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sweetpinkpixie · 03-20-2020, 12:51 PM

❝ a little flavor, a little creative release

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome to my my little corner of Gladrags where I share some of my creative corner of SnitchSeeker where I will be sharing drawings, digital artwork, completed coloring pages, and essentially whatever happens to be tickling my 'artistic' fancy in the moment. I've had several graphic request shops over the years and currently have a joint portfolio with the lovely Ern (Cassirin) as well as a grab bag challenge. This is not a request thread, but you are more than welcome to drop a suggestion or a wishful thinking ~vibe~ I do take formal requests via PM for various things (namely graphics & manips), so feel free to contact me in private should you so desire.

❝ i n d e x
Seektober 2020*lost to the cyberattack
Seektober 2021*lost to the cyberattack
Seektober 2022

manips
..entirely (2020)
..it's complicated (2019)
..N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L (2011)
..TDK (2015)
..Thor & Loki (2015)
..s h i f t (2019)
..training day (2020)

graphics
..Barbara Finch (2020)
..Branxton Brothers (2022)
..Cathal Myles (2021)
..Class of 2102 (2020)
..Darius Lacroix (2021)
..Dementria Floros (2020)
..Eiji Rasting through the years (2019-2020)
..Gabrielle Parker-Emerson (2021)
..lil' Trent, big world (2020)
..lil' Trent 2.0 (2021)
..minimalist (2021)
..Krzysztof Zamojski (2020)
..Mark H. Gunter(2020)
..polyjuiced! (2011)
..siggy rotation (2015-2020)
..siggy rotation 2.0(2020)
..April & May Signature Dump(2021)
..Yumeki Kawatani(2022)
..Goblet of Graphics: Spring(2023)
..siggy rotation v 3.0 (2023)

hand drawn creations
..Fantasia (2011)
..Flamsteed twins (2021)
..Grantham out. (2021)
..in the sky (2020)
..life is like a mountain (2020)
..meet my BACKSWING (2021)
..sakura (2020)
..strawberry mermaid (2020)
..thumbs down (2020)
..thumbs up (2020)
..underwater (2020)

..Sketchtember "Night" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Wine" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Queen" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Green" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Fog" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Books" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Clown" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Prince" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Cocktail" (2021)
..Sketchtember "Now" (2021)

..MerMay "egg" (2022)
..MerMay "bubble" (2022)
..MerMay "swamp" (2022)
..MerMay "coral" (2022)

digital art
..lumos (2020)

Header image was created using this coloring page by deviantart member PoccnnIndustries & colored by myself using Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

emjay · 11-15-2020, 02:31 PM

;____;

This is so beautiful and lovely. I love it so much. Look at our babies ;_;

And I love the idea of him giving her a piggyback ride. Can I use this for my profile pic?

sweetpinkpixie · 11-15-2020, 02:40 PM

OMG let me make it into a polaroid or something and you can use it as a DP

I mean you can with it as is if you want buuuuuuut a little polaroid would be cute. Just sayin *wants to add something to it*

emjay · 11-15-2020, 03:10 PM

Aww, yeah okay! That's a cute idea

sweetpinkpixie · 11-20-2020, 01:44 PM

❝ Mark H. Gunter

inspiration SSRPG characters Mark Gunter (Uncle Moose)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9; fonts: champagne & limousines, Cheddar Jack

A private request from Jay for his character in celebration of his graduation special sort of feeling since my characters have not only been friends of this character's parents but also their professor for a bit. Long IC connections to be had here Entirely too many layers here and layer masks and all of it brought together by an amazing texture I found on deviantart

Uncle Moose · 11-20-2020, 01:59 PM

As Promised.

I absolutely love love love it Kath.

I'm excited to see what else you have in store

PS. Everything else in here is also beautifully done and i'm also excited to see more of everything you put here

Cassirin · 11-21-2020, 01:09 AM

That's an awesome manip, Kath. Really well done!

And I love this graphic set for Jay. Very vibrant and busy without feeling crowded. I love it so much.

sweetpinkpixie · 12-07-2020, 07:14 AM

❝ lumos

inspiration Art with Flo tutorial
materials iPad 2017 Model, zspeed touch pen, Procreate

As some of you know, I've started dabbling in digital art a bit under the guidance of various YouTubers and Skillshare lessons. My iPad is unfortunately at the generation RIGHT before the Apple pencil came into play, so I don't have a lot of the flexibility and touch sensitivity that provides...but my cheap end stylus does the job well enough for practice and it's enough for now. Some day though....SOMEDAY!

Anywhoooo...I followed Flo's tutorial (linked above) and modified some things here and there. I have spells on the mind at the moment so a lightbulb for 'Lumos' seemed pretty fitting

Cassirin · 12-08-2020, 02:21 AM

That turned out super cool, Kath. I can't imagine that a different/ better stylus would make a big difference, but what do I know?

Suziella · 12-10-2020, 05:10 AM

I was I could art like you!

ArianaBlack · 12-21-2020, 02:15 AM

the digital piece is SO COOL, kath turned out so super nice

also the magical ~flare~ with the lumos

sweetpinkpixie · 01-06-2021, 12:34 PM

❝ lil Trent 2.0

inspiration SSRPG characters Kale Trent (pundantic)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

It's 2021! This request is special (besides playing the character's little sister and being a part of a RP'd family) in that I also got the opportunity to make the set for the character in ickle form. I really lucked out with how the overlay fire texture fit and hugged the curves of the FC's pose - sometimes you find that sweet spot by sheer dumb luck. There are three texture layers here (the grunge background, the fire overlay, and then the little broken heart) and I used layer masks on the pictures of the model to erase the background. Duplicated those, sharpened, and set to soft light to accentuate the lines and colors a bit. I lost track of how many adjustment layers I used...but I think it was around 5 or 6 by the time I was done and for varying things (selective color, brightness, saturation, etc).

emjay · 01-12-2021, 04:01 AM

Your graphics are always so beautiful. I love the coloring on this so much. You should do a step by step tutorial on some of these.

sweetpinkpixie · 01-14-2021, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by emjay

Your graphics are always so beautiful. I love the coloring on this so much. You should do a step by step tutorial on some of these.

omg thank you, MJ

I should...I forget to...and I do so much experimenting that by the time I am done I don't always know what I did to get there

I meant to include a screencap of my layers...but I keep forgetting

❝ Cathal Myles

inspiration SSRPG characters Cathal Myles (iekenstein)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

Another private request! I absolutely fell in love with this particular image of the FC and I worked everything else around that. So I upped the warm tones and did some color adjusting to change the color of the sweater to feel more Hufflepuff than Gryffindor (since it was more red) and his face was just so gosh darn cute that I really wanted it to be the emphasis. I tried my usual flip the image (one smaller and one larger) but it just seemed to take away from those freckles and thus came just the close up. There are a few light texture layers set to screen (I think it was screen) for the glow and viola!

sweetpinkpixie · 01-14-2021, 04:08 AM

❝ Gabrielle Parker-Emerson

inspiration SSRPG character Gabrielle Parker-Emerson (Harron Peasley)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

This took me ages simply because a certain voice in my head (looking at you, Joshua Miller) was being very particular on what images we used since Gabrielle is a very special person to him. It can be hard enough pleasing yourself when making graphics, so having the occasional peanut gallery chime in just makes everything worse In any case, the hair gave me the most problems in trying to erase the background. I sometimes will apply a little trick to help me with this...and it somewhat paid off here though not as seamless as it can be. Basically I will duplicate layers with the same layer mask. One layer I always sharpen and set to soft light or lighten depending on the rest of the graphic's look. When hair is particularly unruly, I will often mask out the bottom layer (the one set to normal) and then the soft light/lighten layer remains and the hair looks as though the entire background is gone. It's not an exact science but...it helps me in a clutch from time to time

emjay · 01-14-2021, 05:11 AM

Those Cathal graphics!

Omg the vibrancy and color, just gorgeous. The Gabrielle signature is really pretty too

I like how you mention some of the things that you do when creating these. Are you using PS or Elements? I know how tricky the hair can be and I have another trick too, but I'm using PS and I don't think it translates on Elements.

sweetpinkpixie · 01-14-2021, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by emjay

Those Cathal graphics!

Omg the vibrancy and color, just gorgeous. The Gabrielle signature is really pretty too

I like how you mention some of the things that you do when creating these. Are you using PS or Elements? I know how tricky the hair can be and I have another trick too, but I'm using PS and I don't think it translates on Elements.

That was really a stroke of luck with the image - though a sharpened layer over set to lighten also help accent freckles and those big ol' eyes. I'm using Elements

bit of a learning curve adjusted from Photoshop to it when I first got it

❝ Darius Lacroix

inspiration SSRPG character Darius Lacroix (sweetpinkpixie)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

I first made Darius so that I could participate in a Beauxbatons RP over in St.Mungo's. His voice had kind of been this nagging thought in the back of my mind for what felt like a year but I never explored it until the opportunity for a specific RP event happened and I had been thinking about making a French charrie so the timing was right In any event, these are some updated siggies for him now that he is no longer at the school. The two purple-y ones come from the same photoshoot of his FC and have some color adjusting going on but the main effect comes from applying this texture over the images (I think I had this set to hard light but it may have been soft light...I experimented a lot with the style there ). I lost the source for it but I remember downloading it from deviantart ages ago.

The warmer siggy's effect was created using this texture (same creator as the previous one from deviantart) and is also the texture I used on the graphics for Kale Trent and Cathal Myles, just the blending modes have been set to something different I only realized after the final save of the graphic and exited out of Elements sans saving the PSD that the lyric to the song Furr by Blitzen Trapper goes 'ON fire' and not 'OF fire' he isn't complaining so I will just keep the eye twitch to a minimum every time I see it pop up in my riggy rotation.

'rugged piece of fairy dust' is a trademark of one Felixir's brain

kayquilz · 01-14-2021, 11:11 PM

those are BEAAAAUTIFUL OMG. KATH! *____*

Okay something that is oddly specific that not only you do well but others do well that I am having trouble with - getting a graphic of a character to look good when cutting off part of their face! I have been practicing this...and can figure it out mostly until I try to do what you did in your second signature there. Like the top of his face is gone but it looks so natural to the rest of the graphic and COHESIVE. I am always so impressed by you, Katherine! Ugh. GORGEOUS.

Cassirin · 01-15-2021, 02:11 AM

Oh, these graphics are goooooooorgeous. The coloring on Cathal's, in particular, makes me cry a little. In a good way! I might just try out some of those textures you're sharing, because I'm always looking for a new and good one.

Felixir · 01-22-2021, 04:52 AM

SPOILER!!: catching up and putting it in here so I can pretend I have chill

Those Cathal graphics are BEAUTIFUL wow I just had 2 highlight them. look at the little sunspot ;-;

and and and aND I'm still yelling at you for these Darius graphics lmao. more beauty, in face and in graphic skill. people are loud. people have comments.

you see what your nonsense has wrought.

thank you for the shout out tho I'm still very proud of that line

sweetpinkpixie · 01-25-2021, 04:31 AM

SPOILER!!: all the kind words ;________;

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

those are BEAAAAUTIFUL OMG. KATH! *____*

Okay something that is oddly specific that not only you do well but others do well that I am having trouble with - getting a graphic of a character to look good when cutting off part of their face! I have been practicing this...and can figure it out mostly until I try to do what you did in your second signature there. Like the top of his face is gone but it looks so natural to the rest of the graphic and COHESIVE. I am always so impressed by you, Katherine! Ugh. GORGEOUS.

thank you ;_______;

It is definitely a case of trial and error and also looking at other people's work and mimicking it for practice. I tend to fall into the same pattern for how I crop with these so I want to try and experiment a bit more with tilting the original image so its not just the straight on. Sometimes you find really interesting shapes and layouts with that.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Oh, these graphics are goooooooorgeous. The coloring on Cathal's, in particular, makes me cry a little. In a good way! I might just try out some of those textures you're sharing, because I'm always looking for a new and good one.

I've got PLENTY and deviantart is a really great place to get some from. Will keep sharing

Quote:

Originally Posted by Felixir

SPOILER!!: catching up and putting it in here so I can pretend I have chill

Those Cathal graphics are BEAUTIFUL wow I just had 2 highlight them. look at the little sunspot ;-;

and and and aND I'm still yelling at you for these Darius graphics lmao. more beauty, in face and in graphic skill. people are loud. people have comments.

you see what your nonsense has wrought.

thank you for the shout out tho I'm still very proud of that line

Why are you the way you are? *knows why but still WHY?!*

so

THANK YOU

AND I AM VERY FOND OF MY NONSENSE SO YOU'RE WELCOME

❝ Flamsteed Twins

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inspiration SSRPG characters Atlas Flamsteed (sweetpinkpixie) and Aries Flamsteed (Samia)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers

I recently ordered two new sets (pastel and skin tones) of Ohuhu markers and I have been itching to draw more. So, today, I finally found some time to just sit and unplug with an audiobook and drew. For a while now I have been wanting to draw some chibi style characters again and I've also been wanting to try and take pages from Jay and Ern and MJ's books with drawing characters...thus I took a stab at drawing my current school RPG character and his twin brother. The line art phase was a mess (see below) and I am really pleasantly surprised with how it came out in the end - finding the right lighting to take a photo was hard and it still doesn't show the colors right (I tried twice in different locations by the window but dslfjlskdfljs). The pastel Ohuhu's really layer nicely and are what I used on their hair, eyes, and for a base on the robes before layering over them with my original 48 pack. The skin tones were fun to play with (I used YR212 milk white and YR20 for their skin with R080 pale cherry pink for the blush on the cheeks) and I am REALLY looking forward to trying out darker skin tones soon.

So, Atlas has his Pluto plushie (Toby) and Aries has an infamous large sandwich made popular by Hogwarts Mystery I've learned from previous robe doodles and attempts at shading to start LIGHT and casually build up darker...and that the black and darkest great will just never blend well so do not try...so I am pretty pleased with how the clothing (another bane of existence along with hands) came out

SPOILER!!: progression from line art to coloring

EDIT // the white space was killing me...so I added a bit more so it turned into a proper character spread of sorts

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kayquilz · 01-26-2021, 12:43 AM

so. incredibly. CUTE. I love this ;___; the big sandwich is KILLING ME and I love his scrambled eggs AHHHHH eyes. And Aries big ole' smile. ugh. love your character drawing style, Kath! and you've progressed so much since getting all your markers! we love to see it!

sweetpinkpixie · 01-30-2021, 01:23 PM

Thank you, Kate

I feel like I’m still really trying to figure out what exactly my style is and I watch a lot of tutorials on YouTube and follow along. For sure it’s not realism though

I r always been a fan of the chibi style and when I was in middle school I was sooooo obsessed with CLAMP and their style so I have a lot of their influence, especially with eyes. I love how they did eyes. Though I have started to veer away from the thick cat eye like style they do and more rounded these days

sweetpinkpixie · 02-10-2021, 06:00 AM

❝ minimalist

inspiration SSRPG characters Kaiser (Felixir), Bernadette Grantham (BanaBatGirl), Margaret Turov (Waddles), Quinn Kingsley (NiallNIP)
materials Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, Snow White font, Champagne & Limousines font

This vibe is really all Felix's doing. We had talked about these minimalist aesthetics forever ago and they are really popular on tumblr and constantly were haunting my thoughts. So when Felix gave me the above image of Kaiser for a PP request, the composition of it all just made me think about those and that was all she wrote So after an hour of hunting for the perfect font and playing with blending modes for a color fill layer...it was a fairly straight forward process that then had me absolutely second guessing it all because it was so simple (and that's when the brain just wants to go nuts and WANTS to make things more complicated than necessary, but I resisted) and a grand total of 5 layers. So, thank you Kaiser for the inspiration

I assembled all the house colors and I am more than willing to make one for anyone who would like one - doesn't have to be a house color and can be in the color of your choice. I am also going to make a tutorial for this to share in the Sewing Lessons so you can give it a go yourself. It's a fun little experiment in color fill layers and blending