User talk:Notquiterocketwildbokan

heyo! Notquiterocketwildbokan (talk) 23:21, May 6, 2014 (UTC) Kitsufox (talk) 23:21, May 6, 2014 (UTC)

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)

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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)