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Back to Tamriel graffiti

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this is a free-hand background i did for Harry's Back to Tamriel elder scrolls cartoon. he didn't offer lineart, just said he needed a wall of graffiti, so i did it!

see it in (in)action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMRSRyYZtuk

i've rarely done lettering, less often graffiti, so its very chaotic and i did take some shortcuts with automatic glow filters, but time is of the essence for these things.
i tried to include as many references to the alliances as i could, working in race emblems when i had the chance, but it filled up quite quickly

for the eagle-eyed out there, "booger" is the long-standing name of my character i've used since morrowind. i'm crossing my fingers that its still available by the time i get a chance to play :C

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Great stuff! I love graffiti styled art, and it looked great in the animation as well. How did you get that sort of faded smudging around the edges and stuff? Like that grungy look on the background of that hipster looking bird.

sucho responds:

if you're working in photoshop (i'm using cs5)- you right click the layer of the object you want that effect on, select "blending options" then in that menu look for "outer glow". just mess around from there! i do tend to use it alot, its a very simple way of reinforcing my outlines, creating new ones, or just adding a soft backing light to differentiate an object from the rest of the picture.

for the bird specifically, i found a rough rectangle-shaped brush, and left ragged black edges, then added an outer glow of a light milky yellow/grey. because there were so many bits of negative space created with that kind of brush, it gives it a bleedy, watercolor type of effect.

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