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he came to me in a prophetic dream and the moment i touched my stylus he just appeared on my screen it's kinda reminding me of what happened with kim kitsuragi
anyway he's ALSO god's most insane soldier and he too killed a man at a young age (he's literally not even old yet) but your honor......... shouldnt all men get to kill at least 1 dumb person every year? as a treat? for being such good boys and tolerating so much bullshit for a whole year? your honor, out of curiosity, how many guard dogs do you own?

mm stuff

the dragons have decided to cook him alive #wip

this lowkey looks like an animation 🐟

I'll try to explain how i got the effects tomorrow :3 maybe it comes in handy later

vibing 👉👈 but its still not done yet

OKAY so if i let my perfectionism lead me I won't be putting out this guide until im dead,, so here i go explaining it thru text,,,,,

first, it's probably obvious that I'm using a ton of layers in different blend modes- sadly I don't got a solid plan in mind when choosing blend modes so I can't really explain it. for more in-depth rundown you gotta check Mat's explanation in their channel! this guy is incredible. that's where I learnt most of this

second, drawing abstract shapes with a lot of energy and movement in them is not something you can do without the help of something called accidents! it's kinda impossible to force a good swooshy line no matter how many times i ctrl+z my way into it. so to solve that, I altered most the ghostly lines with smudge tool on 100% strength. some brushes will blur your pixels instead of dragging them,, so I'll explain which brushes to use later.

and lastly, and oh my god this one is my favorite, the "Blend if" option in the layers menu is a goddamn game changer. i learned it from a graphic design centered youtube channel called Texturlabs and it's saved my brain a lot of meltdowns since. so,, maybe watching tutorials unrelated to painting can be a good source of inspo if you're into knowing every trick the app you're using has?

so how it works? we know that digital brushes are made of a stamp being pasted over and over to make a stroke. shape dynamics is responsible for changing the tip of the stamp and Scattering will randomize the placement of each stamp so in a way it gets fuzzy/noisy.
now, from what i guess, smudge tool works like a brush too, with the difference being that the color data isn't being "stamped" or inserted like the way brush tool does. instead, it takes the data from the layer you're on and drags those same colors around. if the colors are randomized like how Scattering did it, all the colors get mixed together, making it even. and that is why the smudge tool is used to create blur.
so to summerize, if we overdo the strength of this dragging action the smudge tool provides and remove every randomizing quality of the brush we're using we'll be left with this nice effect that can help to create more natural lines