Paintings of Popular Youtubers

Hey there, how was everyone’s Halloween? I hope you all had fun and were all safe! =)

Today I finished and published a new video! Happy Halloween! haha I love Micheal Buckley from the What The Buck show and someone requested I draw Tobuscus….I watched him in some Jackfilms videos and I got a chance to see some of his videos and he’s pretty cool. =) Sooo I drew him and Buck!

I’d write more but I’m not feeling very well…too much candy I suppose haha I’ll seee you all soon!! <3

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Something To Keep In Mind When Filming For Youtube

Ok so this might be considered very basic and simple stuff and some people may think I’m a total idiot for now just having figured it out lol but if anyone else has any problems in this area…. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! AND I’M HERE TO ASSIST YOU!!! hahaha

What I just figured out is something about ASPECT RATIOS.  

For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to make HD videos for Youtube but whenever I tired to make a HD video, my computer would slow down whenever I edited them. It drove me crazy! So until I get a faster computer, I decided to lay off HD and just try standard. But the thing about standarded was that, on youtube, I couldn’t figure out how to record and get my video to fill up the entire video area. It drove me crazy!

Soooo I finally read up about Aspect Ratios, something I learned about in my English Film class but I guess I never really understood it until now haha

I knew to record widescreen and get HD for youtube was to record 1280×720.Indeed that’s what you have to record at to get HD but you don’t have to record at just that to get widescreen – which is what I wanted. Again, I’m sorry if I seem super slow for just figured this out but hey, no one told me! Everywhere I looked, everyone…..EVERYONE said to just record at 1270×720. UGH! I can’t record that on my computer, not if I just want to record my painting and not my entire screen. I thought that meant every other artist changed their viewing screen for Photoshop to full screen where you can’t see any of your brushes or layers which I need to see, I don’t know about anyone else but I can’t paint at full screen.

So I figured out to look at what the aspect ratio was for widescreen. It’s such a simple fix! Anyone remember learning fractions in like…what was it….the 3rd…4th grade?  Remember how you said you’d never ever use fractions? Well I used it today!!

In case there are anyone reading this that doesn’t know, fractions or ratios are basically they’re the same thing. Ratios are sort of just fractions but flipped on the side! haha So the way I figured out what to set my dimensions to record with on my computer, I took 16:9, which is the aspect ratio for widescreen, and made it into 16/9. Then I just times both numbers by 59 and I got  944/531. And that works for widescreen! Yay! I might make it smaller but I haven’t decided yet hahaha

So remember kids….math is good to know in the future.

Harry Potter Opening In After Effects

So I’m working on my next live action video which, as you might have been able to guess, deals with Harry Potter. I’ve been trying to find a good tutorial on how to get the opening and I finally found one after forever of searching! lol

I looked at some other random After Effects tutorials but I guess it’s because I”m a newbie but they are kinda hard!  I couldn’t really understand them. I wasn’t sure if people were using CS5 but I know Photoshop CS5 isn’t that different then Photoshop CS4 so I guess if its the same deal with After Effects, it wouldn’t really matter that much if they were using CS5 or CS4 (I have CS4). Yet I still couldn’t follow completely. When I followed this Harry Potter tutorial, however, I was able to learn some things that were in previous tutorials but I was too much of a newbie to figure out what was happening! haha

But I think the biggest thing that threw me off most of the tutorials was the fact that they used downloaded plugins and Idk, I’m just not very much into downloading plugins. Whenever a Photoshop tutorial useing plugins or downloaded brushses, I’m usually able to improvise but since I know little to nothing about After Effects, I had to resort to giving up lol

OMG, After Effects is such a WONDERFUL program though! There’s so much potential for awesome videos! I’m so excited about having it and I really want to learn more! But one problem…

WHY DO AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIALS HAVE TO BE SO BORING?!?!?!

No offense to anyone who made any After Effects tutorials, I don’t think it’s the way people make the tutorials, I think I just zone out when people talk about film type stuff like camera sizes or…idk lol I took a film english class once and I fell alseep almost whenever my teacher started to talk lol maybe he’s to blame for my lack of ability to pay attention because he was rather boring…but I think it’s mostly there’s just something about talking about films that just bore me haha which SUCKS because I love the art of film!!

I’m not sure if I made ANY sense just now lol but I’ll end it here and with the video tutorial I was able to follow for the Harry Potter Opening! lol Enjoy!

Harry Potter Opening Tutorial

Stock Exclusives on Facebook!

So the other day I made a facebook page for my site! Yayz! I think it’ll be easier to keep people updated on stuff I’m working on and to stay connected with people. =) So you can go check that out but I wanted to tell you what you’ll get speical before anyone else!

Exclusive stock photos! I’ll upload a few stock photos 1 days before they go on DA =) Also I’ll add some photos there that won’t go on DA  So go over to facebook and LIKE the page and share it if you like it! =)

You can find my Facebook here and my stock deviant art account here.

Here some of the exsclusive stock photos I already put on Facebook. =)

LIKE on FACEBOOK!! =D

Animation and Horror Photo Manipulation Tutorial

I made two new tutorials for you guys!!

Ok so not really two NEW tutorials. One I posted on Youtube a while ago but I forgot to put it on my tutorial page so sorry about that! However, I updated it and added TWO tutorials!

The first one is an Animated Walk Tutorial using the Photoshop animation window. The Photoshop animation feature isn’t very well known and you can’t do much in it but I thought I would make a tutorial on how to use the features and make a simple animation using the feature.

Here’s the video – you can also check it out later by going to the tutorial page =)

The next tutorial is based off of a makeup guru on Youtube made. Audfaced is a wonderful special effects makeup artist and a great inspiration!

My previous post mentioned some of her tutorials and sense it’s almost Halloween, I thought some of her horror looks might inspire some creativity for this year! =)

Anyway, my favorite tutorial by her is her Left 4 Dead Witch tutorial. It’s amazing! I watched it several times – not including the ammount of times I watched it while working on my newest photo manipulation! haha She is a great artist! And not only does her creative makeup looks inspire me but her wonderful video editing!

Here’s what Audfaced created in her tutorial and the photo manipulation you’ll be making if you watch my video tutorial.

Audfaced was also nice enough to let me use the audio from her tutorial in my video! So this is a new type of Photoshop tutorial! I’m not doing a voice over explaining how to create the image in Photoshop but instead Ms. Audfaced (I don’t know her real name lol sorry!) will be explaining it sense she did it so well in her own tutorial! haha I’ve always wanted to do something like this and I didn’t expect it to be of a horror image! haha I still have directions I wrote in the video so don’t worry about getting lost! ^.^

I hope this sounds intriguing enough for you to want to check it out! lol

If either of these tutorials are too difficult for anyone to understand – let me know and I’ll be more then happy to make a picture and text version for you to download and read at your own pace! =) Don’t be shy! Just comment or send me a message here, Youtube, or on Deviantart! ^.^

I hope you like these tutorials! I enjoyed making them and I want to make more photo manipulations! I hope you stay tuned for more! ^.^

Costume Ideas for Hallowen

Halloween is less then a month away!! Who’s super excited besides me? Anyone? Well I’m excited because I go to a Halloween party every year for the past 3 years with my friends and I”m actually gonna dress up this year! Can you guess what I’m gonna be? I’ll give you three hints:

1. She’s bad
2. She eats death
3. She very… LEstrange…..

If you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s Bellatrix Lestrange! =D Well I just want to be like my own Death Eater but Ballatrix is a good role model if you want to be a Death Eater! ^.^

I know not everyone is into Harry Potter and if you’re not, that’s fine and even if you are you might not want to be Bellatrix or a Death Eater for that matter, that’s coo man. I got some videos that are bound to spark some interest!

The first youtuber I want to share is Kandee Jonhson, she is my all time favorite makeup guru on Youtube of all time! Last year she published a set of makeup tutorials for Halloween and even went into a bit of costume development. She did The Queen of Hearts, The Madd Hatter, Edward Scissor Hands , Tinker Bell, Cinderella, Pocahontas, A Vampire look and much more!! She is amazing at coming up with idea for good costume looks and she’s about to upload more really really soon! So check her out and subscribe so you can see what she’s going to upload this year!

Here are some of her videos from last her.

Another makeup guru is Audie or Audfaced on Youtube. She’s more into the horror and special effects type makeup. And her video editing is phenomenal! I love it! She’s a very nice and sweet girl and you would never expect her to be so good and transforming people into terrifying zombies and creatures of the night! Nevertheless, she is one amazing makeup artist and probably the best one for around this time of year! While Kandee might have a lighter side for those who are looking for that sort of thing this Halloween, Audfaced is the one you want if you want to be the scariest of them all!

Check out some of her videos but be warned, they can get kinda creepy for those who may not be able to handle it haha :

I hope you enjoy these videos and maybe find some ideas of what you’ll do for Halloween! I’d love to know what costumes everyone will do so post a comment and let me know! ^.^ I don’t do makeup and I”m not a guru but I can help find tutorials online or even just give you my personal opinion on how I think you can pull a certain look off! =)

I can’t wait for Halloween! I’m going to do a video in my costume once I get everything together so stay tuned!!! ^.^