Holy shit.
It took me forever, but I finally did it.
Rrrrrrranko!
This is the original.
What started as a complete blank slate where I had no idea what to do turned into this huge mess of glows and colour dodge filters. Gah. It's a damn pretty mess though (or at least I think so).
Maybe I'll list down some of the things that are going on in this one avatar to make myself feel better.
I should stop putting so much effort into my avatars.
It took me forever, but I finally did it.
Rrrrrrranko!
This is the original.
What started as a complete blank slate where I had no idea what to do turned into this huge mess of glows and colour dodge filters. Gah. It's a damn pretty mess though (or at least I think so).
Maybe I'll list down some of the things that are going on in this one avatar to make myself feel better.
SPOILER
I didn't do any colour correction.
The border is textured and uses colour dodge mode. (the texture took me way longer than it should've)
I blurred the edges of the image like I typically do.
There's a colour dodge overlay on top of the whole border of the avatar.
Just when I thought I was done, I decided to painstakingly mask out Ranko and gave her this weird glow using some Fireworks blending mode called "Reflect".
That glow though. THAT GLOW.
My eyes...!
The border is textured and uses colour dodge mode. (the texture took me way longer than it should've)
I blurred the edges of the image like I typically do.
There's a colour dodge overlay on top of the whole border of the avatar.
Just when I thought I was done, I decided to painstakingly mask out Ranko and gave her this weird glow using some Fireworks blending mode called "Reflect".
That glow though. THAT GLOW.
My eyes...!
I should stop putting so much effort into my avatars.