PSJ: Mario Golf: Advance Tour

i am the first person ever to ever make a joke about the handheld Mario sports titles where they actually looked inside the game

it's important to know that the GBC/GBA games are RPGs; they have a story. but the MarioWiki doesn't have a story section for them so it's not in the public conscience

Mario Golf for the GBC ends with the player being sent back to their world, but they're not allowed to celebrate their win: in the world the player's from, every golfer's dream is to beat Mario. if they found out Mario was beaten, the dream/love for golf is destroyed and nobody will ever play golf again

a win in my book tbh

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

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my favourite kind of descole situations are the ones where he breaks through layton's office window

NO TIME FOR DAT LAYTOING...

he is looking for his wife in the supermarket he got lost

color study. reference:

imagine collecting all the ratchet and clank weapons in sticker form (based off the splatoon wafer seals) some holographic!! one can dream ✨

take my hand. listen. adrinette exes. and marichat. (part 1)

(part 2 here)

adrinette exes. and marichat. part 2

(part 1 here)

Subawoo!

Ginny Goof

I’ve been watching Goof Troop recently and naturally started wondering what Max’s mom might have been like. Turns out that the book ‘Goofy Minds the House’ gave Goofy a wife in a historical setting with a Max-ish version of Goofy Jr, and Goof Troop concept art had a 'Mrs. Goofy,’ so I based her on those. It’d definitely be a different version of the show if they were a more nuclear family, and to be honest I think it was for the best. The family just being Goofy, Max, and their cat puts a lot more focus on the father/son relationship. If that hadn’t been such a focal point in the show, we may never have wound up getting A Goofy Movie to explore it in further depth. That’s why I tried to design and think about Max’s mom posthumously, with her being someone that a lot of current characters would have had a connection to in the past but it’s been so long that they’ve mostly moved on since her death. And I just thought Ginny Goof had a catchy enough sound to it to make a good name.

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neither of them have a driver's license