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My FA blog have been just sitting around and collecting dust for a really long while.
I've made this drawing for Cornelius earlier this year when I was faced with some dismal financial bullshit.
Well, he made a generous donation then, and so I wanted to take that drawing and bring it to a full finish as a way of expressing my gratitude.
cornelius is a total pleasure to work for and a great person to the core.
SO about the picture, This is Cornelius' character Ninu. She got home from her day at some obscure beach in Malibu and so she's relaxing in her room, waiting for her friend to get out of the shower. If the purple light is weirding you out, she's got a black light on in there. The character's face reminds me of something Dingbat would have drawn.
I don't normally color my artwork this way, but it sure is fun. For some reason, the image looks more washed out than how it looked on Photoshop. It's hard to keep it from looking too choppy. Maybe some of you have some advice. I'm open to suggestions on application and technique. Aw heck, feel free to crit on anything you feel that would enhance this pic.
For those of you who are a kick ass digital painter, I'd love to pick your brains!
I've made this drawing for Cornelius earlier this year when I was faced with some dismal financial bullshit.
Well, he made a generous donation then, and so I wanted to take that drawing and bring it to a full finish as a way of expressing my gratitude.
cornelius is a total pleasure to work for and a great person to the core.SO about the picture, This is Cornelius' character Ninu. She got home from her day at some obscure beach in Malibu and so she's relaxing in her room, waiting for her friend to get out of the shower. If the purple light is weirding you out, she's got a black light on in there. The character's face reminds me of something Dingbat would have drawn.
I don't normally color my artwork this way, but it sure is fun. For some reason, the image looks more washed out than how it looked on Photoshop. It's hard to keep it from looking too choppy. Maybe some of you have some advice. I'm open to suggestions on application and technique. Aw heck, feel free to crit on anything you feel that would enhance this pic.
For those of you who are a kick ass digital painter, I'd love to pick your brains!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Paw
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 1050 x 1200px
File Size 677.4 kB
Oh dude, really nice looking! Personally I love that raw paint-sketch look ^^
If you're interested in tightening up your brush strokes though, here's my favorite custom brush for doing so:
Pick a solid round brush and turn on the following:
Opacity: 100% Flow: 100% Enable Airbrush (The icon next to Flow)
Spacing: 5%
Other Dynamics > Opacity Jitter: Pen Presure Flow jitter: Pen Pressure
Wet Edges, Airbrush, Smoothing, Protect Texture
If you're interested in tightening up your brush strokes though, here's my favorite custom brush for doing so:
Pick a solid round brush and turn on the following:
Opacity: 100% Flow: 100% Enable Airbrush (The icon next to Flow)
Spacing: 5%
Other Dynamics > Opacity Jitter: Pen Presure Flow jitter: Pen Pressure
Wet Edges, Airbrush, Smoothing, Protect Texture
This is fantastic. Really digging this color style.
Personally, I don't think the chop to it is very distracting, it just looks more painterly to me. When I was still using PS what I do if I'm not liking how that kind of chop looks I use a standard round brush with a lower flow, low spacing (1-7%), and use the alt color picker a lot to pick up the colors of the edge before painting back over and just keep picking up the color like that. It usually lets you smooth things out quite a lot.
What did you use for the ambient textures?
Personally, I don't think the chop to it is very distracting, it just looks more painterly to me. When I was still using PS what I do if I'm not liking how that kind of chop looks I use a standard round brush with a lower flow, low spacing (1-7%), and use the alt color picker a lot to pick up the colors of the edge before painting back over and just keep picking up the color like that. It usually lets you smooth things out quite a lot.
What did you use for the ambient textures?
Nice! I appreciate the tip. Sounds like a useful method. I'll be adding a tattoo on this character, so this will come in handy.
Ambient textures.. lets see. Well, my brush settings was at 25% spacing with a 5% hue jitter and a 5% saturation jitter. I wanted the colors to not look so flat. Plus I saw a show of some contemporary impressionist work and I liked how they did skies. I thought the hue jitter would be a shot cut for that kind of effect.
After the pic was all painted, I copied the image onto a new layer went and used: FILTER>NOISE>ADD NOISE.
The noise was a bit much, so I went and used: FILTER>NOISE>MEDIAN to soften it back. (I like this filter.)
I dropped the opacity of the original so that the noisy image shows through slightly. And that's that.
Ambient textures.. lets see. Well, my brush settings was at 25% spacing with a 5% hue jitter and a 5% saturation jitter. I wanted the colors to not look so flat. Plus I saw a show of some contemporary impressionist work and I liked how they did skies. I thought the hue jitter would be a shot cut for that kind of effect.
After the pic was all painted, I copied the image onto a new layer went and used: FILTER>NOISE>ADD NOISE.
The noise was a bit much, so I went and used: FILTER>NOISE>MEDIAN to soften it back. (I like this filter.)
I dropped the opacity of the original so that the noisy image shows through slightly. And that's that.
I haven't even touched photoshop in months. I am certainly not savvy enough to have any better ideas on this. Also I can't tell if I like this coloring style or not, but if only by the merit that it kind of surprised me I think it's a good thing. Makes me feel bad about not making much, I ought just draw some pinups and color them and just try to work out a method or something.
Man, just the shading on the mattress and the folds and even the light folds is eye candy. :D
Though I think there could have been a bit more folds and harder shadows in the bed sheet where her legs are at to emphasize weight since it still kind of looks like she's floating there. (Take what I say with a grain of salt since I'm not an expert at this. ^^;;)
Really love how well placed the shadows are in certain spots.
Really nice piece to wake up too!
Though I think there could have been a bit more folds and harder shadows in the bed sheet where her legs are at to emphasize weight since it still kind of looks like she's floating there. (Take what I say with a grain of salt since I'm not an expert at this. ^^;;)
Really love how well placed the shadows are in certain spots.
Really nice piece to wake up too!
True, with the face in such subtle shading while the legs are in more brighter lighting, it might make things tricky if the face is the main focal point of your picture. Though i think the blueish hue near her face is giving it some much needed attention. Wish I was more adept to digital painting to give you some real useful advice. I'm just starting to get into myself. :x
Hey dude. I'm pretty stoked to see your comment here. I've been a long time fan since... 2003-ish(?) when you had a gallery on tis now-defunct site called Playmouse.
So yeah, as evident in this picture, I have a thing for sexy feet and I dig nice legs. I'm way familiar with your work & you do a damn fine job yourself! Have you've been busy or something? You sorta scaled back on your output from your previous avalanche flow.
So yeah, as evident in this picture, I have a thing for sexy feet and I dig nice legs. I'm way familiar with your work & you do a damn fine job yourself! Have you've been busy or something? You sorta scaled back on your output from your previous avalanche flow.
Never understood it myself. I guess it's supposed to mean "Hey, I'm so fucking witty, that rather than leaving some silly comment/vaguely relevant meme, I'll post NOTHING!!!" It's more pretentious than most postmodern art or the rich city kid wearing the John Deere hat.
I love the shading in this pic. However, I wonder if you intended to make her look like such a beast compared to the size of the background!! That bed and hotel stuff looks absolutely tiny compared to the girl lying in it. Somehow that makes it even more hawt to some people :V
Can't add much to what's already been said, but this is hands down one of the best pics on FA, and to be able to scroll down and find all kinds of constructive Photoshop techniques... it's just too good to be true!!! Thank you a hundred times over for contributing this image and the subsequent conversation to the community - now I can't wait to try out a noise/median filter and Syrinoth's brush!
Wow dude, that is some hefty praise! I'm super pleased you feel that way.
I did find the tips posted here were incredibly useful. After doing some experimentation, the seeds of getting a faster computer were planted in my mind. (something I can hopefully procure sometime during the summer)
I did find the tips posted here were incredibly useful. After doing some experimentation, the seeds of getting a faster computer were planted in my mind. (something I can hopefully procure sometime during the summer)
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