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Happy Halloween
Hello everyone! As you all know, it will be Halloween in 4 days and to get into the spirit of Halloween I have decided to make a list of some of my favourite spooky videos. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK. These videos might be too scary for you and I don't want to upset anyone, so watch at your own risk.
1: True Scary Stories playlist. These are all ture scary stories posted from reddit read aloud by one of my favourite Youtubers Mr. Nightmare.
2: This is a actual recording of a hijacked radio station. The radio station is 89.9 WKCR-FM out of New York City. In 1995 the station was hijacked and the audio is nothing short of nightmare fuel. The happy upbeat music is interrupted by a shrill ear-piercing scream followed by heavy breathing and chants listing dead people and their causes of death. To this day no one knows who hijacked the station or why.
3. Creepiest YouTube Channels and Creepiest YouTube videos. These 2 videos highlight some of the creepiest and disturbing YT channels and videos. This compilation was made by Mr. Nightmare.
4. Disappearances and Murders. This is another playlist I put together of list videos highlighting strange unexplained disappearances and murders, WARNING, these are disturbing.
5. Hauntings. This is another playlist of list videos of the Haunted homes, objects, roads etc.
6. Internet and Technology. This is another playlist of creepy things that have happened around technology or the internet. So in other words, creepy phone calls, interactions on the internet, creepy email, the deep/dark web and unexplained video.
This concludes my article. If you want my master playlist with even more creepy videos that I update often here is the link. Scary Stories ad Such by FrackMeister
Thank you for reading/watching. I hope you all have a spooky Halloween. Stay Safe!
-Amy Katrina, csi12asa
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Graphic tips: Skin
Hello dolls!
First of all, before I even tell you what I'm doing, I'm just going to say that you should never ever ever lower the opacity on base layers e.g.Skin. Ever. Unless you're aiming to be a translucent ghost because keeping the base underneath for 'realism' or 'shading' just looks bad and lazy. No offense.
Today I'm going to share with you my technique of drawing highlights and shading. A lot of people that are members of Stardoll also want to learn how to do graphics. Without help from other people it can be so hard and frustrating but never give up!
Like I've said before in previous posts, I always use Gimp. Paint just won't work if you're looking to make a nice, clean graphic and Photoshop really isn't necessary (but I'm sure those who use it could tell you the difference but I don't see one by looking at the finished products from both).
Download Gimp [here]. It's free, fast and safe.
Now I'll get to it! I'm going to show you what I do with legs as an example since they feature a lot in graphics.
One of the things that kills the quality and realistic feel of most beginners graphics is the "Feather egdes" setting. Do not click this! Your body doesn't fade out at the sides!
Okay now that your settings are right. Carefully outline the edge of the skin using the "Free Select Tool" which may be called the lasso tool on other programs.
When you finish that, create a new layer. I always call this layer 'Skin Base'. Use the colour picker tool to get the right colour from a picture of your model and use the paintbrush or bucket tool to fill in what you've selected
If you accidentally put it in your reference layer instead of your skin layer press CTRL + Z to go back. CTRL + Y is forward.
Now onto the hard part. Shading. Personally, I don't like extra dark shading so I use 3-4 dark layers and 2-3 light layers depending on the reference. Some people would do a lot more but I feel like too much more than that would be.. well too much.
Today the posterize tool is your best friend (Colour>Posterize). Posterize a copy of your reference layer (so you can refer back to both). Now you can see where all the shading and highlights go. Don't follow the layers exactly as they are! They can be pretty lumpy so make them neater.
Today the posterize tool is your best friend (Colour>Posterize). Posterize a copy of your reference layer (so you can refer back to both). Now you can see where all the shading and highlights go. Don't follow the layers exactly as they are! They can be pretty lumpy so make them neater.
I made this to try to explain where the layers are because not everyone can see them. There is on extra layer that I call ''lines' where you draw the line between the two legs (or fingers for example) with the free select tool.
Tips:
-Start with the lightest dark shade (dark) and move on to darker, darkest then extra dark if you need another layer.
-Use the free select tool for this but zoom in close and click don't drag unless you know you have a very steady hand or a stylus. Even if you do have a stylus I always recommend using the 'click' method.
-When you're doing the light layers you can use the dark layers as a guideline for "light" but make sure to leave a gap and use the posterized layer as a guideline for ''lighter'' and ''lightest''. It can't go from shade to highlight or it won't look as good.
This is how each of my layers look as I build them up-
If you don't think it's going well you should still finish, just in case! If you're not happy with it afterwards redo it. Don't leave something there that you're not happy with.
-If you're doing light skin use a black background and white for dark
skin so you can clearly see the edges. If anything looks sharp or edgy
go back over it.
I really hope that this helps. I know other people do it differently but this is my (still developing) technique. If you have any questions about anything to do with graphics I'll do my best to help you! If I don't know, I'll find out :)
Thank you for reading!
~Love, Sarah ♥
Graphic tips: Fur
Hey dolls!
I just figured out how to make decent fur for graphics. It's my first time doing fur so I know it's not perfect or amazing but it looks good! It takes some time and effort but in the end it's worth it and it's pretty simple.
Step 1:
First draw the outline of the fur. You can do it really quick and messy and it still works! Blur the base layer so it looks more like fur (Thank you to Beth for this tip)
What I decided to do next was fill in the darkest parts. This helped with the fur pattern later on. I did two layers for this before moving on.
As always posterizing the reference picture helps a lot when drawing anything for a graphic.
Doing it section by section makes it a lot easier. This is how I did each layer. I used black and white not different shades of blue. It's all about building up the layers to make it look more like fur. I repeated the same pattern for every section.
Here is the final result with over 50 layers:
I hope this helps! If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them below :)
Love,
Sarah
Blonde Wig Tutorial
Hey dolls!
I know I'm not the most amazing designer but I really do like this wig that I made and this post is to show you how to make it. I hope it helps those of you who like to design wigs.
Thank you for watching! Remember to subscribe, like and comment ♥
Love,
Sarah.
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