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That was bloody fantastic

<3 My Fair Lady

Thanks!

I'm not happy with the left (his right) hand just kinda hanging out there and not doing anything, but I'm just gonna move on.

Okay I think I'll go with this:

Cripes.. I'm trying all different types of reflections but now that you said googly eyes, that's all I can see

Maybe I'll just let it sit over night.

Right now it's time to sit outside in the 7 degree cold with a vodka martini and take pictures of Mars

...because I hate the CoT

Feel free to take a look through my work (links in my sig)

Happy holidays to you all

I'm glad that I came to the CoH art forum and rebooted my DA account. The fan forum over at CO was killing me - it was like shouting into a void. Honestly, if I were stranded on a desert island and had no one to show my artwork to, I'd probably just stop altogether. The feedback I've been getting between CoH and DA is really helping to keep me going, and I am very thankful for that!

Took out the gory bits... We'll just call it a figure study

on second thought, I'm going to censor myself and just say that there is some new art up that contains violence which may not be for the faint of heart.. I did put a mature warning on the DA upload to restrict it to 18+

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone

What?


Just dropping in to say hi. Coming over from Champions, I think I'm going to nest on Virtue since I found some people to play with over in the fanart forum

I also make pictures.

So yeah, hi

Fact: Beautiful people get treated better. Yeah it's cruel and unfair, but there it is.

Still, there's too much awesome in the world, and I'm afraid that if I were stupid, I wouldn't be able to appreciate it.

Smart and ugly wins.

Soul Train has the right idea. I haven't used PSP in years, but it should work something like this:

Duplicate/copy your line art to a new layer and rename it something useful like "Line Art". Set its blending mode to "Multiply". In this mode, all white areas of the layer will be, effectively, transparent, and all black areas will be opaque (without getting too technical, it uses the values of your line art layer to multiplay against the layers below it).

Do your coloring on a layer underneath your Line Art. This is pretty much the staple of digital inking and coloring.

Another way to color (although this is more of a "painter" technique) is to prepare a greyscale image that has all of your lines and shading, and do your coloring on a separate layer above, also set to multiply. painters such as Rembrandt used a technique like this, building up thin color washes over a monochromatic base layer (known as a grisaille). Using a multiply layer will require that you start off using lighter color values since they will darken over the image underneath. You can also try setting the blending mode to "Color" and experiment with that. This technique is good for many people because most find it easier to get your values (lights and darks) down in greyscale than it is in full color.

Just messing around today...

This is from a pretty well known photograph of Audrey Hepburn. I think I butchered it pretty good



Actually last night I discovered Adam Hughes and his Hepburn-esque Cat Woman. Well, being the consummate Audrey-addict that I am (yeah I know it's pretty much cliche to love Audrey Hepburn, so what), I had to give it a shot. Of course I failed, but not terribly. Mr. Hughes though...damn that guy completely captured her essence without making it look identical...

and he nailed it

every.

single.

time.

I mean, who ever gave a $%&@! about Cat Woman? Well not me, at least. Yet I'm going through all of the Hughes Cat Woman covers thinking "man I gotta buy these!". Well-played, Mr. Hughes. Well-played.

Anyways, what I -really- wanted to do was to try a more comic like style...and I failed there too "inking" and coloring is a lot harder that I figured...I was fighting with my painter side the whole time. Ah well... I can't expect great results on a first try. I almost feel like I'd have to break out that archaic pen and paper stuff to get good results. The Cintiq is a great tablet, but no tablet can reproduce the texture and sense of friction that you get with a pen/pencil against paper.