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Looks like you got the bases down Try to find someway to take out the UI.. It takes up a lot of the screen.

Look at reference poses. You can find a lot at deviantart.com.

For feet, you can draw your own or your shoe at different angles.

And just draw. Draw, and even if they aren't perfect, keep going. You'll get better and better

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Soon...soon I will buy some of your art! Maybe for my birthday which is coming in a couple months and I could ask fer money. Then, Dyno Dude will have an epic drawing of epicness!

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Yey for epic



Fantastic picture, Juggy, love it! ^__^b

I was actually going to do something...

Hateful PMs? Thats lame--if someone has a problem there is no prizes, then don't do the contest. You could suggest, like Juggy, to give some prizes, but.... okay, so before I get into a rant: Chill out peeps.

ZOMG *UBER GLOMP*

Happy birthday, best buddy

:highfive:

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Wow that's turning out really good! *waits at DA for the finished product*

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Hehe, thanks!

Thanks a lot

Thanks LJ! It means more than you know

Here is the coloring WIP for High Tyde. This is inked by hand, then scanned into the computer. I then adjusted the levels with the Histogram-mabobber and then added color I'm really happy with how this is turning out, though its gonna' be hell trying to get the lighting right with the glowing 'ribbon' on his costume. Notice that this is only at 15% magnification The file is huge.. I usually color at about 150% mag, but for this, I only used 50%

Comments and constructive criticism, please! Thanks!!!

Thanks for the responses guys I wanted to see what my new histogram could do, so I scanned the inked High Tyde piece w/o erasing the pencils that I traced, and it almost got rid of them all (And my pencil lines are really thick in some places) So I'm gonna' erase them, scan it again, and it should come out real nice


Oh, and if you wanna' see an artist that does no inks: Magespages.deviantart.com

Do you know of any sites that have links to these drawing classes? I've searched online before, but find none They're all like young adult classes at Universities..

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Unless you have awesome pencil skillz like me. *flexes* /egomaniac

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*Stares at pencil-skill-muscles in amazement* *Drool*


>_> In other news, I've inked (by hand) my High Tyde piece, and I must say, he is looking almost as sexy as me - And I don't even have to have a really low cut top Anywho, I'll scan it soon.. I can't wait to try and make it look all perty before adding colors!

Thanks so much for the post, Suich.. I'm gonna' reference it as I rescan a pic

About the automatic options and disabling them in the menus.. I'm not getting any menus, besides a little thing that asks if its a 'Color' 'Grayscale' 'Black and White/Text' or 'Custom'. I always pick 'Custom' because that allows me to change brightness, dpi, and contrast.

My scanner is an HP Scanjet 3500 C and I use the Control Panel/Scanners and Printers/Click on Icon way of scanning, if that makes a difference.


Thanks for the link, Darque.. I have Photoshop Elements 3.0, so I don't have the pathing tools or 'curves'.. At least I don't think so. Whenever I ink, it takes FOREVER, and the lines are usually pretty squiggly, so I'm thinking about just hand inking everything.

I have two questions about my artwork:

1) When scanning a picture, they come out really light. I've heard that there is a way to change the contrast and brightness to really darken the lines, as well as keep the white of the page bright. Does anyone know two numbers for the two settings that work well? People have talked about how it should look on graphs, but when I get the option to change it, I just get two sliders with numbers from like -100 to 100, or something like that.

2) When people ink by hand, how do they color? I've always learned to color on a layer under the inks, but if I do that, then it gets hidden by the white that also gets scanned. I've tried using the Magic Eraser and Magic Wand tool, but there are always little corners and crannies that stay white, and I can't get to without damaging the surrounding line art, by making it real transparent. There was something I did on the Derek Fayte mini that made it work out well, but it was by accident and don't know how to reproduce it

So could anyone help me with these two questions? I would be very thankful Thanks!

Hey Me! Hey Next Poster!

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This should work, Tundara.

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So how are things?

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Fine, fine.

I'll do another one of the requesters, too, but I have a little less free time now, with skewl and all...

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Ooo, how is your new school btw?

Here is Tumblebee!

I'm gonna' ink and probably color these at some point, so stay tuned

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Nice work BAS!!! And yeah, she got the hair goin' on...

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Afros FTW!

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Very cool! _BAS_

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That's a pretty cool costume BAS <@_@> I like!

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Thanks guys

I made a new character over the weekend that I had the idea for for quite sometime... Although my first choice of name was taken, I just switched an 'R' with a 'T' and got something I'm pretty happy with. So, I did some arts of her yesterday and the day before, and thought I'd share and see what you guys think

So, without further ado, I present to you....

Tumblebee!!!


And here is one I did at school: Bzzz!!! (WIP)


This is her costume, if anyone wanted to see it: The Deadly Diva and Sexy Seductress Herself!


So, whatcha' guys think?


P.S. I will upload these to deviantART but it is in maintenance right now.

I guess part of it is that I also have a tendency to retrace things, although this gets really bad when I have to ink it.. THanks for the tip

I use a leadholder which I can't seem to sharpen, no matter how many times I put it through the one that came in the cap :P I was gonna' get a set of them that had a lot of darker shades, but I decided against it

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Excellent work BAS, I can see a lot of improvement in your work.

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Eee! :excited: Thanks so much!

(( Boo for no cool deviantART emotes on CoH Boards ))