Fun stuff Kaga made on Photoshop.

[Kagamine]

I felt like it was high time I made a thread here, just to show off the Photoshop creations I've made, typically out of boredom, with my creative, witty takes on certain series and the like and fun crossovers. Most of them become my signature at some point in time, but I think it's a good idea to archive them all here for people to see.

In order from oldest to newest, here they are;



Why did I make this? Because I am a Pinkie Pie loving brony with a thing for cold-blooded homicide. All you other pony fans out there- don't tell me you've never looked at Pinkie in this light before. Anyway, this was one of the first things I ever made on Photoshop (can you believe it? ) and I think it came out rather well. Not hard to make, either. Took a screenshot from MLP:FiM... added a catchy saying... lots o' lots of blood... mhmm....



I had done a few shop requests between these first two, after realizing how much I loved making things on Photoshop, but this is the first other thing I'd made just for my own entertainment. I had been really into Zelda Skyward Sword at the time (ooooohhhh... that explains the huge decrease in Photoshop activity then.....) and, well, to those hardcore Zelda fans out there who think it's bad... it's a fun game. Not the best Zelda game ever, but fun. Yes, they changed a lot, and yes, there are a lot of things to be made fun of... and that's why I made this. Because really... in the game, your magical musical instrument is a harp of all things, and other than using it to open the gates to the Trials, all you can use it for to help you is to play it around groups of butterflies to make things like hearts and rupees and gossip stones appear. And I thought they had severely cut down on Link's manliness when Zelda first gave him the harp to begin with! All in all, I found the concept hilariously degrading for poor Link, and it was hard for me to resist making this. XD



...I was still in a phase of obsession over Skyward Sword, and I'm a bit embarrassed to say I ever made this. >< It was rather half-assed and I threw it together pretty quickly, obviously, which is why I never really showed this off until now, when I was digging through my Photobucket album for things to share.... Anyway, as for why I made it... It just seemed like something Ghirahim would say. No further explanation needed.



As for this... d'awwwww~ Come on, that's adorable. XD I was in the middle of a sort of Soul Eater phase when I was watching that almost nonstop, and MakaxCrona was growing on me. A lot. I mean, how could it not do that? IT'S TOO ADORABLE. X3 So uh... yeah, didn't take long to put together, but I was dying to make a MakaxCrona sig at the time, so I took a screenshot from that one Soul Eater ending (you know the one I'm talking about... <3) played around with it a bit, and, well, I had something pretty adorable.



Like the previous, this isn't much of a parody or anything, just something I felt the need to make to match my interests at the time. I had started getting back into Vocaloid after a long break from that, and what caught my interest especially was the Evillous Chronicles by Mothy. For those of you who don't know what that is, well... it's this huge and complicated web of songs with dozens of different characters that all connect into one huge story. Know the Story of Evil series? Yeah, that's just one tiny part of it. Anyway, I felt like making a signature about some part of the series, and after the Seven Sins one failed, I decided to make something for the Clockwork Lullaby song that had been stuck in my head for a while. Besides, it was high-time I made something Kagamine-themed. I hadn't in forever. So I took the artwork from that song, put it back to back with the original Rebirthday artwork, put it through a filter... rather simple. Not as proud of it as some of my other works, but, eh, worth mentioning.



Now this one I like. This one I really like. It’s in tribute to the Generation I Pokémon glitch, Missingno (look him up if you don’t know him), who, when looking at many and many videos of him on Youtube, I found one where, in the comments, someone compared Missingno to a pedophile. I didn’t quite get it at first, then I thought about it… he attracts the attention of kids (the target audience of the game) with his ability to duplicate items, like rare candies, or at least that’s what people usually go for, and then ‘rapes’ them by destroying the game. And, I found the notion hilarious, and so I HAD to make this. It was fairly simple, at first; get a screenshot of that part of Cinnabar Island you use to find him, change the color scheme to red and blue (the games you find him in), add a giant Missingno… but the problem was the text. OH GOD, THE TEXT. Yeah, I really wanted the font to appear with the same sort of pixely design that Missingno’s sprite is in, but… that was pretty hard to do. I had to copy/paste the same Missingno sprite about 50 times, lay them all on top of each other to make a huge grid of Missingno pixels, cut out the letters one at a time…. Yeah. Lots of work. But, it looked epic when I was done! And was my signature for quite some time after that.



An avatar counterpart to the previously mentioned sig. But, it didn’t start out that way. In fact, there’s a bit more to this avatar than first meets the eye… This is actually a Death Note reference. A friend and I were having a (really weird) VM conversation that turned into a discussion about some Death Note/Pokemon crossover where N teamed up with the other N, or something. And, knowing me, I of course had to bring glitches into the discussion. So, I quickly made this on Photoshop, and VMed it to my friend followed by the sentence; “Kira’s so fucked.” And then, I realized it matched my current signature, and since I was without an avatar at the time and this was the perfect size, it became an avatar.



Another pedoglitch accompaniment. Was going to replace the old sig, but I didn’t like it as much. Not much else needs to be said on the subject.





Now these two were made at the same time. Why were they made at all? Because I was getting more and more into Homestuck, and wanted a Homestuck avatar and signature set more and more, but, I had yet to figure out who my favorite troll was (noww I knoww, though. <3) and so I had a hard time deciding what to make… So, I thought about the possibilities, and suddenly it hit me. My username is Kagamine, and I’ve been bugging myself that it seems I almost never have signature/avatar themes having anything to do with the Kagamine twins from whom I got my username. But… they are the Kagamines, THERE’S TWO OF THEM. And if I were to match them to a troll, then of course that means Sollux (the one obsessed with the number 2 because his zodiac sign (Gemini) looks like a Roman numeral 2, for those of you who didn’t know), soooo… I trollified the Kagamines by making their skin gray, their hair black, and giving them Sollux’s horns, and adding a few last Sollux-y things to the background, like spelling my name the way Sollux would. All in all, I think it came out pretty well (even if the horns were hard to position with those headphones in the way) and… I really like it! So uh… yeah.

More images and commentary will be added as I make them.

[Kagamine]

Updates!

About time, right?

First, more Homestuck. This was... a wallpaper I made a while back. Not exactly proud of it. >> It's from the page where Eridan first got the wand from Kanaya, and then I edited Kanaya out (hardly left a trace! ), extended the background so it took up more space, and... well I wanted to make the background darker, but I think that ruined it. I tried to keep the glow of the wand, so when I was cutting out Eridan and the wand so I could just darken the background, I included the glow of the wand in the cut-out, but that... made the glow stand out more than it should've. Oh well, it still served as a decent wallpaper for a while, and I figured I worked on it enough that I should mention it.



Your brain cannot comprehend the level of irony here.

This was originally meant to be part of a larger piece, but since I lost motivation to do it, Strider pony was left all on his own, which is also why this image is a lot larger than it needs to be, with all that empty transparent space... but eh. Not gonna bother with it.



Now this I created after playing through Lost Silver (both the normal and "hidden" parts) for the first time, and loving it. It was hard to make, though. Issues started with just erasing the characters eyes, and... well, the Pokemon weren't so bad, considering their skin were just made up of solid colors, but the trainers... oh, the trainers. That's where it was hard. See, issue about removing their eyes, is that then I have to completely re-draw all the shadowing on their faces. And... I can't draw; I just photo manipulate. So going in with various paint brush tools and making sure all the shading on their faces still looked right was... a challenge, certainly. I was more satisfied with the original version of this, seen here, until I realized I somehow managed to pick up a stock of Red thinking it was Gold... the backwards cap screwed me up.... >>

Anyway, the most time-consuming part was without a doubt the Unouns. SO MUCH COPY/PASTE. I had to copy out a whole new layer for each letter, and it certainly took a while. >< It's a bit hard to read in places, but what it says is "Turn back and die, refuse and become a monster. Which will you choose?" in reference to Lost Silver, where at the beginning, where it asks "turn back now?", answering yes will lead you through the normal storyline, where you die at the end, and answering no will lead you through "hidden" Lost Silver, where Gold, Silver, and various Pokemon turn into the strange, eye-less beings depicted. Oh, and the red-eyed ones spell "Kagamine", but you could probably tell that.



Now this I really enjoyed making, and I'm really proud of how it came out. I made this the night I finished Act 5 of Homestuck, with the famous Cascade flash, and right after I had somehow sparked a new love for Snowman. Doesn't make sense considering she was only in the flash for 10 seconds really... and considering, what happened to her... but, I sort of became her fangirl after that, and made this. The screenshots I used as stocks were taken right out of the flash, too. Some of them, anyway. I got a couple out of the flash itself, and then the others I had to turn to a copy of it on Youtube for, considering the actual flash can't be rewound or anything like that... the stocks from the flash itself were so much higher quality, though, even with the vid in HD. <3

At any rate, the few things that are infuriating about it is, well... look real closely at the flash itself, starting at 5:57, and compare the picture of Snowman there to the one in the sig. See the issue? In the flash, the way the image of her scrolls across the screen, it never shows that much of her body at once. So, to get the full body image that I have, I had to take multiple screenshots and combine them, making sure every part of her body lined up perfectly with the two images, making sure they were in perfect proportion... it was a huge pain. Oh, and there was another issue; it never shows the top of her hat, either. Had to put that together myself, which was even worse than combining the two images. All in all, it was a lot more difficult than just taking a picture out of the flash, as it may first seem... but I was still very satisfied with the result, after all the hard work it took. It was my sig for a rather long time, and I even had the image linked to the Cascade flash. First just the Youtube video I used for some of the stocks, but later I replaced that with the actual page on MSPA, because it looks sooooo much nicer. <3

[Rose Swan]

PONY DAVE.

[Kagamine]

Yup. I need to clean that one up a little, though. Parts of it were sloppily done... some other night, some other night.

[Rose Swan]

Procrastination is everyone's best friend. <3

Anyhoo, you make fabulous and creative designs. The Kagamine twins and the Snowman one especially. I can't believe that much work went into it, I don't know how you managed to keep your patience with it. I'd kill myself. XD

[Kagamine]

Rose, I made the Snowman sig the night I watched Cascade for the first time. Needless to say, I was wide awake and willing to stay up till like... 2 AM to finish it. I was very happy with the end result, though.

And thanks.

Edit: Wait, which Kagamine twins one?