Alas! The long awaited non-picture-y post from K3Y! The moment you have all been waiting for! It's highlighted to catch all of your attentions, punks.



PSYCH!

 Heck flipping yes. What does that picture even mean? The meaning of life or some shale? It's so deep I can't even begin to explain...

The best story ever

Long long ago, there were some gifs, but they wouldn't load on here so they're links:
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http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/128/4/3/time_by_magneticskye-d4z0sxi.gif
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Anyways
A long time ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.
But everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

Firebending is scary.

Some people gave no cares about this, and went on with their lives. 

Some people gave a lot of cares:

The old avatar, John, had a skybison named Casey. 

Except now they were both dead. 

(because John is clueless)

Then there was a new avatar!

(because Karkat is SPECIAL)

Then Avatar Karkat found some hatefriends to help him on his quest. 

And found this chick:

And saved(?) her from fighting this dude.

Meanwhile trouble was brewing....

"I am EVIL! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!"

Not sure where Zuko is, so here's another pic of Karkat being a grouch. 

I found Zuko.

Since Zuko was so incompetent about killing things, Azula stepped in with her buddies. 

The creepy emotionless one 0_0

And the adorable one!

Gamzee vs Dave...?

Kanaya!

Sollux vs Eridan!

Maybe forgetting someone... lots of someones... hm. 

THE END

*Because I'm bored now*

Weekly-ish photo fun!

Sorry, nothing much to say today. Please enjoy some pictures.

Dis be dear sweet precious Fefetasprite...

*MUST DRAW THIS*

*AND THIS*

*AND THIS*

The above three photos are from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Sora and John essentially have the same personality. 

*Brain moment: as do Dave and Riku*

*AND KAIRI'S JUST LIKE FEM-KARKAT!*

Stupid quote, cool pic. Next photo editing post will be about stupid quotes, okay?

#TRUE DAT

*Your life will change. It's all the genres of  musics. All of them.*

Shipping is risky business.

Humanstuck. The last two are- wait for it- HIPSTERSTUCK.

*it's okay, Dalek Ballerina!*

Me turning finals week: *I knew I was forgetting to STUDY!*

And that's Kairi, folks. 

And Eleven. 

THE END!

Tutorial: That Children's Best-Seller You've Always Dreamed Of

So here I am on the internet, browsing books, when I come across this beauty:

"WHAT LITERATURE!"

SO right away I'm overcome with emotion of seeing this great work of art... wow. Just wow. 

Today's tutorial is going to show you (AKA my invisible audience) how to do amazing children's book covers for your own future best sellers!

This tutorial will be quite long. 

First, select a main character. 

This is mine. What can I say, green inspired me! hehe. 

Upload picture, then you must crop it so all the white goes away. Cut OUT the character. I was able to use the polygon/freeform tool and cut out Nepeta like a pro ;) *after a lot of time*

{also, you can use the "paint bucket" to fill in the background with a random color, then magic wand can cut out the picture really well.}

Next, go down on the left-side toolbar and click "copy to clipboard."

Now, go under "File" and click "new blank image."

Proceed to use gradients, paint, pencil, and generally ridiculous effects to make a background. 

*note- or you can start with a picture and use effects. 

Here's the first I did from a blank image. 

Lovely, no? Here's one I did from a google image. 

Snazzy, no? It's even animated :0

File-> paste image from clipboard. 

Next, go to text! 

Hint- under "help" there's a thing called "font search" with REAL fonts. 

Have you ever seen a more beautiful children's book? NEVER. ABSOLUTELY NEVER.

Future book ideas: John and the Magic Hand

Red-alicious(featuring Terezi)

Vriska and the Great Flarp Adventure

Tavros and the Magical Beasts (followed by the sequel, Adventures in Crippled-ness)

Jade and the Squiddle Science Catastrophe

Post yours in comments!

Tutorial- the demon inside

Easy tutorial for this week. Remember the pug from last time? He's got a little friend:

"I can haz eat the pug?"

But this wolf is giving the guy smack:

"EVILLLLL...."

Time to power up the first guy! First, follow the emo blue pictures tutorial, but omit the eye effects for now. We'll do that later. 

This time I did 1x color cool, 3 units shadow, 2 units lighting, 1 unit contrast. The result:

"Gr."

Next step is tricky. See that pair of scissors in the toolbar on the left? Click. 

Select "polygon freeform" or something like that, then trace the eye area. Select "color tint," and pick a color!"

*try for simple names, like red. 

Repeat with other eye. 

"Cadex, I turned into a wolf."

Gotta get that manly dog scar in there, pencil tool: 

"OctoboDogSprite is here."

"OctoboDogSprite on candy."

Well, that's essentially it. I don't know about you, but for 10 minutes and a free website, that looks pretty good. 

BTW, crazy colors is the "groovy rainbow" animation. Or maybe "groovy colors," I don't know. 

"No 8ro, I win!!!!!!!!"

Cheers!

Photo Tutorial- those emo blue photo things

You know what I'm talking about. Those emo, blue-lit, dark pictures. Stuff like this-

"My picture is UNIQUE and you'll like it!"

"Being an elf is hard..."

"Reach, dang it!"

"Imma gonna smack you with dis magic, gurl."

For the sake of easiness, I'm going to imitate the styles of the bottom two... in Lunapic!

Here's the challenge- can I use Lunapic effects to make a picture of ice cream look emo? What about a puppy?

Ice cream first. Here we go-

First, I uploaded image. Bloop! That's the noise it makes in my head. I go over to "Adjust," go down to "color temperature," and move the colors down to the "cool"est they go. 

Not close enough, but definitely getting darker. 

Next, over to "Adjust," "adjust colors," brightness all the way down. 

Ehh... I'm not thrilled. Back to step 1.

Nope. 

So this time, I'm taking the original to black and white first- under adjust, of course. :)

This time, I took the image to b&w, then put it through TWO ROUNDS of full cool color temperature changer. Then, I went to "adjust color," pushed the brightness all the way down, then pushed blue a little bit up. A little. Otherwise THE PICTURE LOOKS LIKE THIS!

Nope, not quite. I've got one more trick up my sleeve....

Go to "adjust light levels." Let's bring shadows up 1.5 units, lighting up 1 unit, and whatever the top one is (contrast?) up like 3 units. 

"By golly, we've done it!"

There you have it. Cool-lit, depressing ice cream. 

Now for that puppy. 

*G4SP! 4 HUM4N PUPPY!"

Same procedure. B&W, 2x color cool, adjust shadows up (more than 1 unit), adjust lighting up (1.5 ish), adjust contrast slightly up. The result...

"TH3 HUM4N PUPPY FOUND 4 SN4CK!"

There you go. I have no idea how that ice cream got there *tutorial forthcoming*. 

Please enjoy your newfound emo art skills! 

Someone, make a folder full of emo art supplies... just please. 

CHEERS!