LadyJudgement

Ah well I meant the placement of the tat, not the design... which is fine of course, but I just liked that it made her look tougher. Oh and Gunny Bunny would have to be her nickname.

"I was born Guntara Bunston, but my friends all call me Gunnys-Buns..." to which 007 would reply.

"Of course they do, I must be in heaven."

Very interesting style, not quite a photo manip, kind of like a photo coloring... very evocative of your toon, great pose... did you ever work out that screening problem?

Gunny-Bunny? Is that her official 007 name?

A really fun piece, I especially like the cloth work, the tatoo, and the lips!

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super sweet!!

can we get a detail of the face? there seems to be alot going on that's interesting

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Sure... thanks for asking.

LJ

Inks

Flats, and metal hell to come...

LJ

Nice!

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I DO NOT understand screen layer. I put it in screen mode....Of course the screen turns a bit opaque. Then I try to select areas using lasso or polygon and brush with what...... white? A lighter color....radial gradient? Then when I merge...those areas I highlighted disappear for some reason.

This is the step that is beating me up.

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Ah okay I think the problem lies in which mode you are setting... If you're doing glows, use a new layer on top of the lineart and keep the layer set on normal. Your brush is set on screen, and at a high opacity, somewhere from 50-70%.

If you're screening inside a selection, your brush is set to screen, and the layer again is set on normal. The pull down menu for screening is on the top bar, NOT in the layers section.

And yes if you merge a layer set on screen in the layers menu, yeah it will tend to disappear. Other things to note, you can screen with lighter colors, but many lighter colors will just make white when screened with high opacity.

I tend to screen with either the same color or a mid tone. However if you set your screen to a low opacity on a very large soft brush say over 100 pixels in size, you get a nice slow build up. You might even have to go larger than that, and remember each pass you make over one before it, makes the area brighter!

Good luck!

Screening...

LJ

Yeah saw that last night, and definitely faved him.

Where's Aqua Man, Shazam, and Hawkman?

Just kidding, I love these... any chance of a Mr. Terrific?

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It's a fair resemblance and a cool idea, though it honestly looks more like a work in progress than a careful or painstaking work of art. If it's more a "just for fun" lazy day activity, then that's probably all it needs to be.

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I disagree, this depends on if the pair of them have any artistic ability at all. This is a fun piece, and I think with a little tweaking, they can use this as a spring board to an even better one. Now that you've built the large version, you gotta make the half size version... ah ha now there's the trick. Mass Production!!!

lol sorry i accidentally deleted the psd file after saving it...

yeah you go fine your own lineart, slacker!!!

Here's that same tute applied to a pic of Ahnold I just googled, drew on my right monitor, while looking at my left monitor.

And Doug I take it back, that second tute is the one I like, but that one too neglects to mention adjusting the feathering on your selection from 2-5 pixels. For the longest I had these ugly, hard edge cuts one on top of the other... grrr.

Do you have (Doug) have any advice on how to do color holds? Those drive me bonkers, and I needs to learn em...

LJ

Good luck and as always, your Comic Art IM Team will disavow you, should this blow up in your face...

That coconut, chocolate, caramel cookie they sell is worth killing for...

Also Alt + Backspace fills only your selection. The paint bucket will fill everything and anything it can that has the same color intensity. So if you have flatted two shapes with similiar colors, the paint bucket won't be able to decide do I just fill this grey and not that grey, looks the same to me, screw him!

Selecting and Alt + Backspace may seem like a longer step, but it's more cost efficient time wise, and mistakes wise.

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Why do you hit alt backspace to fill as opposed to clicking on the fill tool clicking somewhere in the picture and filling? Is that just a shortcut?

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Again the Fill Tool, or Paint Bucket WILL miss things, if you're selection isn't done with tight black inks, and I mean no greys. If I don't use the fill tool, I use the pencil tool (a straight square pixel brush) to flat large areas by hand.

Clicking it off will give you jagged edges when you use any selection tool, including your paint bucket. It causes nightmare problems if you flat with it off, where dozens of tiny snowflake pixels appear all over your flats, because the computer somehow misses them... I've used the paint bucket in times of speed, and truthfully it's not worth it... over the lasso, select, fill using Alt + Backspace method...

Try it if you think I'm lying, not that I think that you think I'm lying, all I'm saying is don't take anything for granted. With any new technique you have to use the methods that are comfortable to you aesthetically...

Doug is the man! I've read those first 2, and yer right the last one is the best... anyway, here's my sad attempt, using the very basic but fully functional Photoshop Elements 4, which you'll have to adjust Warface to your version 6...

LJ

Writing you another tute based on this quick image, brb...

(don't worry I put it on Imageshack so you can click it...)

LJ

Yeah that was my strategy, do you notice the slash line through my name...

gees man, now yer never gonna hit 50 drawing all that... that baby is gonna have to wait till I gets my badges!!!

Nicely done, my only peeve is the bent arm could've been more 3D with light shown coming brighter on top or bottom, having the middle of the forearm the darkest black along say the bone, and the opposite highlight, showing less reflective light, but there to give a more cylindrical feel to it.

But yeah awesome shadows under the breasts and long arm, makes me think of a perfect ink wash... keep em coming! Actually looking at it again, I see an Amy Winehouse thing going on which I love...

Moonglow if it's a girl, and Rotgutt if it's a boy...

Plan A: - Tell Felicia, it'll be Felix if it's a boy, or Alexis if it's a girl...

Plan B: - Bobby is a great name for either a boy or a girl.

LJ