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Published: 2005-03-12 19:41:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 17033; Favourites: 236; Downloads: 9589
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Finished Samade. Hope ya like.I learned a lot on this.
would like to thank pogi for all of his help
he's a much better artist than I am,
and never hesitates to answer all of my stupid questions.
I owe this guy a lot. (he's doing commissions now btw)
be sure to spam him. : P
also would like to thank Kimeko (from mangarevolution.com)
for the "channel" technique she taught me.
I never thought to do things that way before.
it opened a lot of new possibilities for me.
*edit*
a bit embarassing: I forgot the two '' lines on the last character.
made it say samate. oops. it's fixed now, it says samade.
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This is a cool pic...This is worthy of Manga status
I love the coloring of the pic...it has a true shine to them...The outfit is cool also...I am a blue fanatic though...I think she would be cooler in blue...But that's me...Too tell you the truth her legs were the first thing that popped out at me when I first viewed the drawing...she has nice legs....Ahhhh Yeah 
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thank you maverick!
I'm like you man, it's all about the blue (my website is proof of that 
which is why I tried yellow. I dont use it nearly enough ^__^
glad you noticed those legs too! I spent most of my time on them!
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It was the same way with me when I was drawing ChunLi from Street Fighter Alpha 2...She has some sexy legs but they were hard as heck to draw correctly
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Hmmm, from far off (and zoomed out preview), this almost looked like a Magna-Carta pic... upon closer inspection, I can see your own personal touches shine through more ^_^ Very nicely done! The suggestion of depth through fading of details/lines is a technique that was pulled of expecially well for being in color; And the use of your pencil lines to pull off the embrodery (is this the right word? the designs on the sleeves!) Looks very convincing 
Yeah, I'll have to look through the rest now... As if the pics of Elena wheren't "come on and look!" enough, already... -Hums "Beats in my head" from Street Fighter III Third Strike-
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Hmmm, from far off (and zoomed out preview), this almost looked like a Magna-Carta pic... upon closer inspection, I can see your own personal touches shine through more ^_^ Very nicely done! The suggestion of depth through fading of details/lines is a technique that was pulled of expecially well for being in color; And the use of your pencil lines to pull off the embrodery (is this the right word? the designs on the sleeves!) Looks very convincing
Yeah, I'll have to look through the rest now... As if the pics of Elena wheren't "come on and look!" enough, already... -Hums "Beats in my head" from Street Fighter III Third Strike-
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thanks man! I'll admit I study htk's coloring style quite a bit.
so it's good to hear the influence shows in my work at some level
and thanks for noticing the embroidery man! that was the part I had most trouble with!
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It seems I havent commented on just how Hawt this is yet. It's hawt like... like something that's more hot that hot. Very awsome. I'm curious about what this channeling thing is.
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thanks man! well the channel thing is a cool way to separate your lines from your art no matter how messy it may be. The multiply layer technique is cool, but this way allows you to color on your lines too. I'm definitely gonna make a tutorial for both methods. ^^
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Oh! You mean by selecting all the white and erasing it? That's what I used to do with my cgs. If I have a file with a strong enough outline It's the method I prefer. It's really cool when you can change the actual line color.
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kinda like that, but it's in reverse. it's selecting anything black and all shades of black (not including any whiteness in those shades), and making a new layer out of them. selecting black picks up white in the process (which is no good), but if you go through channels, you're left with opacity in place of white. it's really trick!
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OOOh! I need to test that out!
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nice use of forshadowing.
that gray scaling crap.
whatever its called.
you dont usally see that on anime.
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thanks man.
I'm not too sure what it's called either. lol.
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Wow! That's really impressive august...I'm lovin' the CG, I like how it fades as it gets further to the back. Reminds me of Hyung Tae-Kim's work (the artist behind magna carta and war of genesis)
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thanks MAG! I'm studying him right now (as much as possible)
I dont wanna copy him, but it'll be good to learn how he mixes color and uses atmospheric perspective. his work is so amazing O_O
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Yeah I know what you mean. What really attracted me to his work was his coloring...it's really amazing. I'm sure he uses painter as do a lot of anime artist/illustrator I read up on. But most of them, if not all of them switch between both painter and photoshop, but I'm sure you could get the same results in photoshop alone..one of my school instructor uses both painter and photoshop and which whatever program he decides to use the results look identical.
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I strongly believe photoshop can do anything any other program can, but it takes a bit more work and knowlege. Whereas painter is made to assist you in getting a painted feel. maybe I'm off, but that's my speculation at least.
I would use painter, but that program runs sooooo slow on my crappy pc. Not to mention, I just can't make heads or tails of it. Most of the stuff doesn't work the way I'd expect and just leaves my head spinning. If someone would just lay out all of the technical aspects of that app and how someone like htk uses it, and which tools, I'd probably give it another few tries. lol. (<-- quitter over here) And you're right about the switching. From what I've noticed they all seem to go between the two apps. They never tell you for what reasons though! haha. they just say "photoshop and painter" suckers.
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I think they start out in painter with some of the painting...then they finalize it in photoshop. Well that's what I've come to believe from what I gathered.
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Yeah, I think they go into Photoshop for the cleanup, some detailing and some final effects.
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everything in this is great. I really love the way you colored the entire piece, especially the shiny on her skin. And.. the pose is great, just like the weapon (i suck at doing 'em -__-')
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thanks so much asuchan! (and thanks for the fav 
I really suck at weapons too. but I think I'll keep trying to do them
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oh, no. I think you're good at doing weapons. At least one looking at your pics can tell that the girl (or whatever else) is grabbing a sword or other weapons. It's a goooooood begin XD
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This is a gorgeous character X3 I love the colouring, and the fading out technique. Awesome pic :3
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thank you very much Nu-Nu! and thanks for the fav!
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and the caveman beat me to this style!
awesome august! you already know what i think about this one...im too lazy to repeat myself 
HTK inspired...and thats a big compliment
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lol, thanks caveman.
hopefully I'll be able to add this technique to my own and create my own personal flair. ^^
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Awsome i love it all !!!
The patterns on the shirt, little shiney highlights on her shin, and the slight fadeness of the limbs away from us
Well done ^-^
whats the "channel" technique teach me 
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thank you!!!
okay, I'll be sure to make that channel technique into a tutorial. ^^
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This is a great piece. Inspiring to me, since i'm trying really hard to get the whole coloring thing down (I SUCK at coloring 
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thanks very much!
I plan on making a full tutorial one of these days
with luck it should help some people. ^^
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Dude, that is just awesome. Once again, you are the man.
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thanks man, you're much too kind. ^__^
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You have strong skills, so the praise is warrented.
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Oh, lovely. Stunning. Breathtaking.
I really like the highlights on her skin. It looks like she is polished
Mirenyamu Faito.
I LOVE her legs and feet. They are very, very sexy. And the embroidery on her clothing is beautiful, too. Very, very nice.
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thanks!
I kinda like how the skin turned out too. I usually can't make skin so tan, but it seems to have worked out. ^^ (what is Mirenuamu Faito?)
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It's the katakana on your picture. I may have misread it because I was partially asleep.
Faito= Fight Mirenyamu= Millennium, likely.
Millenium Fight!
I love tan skin.
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oh, hahaha. I should have seen that.
I got the kana spelling for fighter off of the street fighter games.
you can never be too sure how they would spell ome of the words. ^^
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Nice work dude! I could the the whole process... but it would be nice (I'm thinking about my message board) if you could submit your not-ready-yet work in your scrapsection like it ought to be... 
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thanks a lot man!
did you mean that you have a message board? where is it?
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i meant my messages...hihihi
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damn, man.... this is down the WEEZY!!!!!!!!!
LOVE the coloring and she is damn hot yo!!!!!!!!
great work!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've been waiting a while to see the finished product of this piece. I like the pose (which is a little more dynamic than some of your previous pieces) and the coloring and lineart are both superb. A quick question, how did you get the whole dragon effect on the sleeves to work out like they did? Great job though.
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thanks man.
as for the dragon... well, I drew it in photoshop with the pencil tool on a layer of it's own.
then I clicked "preserve transparency" on that layer, and colored the lines to make them blend with the sleeves. does that make any sense?
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yeah, sure does. I appreciate your help
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