I won’t make a tutorial because I wouldn’t know where to start and honestly, it’s mostly through practice that you’ll improve yourself at painting. But here are a few tricks that might help you.
1. Enter the cheat code “cas.clockspeed 2” to almost pause the time in CAS. When the animal is breathing too fast it really makes it more difficult to paint details.
2. When you want to paint small details on your pet’s face, click on “edit details”, then double click anywhere else to exit the details painting mode without zooming out. You’ll have a closer look of what you’re doing.
3. Be aware that you can have a much darker black paint by pulling down the slider lower than it is set.
4. Use pictures as references. Can sound silly, but it isn’t just for inspiration, it will really help you to see better where you are supposed to paint the lights. Aaand they are really important since they will give much more landforms, and therefore, realism to your animals.
5. Paint the eyelids and the nose of your pets. Trust me, they will look much more expressive and realistic.
6. You can paint thinner traits with a simple technique. First, you make the trait you want using the colour you want, usually darker than your pet’s colour.
Once you’ve done your trait the way you want it, select the pet’s base colour (white in this exemple) and draw an other trait just next to the first one. It has to be very close to erase some of it but not all.
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7. Make a hairy effect using the fur brushes. Use different ones, set them to to smallest option on the face and more or less bigger on the body, depending on the hair length. Also, you can start with a dark colour and draw lighter above. Pay attention of the orientation of your brushes; respect the hair’s direction.
8. Don’t hesitate to mess around with different colours and opacity.
9. Use fur brushes with a darker colour to give some shadows and landforms to your animals.
That’s it, I’ll update this post if I can think of anything else. I hope some of you will find it useful.
Here we go. We all saw it coming, but it’s still frustrating. Jahla and Rhov have officially broken up and are going their separate ways.
What I hate about all this is how anti-climatic their reunion was. Their break-up follows the same pattern. It is emotionless and rote, as if Kique is just going through the motions. He wants to ship these two characters with new partners, but many long-time fans actually liked this couple. So they stay apart for nearly a year in-comic, but in the actual passage of time it’s been closer to five years.
In other words, they’re just breaking up because Kique insisted. Maybe he got tired of the criticism from some who felt their relationship was rushed in Asmundr. Maybe he just got tired of them as a couple. Maybe he didn’t want to think about what potential puppies would look like.
