What Made You Happy Today?

[Fraxinus]

It does appear to be fully grown; subadults don't have full wings, just "wing-buds" in their later instars (which is probably why its a bad indicator for younger mantises) but adult wing size could probably vary a bit with genetics too. But yeah, it definitely has more of the bulk I would associate with a female mantis.

 

[Azure Sage]

New kindergarteners asking me how I know their name... while they're wearing nametags. I love my job.

 

[Dizzi]

I found my phone charger fits my kindle so i can charge it!!!

 

[Fraxinus]

Talked some philosophy type stuff with my bestie. The conversation actually kind of started in a rather dark place but it turned into something rather spiritual and powerful. Got a lot of thoughts swirling as residue from that. It's oddly comforting and reassuring that some of the ideas I'm having for the story I'm writing are themes he thinks about routinely as well. Feels good to not feel alone.

 

[Uwu_Oocoo2]

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE PEN PRESSURE WORK ON KRITA
I AM SO HAPPY

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

random pleasant memory of playing Dark Cloud for the first time and going through the first dungeon, then my mom randomly comes in to ask if I want to go to a buffet w/ her, reason its random is b/c she only ever makes stuff at home and we seldom ever go out to eat, but anyways we went, food was great, then I resumed playing Dark Cloud

 

[Dio]

I harvested my squashes. Am looking forward to cooking them up!

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

I was watching a video about Clip Studio Paint tools that are unique to the software, and there was one called the gap-less fill tool. It's pure magic and exactly what I've been looking for to accomodate my preferred workflow! You just pop your sketch or line work as a reference layer, go on a new layer and select around it and it instantly creates a perfect silhouette to then paint the flat colors onto.

I used to spend an hour trying to flat color manually, and up until now the only step that I knew about that could have sped things up was lasso tool selecting the lineart, but I tried that and it was too tedious for me.

Now it just gets done in a second, and I'm in love!

 

[Fraxinus]

Krita has that I'm pretty sure. I used clipping layers a lot in SAI, and Krita has something similar called preserve alpha on a layer setting which actually is better than a clipping layer cuz it's all on the same layer instead of coloring on a separate layer. Make your silhouette, then preserve alpha so you can color on it without going outside of the silhouette.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you but, if you tick this on any silhouette layer

then you can do this

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

Krita has that I'm pretty sure. I used clipping layers a lot in SAI, and Krita has something similar called preserve alpha on a layer setting which actually is better than a clipping layer cuz it's all on the same layer instead of coloring on a separate layer. Make your silhouette, then preserve alpha so you can color on it.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you but, if you tick this on any silhouette layer

then you can do this

Yes! I was thinking I could use the gap-less fill tool on Clip Studio to make the silhouette layer instantly, and then move over to Krita to paint on it!

Before creating the silhouette was the thing that was kind of time consuming.

 

[Fraxinus]

Oh, I see. I never made full silhouettes, I usually did them in sections cuz I only really used this when I do lineless art, so it's hard to say the final shape of the overall silhouette by the time I'm done.

 

[Uwu_Oocoo2]

You can fill in spaces on krita too, but it leaves a space between the fill and the line art you then have to go and manually fill in, plus flipping back and forth between the lineart to select and then the color layer. Clip studio is amazing with its fill feature.

 

[Jimmu]

It appears that Japan is strongly considering dropping the last of the major travel restrictions very soon so hopefully they will follow through. I am feeling like my trip next Feb will be able to go ahead at this rate.

 

[Chevywolf30]

It's Bristol (my favorite NASCAR track) weekend!! Trucks tonight, Xfinity tomorrow night and then Cup Saturday night! Gonna have some new ish friends over for the Cup race!!

 

[GrooseIsLoose]

first ever attempt

What visa did you have earlier?