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✨sticker girl✨

  • desk filled with printed stickers, glue, scissors, stray bits of paper.
  • stickers glued onto every part of her body
  • “blergh! stickers in my mouth”
  • “hold on everyone the stickers are loading”
  • “a pack a day, keeps the depression away”
  • constantly chasing that sweet sweet nectar of a new sticker pack
  • “ILOVESTICKERS”
  • Overloads all the servers because she keeps sending uncompressed stickers
  • sends a sticker after EVERY message
  • GIMP open 24/7

- ran out of space, so she had to stick a little bit more background onto the canvas

this post is inspired by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31820515

Art is by mariorsomething

Linkies:

gelbooru | twitter | original image

EDIT: Font is HildaHand_Regular and HildaHand_Bold

EDIT EDIT: link to my sticker room https://matrix.to/#/#Reilyhs_Obsession:matrix.org

  • Reilyh she/her@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    Ok so like

    it largely depends on whether or not you want to use them as large sticker (256, 512 pixels) or small emojis (64px), or both 💀 (which is how i make them, for matrix chats)

    I found that:

    1. They’re better when they have a consistent art style (all by the same artist or by artists that imitate their style (like vanripper the creator of helltaker, and girlie that is above))
    2. Try to get as close to the face as possible, what you want is expression, fuck the hair, fuck the hands, just raw emotion.

    The hardest part really isn’t GIMP, it’s finding the source images, after that it’s a breeze! You might wanna setup GIMP shortcuts for Crop To Content and Flip Image Horizontally (because people’s avatars render from left to right, so you want the sticker to face to the right, the ones above are a terrible example, cuz it looks like she’s explaining this to a wall.)

    As for GIMP logistics, Just use what you like, all of these are just cropping and re-scaling.If you wanna cut out images really fast just use https://briaai-bria-rmbg-2-0.hf.space/. Hell you can get so good at it, you start doing art forgery, and editing the art to make it smile, frown, or blush.

    I could go into more detail~

    • Winter_Oven@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      Go on go on, I’ve bookmarked this post so that I can reread it when I actually get some free time (which is anywhere between the next few hours to the next 2weeks)

      • Reilyh she/her@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        6·
        24 hours ago

        Wellllll

        I guess we can talk about finding source images, because that really is the hardest part. I use hydrus which builds your own local booru. What’s a booru? imma link to this reply i once posted. I mean you can technically just make stickers, by browsing a booru, and using Firefox’s screenshot feature, sure it’s annoying as fuck, but you can instantly crop stuff and save it without having to go through the hassle of installing and learning a new software.

        yapping

        Now, there could be a way to search for a character, and filtering it by the artists who drew them the most, but i’m still tryna figure that out. I might dump the entire process on my blog. So there’s like, a cheat code, just use stickers made by other people sigstick has so so many sticker packs it’s crazy. But I don’t do that because it’s not fun, but i can see why some people might wanna use them.

        If you wanna do them in gimp, then please make a directory with the source images, and edit them from there, i wish there was a way to Export All using GIMP, maybe there is, maybe ihaven’t searched, and if there isn’t one, xodtool is always a thing…

        that artist up there is gogalking and they already have a nice catalogue of original characters with all kinds of expressions.