Imagine Infinity War never happened. Instead, Steve quits saving the world as Captain America and reunites with the love of his life, Bucky, in Wakanda. They put away hero suits, adopt goat babies and become happy farm boys.
So here we go. Welcome to Stucky in Wakanda, featuring Anthropologie 2015 & 2016 catalogs.
The Journey Home
Sleep in the Sky
A Room with a View
Nature Roams In
Just-Your-Style Seating
Exclusively Ours
Shades of Calm
BONUS: Companion Pieces
BONUS: A Natural Fit
BONUS: Cheers, darling (Comic version Nomad & White Wolf)
Finale: Rustic Geometry
Bucky doesn’t need his Hydra metal arm no more. World has been saved, weapons not necessary in peace. Now he can explore the possibilities the new arm is capable of - building fences, chopping woods, shearing sheep, and pulling Steve Rogers into big hugs.
This is my head-canon. This is what the super husbands deserve.
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’:
Don’t get me wrong, I love it when people design medieval fantasy clothing based on western European fashions, because they were awesome (did somebody say chaperon?) but there was lot of great design in eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire too.
I’m pretty sure the second picture is actually 16th century Hungarian dress, but I’ll let it in because it looks cool.
Anyway, if the folding isn’t clear in the comic (it isn’t, I kind of screwed up) here’s a video with instructions for three kinds of eight page zines, a half-page size, quarter-page size, and eighth-page size (the printable zine is an eighth-page size):
Did y’all know I started a literary magazine in 2011? My fellow editors and I published the whole thing online for free and had copies printed that we sold for just enough to make sure we could pay for the next printing. You can see the whole run of the magazine here: Issue One, Issue Two, Issue Three, Issue Four. The online version is a pretty good example of what an online zine can look like.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL USING KNIVES. I’ve seen a bunch of soap-cutting videos recently where people are being incredibly incautious with their utility knives. Don’t cut toward yourself, don’t put your fingers on the blade. I know that seems *super* obvious but seriously, I’ve seen so many reasonable, rational, adult humans injure themselves because they weren’t being careful. Hell, I once cut off a huge chunk of my thumb because I wasn’t looking when I closed a knife.
Go make good things.
I’m really sad right now; my mom died two weeks ago and I’m numb over it. Making things is making it easier. I want to make the kinds of things she would have liked, the kinds of things I liked to show her. I thought I’d have more time with her, I thought I’d be able to show her when this comic hits 100 pages and print a book to take to her the way I have with other projects. But I don’t have that time, I won’t be able to share what I make with her.
But I can share it with you. And you can share your work with me.
If you end up making zines or comics or art send me a message and I’ll include links in the next comic or the next time I answer asks.
Currently on view at Krause Gallery in New York City is artist Michael Mapes stunning and fascinating solo exhibition, “62 Collections.”
From Krause Gallery: “Mapes’s portraits are an extension of his ongoing ‘Human Specimens’ series, portraiture that analyzes the physical and biographical attributes of the artist’s subjects. Referencing forensic, entomological, and biological sciences through shared materials and compositional conventions, Mapes encourages a reading of the work that is informed by a pseudo-scientific framework with artistic intention.”
“62 Collections” will be on view until December 31st, 2017.
