DiCicatriz- Mi propia realidad

[Legatus]

The Walker family is incredible. Fantastic work!

Just a minor thing: a stag has split hooves, yours still has a horse’s ones.

[DiCicatriz]

While I’m tweaking things… another crack at my superhero selfie. You know I can’t resist slapping rainbows on everything.

[JR19759]

Oh yeah, forgot to say, the tattoo on Sam Walkers chest is awesome.

[DiCicatriz]

Thanks! I had seen that some transmen get intricate chest tattoos to cover their mastectomy scars so I thought it would be a cool idea to incorporate in with Samuel, and it ended up fitting in nicely with the storyline of the Ensins and their seal-based magic.

[prswirve]

Alright a quick one. I’ll just have to say NANABEO is soooo awesome!

[Trekkie]

Mate, you can never go wrong with rainbows . There’s also no such thing as too many rainbows.

And I really like the way you do rainbows.

[livewyre1014]

I’ve always been a fan of your work…keep the good ideas coming man!!!

[Anarchangel]

@livewyre1014 said:

I’ve always been a fan of your work…keep the good ideas coming man!!!

And the rainbows…..Rainbows too.

[Lightningsword]

WHAT’S UP WITH THE RAINBOWS?

[Trekkie]

@Lightningsword said:

WHAT’S UP WITH THE RAINBOWS?

Rainbows are cool, that’s what.

[prswirve]

I’ve never even tried doing rainbows! How’d u manage to do so many! Awesome awesome work…

[Legatus]

His face has a really sinister look to it. Love it!

[The Atomic Punk]

Fonts are hard to work with in HeroMachine because they tend to “grab.” You must have an infinite amount of patience! I don’t know if that counts as a super power or a curse.

[prswirve]

Great character. I was supposed to say, go for red, then i saw the spoiler and , like you, can’t make up my mind too… lol

[DiCicatriz]

As promised, here’s a quick rainbow-masking tutorial. It’s actually quite simple:

STEP 1: What do you want to rainbowficate? I’m only doing one single item, so let’s do a wolf. Because, why not a rainbow wolf?

STEP 2: To get the seamless full-color effect I usually need around seven or eight gradient squares, which means you need eight copies of the wolf item to mask them onto. I like to make each one a different line color, makes it easier to keep track of them all.

STEP 3: Start adding your gradient squares! Orient them however you want, in this case since we’re doing a horizontal rainbow effect, I turned the item 90 degrees. Then start placing them side by side so that the colors line up (putting the Line Color’s alpha at 0%). I usually use the following color set up: (darker-red/red, red/orange, orange/yellow, yellow/green, green/blue, blue/purple, purple/darker-purple)

You may have to resize your item, or the backgrounds (be sure to re-position them if you do or the colors won’t be perfect), to get the right proportions.

STEP 4: Now you can start masking. Easy process, mask a square, bring it to front, send the item you masked onto all the way to the back layer. Repeat until all squares masked.

STEP 5: Once you’re done, it’s a matter of refining the details. Masking these gradients isn’t always perfect (this is a beta version of HM after all), you can see how the base white color of the item leaks through the masks. Just click on the item that’s right under the masks and color him all black, easy fix. We were fortunate in this instance but sometimes the mask can cover up some of the line work on the item self. (Also an easy fix, take one of the items bring to the very front on top of all the masks, reduce the alphas of Color 1 and Color 2 to 0% and leave the Line Color at 100%) Once you’re satisfied… BAM! You got yourself a rainbow wolf.

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