New Tubes:Down On The Farm

Creatively Speaking I've been in a so so mood. I have however come up with some items
you might find useful. Here are some Farm items.
All are in PNG format, so just click to enlarge then right click to save.

New Wordart

I have 5 new Word Art for you today.

I hope you can find some uses for them.
All are in PNG format.
Just click image to enlarge and right click to save.

New Animated Tutorial: Underwater Beauty

(click image to view full image)

This tutorial was written by me on
July 25,2009
any similarities to any other tutorial is completely coincidental.

Was written in Paintshop Pro X & Animationshop
Prior knowledge of these programs are helpful.

Supplies:

TUBE OF CHOICE
I am using the artwork of Myka Jelina
and it has been purchased & used with a license from CILM

My Supplies Here

Included in my supplies:
Template by me
Fish & Bubble animation gif's
Wordart By Me
Gold Fill Sand By Me
Seaweed & Seagrass may be downloaded from OutlawByDesign

Not included: Water background of choice (i created my own)


Let's Begin

Open all supplies.

Open a new image 700 by 400.
Flood fill with white.
Copy & paste my template.
Click on the gray area using the magic wand, expand by one & promote section to layer.
Open your background choice, and paste into selection.

Selections>select none

Back on the template layer, using your magic wand, click on the outside of the template where there is no image. Invert, press shift & H on your keyboard, and move the slider either up to white or down to black, to make the template all one color then flood fill with the gold fill sand.

Selections>Select none

Copy and paste your sea grass & seaweed tubes. Recolor & resize to fit appropriately.
First add your grass to the left, add a drop shadow of 1, 1, 86, 3
Repeat again for both seaweed.
Place the larger seaweed on top of the grass, then add the smaller on top of that.
Merge the grass and seaweeds together. Duplicate & mirror.

Add your wordart. Placing it so it just covers the seaweed/grass, and the edge of your "aquarium" at the bottom. Add a drop shadow of 1, 1, 86, 3
Add you copyright info here.

Add your tube just on top of the word art add a drop shadow of 1, 1, 86, 10

Close out the following layers the white background & the two pieces of template, so that you are left with the tube/seaweed/sea grass/word art/copyright info. Merge all of these layers together.

You should have 4 layers so far:

The tube/seaweeds/word art
template layer 1
template layer 2
white background

Animation Shop

Copy and paste each individual layer over to animation shop as a new animation for each.
Duplicate both template layers 1 and 2 and the white background until you have a total of 15.

Now select all on template 2 and the white background. Now
drag template 2 over to the white background and place in the center.


Open your fish & bubbles

Now click on the 1st box of each of the fish/bubbles/and template 1 choose select all

On your template layer 1 add your fish and bubbles as you wish, by clicking and holding, then dragging to the template 1 layer.
Be sure your bubbles rise to the top but not over the edge.
To add more of each, just click on that item and undo, then repeat each step.

Set your frame speed at 20.

Click on your tube/word art/seaweed/copyright info then go to edit and choose propagate paste and drag that layer over to your underwater scene.

View your Animation here

Once you are satisfied, add your name, and save!

Otakon '09 Baltimore Convention Center Artists

While visiting Otakon this year, i must say creatively speaking it was a fantastic way to spend the weekend with my kids. Not only did they enjoy themselves, i did also. I must say though my favorite part was Artist Alley. As i made my way through all of the creatures, elves, gundams, and Naruto fans i was in awe and wonder of all the wonderfully created art that was in front of me.

I managed to pick up quite a haul in Artist Alley, not only of artwork from various artists, i also purchased a commission of my daughter, and a book from Deviant Art called "Mugeno".

All in all it was an awesome experience and i would like to the time to thank all of the artist that were there offering up their creations at such small prices.

Here is where i will be listing all of the artists i found at the convention... or at least those that had business cards or gave me their sites....

It's really worth checking out all the wonderful art by these artists!

Deathful Studios art of Iris Chen
The Alatus Institute
All The Small Things Kasandra Callalily
Paint Pixel Productions illustrations by Annie Hill
Kathemo Kathemo/B-Kitten
Aborted Creativity (includes the below 4 artists also)
Richard Tang
Phillip Kwok
Matt Bellamy
Eli Mintzer
Shadow Child Studios Paul Jacouino
Jessica Regenbrecht Comics and Illustration
Danielle Dernoga Digital Artist
Hans Tseng Illustrator and Comic Artist
Gina Tingas Freelance Artist
Mellolover
Vicki
Sin Comix Tasha & Ivory M. Cartoonists/illustrators/designers
Allison Strejlau (deviant) (blogspot)
Allison Henderson Illustrator/Artist
Dan Howard (deviantart)
Schin Hern Loong Illustation
MIYA from SUBTEXT Studio
Fake Radish Studios Jesse Davis Illustrator/Art Instructor (deviantart)
Ninja Consultant a podcast about anime, manga, and ninjas
Del Borovic freelance/illustration/comics/design (deviantart)
Video Game Zombies
Jonathan Hoffman (deviantart)
Raydiant by Raymund Anlocotan Freelance Illustrator
Sleepar
Alyssa Few Digital Art & Illustrator
Kyocs- freelance Artist
Emily Hu Artist (deviantart)
William "s2k/gts" Ray Artist (deviantart)
Ashley Mckenzie Illustration & Graphic Design (deviantart)
Kuroi Tenshi Freelance Artist/ Manga Artist (deviantart)
The Devils Panties Online Comic Strip It's Not Satanic Porn Honest!
Nightambre Studios Artist/commissions (deviantart)
Alexandria Bustion Illustration/animation/vinyl toys (blogspot) (deviantart)
Yamiko Michi Artist/traditional/commissions (deviantart)
Kathie Soto (deviantart 1) (deviantart 2)
Kevin Yan Freelance Fantasy Art (blogspot) (deviantart)
Jinny Liang Freelance artist/commissions (blogspot) (deviantart)




I will be adding many more to this list as i have hundreds of cards.
Please bare with me and keep checking back for updates.

Otakon 09 Baltimore's 16th Annual Anime Convention

This year i took my son & daughter to Baltimore Maryland for the 16th annual Otakon Anime Convention.

Here is a slide show of over 190 photo's i took.
To preview more, stop by my photobucket:
http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u235/BwitchenBabe/Otakon%2009/Otakon%20Day%201%20July%2017%202009/

Please if you see yourself in any of these photo's leave me a note or email me at: Bwitchen@gmail.com so i can add your name to the photo.

New Word Art

Well, i have been trying to catch up lately with my creative side.
Here is a new wordart i just created.

(click the pic to enlarge, then right click to save and save as...)

New Tutorial

(click to view full photo)

He Thinks My Tractors Sexy
This tutorial was written by me on July 8,2009
any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.


Supplies:

Paintshop Pro. I used PSP X & Animation Shop

A prior knowledge base for each of these programs helpful.

Tube Of Choice: I used Scott Tolleson's Tractor Girl
Purchased at CILM and used with a license.
Scott is no longer a member of CILM.
Please see his website for information on his tubes.
www.stolleart.com

My Template & Supplies found HERE
(includes template, sheep, grass, chain, wordart)

Font Of Choice


Let's Begin:

1. Open up all supplies in psp.

2. we will be using template: Bwitchen_Template_SexyTractor
this is pre-sized for a nice sized tag of about 600 x 400 so no
resizing should be needed.

3. erase my information from the template.

4. Click on the black section of the template using your magic wand.

5. now right click on the layers pallet and promote selection to a layer.
(Be sure to keep your marching ants on for the next few steps.)

6. next adjust the hue of the black layer to a lighter gray by clicking shift+H on your keyboard.

7. Add your color to your background I used html #fde01d
(feel free to substitute a color for a background of choice, if you do this skip step 8)

8. now add some noise by going to adjust> add/remove noise> add noise> settings: Gaussian & Monochrome checked 20%

9. now invert your selection and repeat step 8 same settings only this time add 50% noise.

10. now we will darken the frame by clicking shift+H on your keyboard, settings satuation zero lightness -44.

11. go to selections> select none

12. now go to the supplies, and cut out the grass and paste it as a new layer.

13. next press K on your keyboard and rotate the grass so it is even with the frame if it is hanging over that's okay, we will be "mowing" it in the next step.

14. click on your 2nd layer (the yellow background) selections> select all> float> defloat then click on the grass layer and choose selections>invert
and "Mow" or cut your grass.

15. now add your tube. Place it to the left of the tag. add a drop shadow of choice i used -4, 2, 14, 5

16. Now add your tube. I used Scott Tolleson's Tractor Girl. Place it just to the left of the tag, and add a dropshadow -4, 2, 14, 5

17. Add your sheep. Use the ones with the eyes open. Place them where ever you like, and add a drop shadow of -4, 2, 14, 5

18. Add your Tractor word art at the top of the tag, and add a drop shadow to it also of -4, 2, 14, 5

19. Merge all layers, and duplicate 3 times.

20. Go back to your sheep and use your dropper tool to extract the face color,
and "paint" your eyes so they are not visible, on one sheep.

21. Repeat step 20 for each layer, choosing a different sheep each layer.

22. Now grab your swinging sexy wordart. Place it just under the 2nd "T" in tractor, and duplicate twice.

23. Hide your 1st copy of the swinging sexy layer. and choose the 2nd one, now press "k" on your keyboard and rotate it to the right just a little. reopen the 1st copy and move below the 2nd copy. Click the 2nd copy and move it over so that the top of the chain on the 2nd copy lines up with the one on the 1st copy. Hide both copies..

24. Unhide your 3rd copy of the swinging sexy layer. now press "k" on your keyboard and rotate it to the left just a little. Unhide the 1st copy and move the 3rd copy below the 1st copy. Click the 3rd copy and move it over so that the top of the chain on the 3rd copy lines up with the one on the 1st copy.

Now you should have... 3 copies of the sexy wordart, and 3 tag copies.

25. Unhide & merge one tag & one sexy word art together. Repeat for each wordart/tag.

26. Add your copyrights. Duplicate 3 times. Merge a copy of this on to all 3 tags.

ALMOST FINISHED Time To Open ANIMATION SHOP

27. Copy each tag layer over to animation shop, in this order...
sexy swinging to the left, then center, then right. Go back to PSP and copy one more copy of the centered sexy, and then go back to animation shop and paste after the last layer.

28. Click on copy 1 of the tag and click on it then preess ctlr + A on your keyboard (this while activate all layers)

29. Go to Animation> frame properties and use a setting of 26.

30. Now view your animation by clicking view>animation. Once you are satisfied,
you will n ow be ready to add your name to the tag.

31. Go back to PSP and create your name using your choice of font. Be sure to add a drop shadow of -4, 2, 14, 5.

32. Copy this layer over to animation shop and paste as a new animation.

33. Go to edit> propagate paste and add your name to the animation & save.

All finished! Now your have created your very own He Think's My Tractors Sexy animation.

My Fellow Gaians Welcome To My Banner, Blinkie & Bump Shop!

Bwitchen's Banner & Bump Shop

Offer for fellow Gaians
Above and below are just a few samples banners i have made.
I love using my art work to create, and thanks to my daughter, i get to do more of it.
I am now offering my creative services to those of you Gaian's out there, i am willing to create 100% copyright compliant banners and bumps for you.

The art work i used here and always, is used with either a
purchased license or open permission from the artist, your own art, or even my own.


Why go copyright compliant you might ask?
Well, that answer is quite simple...
People that take the time to draw or create a piece of artwork, took a lot of time and effort to
do it, so people may enjoy it. If they allow us to use such pieces then they clearly state that.
Then why not comply? They are letting us purchase or use their artwork for FREE.

If you have any questions about copyrighted material, please feel free to visit:

THE FAIR USE ACT


Just PM me at my Gaian account with the details.
xXx_Bwitchen_xXx

This is another tag idea that i came up with from my Leaning Kit. I still think the Ray Leaning tube i colored came out beautifully.
The background inside the teardrops are by Jon Rattenbury.
His artwork is absolutely amazing. I think this background choice gave this tag a dreamy kinda feeling.

New Kit: Leaning

20 elements, 4 papers, 1, wordart, 4 wordart frames

This was inspired by my winning MPT RayLeaning Coloring Contest entry.

To download please click below:

Leaning

Please... feel free to share your creations with me & I will gladly display them.

Announcement

I am so pleased to announce that i won 2nd place

in MyPSPTubes.com's Ray Leaning Coloring Contest.

As this was my first attempt at trying my hand at recoloring tubes, I must say it was alot of fun.
I enjoyed it so much that i was inspired to create a new scrap kit for everyone. This can be found in my next post. I hope everyone enjoys using it.

These two tubes were created by me. These are actually my first hand drawn, computer colored tubes that i did. These are also the tubes i referred to previously on March 5th.

(To save these just simply click to enlarge the image then right click & choose save as. )

New Award

I am so happy to announce that today i received this award for being
COPYRIGHT COMPLIANT
This is truly an honor for me. Thank You very much TheZoneGroups!

Tutorial: What You Want

What You Want

Created By: Bwitchen May 25th 2009
Any similarities to any other tutorial are purely coincidental.


I am using PaintShop Pro version 12.1
but i am sure this will work with any version.
I am assuming you have a working knowledge of psp.



Supplies:


Tube Info: ©Barbara Jensen www.eroticartistgallery.com
Used with a license
I used ALP-6 Love Bidding Time
and V-1 Bidding Time
Both may be purchased at her above link.

My Supplies >HERE< Let's Begin

1. Open a new image 600 by 400 transparent background.
2. Open and unzip supplies.
3. Save your paper to what ever file you put your patterns in.
Everything else we will be using straight from PSP...
Unless you install your mask to a mask folder.

Okay 1st we will be making your rectangle shapes.

4. To do this with your new image open just press "G" this will open your rectangle tool for use.
Be sure you rectangle color is set to black. Draw out a thinly rectangle (see my tag for reference...the bottom image) Once drawn out go to Objects>Align>Center Of Canvas
Then right click and convert to raster.

5. Once again press G and draw out your 2nd rectangle. Set your color to gray. This one is not going to be as long and taller then the 1st one. (see my tag for reference) Once drawn out go to Objects>Align>Center Of Canvas Then right click and convert to raster.

Now that we have both rectangles, lets add a little color....

6. Click on the bottom longer rectangle layer to activate
Now remember that pattern you saved? We will be using that one.
Go to Effects>texture effects>sculpture
and find the paper labeled Bwitchen_WhatYouWant_Paper1
and apply effect with these settings....
Size: 100 Color: White Smoothness: 0
Depth: 1 Ambiance: 0 Shininess: 0
Angle: 315 Intensity: 53 Elevation: 30

7. hide this layer.

Next we will be adding your image to the top rectangle.

8. Open your tube choice and duplicate it. Hide one copy.

9. Now we will need several copies & different sizes of the same tube.
a) On the unhidden copy of your tube, resize 125% larger,
place to the right of the rectangle
(see my tag for reference)
b) duplicate once.
c) Mirror that copy.

10. Duplicate your hidden tube and unhide one copy.
This one will not be resized. Move it to the top and right of the rectangle and place her
in front of the larger tube. repeat steps 9b & 9c.

11. once again duplicate you hidden tube and move to the top.
resize this tube 85% and move to the right of the rectangle but place her just so she is peeking out behind the largest tube, and move her just below the largest tube. Repeat steps 9b & 9c.
This time move the tube on the left down just a little so her hair isn't covering the other ones mouth.

Merging tubes...

12. Hide both rectangles, and merge visible. Be sure not to unhide your main tube.
13. unhide the gray rectangle and make active, with your magic wand click on it so it has the marching ants. now click on the layer of the girls and go to Selections> Invert, and then on your keyboard click shift & delete at the same time.

14. While your girls image layer is still active & with the marching ants around it go to Selections> invert. Then go to Adjust> Softness> Soft Focus , then again click on shift & delete

15. with the marching ants still running around...Once again click on the gray rectangle to make it active, and go to selections > modify> expand 2, then click on the active layer and right-click and promote selection to layer. Now on your keyboard hit shift & H this will open up you saturation pallet... slide your lightness and saturation down to -100. Bring to the top.

16. Merging Layers Again

Now here is what you should have unhidden...
Your frame (black) on top
Your girls in the middle
Your gray rectangle on bottom

Merge all 3 layers and unhide your red rectangle.

17. Open image Bwitchen_ WhatYouWant_Swirl & Copy & paste it as a new layer.

18. Resize this 45%, duplicate, mirror image & flip, then grab one of the layers and place the open ends together to make one continuous swirl. Merge the 2 layers together, and place to the right of the top rectangle so that the edge of the swirl cuts the top corner of the bottom rectangle. Duplicate again. And flip it. Merge those two layers together.
Thank once again, duplicate them. This time mirror the image. Merge all swirl layers together.

19. Adding your wordart. Open the word art image and copy & paste it just above your top
rectangle.

20. Open and add your hang tag. Resize to 35% and move to the left of the tag.

so now you should have 6 layers total...

1. Your original tube layer
2. One swirl layer
3. The rectangle with the girls
4. The red rectangle
5. Wordart
6. Hang tag

Time To Add Drop Shadows

20. Your main tube image:
Vertical: -2
Horizontal: 2
Opacity: 47
Blur 15.84


21. Click on each of the other 5 individual layers and apply
the same drop shadow with the following settings:
Vertical: -2
Horizontal: 2
Opacity: 47
Blur 3

22. Now add your name with the font of your choice and apply
your drop shadow with the same settings as step 21 above.

23. Add your copyright information.

24. Merge all visible.

Adding Your Mask

25. Add a new layer, send to bottom, flood fill with color of choice.

26. Open the mask image bwitchen.blogspot_Mask1
Go to Layers> New Mask Layer From Image>look for bwitchen.blogspot_Mask1

27. Merge group. Then Merge visible. then is you wish, merge all, and save as JPG
or just merge visible and save as PNG for a transparent background.

Wahlaaaha! You have now finished.
Thank you for trying my tutorial and i hope you've not found it to difficult.

New Tubes More Monkey Business

Yep, I've been Monkeying around some more.
This little cutie is named Annie.
She is named after my youngest sister Andrea,
we always called her Annie for short. So this one is for her.

(To download this press ctlr & click the image to open in a new window,
then choose right click and save as in your favorite folder... this file is PNG format)

My last freebie for today, flowers for my friends... Enjoy!
(to save hold down ctlr & click on image to enlarge in a new window then right click and save in your favorite tube file...this is PNG format)

New Tubes: Monkey Business

These new tubes are from my Monkey Business line.
Here i have offered 5 different outfit to suit your needs.
Hopefully i will have more of these for everyone to gobble up soon.


(to save hold down ctlr & click on image to enlarge in a new window then right click and save in your favorite tube file...this is PNG format)

New Animal

These little monkeys are just too cute to miss out on!
(to save hold down ctlr & click on image to enlarge in a new window then right click and save in your favorite tube file...this is PNG format)

New Animal

Here's another new animal, I think it's sheepishly cute!
(to save just right click and save in your favorite tube file...this is PNG format)

New Meeble

As promised here is my newest addition to my Mebble collection. I hope everyone likes it.
(To save right click over image and choose save as "PNG")

Creatively Speaking

Well, Creatively Speaking... i have been in a monkeying around kinda mood.
I have been working hard to come up with some cutie's for everyone.
I am sure you will absolutely adore the new addition to my growing animal collection. I also created a new Mebble for those that like the others. I am still thinking on some more to add to that family of fun friends. So keep your eyes peeled cause.
I will be updating as frequently as possible.


Our new group Painted Season's PSP which use to be PSP Classic Paradise is coming along beautifully. I am loving the functionality we have there and am happy being a moderator. If you haven't checked us out yet please do so. It's definitely a fun place to hang out.
Painted Season's PSP

I also have an always list there too. The people on that list will always get a taggie from me.

American Idol Update: well i guess i called that one all wrong. Adam Lambert should have won in my own opinion, and in my heart i know he always will have been the winner. That boy sings flawlessly every single note... Not that i am hating on Kris Allen, cause that boy is cute as shit, but as soon as Allison Iraheta got the boot, i knew that Adam wasn't gonna win. It's a case of hometown boy vs bad boy, everybody wants to think they are the all American good guy, but secretly they wish they had the guts to get up there and rock that stage like Adam Lambert did.

I must say i was definitely floored by the finally of American Idol... I loved seeing Cyndi Lauper , Queen, and even Kiss with Gene Simmons' in his Guitar Hero costume even brought back memories. I was kinda disappointed though that they didn't where their original space boots, those babies were priceless!

New Tubes: Mebbles

We here is my last post for today.
I am calling them "Mebbles" as in my version of weebles by me.
Dunno what you'd use them for, but i am sure you all will come up with something.

(Just click on the image to enlarge, then right click and choose save as "PNG")

New Wordart

Click on images to enlarge then right click and save as PNG.

2 New Templates

Two new templates, a book & bird houses.
(Click on image to enlarge in a new window, then right click and save as PNG.)

More Tubes Animals & Such! Enjoy! click on image to open in a new window, then right click and save as PNG

A New Mask

Here's a new mask. This should be ready to go, just click on image to enlarge and then right click to save in your mask folder.

3 New Tubes created by Me

Well as promised, here are 3 new tubes all Paintshop Pro x2 created by me.
Creatively Speaking: these were a toughie, as i am new to creating tubes this way, and still have alot to learn about shading. Also, i definitely need a lesson in noses. they are the toughest part of the face for me. Anyway, i think these came out way more better then the ones i created
from my hand drawings last year. Hopefully i will be able to produce some more of these for you soon. I did have alot of fun making them.
"Casperella" I got my inspiration of her from Henry Peters. I love is artwork. He specializes in the Indian heritage. I am dedicating this tube to Henry. I dunno if he'll ever see it, none the less, i am still dedicating it to him. Thank you for sharing your artwork. You truly are an inspiration
"Arianna" Here inspiration comes from someone i saw on the show Tough Love. This poor girl as beautiful as she was, could not get her self together to find a man for more then 2 weeks. In the end she got kicked off the show because she just didn't wanna hear what they had to say. She just needed a good long hard look in the mirror. That could have been the best thing for her. Any way.... this is my verson of her.
"Becky"... I dunno, i don't like her at all LOL well, i like her just not her clothing. I wish i would have done something different there, and i may still do that. If i do i will post the next version of her too.

okay, that all about those tubes i feel like i can say. I hope you enjoy. Remember to read my TOU before using.

Download Below:
(click on the name of the tube you'd like to download the zip file)


Arianna Casperella Beckie