(ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ ✿ Miharu's GFX Gallery ✿ o(≧∇≦o)

[EtchaSketch]

I love the water effect you did in the '08 banners!!

 

[Gregriii]

11/10 IGN The yuno one is perfect *cries*

 

[derezzed]

I seriously love the lighting in your graphics. It looks really nice, especially in this tag and this tag! I do have to say that your works are overly bright sometimes, however; examples of this would be x and x. When elements of the tag get so washed out because of brightness (especially in the first graphic I linked to), it'd be a good idea to darken things, especially since darkening is relatively easy to fix afterwards. You just gotta resist the urge to make everything nice and bright haha, though I do know how hard that can be

But yeah, that aside, I'm definitely a fan of your banner composition (which is great) and your art gives me the impression that you know what you're doing. You've totally got the skills and I'm eager to see more stuff from you c:

 

[ardrey]

woooahh, those profile pages look absolutely amazing D Must be a lot of work making something of that size O:

 

[Miharu]

I love the water effect you did in the '08 banners!!

Hahaha thank you!! I used LunaPic.com for that water effect hahaha! XD

11/10 IGN The yuno one is perfect *cries*

Ahhh thank you so much!! >//v//<

I seriously love the lighting in your graphics. It looks really nice, especially in this tag and this tag! I do have to say that your works are overly bright sometimes, however; examples of this would be x and x. When elements of the tag get so washed out because of brightness (especially in the first graphic I linked to), it'd be a good idea to darken things, especially since darkening is relatively easy to fix afterwards. You just gotta resist the urge to make everything nice and bright haha, though I do know how hard that can be

But yeah, that aside, I'm definitely a fan of your banner composition (which is great) and your art gives me the impression that you know what you're doing. You've totally got the skills and I'm eager to see more stuff from you c:

Thank you so very much for your input!!! ;//v//; I truly appreciate it!! Hahaha oh gosh, I just can't help but make bright signatures ahahaha XD I actually just got PS a few days ago, so I've been trying to get used to it <: I've been using GIMP my whole life, so adjusting to PS is kind of a big step for me ahahahaha!! (Special thanks to WonderK since he's been helping me with PS! ) I'll definitely try my best darkening more of my sigs!! <: I'm probably going to just bucket fill a layer with black then put it on soft light or use brushes to make areas dark. I don't really like the darkening tool on PS compared to GIMP (But probably because I'm not using the right tone for PS ahahah still adjusting, so trying some things out <: )

Thank you so much for your kind words and input!! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

P.s. just decided to try to darken this and I see a huge difference now ahahahaha how's this? c:
Before

After

woooahh, those profile pages look absolutely amazing D Must be a lot of work making something of that size O:

Thank you so very much!! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ It really is hahah that's why I charge 400tbt for them ; v; Takes me around 5 hours+ to make (includes brainstorming and lots of trial and errors ahahaha, if I actually knew what I wanted to do with the profile, it'll probably take less, but always trying out new ideas and things for profiles)

(P.s. your art is lovely!!! I'm a big fan of your works!! ;//v//; <3 )

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Thanks for visiting everyone!!! ;//v//; I'm so surprised I got this many comments hahaha I honestly didn't expect it since I'm still revamping my gallery. Still need to upload a few more of my works, and make a new profile for my gallery since the current one is from last year! >//v//<

 

[kyoko xo]

Omg your art is amazing!!!! Teach me how to draw like that please ;;;;;

 

[Miharu]

Omg your art is amazing!!!! Teach me how to draw like that please ;;;;;

Ahhh noooooo all of the art used is not mine ; v ; What I do to make signatures is take a render and place it on a transparent background then I put in a background (which I did not make as well) and use textures, fractals, etc. to make effects to make the signature look nice as well as some color enhancements. c: That's what GFX is or graphics. (A few people can actually make a signature from scratch, but I've rarely seen anyone be able to do that. Mostly because it's really REALLY time consuming. And normally people who DO do that works for a company and makes money for it like graphics designs. ) c:

I hope that clarifies things! > v< (I'll be putting a disclaimer about that on my gallery profile once I make it as well hahaha)

 

[derezzed]

Thank you so very much for your input!!! ;//v//; I truly appreciate it!! Hahaha oh gosh, I just can't help but make bright signatures ahahaha XD I actually just got PS a few days ago, so I've been trying to get used to it <: I've been using GIMP my whole life, so adjusting to PS is kind of a big step for me ahahahaha!! (Special thanks to WonderK since he's been helping me with PS! ) I'll definitely try my best darkening more of my sigs!! <: I'm probably going to just bucket fill a layer with black then put it on soft light or use brushes to make areas dark. I don't really like the darkening tool on PS compared to GIMP (But probably because I'm not using the right tone for PS ahahah still adjusting, so trying some things out <: )

Thank you so much for your kind words and input!! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

P.s. just decided to try to darken this and I see a huge difference now ahahahaha how's this? c:
Before

After

NP, I like giving critique though I do try to keep it as compact as possible now because I have a history of rambling on about it lmao. But wow I totally feel you... I used to always get this urge to make everything bright as well, but once I tried out doing darker tags I realized how awesome they can be too, so maybe you should experiment with that c:
Ah, and I had to transition from GIMP to PS too. I used GIMP for around 2 years and I thought I would miss some features after I upgraded to PS but honestly I don't, admittedly.... PS is amazingly powerful so I wish you luck in adjusting to it! Learning the interface is definitely going to take time but it's totally worth it.

Btw, the darkening technique you mentioned - filling a layer with black - generally works well but I find that brushing lets you end up with a better result ;-]
So brushing black on a new transparent layer with a fuzzy circle brush is a bit better since it's more controlled, though another thing I like to do for darkening includes pasting the image on a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E), using the Burn tool to darken certain parts, and then setting that layer to a low opacity like 50%. Oh, and gradient maps are a great tool as well! Putting a b/w map on Multiply can really help you when stuff gets too bright, and it also kinda leaves you with a clean slate for applying more colors (whoo).

And yep, darkening is useful since it brings back features that were lost due to brightness. I can definitely see the lines more clearly in the After version! c:
It's easy to darken too much just as easy as it is to brighten too much, though, and this is especially noticeable with the first dude's jacket. So I borrowed your original (the Before image) and tried my hand at darkening it in Photoshop while keeping the color and making sure the lines aren't so overwhelming. I came up with a pretty good method for it that I'd love to share with you. (Hope you don't mind that I used your banner, by the way! I did this purely for demonstration purposes and have no intention of stealing it/claiming it as my own.)

Anyway, I started off with the original (Before) image and then duplicated it twice. I set the bottom duplicate to Multiply, and the top duplicate to Screen, and adjusted the opacity of both layer until the lighting/darkening seemed about right. Then I added a b/w gradient map, set it on Multiply, and then lowered it to 20% opacity because it was a bit too overpowering and sucked out too much color. Then I applied the image (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E) and swept the Burn tool over everything. Left that at 80%. Then I used a Curves adjustment layer, and hit Auto (or you could click on the Preset: dropdown menu and choose Darker RGB). It was looking pretty balanced at this point, but the darkening did take away some of the nice colors so I added +20 Saturation and slapped on the default purple/orange gradient map at Soft Light, 50% opacity. Finally I applied the image again, and used the Dodge Tool to fix parts that were too dark.

Here is my result-

And here is your result here for comparison-

Yours is a lot more colorful, lmao, but I managed to make the background less white and soften the sharp lines a bit.
So yeah, I hope that darkening process walkthrough was useful and clear; if not, I hosted the .psd on my MediaFire if you want to download it and check out the layers :-]

 

[Miharu]

@derezzed
Oh! I actually love doing dark tags ahahah It's just most of my GFX comes from requests, so I just fulfill what they ask for. Most of them ask for cute signatures or a certain color scheme, so I tend to go with a bright happy sig for cute themes. c:

Hahaha I've been using GIMP since 2008 (I started when I was 13, now I'm 20 hahaha) But starting in year 2010 (I think) that's when I started going hiatus. I went on hiatus A LOT ahahaha I'm honestly really looking forward to working with PS more. So far most of my recent sigs are just from PS hahaha I always have the urge to move back to GIMP though ; v; Like going back and forth between programs hahaha

You can use a dodge tool to darken areas? o: I thought the dodge tool only lighten/brights up the image 0: And yeah!! I love using gradient maps!! <3 They are so helpful and amazing hahahaha WonderK showed me those and he also told me about the brush tool to darken areas, I just didn't like using that so I didn't hahaha (I might try it again though <: )

Yeah definitely, it's really easy to darken too much or brighten too much ; v; (Also no worries!! I don't mind at all! Thanks for being polite about it and showing me! <: )

Thank you so much for your help! c: And actually to be very honest... I think yours look a LOT more brighter than mine ahahaha it looks better XD I really appreciate your feedback!!! I'm excited to learn more!! c: Thank you so very much again!!! Do you make GFX as well? O: If so I would love to see them!!

 

[Miharu]

Progress of how my Profile for this gallery is looking like! Finally found out what I wanted to do for the background!! ; v; Took me a few hours ahahaha! Still FAR from finished. I haven't even added any color enhancements, gradient maps, exposures, etc. Still need to sharpen the render to make it pop out more and blur some areas. Also need to erase some fractals. c: But at least some progress! WOO! (❁?▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* I'll probably say I'm at 35% finished out of 100% hahaha

 

[WonderK]

Progress of how my Profile for this gallery is looking like! Finally found out what I wanted to do for the background!! ; v; Took me a few hours ahahaha! Still FAR from finished. I haven't even added any color enhancements, gradient maps, exposures, etc. Still need to sharpen the render to make it pop out more and blur some areas. Also need to erase some fractals. c: But at least some progress! WOO! (❁?▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* I'll probably say I'm at 35% finished out of 100% hahaha

Looking fantastic. Can't wait for the final result. Remember to do an exposure adjustment to fix that contrast!

 

[derezzed]

@derezzed
Oh! I actually love doing dark tags ahahah It's just most of my GFX comes from requests, so I just fulfill what they ask for. Most of them ask for cute signatures or a certain color scheme, so I tend to go with a bright happy sig for cute themes. c:

Hahaha I've been using GIMP since 2008 (I started when I was 13, now I'm 20 hahaha) But starting in year 2010 (I think) that's when I started going hiatus. I went on hiatus A LOT ahahaha I'm honestly really looking forward to working with PS more. So far most of my recent sigs are just from PS hahaha I always have the urge to move back to GIMP though ; v; Like going back and forth between programs hahaha

You can use a dodge tool to darken areas? o: I thought the dodge tool only lighten/brights up the image 0: And yeah!! I love using gradient maps!! <3 They are so helpful and amazing hahahaha WonderK showed me those and he also told me about the brush tool to darken areas, I just didn't like using that so I didn't hahaha (I might try it again though <: )

Yeah definitely, it's really easy to darken too much or brighten too much ; v; (Also no worries!! I don't mind at all! Thanks for being polite about it and showing me! <: )

Thank you so much for your help! c: And actually to be very honest... I think yours look a LOT more brighter than mine ahahaha it looks better XD I really appreciate your feedback!!! I'm excited to learn more!! c: Thank you so very much again!!! Do you make GFX as well? O: If so I would love to see them!!

AH CRAP sorry I meant the Burn tool. I wrote Dodge tool even though I meant Burn, for some reason. I'll go fix that asap
From my experience, the Dodge tool is only for lighting, though I guess you could use it to darken stuff if you set the layer on Multiply? Haven't tried that, lol. I guess I'll be trying out something new later today all because of a typo haha.

It's np though; thanks for appreciating my critique, actually! And yes, I do make GFX, but you've already seen them ;-]

Progress of how my Profile for this gallery is looking like! Finally found out what I wanted to do for the background!! ; v; Took me a few hours ahahaha! Still FAR from finished. I haven't even added any color enhancements, gradient maps, exposures, etc. Still need to sharpen the render to make it pop out more and blur some areas. Also need to erase some fractals. c: But at least some progress! WOO! (❁?▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* I'll probably say I'm at 35% finished out of 100% hahaha

Whoo, I love the background! The textures look great and the final product is definitely on track to being super colorful haha. Excited to see what it's going to look like at 100%.

 

[Jacob]

Progress of how my Profile for this gallery is looking like! Finally found out what I wanted to do for the background!! ; v; Took me a few hours ahahaha! Still FAR from finished. I haven't even added any color enhancements, gradient maps, exposures, etc. Still need to sharpen the render to make it pop out more and blur some areas. Also need to erase some fractals. c: But at least some progress! WOO! (❁?▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* I'll probably say I'm at 35% finished out of 100% hahaha

omg hawt
excited as ever

 

[Naekoya]

Bump! for the awesome profile yet to come ;D hahah <3

 

[Miharu]

Looking fantastic. Can't wait for the final result. Remember to do an exposure adjustment to fix that contrast!

Definitely will!!! Thanks for telling me about exposure! <: Without you, I probably would have never touched that hahahaha! It's one of my favorite enhancements to use now! C:<

AH CRAP sorry I meant the Burn tool. I wrote Dodge tool even though I meant Burn, for some reason. I'll go fix that asap
From my experience, the Dodge tool is only for lighting, though I guess you could use it to darken stuff if you set the layer on Multiply? Haven't tried that, lol. I guess I'll be trying out something new later today all because of a typo haha.

It's np though; thanks for appreciating my critique, actually! And yes, I do make GFX, but you've already seen them ;-]



Whoo, I love the background! The textures look great and the final product is definitely on track to being super colorful haha. Excited to see what it's going to look like at 100%.

LOL! Oh phew, I was so confused hahaha I was like 100% sure dodge was for brightening up things and not darkening hahaha XD

Thank you so much! I'm only at 40% atm hahaha decided to work on my entry for SOTW first, since I can always do my profile afterwards! <:

omg hawt
excited as ever

Bwuahaha thanks Jacob! XD

Bump! for the awesome profile yet to come ;D hahah <3

Thanks for the bump! <3 <3 <3

 

[Miharu]

My entry for SOTW! >//v//<b So proud of how it came out! <: I only used PS and didn't convert to GIMP! > v<b

Spoiler: I used the same render I used before for my shop examples, and this was how it looked like 1-2 months ago while using GIMP!

(P.S. My profile is still in progress. I'm about to head off for work and won't be back until late, so I wanted to focus on my SOTW entry first since there's a time limit for that hahaha! I will be continuing on my profile for this gallery later tonight and hopefully I'll have it finished tonight! <3 )​

 

[Keitara]

H-H-HH-H-HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!
OMG I'm so fricking in love with this!! Your work is so awesome... *kisses your feet*

Progress of how my Profile for this gallery is looking like! Finally found out what I wanted to do for the background!! ; v; Took me a few hours ahahaha! Still FAR from finished. I haven't even added any color enhancements, gradient maps, exposures, etc. Still need to sharpen the render to make it pop out more and blur some areas. Also need to erase some fractals. c: But at least some progress! WOO! (❁?▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* I'll probably say I'm at 35% finished out of 100% hahaha
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so it's mystery profile!

 

[Miharu]

H-H-HH-H-HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!
OMG I'm so fricking in love with this!! Your work is so awesome... *kisses your feet*



so it's mystery profile!

OMFG THAT LUFFY GIF AHAHAHAHA <3 THANK YOU SO MUCH HAHAHA That means a lot! <3

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GALLERY PROFILE FINALLY FINISHED AND UPLOADED TO THE FRONT PAGE!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! ٩(๑❛ワ❛๑)و​

 

[Jacob]

OMG i love the profile!

 

[Kairi-Kitten]

IT'S BYOOTIFUL<3 *_* And you've gotten so good ;D