This is the original image everyone wanted to know how to make.

You can find the written tutorial here.

If you prefer to listen and watch how the photo manipulation is done, check out my video tutorial on Youtube!!

You can also see the time lapse video of this photo manipulation I did a few years ago here:

I hope you enjoy these videos and the tutorial! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask! And I’d LOVE to see your take on this tutorial! =) Please leave comments and links! Or shoot me a message. B)

I’ve been MIA everywhere – here, facebook, youtube, deviant art….I just haven’t been on my computer much and I”m not quiet sure why. Probably because the holiday season just kept me somewhat busy with the shopping, the decorating and the family. Phew…tiring! Plus I’ve been surfing the web on my ipod so really there wasn’t much use for my computer since I mostly just use my computer for blog posts and art stuff and I just haven’t been in the mood to do anything. =/

So here’s my first work of the new year!

I just uploaded the time lapse video for it on Youtube and I got a few comments from friends and I more views from people who didn’t leave comments but whenever I upload a video, I just get on this Youtube high! I watch videos that inspire me to try new things with my videos and I just get so hyper and happy!

I want to make a new video right now! A none art video – maybe another one with me in it like a skit but I don’t know what! I’ll have to think of some ideas but I’m sooo hyped right now! I watched Micheal Buckley – he’s a introbang! xD And I watched Micheal and Goeff from Roosterteeth do some stuff in Saints Row The 3rd – love that pairing! Two of the funniest guys ever!!!

I got some projects I still need to finish and a friend of mine and I are about to start a new one! haha You can’t help when ideas just come to you! But I need to work on finishing project before starting new ones! lol

Let me talk a little bit about this painting though.

I did this in acrylic paint on drawing paper, it’s 18 inches by 24 inches in real life but this one I uploaded is more like 6 by 8 or something so it can fit on the site.

I don’t know how other people paint, and I’m not sure if you can really tell what I do in the video, but I blended the paint with my fingers as if it were oil pastel or graphite or hell, makeup lol! Acrylic paint dries really fast, so once I put the color down – I just dabbed it on – and then I smudged it with my finger. It looks a bit rough when it dries but overall, I’d say it looks pretty well blended. I never did that before, it was just a spur of the moment kind of thing. I hardly ever paint. I can literally remember and can name all the traditional paintings I’ve done because there were so few. I did this one, last year I did a painting of Spawn for my brother (which I forgot to take a picture of. Next time I”m at his house, I’ll get a pic of it and upload it.) And one of a character of mine named Jared I did for my Studio Art class in high school.

I’ve only ever painted in acrylics – I don’t really know why lol What your favorite kind of paint to work with? I really don’t know paint that well so what’s the best and worst in your opinion? Do you know any good blending techniques?

Now don’t let me hog the lime light – how are all of you? How was everyone’s holiday? What have you been working on? =) I hope everyone had a happy holiday and is having a happy new year! ^.^

Here’s the time lapse video! =)

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So I’m suppose to be working on an animation for Youtube but I keep putting it off…not because it’s not fun, I just find After Effects tutorials rreeaally boring (no offense to those who made After Effects tutorials, I think it’s just all the animation lingo lol idk) I actually find it really fun, I just need to learn a certain method of animation and I just keep putting it off lol So in my procrastination, I started retouching some photos I found on devinatART. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I found out how much I LOVE retouching photos!!! <3

I retouched about 6 photos in 1 day because I found it to be so much fun! haha A while ago I made a new page for my site so I can offer some services to others. I finally got it up and running! =)

The services are cartoon images, photo retouches, and video intros. I have more then enough sample for cartoon images I’ve done and I’m getting more and more photo retouching sampled. The only thing is that I’ve only done a few video intros but it’s easier creating those when someone asks me to make one then just coming up with one on my own. So I’d like to get more experience doing that. =)

I can’t post all the images I’ve retouched here due to the photo owner’s request, but I can send samples out to those who request them. =) Please check out my services page if you’d like to find out more! ^.^

I’m uploading my retouches on deviantART, however, and you can see them all there! =)

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

If you’d like to make a suggestion or just keep up with what I’m doing, LIKE my FACEBOOK!! =)

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.

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

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! =)

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

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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! ^.^

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!!! ^.^

The reason why I say that 3D animation tutorials in After Effects are lies is because every tutorial I found was either not the style I was looking for – which is ok, those tutorials aren’t what I’m talking about – or ones that are in the style but don’t explain anything! At least they don’t explain anything step by step. They just show you what they have and are like “yeah so…this it what it’s doing….yup.”

Which is helpful to a point but what I want is a step-by-step “how to do all this stuff that I just did” but no one did anything like that!  I wanted to know about parallax animation. I’m pretty new to After Effects so that’s why I wanted a step-by-step tutorial. I probably just didn’t search for the right thing but I never found any step-by-step tutorial which totally drove me nuts! I ended up having to figure things out myself which actually I’m very proud of! ^.^ But it’s still annoying that I couldn’t find the help I needed but that’s ok….

I think that once I get the hang of animating in the style I want and I”ll make my own tutorial. Another thing is that I wanted a specific tutorial for how to animate characters in this style which is all I’m really interested in right now. I guess I don’t really have the patience to search and watch/read all different types of tutorials to figure out this one thing I want to do.

I apologize if I sounded harsh at any point in my post but I just needed to rant haha plus I was pretty excited that I figured out about the 3D layer in After Effects xD Sorry if I seem slow – I’m still really new to After Effects! haha

Here’s a video that I’m looking at that is some what helpful and a great inspiration for me! This guy is an amazing animator! =D