CoX drawings by Darth Delicious

Well, I did want to comment, before the tablet-love takes over everything...

That is super-good (straight) hair, you made there! Even with only a mouse to work with.

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Fireheart

Thanks Fireheart!

It took intensive mouse-use...and now I'm in pain because my right thumb has an old injury which holds me from long-term intense mouse use... a tablet would be thé outcome.

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I like the way Mr. Gorgeous is turning out. I don't know if that's the character name.... but it should be. hehe

Now...I've been working with my marvelous new drawing tablet for 2 days now...
...and I utterly LOVES it!
Oh, the detail you can get in a drawing with the pressure option active, the strokes you can make.. it's so delicious! You can't do all that with only a mouse available!

Yesterday I was working on a pair of eyes... the pupils.. and when I was done.. I couldn't stop looking at them... they looked so real!
Have a look yourself, as the following drawing (a more human form of my char Mike, already had it on paper (pencil) and scanned it) is the one I'm working on. (click on it for a large (over 4MB) version)

Yes, except for the dark background, I put in all the hairs manually... because I can!! *giggles*
It still needs a lot of work, I know.. It's by far finished.
I just wanted to share this preview with you lot

In the end the pencil version should be invisible (it's still slightly visible now).

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WOW! just... WOW!

That is really good work Deedee. The hair is amazingly realistic, and the eye's, yep, brilliant.

I think the extra oomph does really make this art pop... It was great to being with, now its just awesome.

Thanks Caemgen!

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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin Went ahead and added more contrast as I said I would. The one thing I would hope this shows you is just how close you are getting in your colors. You did like 90% of the work here on the coloring but often times it's that last 10% that can really make a piece of art pop. I will put an animated gif later if you like so you can see some of what I did and maybe pick up a few things.

I have noticed I still lack the courage to make that final "pop". So I'm looking forward to that gif animation!
I already am picking up stuff from the piece now, so having it animated, should be awesome, thanks!

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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin P.S. I am very proud of how this collaboration came out. Thanks DD for working with me on this.

I'm very proud aswell, CR! I enjoy working with you very much! Thank you for your effort and time to give advise and feedback.

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Animation is up.

I had to quit staring at it long enough to post it lol. Even though I know
exactly what is going to happen I still watched the loop like a dozen times.

P.S. You are off to a great start with the hair brushes DD.

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Yes I saw!! It's like magic! *giggles*

Thanks! I actually didn't use a hair brush... it's all.. me! I did those hairs... hair by hair!
But I like the outcome. May tweak it later a bit here and there...
It's realistic... but you can still see it's not a photo..which is what I was going for.
Working on his clothing now...
Will see what I can do about skin tone and more shades after that.

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Ok I stand corrected then. I thought it was a brush just for the sheer volume of individual hairs going in separate directions if you are drawing all of those by hand I'm even more impressed that these are your early attempts.

One thing I might suggest is there are too many fly away hairs. You can see skin between too many of the hairs that go across his face and all along the outline of his head there need to be clumps rather than so many individual hairs.

Also there is something about his face, hmmmm, the eyeballs are shiny and done in a realistic fashion but the other features look a little flat... it kinda reminds me a bit of a ventriloquist's puppet.

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haha thanks!

I know about the hairs on crossing his face. It bothers me so that's back on the list of "to work on" .
That goes for the straying hairs aswell. I got a bit overenthousiastic about that *giggles*

I've also noticed that the eyes are shiny, but the rest is flat. I'm working on that as we speak. Trying out different colours, shades and stuff. May take a while to finish this one in a the way I was planning to.

It's a good "getting to know the tablet options" project

Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated!

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I should be more clear, as I don't want to give the wrong idea... it's fine to be able to see skin (or the sky in the
background for that matter) in between the individual strands but it shouldn't be for the whole length of the strand.

Even hair with a ton of flyaways can work (especially if it's windy) but where the hair comes from the head should
still have clumps and look like a solid mass and as it gets out towards the tips it can be more scattered and windblown.

Think more like this...

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Got it, thanks! That's what I meant aswell

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To take my mind off my current project of Mike's portrait for a bit, I went to colour a sketch Swissy did one day for a friend of mine, FloatingFatMan. His character, Ellie.

So... here it is!


And "the making of":


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So theres the promised catgirl!

Nice one DD

I have to agree with Neko...

Though a piece of her and Horm Diabhal together would have been even more awesome!

@Caemgen: Horm who?

@Sapphic Neko: I told you I would
Thanks Sapphy

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Was joking, and was aypo, should have been Gorm Diabhal, my almost catgirl devilgirl

lol! Her! hahaha.

Though, probably any combination of catgirls would be a great thing, right?

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Yes!

A whole pile of catgirls together! Meowing... licking... nekkid...

I'll be in my bunk.

I'll be peeking into her bunk!