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A tutorial on how I made the aurora borealis wolves in "Spirit of the Hunt." Could probably also be used to make nebula and cloud animals, as well
Please let me know if you have any questions!Tutorial links:
Star stock photos:
Star tutorial:
Spirit of the Hunt:
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Daww! It'd be cool if you did, but obviously no obligation :b Right now, I'm imagining Bob and Abby making golden-derp faces together :3
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No I'd absolutely love to! ♥ Golden derp faces!! ♥ I'd probably have them playing together in the sky. D'awww the thought of it makes me want to cry ;U;
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Yeah, I know how that feels :b It has taken much practice to not tear up when I talk about Abby ;_;
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Oh I'd imagine ;_; My aunt had a little dog (that I became super fond of) named Bella. No one really liked her because of her under-bite, which is my aunt rescued her. She was supposed to be 15lbs. and was a whole 7lbs. I believe. We thought she would die within the first week. She ended up regaining some weight and lived for another 2-3 years. I absolutely loved that dog. She was the sweetest little thing ever. We visited my aunts house a lot just to play with her and the other 13. Then she started getting a little older and lost all of her vision. She was still able to hear but she'd often bump into walls and wandered outside once. You would need to call her over and guide her by your voice - it was a very sad time for her. I was so devastated (and relieved) when she was euthanized. I miss her like crazy, and she wasn't even my own dog ;___; Then there was Oofus, the Saint Bernard (also one of my aunt's) who had nearly the same story. I loved them <33
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Awww ;_; "I was so devastated (and relieved) when she was euthanized." That's it, exactly. So sad, but so much better for the dog, so in some way it's nice. Just hard to appreciate when you're feeling sad x_x
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True~ it's nice to know they aren't suffering as much, but it's impossible to not feel.. hollow after something like that. I'm sure Abby's in a much more comfortable spot now, though ♥ As well as Bella!
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Yeah... 
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Aw that's terrible ): I'm so sorry ♥ ;___; I actually did just start to cry.
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That's really neat, thanks for sharing!
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Any suggestions for making the initial feathery edges? That's the part I always muck up first, so I can never get to the rest because I'm all "rawr!!!" (can't make auroras period, let alone animal shaoes yet rofl)
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*chuckles* Yeah, it takes time.
What I do for the feathery edge is simply just "sketch" it with an airbrush (a soft-edged brush set to a low flow setting, like 1-20%). No smudging (which looks too obviously like the smudge tool pulled through your nice cloud of colour), and no motion blur filter (which looks too absolutely perfect). Just some sketchy lines that roughly go in the same direction, some are longer than others, some are shorter, some "spikes" are grouped up with a bunch of others, some are relatively on their own.
However! If you're having some trouble getting it started, maybe try running it through a motion blur filter and THEN painting on top of that. The filter will create that sort of liney feathery edge. However, it'll do it on both sides, so I'd gently erase the bottom part of the blurry lines, and manually edit the top. Add some manually painted highlights and erase the lines so they aren't all the same length and value.
I prefer painting them from scratch, though
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I think I know what you mean... will have to play around and try it.
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You are so my favorite person right now 
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Haha, awesome, thanks a lot! Looking forward to it
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Awesome tutorial!! Really looking forward to giving this a try
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Thanks! Hope it works out for you
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You're welcome
Looking forward to giving this tutorial a try when I'm feeling better
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Thanks for that; it's just chronic health issues. I'll be better in a day or two
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Chronic, eh? That sucks
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Yeah. I'm well used to it by now - just have to cram all the art and stuff I want
to do in between sick days
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Aww, still seems like a shame that you have to deal with stuff like that :c
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Yeah... but sometimes that's just the way the cards are dealt.
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Thanks very much, used here - [link]
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Cool :3 Thanks for sharing!
Heh, I like the one red star :b
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Hurray!
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Omg this is just so freaking amazing! Is this pretty much the same process with SAI?
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I'm not sure, I've never used the process. It's fairly simple, though, so I'm pretty sure than any decent painting program should be able to do it
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It'll be a lot harder, but perfectly doable
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I'll try my best! Thanks to your amazing tutorial = D
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Thank you, and you're welcome :3
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YOU ARE MY NEW GOD! This is SO COOL, and I have been looking for a tutorial like this for such a long time! Definitely going to use, and you did an awesome job of explaining everything!
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Haha, awesome, thank you so much!
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OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! XD So gonna use!
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Cool, best of luck to you
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