Guess Who Just Got Invested Into These Characters More :DDDDDDDD

someting for a friend

Since it’s Halloween, don’t forget the scariest costumes ever:

“College loan debt”

“Parental responsability”

“Decreasing property value”

“Dishes I left in the sink for a week”

“MY EX WIFE”

“Unexpected pet surgery bill”

“The guy who wants to date your daughter”

Then, the best one:

“UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE”

Kris

...what now?

Hi I love your art - i was wondering if you could do some kind of post on how to start/ organize an online store? Also what kinda packaging do you use for prints?

Thanks!

This is a really big subject that’s been covered quite a lot all over youtube and other word docs, but here’s my personal perspective on running an online store? :D

Starting

I myself use Storenvy, but a bunch of my artist friends use Etsy (and I’ve been considering making the change myself!) Both platforms have a “marketplace” where other customers can find your products, and both take fees from you every time you sell. You can weigh both options and choose according to what you prefer. (I think you have to pay storenvy like, one dollar before you can sell.)

For storenvy, everything is pretty self explanatory! You can even automatically print shipping labels online fast because Storenvy is partnered with shipping easy :D

In terms of promoting yourself, Etsy’s marketplace really helps! For storenvy I don’t place myself in the marketplace because I’ve been doing just fine promoting myself online, but it may be something you want to look into

Organizing

If you’ve got 20+ items, it’s best to split your items into different categories like “prints”/”buttons” etc! I also think that the important and popular items should go on top, like deals :D Here’s my shop for reference

(more info about store management and the packaging I use under cut)

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Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

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