User:Notquiterocketwildbokan/Archive 2

Hi there
Hey! I'm Hawk, nice to meet you. Anyways, I see you've been commenting on images, including mine, about how amazing they are. For that I thank you, but it's not the kind of thing we put on the approval page. It can be mistaken for critique on images, so I ask to please put those comments on peoples' talk pages. Thank you and have an amazing week! 22:47 Mon May 19

Re:
You can email the .xcf file for Whitethroat's StarClan image to darkforestrising@hotmail.com, and then I'll convert it to a .psd (since I have GIMP as well), and send it back. Pixlr does allow .psd files, meaning you won't lose the layers. I'd hate to see you lose that file- you've made so much progress. =)

Nah, it's fine as it is, honestly. I'm just nitpicky about white. Don't worry about it.

CBA
Hey hi congrazzles on getting an image CBA'd! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ  Anais ♥ (talk)   23:45, May 31, 2014 (UTC)

^^!  Anais ♥ (talk)   23:47, May 31, 2014 (UTC)

Re:
Hi! I'm so sorry for the late reply! I use mainly GIMP, but will work with Pixlr or Paint.NET if needed. I'd be more than happy to take you as an apprentice! 21:55, 06/3/2014

Re
Hey, I'm Duck your mentor, as you know! I joined the wiki a long time ago and am now one of the sysops. I lead PW and am deputy in PC and work in all of the other projects. That's a little backstory of me. lol So what would you like to learn first? c: 14:05, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

Okay how I've done it before is use ezimba, a website with free image hosting, and shading first is fine with me, I want you to make a brown cat and shade it so I can judge your progress upload it to that site c: 17:22, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

okay that looks great for a first! what rate did you blur the shading on? also, I find it helpful to have more than one layer for the smaller areas, like the tail, and feet that have only less-blurred shading, but the same color. Honestly, if depends on the image, on Hareflight  I used 7 shading/highlight layers, but in most of my images I use 1-2 with 1 highlight layer. 19:29, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

Okay, well to start set it at about 7 and hit it twice, then put it at about 80% opacity. And don't worry about highlights, those aren't mandatory, and they'll come later. 20:16, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

okay, I think this'll explain better http://www.ezimba.com/work/140630C/ezimba18240334602500.png 'caust I'm bad with words lol 21:51, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

it looks better, lower the opacity a touch more and blur the shading a touch more. 02:06, June 30, 2014 (UTC)

blur it more still, maybe set it higher. this is the most frustrating part of a charart to me, making the shading look right, once we get this done the rest is easier. 03:17, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

Shading
Hey, I notice you're having a tough time with shading on charart, so I'll give you a tip. from the ultimate Ducksauce when he taught me 8D First, you need to make sure that you're not restricting yourself. When you put the shading, you might need to go outside the lines while blurring to make it fluffy, but that's alright. Second, you need to use the Gaussian Blur tool. (I usually put it up to 20-30 to make it look fluffy.) Finally, go back to your lineart layer, use the magic wand tool and click outside the lineart, go back to your shading layer and click Delete on your keyboard. And you're done! Sorry if you didn't get that at all, I'm terrible at explaining things o.o; 10:42 Tue Jul 1

okay it's looking tons better, now we need to work on the earpink a bit do you use the smudge tool ad know where it is? 15:32, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

this explains smudging in my own words with pictures! 15:50, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

it looks amazing! what opacity is your shading on? also, is your earpink above or below the shading? 16:05, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

okay, put the earpink below the shading so there will be shading on the earpink, and move the opacity to 82. c: 18:21, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

okay it looks great now. now I want you to make a gray cat in a leader blank. gray cats are trickier so be careful, but it shoulkdn't be too hard for you 22:58, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

wow, that is amazing, the only thing s remove the shading ont he top of her right leg 04:16, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

the patch of shading over her front leg, just remove that and blur the shading with guassian blur a tad and it should be good 22:39, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

wow that's looking great! define the shading a bit. and go ahead and upload the tortie if you want c: 14:55, July 3, 2014 (UTC)

the gray leader looks amazing, great job! as for the tortie, it looks good too, but add more black and ginger patches 15:26, July 3, 2014 (UTC)

whoops sorry, I accidentally looked over your new upload. but anyways, define the shading. it can be tricky on tri-colored cats 14:47, July 5, 2014 (UTC)

here's the approximate shading i use on my loners. and it helps sometimes if you have a different shading layer for your different colors, because black requires darker shading than white does. 20:24, July 5, 2014 (UTC)

okay, we'll come back to the shading. make the orange patches smaller. 21:13, July 5, 2014 (UTC)

make the shading more defined, and don't darken it. to do that simply add a new shading layer with less-blurred shading. 02:02, July 6, 2014 (UTC)

okay, that looks good, we might go back to it though, because there are different types of torties and cool patterns you can make with them, but for now I want to go to tabbies. first off I need to see where you're at making them, so can you make me a ginger tabby? 14:14, July 6, 2014 (UTC)

okay, well here is a start to a tabby, save the file as an .xcf when you're done because there's more work to do. 1 2 this is my favorite type of tabby. c: 15:46, July 7, 2014 (UTC)

1 okay, the area outlined in blue I rarely put stripes, tbh I don't think cats can have stripes there, so I don't add them there. also, the areas where there are red stripes, would you mind adding a little stripe, just to fill 'em up, we want him to be full of stripes. and the next step I do, this is optional and when I first started I didn't do it. 2 15:15, July 9, 2014 (UTC)

next steps these two are pretty exchangeable, if you want to blur instead of smudge, that's fine. c: 17:14, July 9, 2014 (UTC)

that looks almost perfect! just darken the stripes a bit and it'll be good 21:34, July 9, 2014 (UTC)

looks great! the color isn't the most natural, but we'll come back to that. what would you like to learn next? a different type of tabby or what? c: 05:01, July 10, 2014 (UTC)

Okay, that's what we'll do next! However, we're gonna have to wait until the 20th, because I'll be leaving on vacation soon and I don't want to get in the middle of a lesson, and then have to leave. c: 00:47, July 11, 2014 (UTC)

'kay thanks! 00:52, July 11, 2014 (UTC)

Re:
You'll create a page, something like what I have, that has a page title along the lines of User talk:Notquiterocketwildbokan/Archive 1 or a title of your choosing. I have mine as subpages of my namespace, not user talk space, but it's the same basic concept. You'll then store all your messages there and provide a link to it like I do on my talk page. this also helps a teeny bit.

Cat
Hi, I got your message and that would be great if you make me a cat. If you do make me a shorthair female kittypet. --Whitesong (talk) 18:53, July 12, 2014 (UTC)Whitesong

Suprise me! --Whitesong (talk) 18:56, July 12, 2014 (UTC)Whitesong

Re:Siggie
Hey Rocket. Hehe, I can't help you much there. My coding skills are absolutely horrible. I recommend asking someone else, because I am definitely not the expert here. Sorry! 19:02 Sat Jul 12

Hi, im having troubles with ezimba.com. can you help me. --Whitesong (talk) 19:06, July 12, 2014 (UTC)Whitesong

Cats
Never Mind and thank she is very pretty --Whitesong (talk) 19:21, July 12, 2014 (UTC)Whitesong

Thanks
No thanks, but i thank you for the help. --Whitesong (talk) 19:25, July 12, 2014 (UTC)Whitesong

Re:
Hi, Rocket! Well, all you need to do is create a page called User:Notquiterocketwildbokan/Time and put the text, not actual coding, of what you want your timestamp to look like, like color:dimgray; font-family:Calibri. Then copy and paste this code into your preferences: User:Notquiterocketwildbokan/Sig  22:41 Sun Jul 13 \

Also, you'll need to sign with instead of ~ from now on. 23:16 Sun Jul 13

If you look on my talk page, the time and date is duplicated because of using four tildes instead of three. The timestamp is actually part of what you sign with, so to avoid duplicating the time, you need to use three tildes, not four. 11:00 Mon Jul 14

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oops sorry i forgot! let me get together a start tutorial and let me make one myself to begin with, it's been awhile since I've made one 00:43, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

okay,  I'll start! but please if I don't message you back in two days please remind me again. c: 02:49, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

response
hey, i saw you left a message on my page. i would love a sig. can you make me a cat? i would like a longhaired female med. cat. suprise me. ps can you tell me how to do links?

Thank you for the cat. sorry it took me a bit to respond i've been busy. can you help me with gimp? i want my sig to have the word penguin pink the word lover purple and the letters db blue. PenguinLoverDB 14:11, July 28,

Sig not working can you help me ? can you tell me a good tutorial of gimp?PenguinLoverDB 13:40, August 2, 2014 (UTC)

Classic tabby woohoo
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 okay here's from start to finish. this may be slightly bordering a marbled tabby but I like it and I used a picture of a classic tabby to base this off of so, yeah! c: 21:26, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

try smudging it like this all around the patches in stead of just in one direction. also, add more patches/stripes to both images and define the stripes on the ginger. 03:15, July 24, 2014 (UTC)

for the ginger, thicken out the stripes, and still on both smudge the edges of all of the patches on a 90 setting. if it doesn't look the best try using the blur tool a bit. 01:57, July 25, 2014 (UTC)

they're both looking great! darken the stripes on both more, and they should be good. 00:15, July 26, 2014 (UTC)

sharpen up dem bpatches a bit 21:44, July 26, 2014 (UTC)

Congrats dude
Hey! Congrats on becoming a warrior in  PCA! It's no easy feat. Now you can tweak/redo images and vote on tweak nominations! Once again congrats and thanks for the work you do in beautifying the pages on the wiki with charart! 21:50, July 26, 2014 (UTC)

Possibly use a hard-edged eraser to erace a bit off of the stripes because they're still looking a bit too blurred. 03:31, July 27, 2014 (UTC)

Re:
Since it's shading, it'd be a shading tutorial. 21:05, July 27, 2014 (UTC)

Looks okay to me! 21:08, July 27, 2014 (UTC)

These look great! Now, what do you want to focus on next? We haven't really focused on dual-colored cats yet, so that's a possibility. 21:35, July 27, 2014 (UTC)

we're gonna start with wither black and white or gray and white since they're the most common. which one do you want to do first? 00:41, July 29, 2014 (UTC)

Okay! 01:03, July 30, 2014 (UTC)

Tweaking
For the white all you really have to do it put a highlight or put a dab of white over the shading. That's what I do, lol. 19:48 Thu Jul 31

No problem! If you need help with tweaking, you can just contact me. I may not be the expert, but I've had some experience. ^^ 21:22 Thu Jul 31