this:
more in depth tutorial for the box art style below, i guess?
obviously start with references, i was picturing diabolical box in my mind so i used that as my main inspo but i also had all the other box arts up, was definitely also thinking of last specters art
(note: weirdly the 3ds titles go from soft shading to hard shading? not sure why but i was going for the soft one personally)
anyway, after that i went into compositional thunbnail, sketch, then lineart, fairly basic, i would show you what these looked like but im running out of space for images. the main thing to make it look "layton style" is to have a good grasp of the characters and shapes and how they move which is not something i can teach you in one Tumblr post i have just spent a lot of time staring at layton arts
also for your compositional sketch be sure to include where youre gonna put the logo because i forgot to !!!!!!!!
for the base colours i just used the colours from their official arts, its much easier than trying to figure out how to keep their palletes later
my layers here looked like this (but turned on obviously) the first few are an overlay on battler & co. to make them more orange to fit the tone of the art, and a multiply layer for both descole and beato since theyre more in the background. theres also a black gradient around battler & co. to make the transition into beato less jarring
from there is the lighting, i just used a yellow overlay layer for the light and a greyish brown multiply layer for the shadows
deceptively simple! the whole process probably took me about 1hr and 30 mins maybe
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Hey, LU fandom. It’s been a while ;-;
(Unintentional redraw of this post)
turnabout sisters edition of this meme
Most beautiful molars I've ever seen dude
hey best friend, let's see those molars
AAAA SO CUTE!!!
Would you maybe draw EoW Zelda 👀
I haven’t played EOW yet but I love her design
This is one of the few Zelda illustrations I've actually finished in a while lol. (As in made a full bg and actually thought a little bit about the composition) Echoes of Wisdom is lovely, charming and just a little silly and I'm liking it very much. Solving your problems with explosives (or little guys that will drop them for you) is definitely one of my favorite LoZ features.
Ceila put a lot of effort into manipulating Sam. She should have just put the dimension tear in water and stuck it in the freezer.
Echoes of Wisdom
Research
get smushed!!
Linktober day 3 - Zelda
Holy shit she fell and NO ONE is helping her up that’s so fucked up !!!
Not all Zelda’s bc I underestimated how lazy I am (also why the lineart is black, could not be bothered so sorry)
Sheik technically shouldn’t be here but who cares am I right
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poor, disposable, magnus podcast men
YAYYYYYY. can you tell i love when reality itself is described as something that can be hurt and torn open and bleed
so gang how are we feeling about tmagp 30
i hope this hasn’t been done yet
People calling Sam and Celia's ship name "ripsam" really had the right idea huh
"I can fix him"
Literally the only person, who ever managed that, was Phoenix Wright.
I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.
Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.
The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.
Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.
Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.
Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.
By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.
There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.
1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.
2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.
3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.
So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.
I engage with fiction in a normal way. don’t look at my blog
my shoulder angel and devil have been replaced with Professor Layton and Sissel Ghost Trick
