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Published: 2005-04-15 20:00:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 10336; Favourites: 141; Downloads: 598
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THANK YOU FOR 1,000 VIEWS!! 10.31.05When ~WannabeSpiderMan asked if I wanted to have a go at coloring in his gorgeous realistic drawing of Vash the Stampede , I nearly fainted with joy. So thank you, Dale, for letting me have this opportunity to flex my Photoshop muscles. I'm a newbie at certain things with Photoshop; I thought this would be a great learning experience as I've never colored in pencil art before.
Dale's own colored version [link] of his art really helped me a lot in my attempt at coloring this as I didn't have color references to things like the undersuit and metal arm.
I purposely made his hair and eyes that bright; I wanted him to have a hint of "anime/comic" feel. Just a hint. I chose to change the lips a bit; I had difficulty painting them and had to go a different route; I appreciate Dale allowing me artistic license in this regard. The duster simply refused to look aged and dusty for me like it did for Dale; it insisted on looking bright and shiny, so I'm presuming Vash has just had it dry cleaned. *sigh* I didn't intentionally make his face look older, but it ended up that way; I'm going with the thought that hey, he's over 100 years old, it's acceptable that his face shows a little bit of age, ne..? But I do hope I didn't mar his youthful attractiveness too much.
Since this was for practice and learning, all critiques and opinions are welcome and appreciated.
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Wow... this looks reallyreally good!
I love your more realstic style. Pose and expression are great. The only thing is that the face does not really fit... I don#t know why... but he looks so... 'cute' ^^' He's got such a nice face, with babyblue eyes.... somehow I think that a real Wash would look different...
Aera >'__'<
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I'm glad you liked it, and I appreciate the remarks, but they really don't apply to me since all I did was the color; for critiques on the face, etc, you'll have to address the person who did the drawing, *WannabeSpiderMan .
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I agree... how can anyone not like Vash? He's so yummy!!!!
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You did an amazing job on the colouring. o_o All that detail would have driven me nuts. XD
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LOL there were times I thought his face was indeed going to drive me nuts. Everything else wasn't too hard.
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Haha That'd drive anyone nuts. Good thing you have the patience for it, though!
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You did a wonderful and incredible coloring job. I love the detail, but i must say, it looks like a realistic ... damn i forgot the name of Vash's Brother ><
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Thanks hon! You're right, he does look a little more like Knives than Vash. Probably because Dale chose to make his hair shorter. But since the boys are twins, I guess it only makes sense he'd look just like his brother without some identifying mark, ne? ^__^
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Oh, I wish I knew more about Vash! I've never seen the show so all I have to go on is the images I see all over dA. Though I have to say that this is the one i've enjoyed the most. I saw Dale submit this a while back and I remember having a huge smile on my face when I read your comment. I loved seeing (reading rather) you so happy! 
Your colors look amazing on his pencils. I can't get over the little details like the bullet holes and the leathery sheen on his... what is that? Armor? Anyway, just wow. I LOVE seeing this fellow un-animed. It's really neat seeing someone draw an anime character realistically and do it right. You two make a great team.
No crits from me. In all honesty I think you got the lightsource just fine. It looks as though it's come from the front and just a tad to our left. The only thing that sticks out to me is how it shows on his jacket... although with all the folds it does make sense. It's gorgeous. You have nothin to worry about.
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... WHAT THE? my comment just sent without me pushing any buttons! how weird! Let me continue...
... it did make me smile HUGELY. I am a big fan of Trigun; it's a very short series, only 26 episodes, I think. It's extremely original, very interesting concepts, and I love that Vash is a big ol' sweetie who could easily shoot the eyes off a flea but is so gentle and tender of heart he refuses to hurt anyone, although a lot of people have hurt him, physically and emotionally. He never became hard, like his crazy twin brother Knives. The animation is very good, and the humor and clever wit and tense situations made this anime very captivating for me. Adult Swim [link] is rerunning episodes; click on "schedule" to the bottom right of the Vash picture and it will tell you when it's playing. Sometimes it's too late for me to stay up (not even I am awake at 4am) and so I'll record it.
Thanks for the kind words about my light source 
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I hate it when comments decide they're goin to send themselves before you're done typing.
Trigun sounds so entertaining. I wish that I had cable! It's absolute torture not getting to watch Cartoon Network. I'm not even sure our provider carries it. 
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Oh my goodness... I can't even begin to tell you how much I adore your coloring in this AthenaTT! >3<
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*beams happily* this means a lot to me as I LOVE your coloring skills, so thank you so much!!!
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I'm loving those cheekbones, great coloring skills !
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THANK YOU for making a comment about his cheekbones, I tried sooo hard to make them sexy without making him look too old!! Your comment made my day.
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Hahaha! I was going to say "hey, he reminds me of Vash"!! OMG; you doing real animΓ©-people too!!! Isn't it amazing and fun?!?! *____*
And you did a great rendition! I just think he needs longer hair 
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I wish I could take credit for the beautiful drawing, but it was done by * WannabeSpiderMan ; all I did was color it. I'm sure he'd love to hear your crits about the hair, the details, the nose / mouth, he always wants to hear helpful ideas to make his drawing better. So go visit his page and leave a note just like this and he'll appreciate it!!! ^___^ As for me, all I can take credit for is making Vash's coat too red *grin*
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Thank you! Dale did a great job drawing it; it was so fun to color!
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Be honest. You had more than a few fantasies of "having your way with him" as you were coloring him however you chose.
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Oh, I know you, you dirty little whore! There's no hiding your ahh-neee-maaayyy fixations from me!
*sigh* I don't want to go to bed. I should, but my brain isn't shutting down anymore so I mostly just lay there dozing in and out of weird subconcious stuff that usually involves me screaming at a short little money grubbing BEEEE_ATCH!
Soooooo, how's your day been?
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*grin* my day is fine, call me and we'll talk
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I nearly fainted myself when I saw this, he did a wonderful job making vash realistic and you did a great job in accompanying that with your coloring job.
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I like the colors. You've inspired me to photoshop something. I like the way you color leather.
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hey, thats damn good farting around id say...
humm critique... well what about... naw i dunno. its excellent..
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*GASP!!!*
i mean, i loved it when i saw spidey's original! but my goodness athe!!!
sheesh. i admire your courage for even considering such an undertaking in the first place!
heck, i'd been WAY to afraid i'd really screw it up!! heh.
but you,...YOU,...you've done an EXCELLANT job of colorizing it!!! it's stunning girl!!
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Thanks so much for your encouraging words
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Wow, what a wonderful idea!!!!! imagine, these 2 artists collaberating one 1 piece?....wow!!!!!!!!!
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See?!? SEE?!? I told you it would be a good idea to post it! And lookit all the support!
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Couldn't have done it without A) your great graphite and 2) Your colorization for me to follow. You are the one who rocks, my friend!!!!
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That is awesome! Really, that's like the picture of the day for me! It's wonderful, the coloring and everything, expression and all that good stuff <3 <3 lovely work!
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I dont know how you did it but thats some awesome coloring ... you two artists make a good team
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I brought the scan of the graphite drawing into Photoshop, made sure it was on a layer, set that layer to "multiply", then I made other layers underneath it and started coloring! Ta da!
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That is definetly amazing!! I think I might have to hire you to color some of my stuff in Photoshop or I think a lot of us need to get some money together and pay you to do a tutorial! You REALLY ROCK at this! and Spiderman has definetly done a good job at making a realistic Vash!
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Thank you, what a compliment! I'd love to color your Shivan Dragon sometime!! I don't have any tutorials, I don't think I'm that good! But here are a few Tutorials (and they're free! ^__~) that I've found very helpful; and *brianne333 , ~neondragon and *nykolai are fellow DAers that are MUCH better at PS than I am. Here, have a look:
Brianne333's Basic PS Tutorial
Clean Up Sketches, Add Color
Basic Scanning/Cleaning/Coloring
Neon Dragon's PS Tutorials
Nykolai's Basic PS Tutorial
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Thank you very much Athenatt!! Your more than welcome to color my Dragon! As a matter of fact I actually want you to if when you can spare the time! I would love to see what you could do with it and it's always good to bring a little traffic my way (something I would really like to get more of!)
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You've deffinetly improved on the likeness of Vash from the original piece. Cheek bones are a bit too strong, he looks like David Bowie. But then again David Bowie does look a bit like Vash lol. At least he doesn't look like a twelve year old kid like the original piece did.
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I wanted to show some pretty good lights and darks on his face and it did really make those cheekbones stick out, didn't it. I'm glad you looked and commented, thank you so much!
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I love this technique, color over pencil!
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Hey, thanks! It's actually color under pencil... take a pencil scan, bring it into Photoshop, put it on its own layer and make that layer say "multiply". Then make a layer underneath your pencil scan and start coloring. The top layer lets the bottom layer of color shine through (as long as you've told the top layer to "multiply").
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