What's up yall, comin at you with a new work fresh outta Photoshop 7
This is probably the best Umineko set I've made so far... I'll try my hand at Bernkastel later since she has way more art to work with in comparison.
So for this one I wanted to try my hand at doing a collage-type thing for my signature. Mainly because Lambdadelta is a walking form of retinal assault, both figuratively and probably literally considering how much she likes blowing things up with candy.
So I downloaded some lace brushes, which are actually quite large, meaning I had to angle them pretty well in order to separate the background picture from the main one in the foreground. I forgot which I clicked on though, but
here's where I got my brushes.
To make the 'doily' in the bottom right corner, I just layered two of the same lacey brush (1 click) in separate layers and made the upper one set to Color Dodge with the lower set to Exclusion. Then chose a different lace strip as the 'outer' pattern of the doily. Then I took a magic circle vector I liked that allowed personal use and placed one in each corner with the layer set to 'Linear Dodge'.
The main image was pretty hard, I wanted an even color palette, so I took a space-themed textured background (Thanks Elio!) and applied it to both pictures (which were on separate layers, it was very time consuming), but I couldn't choose between Vivid or Pin Light as the setting for the texture I wanted to use on the foreground image so I did both to see the difference. I'm partial to Pin Light though since the little blue dots don't show up on the face as much, but it's still pretty if you like the rustic bright weathered look.
Then to finish it off, I wanted some little decorations to resemble candy, so I took my Bokeh Hearts brush and chose a bunch of candy colors set to varied layer types like Overlay, Vivid Light, etc. Course, I did adjust the original picture by adding some overlay coloring in certain places. I applied a texture to the background image (which is official art from the manga) on Exclusion to create a faded look and allow the foreground image to stick out more in comparison. The original avi I wanted to use couldn't be lightened to a soft pink, so I chose a different image.
Lambda gets red eyes in the PS3 port of Umineko, but her original eye color and the illustrations mostly uses amber eyes so I stayed consistent with that.