So, I haven't been here in a good long while. I got the writing itch a while back, specifically for ponies and my old Betaverse fics. I might have something in the pipeline. I've got a few questions I'd like to ask the general pony-reading audience if you don't mind. Just so I can see if my writing style should be tweaked a bit for the modern audience.
Hello everyone. I know I've been away for a while, but that's due to me deciding to finish stories before I post them to revise, edit, and alter them to give you all better stories to read. I don't feel free to do so when I post stories live. This results in me getting frustrated with how a story is shaping up and then dropping it. That wasn't a problem when I was younger, but it's become one as
I'm low key working on a story which I intend to complete before posting. I'm enjoying being able to go back and improve, tweak, and change things to make the best possible version of the story, and it's nice to not feel like I am bound to a strict schedule of uploads.
A lot of people like the rebooted XCOM series, and a lot of people also insist its lore is bad/nonexistent. This isn't true in my opinion, but is the product of the game that sets up the world for the series having been released a year after the first game in the series as a prequel, and also it sucks ass to play. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is not a good game. At all. The story is really good,
Terrible. Just awful. By far the worst OC drawing in the history of OC drawings. By no means am I just jealous that I can't draw worth crap... yep. Totally serious here. 100% real review. Not a troll. You, too, can lose fifty pounds in three days. Completely honest here. Trust me, I'm a scientist-astronaut-olympic-gold-medal-winning-wizard.
3174558 The method for coloring like that is stupid easy! I did it with my mouse. DO you use any program that supports layers? I could tell you how to do that in a paragraph.
Now the most noob way to draw like this... Find a pony base you like. Resize it to 3000 x 3000. Make a new layer, trace the lines of the picture. New layer, paintbucket the fur color in. Use magic wand, select space outside the fur layer, delete. Figure out direction lighting is coming from. Get a color a bit darker thanthe fur color and paint it using the brush tool on allt he spots that would be shadowy. New layer. Use a brighter shade to paint over the spots that would be lighter. Blur the shit out of the shaeing layers. Use the base coat color to selce the non pony space and delete the bits haning off the edges. Open the layer properties menu and pick a blending style you like. Get a new fur color shade, paint the middle bits of the pone, blur, crop, blend. Repete using smaller brushes in diffrent colors untill you are happy.
Lambda.
That is Lambda the not-unicorn.
Knows answer but is withholding it to give others a shot.
Terrible. Just awful. By far the worst OC drawing in the history of OC drawings. By no means am I just jealous that I can't draw worth crap... yep. Totally serious here. 100% real review. Not a troll. You, too, can lose fifty pounds in three days. Completely honest here. Trust me, I'm a scientist-astronaut-olympic-gold-medal-winning-wizard.
3174558 The method for coloring like that is stupid easy! I did it with my mouse. DO you use any program that supports layers? I could tell you how to do that in a paragraph.
3174575 Would MS Paint count? I can't afford of those programs, especially since I can't draw worth crap.
3174587 Behold! This program is free and an intuitive photoshop clone!
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Now the most noob way to draw like this... Find a pony base you like. Resize it to 3000 x 3000. Make a new layer, trace the lines of the picture. New layer, paintbucket the fur color in. Use magic wand, select space outside the fur layer, delete. Figure out direction lighting is coming from. Get a color a bit darker thanthe fur color and paint it using the brush tool on allt he spots that would be shadowy. New layer. Use a brighter shade to paint over the spots that would be lighter. Blur the shit out of the shaeing layers. Use the base coat color to selce the non pony space and delete the bits haning off the edges. Open the layer properties menu and pick a blending style you like. Get a new fur color shade, paint the middle bits of the pone, blur, crop, blend. Repete using smaller brushes in diffrent colors untill you are happy.
I got nothing.
I've never played Half-Life though.
3174706 I apparently need to work on my character descriptions.. or repete them occasionally.
3174605 I'll have to give it a try. Thanks
3174713 Sorry. I probably need to backtrack and re-read in the near future.
3174982 Next chapter will clear it up.
3174537 Knows answer but is withholding it to give others a shot.
3175632 SHOOSHA Shush...
3175686 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KshNudM_rFY
3175858 AND I COUNTER!! SUPALINK
3178241 ...Its Ruby.
Spoilers? I guess? Ish?