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Crash_7
Professor
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Ah tahts cute I must have done that one pretty fast. My boyfriend just said "I like how her eye is too low and clips through her hair." Yeah, I think you cranked that out in about five minutes. Pretty impressive for that speed. Like I told you before, I'm hanging on to it until you're a famous artist. It's my retirement account. You drew Bender belching fire on my paper airplane, too. Remember that? We're having a fight right now on whether Fry had a son or a daughter.
Well, let's see. His mother looks more like him. But is that because she's his daughter or he's her son? A conundrum, no doubt.
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FemJesse
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #375 on: 07-21-2010 21:45 »
« Last Edit on: 07-22-2010 16:56 »
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Here are some more tutorial steps for coloring, I'll post more as I go. Step 1: your sketch I needed to draw a little girl toddler. Remember when drawing children that their heads are much rounder and less long than adults. Also take this into consideration with their height. Adults tend to be 5 1/2 to 6 heads tall, toddlers and children are usually 4 heads tall, babies are even shorter. Kids really do grow into their enormous noggins. You can see the tick marks on the right of the sketch indicating how many heads I used to measure. Step 2: Color blocking Blocking in your color is done in this stage. Usually it helps to go dark to light so pick colors on the darker side of what you intend the finished colors to look like. If you wish to not use this method and paint more traditionally you would start your underpainting in this step using complimentary colors (colors that are opposite on the color wheel) then work in tones over it. The method I'm using here is actually easier to understand if you don't have accessible knowledge about color and working traditionally. Step 3: Form and light This stage you use an airbrush head at a low opacity to set your light and dark tones. I'm using a blue backlight to tie all the colors together. It helps to mix your colors in a palettes like on the right to keep a sense of unity. This stage sets the feel for the lighting/mood of the piece. I like to alternate painting on a white and black background to ensure that the forms have strong silhouettes. For the next stage you're going to go in with a hard edged brush at around 25-35% opacity and start defining your shadows and form
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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@ PG: FJ has spent years and years on perfecting her art. Not that there is anything wrong in what she does, if you take a look at her earliest posted stuff and compare it to her artwork today, you can see a deeper attention to anatomy, to backgrounds, color and shading.
FJ didn't become good overnight. the same can be said about you; your first attempts may look good but they will look aged if you go the way fo FJ and spend hours and hours perfecting your art.
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FemJesse
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #384 on: 07-24-2010 06:42 »
« Last Edit on: 07-29-2010 03:30 »
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Yea she's looking a little old I might ahve to cut it up and move it around. There isn't enough curve in between her brow and her nose and the eyes are too high or something. Here's step 5. You can see I changed the eyes I'm happier with the face now The cat has details added... I'm almost done And here's the cover all put together until I get some feedback from the writer at least Copying and pasting like that reminds me of dynamism without the elegance of the futurist movement. I wonder what it would have been like to live pre-dada... Nah I'm so Dada I ooze of nonsense. cheese time! Wow she actually approved it first go... that never happens. I'm out of stuff to draw forever I guess.
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Zmithy
Professor
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Brilliantly creepy, especially the cat!
Oh, and as for cintiqs, don't worry too much, I've been using one for 3 years now, and, while they're good for colouring, sketching on them is nowhere near as pleasant as plain old 2B and paper. I sketched on it for a few months then made the switch back... it actually feels a bit weirder than using a normal tablet, since your brain keeps saying "treat this like paper" while your eyes see things like the cursor and palettes that conflict with that. I only felt comfortable sketching fullscreen in artrage, but even then there's issues with the viewing angle due to the screen being offset from the drawing surface by about 3mm.
Considering that sketching is supposed to be the thing that they do well, I can't say I'd recommend them, a regular tablet and a bigger screen resolution works just as well for colouring.
The one thing I've found that they are awesome at is animation, since removing the pencil and paper side of things gets rid of a load of scanning/photographing labour, along with the fact that onion skin features in software are a million times better than animation paper + pegbars.
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Applepie
Crustacean
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those hands look awesome i find it very hard to draw them, but you're amazing!
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FemJesse
Liquid Emperor
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My friend Sarah (The Beef) LaBoeuf is writing a children's book for me to illustrate and I'm pitching some concepts for the main characters. You'll see a lot of influence from Super Mario, Disney and I'm trying to sneak in some subtle Futurama references (hopefully more will come out in the color versions once we get the character designed). I'm taking Matt Greoning's advice in trying to make a strong sillouette and easily identiable features. This is the first sketch I did, the immediate thing that came to my head for the character design was Bowser and Yoshi, basically how Nintendo deals with scary creatures. I want him to be postured similarly to the father in the show "Dinosaurs" - basically your big friendly guy Working on different styles and treatments for the face. Sarah and I decided we wanted to go with rounder features and big, expressive eyes. This is the character design for his wife. She needed to be more feminine without overtly showing anything. She is more slender than her husband with a tapered nose. Double eyelash forgoing anything that would look like mascara. The bracelet pays homage to Wendy O. Koopa.
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Crash_7
Professor
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I think I like the design for the male character in the first drawing better. I'd say the design for the wife is outstanding. In the second picture, the one in the lower left hand corner reminds me of Sid from Ice Age.
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Erdrik
Professor
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... Its going to be fun picking features from the two different characters and imparting them on their children. ... You may want to put some thought into the grandparents in this regard as well. I always see a variety of "spawn" fan art where the 'childrens' share features from their parents and Im always left wondering why no one takes from the previous generations for features. I once drew a Kim Possible spawn pic, just so I could have Kim and Ron's spawn have features from their respective parents. lol I think I still have the pic laying around somewhere... digitaly speaking...
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