Monday, May 22, 2006
I realised afterwards I lost two pieces of art and not just one when photoshop hanged. One was a WIP, an elfen girl in a kimono. Gah.....but strangely the frustration which came from losing the first one didn't manifest. I guess I must have drained it all xD.
I recreated the lost art, Plexi Lexi and did a further two. I'm getting better at doing the hair and eyes. What I loved from Plexi Lexi's piece was the skirt actually. It really brought out visually how shadows and highlight colors can give something shape and look like it's been painted in the process. As I commented on someone's deviant, add a base color, followed by shadow color, highlight color and an even lighter highlight to give the object 'shape' and volume. Add the colors until satisfied and you can even use the handy sponge tool to lessen the stroke effect and blend. I find the sponge useful around the face or skin areas. Alternating between a hard 3-19pt brush and a soft 19pt brought to 30pt (I like to work with large brushes over a substantial area such as hair, skin, clothes) brush, is useful. One just has to experiment until they are comfortable with whichever brush. The large hard brush is usually for base color, followed by soft brush for strokes and blends, and back to small hard brush for details such as nose and lips.
Franky is done as an auction piece for the college charity day event. We got $20 HB for it, so not bad. Unfortunately the guy is not exactly a bishounen *gomen gomen* so both me and my roommate sat contemplating how to transform him into manga style. In the end, I decided realism CG won't be so bad, add a couple large manga eyes and we are set.
She went with her original face and eyes, and just changed the hair. Thus our duty is completed. Now I just have to find a color printer TT.......
Onechan Stephy has sent me a ton of webcomics, which I ardously slurped up during the writing of my last history essay.
Seraph Inn is an interesting piece. The artwork is more comical and the storyline follows fantasy more than manga, but it's absorbing once you read the first chapter.
Directions of Destiny is definitely manga style, with the added beautiful heroine and bishonen boy. The artist of Seraph Inn said she was inspired by DoD's artwork. When I first read DoD, I was like.......Seraph's artwork is so much better until I hit the later chapters. Improvement is apparent. The DoD artist has a deviant art account filled with CG work for covers of the comic. Stunning details.
Deviantart artists blows me away everytime. One DD was commented to have over 40 layers in one art piece......wth.......
They are the one's who inspire me to do much better. It's a good idea to save all your fav art pieces and study them carefully. Mucho improvement into your own artwork because you get ideas and you can study styles and how they are created through photoshop.
College day was cool, really enjoyed myself. Dinner as usual was bleh, and I suspected gave me the case of indigestion after the turn, or it could have been the wine....not sure.
Turn was costume themed, anything starting with 'S'. I could have gone as myself really xD. Nah I went as a spy. Very...anime....spy. xD
And my entire outfit seemed to have been borrowed, from the boots from onechan, tie from Dilshan, shirt from Louis, stockings from Ann. Only the skirt and glasses were mine. Roommate went as a skunk, Ann as a sailor, Vanessa as a sheep. Other prominent S's were Shrek, Sudoku, Samurai, Spain, Peter Singer, Sailormoon xD. Surprisingly Louis went as a spy too, clad in total suit black with a hidden gun. We rocked up the night, atlast they started to play proper music!! *dances*
Nechan's boots are sooooo comfortable, I wanna steal... >>.
Then spent the rest of the evening holding a wet towel to Louis' head and tucking him into bed. Poor guy went drinking at Smiley's with the others and got a tad overboard, and proceeded to throw up alot. It was nice talking to him again though, we spent Saturday watching movies and reading book.
On Sunday went out with Eeps and the gang. They dragged me out for turkish food and we ended yup with Japanese stonegrill. The food took like......an hour to get to us and by then, mood has deteriorated. Followed by customary drumming, and poofed, we went home. Eeps took the whole night bullying me >>......hidoi....
And the funny thing was... I'm really having fun =).
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 11:22 AM
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