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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-16 10:37
So it turns out I'm not dead, because I can't let Godzilla take all the glory(Damn Kaiju). I've actually been sketching and getting used to my tablet since December; thing is I finish up the line-art and get ready to color but in the middle of coloring I get so de-motivated because it doesn't come out the way I want it to, so I trash the sketch and stop drawing for a few days until I get back into it. Eventually, I'll crack through and show something with color. Maybe it's this, maybe not. Who knows?
WIP: Eri Kasamoto from Metal Slug. I got lazy with the hair, heh.
[Image: http://puu.sh/6mMpL.jpg]
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-17 14:59
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I finished~ Semi-happy how she came out, semi-sad because I took the entire night to do this. Hopefully I can improve from here, and be more efficient with time now that I know where things go and how tools work together to create something more.
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GODZILLA wrote on 2014-01-17 18:56
Kinda looks like Link. I like the hair.
That's a cool signature.
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-17 21:15
Quote from GODZILLA;1188888:
Kinda looks like Link. I like the hair.
That's a cool signature.
Thanks! She started looking like a combination of Link and Locke from FF6 after staring at it for a good while. A lot of people mistook her as a guy initially in the Metal Slug games where her sprites were highly questionable and the character selection caricatures even more so. I wanted to capture a bit of that.
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-24 00:38
WIP. I guess the great and bad thing about coloring is that once you get past the mindless line-art, you have to actually start thinking where everything goes and how colors will work along with how you want said colors to be expressed in different shades, and how well it compliments your lines. There's also shadows to consider. It's really a huge step-up from just the traditional pencil sketches I've done in the past.
[Image: http://puu.sh/6vOav.jpg]
Yes I'm drawing my Aman again for like the 100th time, probably should be drawing more humans instead
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ShadowFox31 wrote on 2014-01-24 03:56
Quote from Shanghai;1191085:
Yes I'm drawing my Aman again for like the 100th time, probably should be drawing more humans instead
just draw all the amans plz
3q ty wwwww
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-26 02:54
Blah blah Aman blah blah TERA blah blah Still don't know what I'm doing half the time when it comes to coloring blah blah
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GODZILLA wrote on 2014-01-26 03:04
Well, you color way better then me. Actually doesn't look half bad.
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Genderbent wrote on 2014-01-28 04:03
The aman is brilliant.. great job. Keep it up.
Your coloring is fine. :)
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-28 07:54
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Well, you color way better then me. Actually doesn't look half bad.
Thanks, I think I had to re-do the skin 3 times pre-shadowing before I finally realized where I could go with it. But it still didn't turn out the way I want to. Practice makes perfect! Hope your coloring practice(when you take the huge plunge into the abyss of Idon'tknowwhattodo after reading on 5 different ways artists color(a "tutorial")) is going more smoothly.
Quote from Genderbent;1192358:
The aman is brilliant.. great job. Keep it up.
Your coloring is fine. :)
Thanks for the motivation, much appreciated sir!
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Genderbent wrote on 2014-01-28 22:58
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... much appreciated sir!
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-28 23:20
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Shhhh that sign is a lie sometimes
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ShadowFox31 wrote on 2014-01-29 06:33
I do have to say, your art has improved GREATLY since the first picture you've made. I'm sure there are minor areas I can say "THIS LOOKS BAD", but I do that with my own art that i'm sure you do it enough, or else you wouldn't be this good.
Keep up the good work. you make me wanna try my hand at amans.
more scalies plz wwww.
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-01-29 07:07
Quote from ShadowFox31;1192858:
I do have to say, your art has improved GREATLY since the first picture you've made. I'm sure there are minor areas I can say "THIS LOOKS BAD", but I do that with my own art that i'm sure you do it enough, or else you wouldn't be this good.
Keep up the good work. you make me wanna try my hand at amans.
more scalies plz wwww.
I think I'll just work through my rotations of TERA characters as of right now, which includes a High Elf, an Elin, and another Aman. So yeah, more... scalies however you call it. Thanks for the comments though!
And then re-draw them later in the year so see how I improved
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-02-14 05:00
Midterms have been a killer these past few weeks but I've gotten As on most of them so that's good. To top things off though I got locked out of my room last night when I went to take a shower, and my room-mate was fast asleep. I banged on the door for 10 straight minutes, then took the whiteboard off our room door and ended up doodling in boredom before I slept in our hall's common area. This weekend will be a long weekend so thankfully I'll have more time to mess around with my tablet.
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