How To Make Fake Anime Screenshots Sai

Hiya!

Some people asked me how I practice my 80's anime pictures:

The method has changed every fourth dimension slightly, peculiarly since I am still trying to perfect it. The about successful are probably both the ones with Shuu (purple/black haired girl)

This is the paradigm I'm basing the tutorial off of:
Personally, I feel like it didn't plow out equally nicely equally the one of Shuu, but eh, I kinda messed upwards on the green shirt and the background- it'south not as gouachey as I desire information technology to exist.

I'll include the PSD and MDP of some of the pictures above so y'all tin can contrary engineer/reference them!
You volition need:

GIMP
Medibang
Net (optional)
MS Paint (optional)
Phone with camera (the more than horrible the better)(optional)
Now, allow'due south begin!!

Step one: Ur Sketch

U go far.

Okay, that isn't very helpful, just 80's anime was frequently drawn by people with perfect cognition of anatomy only had to draw chop-chop because of budget, and so it doesn't need to exist perfect, simply it helps if you lot're accurate.
You can reference existing screenshots and cels, or even depict over the basic anatomy, as long as the expression, muscle structure, and general style is different- pay attention to how fourscore'southward and 90's characters are posed. Older (80'due south) anime didn't use the 'scarlet vein thing' or 'nosebleed when seeing a hot character' so proceed that in heed.
The facial structure and fashion is vastly different too, but a comedy or shoujo anime vs a more serious i will have a very different look. Take time to research a little if y'all tin!

Pace 2:

Refine the sketch! Once more, not much I can say here. I used the acrylic brush.

I turned off the dorsum layer for a cleaner look. Although some would consider this acceptable for lineart, it actually isn't for me- some lines aren't as nice or authentic as they could be. Also, they have no clothes on still, so bask that inch of collarbone.

Well, at that place's the clothes!

Please note that older anime is simpler while 90'due south anime is more detailed.

Pace 3:
Important: Before yous start outlining, take a await at a scanned drawing of pen ink. The lines are kinda rough! I unremarkably use g-pen (graphite) just I used acrylic this fourth dimension to see how it would await like. The dusk flick with Shuu used the one thousand-pen. I prefer the g-pen, merely I used acrylic as a examination. Don't make the lines too thick or too thin, but find what y'all adopt all-time!

The lighter 1 is g-pen, while the darker is acrylic. To be off-white, the g-pen texture shows up better the faster yous draw, so merely try different things. It'due south also harder to make lines thinner, but duplicating a layer makes it thicker!

Hither is some lines done. You can apply transform to change information technology slightly if you want to accommodate it without redrawing it, like resizing, rotating, free stretch, perspective, etc.

Raw lines washed!!!

I duplicated it to make it darker.

Pace 4:

COLOURS.

COLOURS EVERYWHERE.

medibang's saucepan tool makes it easy- brand a new layer, brand sure the bucket expands past ane or 2 pixels at the setting at the acme (the 'correction' thing), so click away! I'd recommend giving each color its own layer, it really helps.

Yet, the way you pick colors is important. Reference some sometime screenshots or cels, and adjust the colour to your needs. The colors are darker and greyer than mod anime due to cels stacking over each other during the photographing procedure of one-time anime cels, and then giving information technology a grey look helps. Also, the colors aren't going to be what you expect. Skin that seems light will be closer to dark grey, regal, or brown. If y'all don't believe me, try it on an quondam anime screenshot. Pastel pink may fifty-fifty actually be night purplish grey or flat out grey.
Basically, become hands on and color pick from old anime screenshots and try to make upwardly a palette yourself. Yous can also lock your opacity of the layer and colour over, or go to filter>hue to drag a slider to change the color!

Mostly colored. Notice that the white is off-white, and the tone of the skin.

You also want to add together some shading. Please expect at how erstwhile anime shaded its characters- often times, the older the anime, the more minimal the shading.
Step 5: BACKGROUND TIME

In old anime, this was done in watercolor or gouache. Watercolor is easy to spot, but for some anime, it's really hard D:

Here's a tutorial for a 'modern' background: www.mclelun.com/2015/10/anime-…

I can't say much other than try painting faux watercolor using the watercolor and watercolor soft brush, scanning in a real watercolor/gouache image. Don't apply the acrylic brush.

Also, you lot can use a preexisting screenshot to assistance you selection colors and how plants/copse are drawn, and painting over it as long equally the finish consequence is completely different is acceptable. Sometimes y'all tin can get abroad with a simple sky like here:

Information technology'southward just a slope with the smudge tool to get the cloud wispy-ness.
For a coincidental screenshot, it'south fine, simply if you're aiming for that breathtaking *aesthetic*, then y'all gotta work difficult. Lamentable D:

Blurring and jpeg-ifying information technology might assistance later on if it doesn't look 'painterly' enough

I searched it up, and Ghibli backgrounds are painted with Knicker Poster Color, a type of watercolor/gouache.

Here'southward a youtube comment that describes information technology:

Vid in question:

After jpeg-ifying the 'screenshot', it won't thing if it's not perfect goache-style. Besides, practice makes perfect!

You could probably edit a photo too, or put filters on it. I haven't used a raw photograph every bit a background before though, maybe I will try that and post a tutorial if it is successful.

Step vi:

Make a clone of your line-fine art. Lock the opacity and color it night yellow. So, movement it nether your regular layer. It creates a nice yellow blur to it. Attempt moving information technology to the side a niggling, and cloning the yellow layer, and moving that to the other side if not enough yellow shows up.

I turned off the second clone of the regular layer to make the line art thinner again.

If your lines are thick, y'all can lock the opacity and put in some dissonance in yellow, through random castor strokes or a blueprint.

Step 7:

Add together some shading to your color layers! Blur the shading very slightly, existent life acrylic isn't and so digi-perfect. Nevertheless, information technology should still look solid.
Also, put a layer of grayness over the unabridged thing and set the greyness layer to overlay.

Do the aforementioned with a layer of dark yellowish- once again with the overlay. Set the opacity depression. I set mine to 17 percent.

Pace 8:

Put out an overlay of slate in GIMP. It's the bucket tool with a blueprint setting.

Please reduce the opacity! Mine is 45.2

Put some other overlay of newspaper texture, and set the opacity to around half.

Indistinguishable the base of operations prototype layer and give it a slight Gaussian blur. Go along the original unblurred version but in case you demand it later. Disengage retentiveness does run out.

Now, for a faux-VHS consequence!

Hide the lines of the original and merge the colors together- then salve it equally its own file (medibang images copied to the clipboard won't open up in GIMP as epitome data.) Once you save it as a dissever file, you tin undo the colour merge.

Go to File>Open up as Layers and open up the epitome you saved earlier with no lines.

Brand the contrast and brightness cause the paradigm to become really light- my brightness was -22 and my contrast was 51. Unlike numbers may work better for yous.

Step 9:

Erase the insides until simply the borders are left similar this- these borders should be brighter than the base image. Set up the layer to overlay.

Step 10:

You can export your GIMP image as a PNG and make it a jpeg with morejpeg.com/. Or, just export the GIMP image as a jpeg and reduce the 'quality' in GIMP itself. Don't reduce information technology besides much though.

You can bring your JPEG back in and overlay information technology, or just accept in normally at low opacity. However, now, we're going to add a slight chromatic abnormality. Information technology'due south going to be subtle, since overdoing it makes it as well obvious this is a fake screenshot.

Make three copies of your concluding epitome.

For each 1, go to colors>components>channel mixer.

Once this shows upward, you must do a sure thing for each layer.

The 'output aqueduct' dropdown should accept 3 colors.

For each of them, make sure that only i of the colors has a setting- here, nosotros're setting the layer to 'bluish' with a number of 100. In the dropdown, there are also scarlet and green (Not the sliders.)

Those colors should be goose egg.

For the other two layers, do the same, only set them to 100 for only reddish, and for the final layer, 100 for green only.

In the right mitt corner, see the three bluish, greenish, and red layers? Your layers should await like that. Set the layer mode to add-on. They'll all blend together to get a regular image!

If you lot drag the layers to the side using the move tool (set it to 'move the active layer') then a slight chromatic aberration will appear. Meet the strange red and light-green appearing? That's what we're going for- it's actually not your monitor!

Basically, you're now done!

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All steps are here as well as some PSD and MDP.

As a bonus, you can take a depression quality photo and it become the glow lines that resemble a bad VHS. Information technology's abrasive to rotate it though, but the hittt PSD has the photo.

You can too blur a copy of the lines and hibernate them behind the regular lines at low opacity- I did that for the purple-haired Shuu one.

Sadly I deleted some of the GIMP upshot XCF due to depression space left, but there's one, and it should work.

GIMP and Medibang can both open PSD files, so have fun!

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2019 edit

Howdy!

As of recently, GIMP has been made pretty redundant. You tin do the brightness/dissimilarity stuff in medibang, in that location'south a user-friendly chromatic aberration effect in medibang, and you don't demand the paper/slate textures if you utilize the 'custom noise' for watercolour paper and sand effects in medibang. Here is the link to png's of the paper and slate if you still desire information technology: sta.sh/24xbquw0k6u (I personally like the GIMP textures better, and just paste the PNG's into Medibang)

world wide web.deviantart.com/comments/1/… <- example

Also, the Oil paint(Dry) castor looks a lot like gouache, and then try painting backgrounds with that.

GIMP does have some powerful and cool filters still and it's totally costless, then I wouldn't write it off. It's merely that Medibang alone can exercise everything at present.

Someday I'll make a completely updated tutorial (with layer effects and stuff) but for now, here'south my update!

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/shiolily/art/80-s-Anime-Tutorial-PSD-MDP-included-715624174

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