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Published: 2009-10-12 04:34:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 12395; Favourites: 596; Downloads: 0
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Started out as something to work on between my calendar art because even I get bored of just drawing scenery over and over again. So I have been working on and off this for the past couple of weeks so I'm surprised that I'm actually content with what the final result came out like. Not totally as I envisioned but close enough and I've spent enough time on it.Just a long-haired bishie and a lot of pretty purple stuff, mainly the girls will only like it but I'm sure some guys will too
drawn in Photoshop alone, no 3D or photo-manips used, as usual in my character art. My reference was a Ball-Jointed Doll here [link] I'm glad those things are so popular, I'm finding them good reference models and inspire me to make pretty characters...it's win-win 
Also my first semi-realism attempt I feel might be good enough for a print, so why not - it's costing me nothing
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I'd love to have purple eyes 
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Purple eyes rule, man. Your welcome.
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You're capable of doing really epic pieces
How'd you do all that texture? I always see it in arts of those China artists 
Fave for the effort and encouragement to continue this sort of thing!
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Lol "those China artists" 
I looked at a few difference references of real kimono patterns to get an idea of what patterns I would like. I drew a few designs on seperate layers and just duplicated them heaps of times warping each individual to fit the folds of the clothing...as you can imagine, it took hours
Thanks for faving too, I can't gurantee I would do this all the time, but this certainly wont be the last
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Aww lol! That's good ambition there 
And yes, keep it going! Actually I've never met another australian artist on deviantART as good as you lol! They're at most, photographers and models
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hoooooly spagetti he hawwwwwwt
tht amazin
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This look really pretty!! I love his clothing, the pattern is nicely implemented. The colouring is gorgerous too!!
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Thanks a lot, "pretty" is what this was all about 
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Fantastic work on the composition and the colouring 
Keep up the fabulous work
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Lol, well I owe the composition to my reference picture as far as the pose/angle goes. Still, other features like the clumps of hair, flowers and even patterns on his clothes were strategically-placed
Yeah, still toe-dipping into this popular yet surprisingly difficult genre of art
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Vividly vibrant violet
The positioning of his necklaces add a subtle touch of gravity and weight to the image, so we know he's not just out in a particularly breezy day.
You speak of "taking a couple of hours" to complete hair and clothing, and I have no doubt in my own attempt we would be speaking of days if not weeks...
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Thanks! I have a tendancy to often draw my characters a little too tanned, here he's almost twice as pale as he was after I first shaded him thanks to some last-minute colour/brightness adjustments 
Hey, some people I watch do something as good as this whole thing in one session. There will always be someone faster at it
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Perhaps. But how many of them can pull perfectly purple paintings of provocatively posed personifications? 
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WONDERFUL work, and I love the colors. The details on the braids and the fabric are outstanding. *friendly envy* This's one HOT artwork. ^^
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Thanks! the patterns on his clothes did take ours. It was also my first proper try and drawing braided hair, which has a simple pattern that was surprisingly hard to get right and repeat nicely all the way
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Argh, I can't draw long hair well; looks like you did what I can't.
It's nice but, probably it could be my computer screen's problem, the picture seems a bit dark?
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Long hair is very hard, even for me. I must have spent at least a few hours on the hair alone
Is your computer and older model? I use Windows Vista and that, along with many newer computers has those screens that can sometimes be deceiving in colours when viewed from certain angles...there's a chance I was tricked into thinking it was lighter than I thought. Sometimes I do think my art looks darker and more saturated on older PC's
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I thought your work was a bit dark but i was wrong when i saw this same artwork through another screen; we have to calibrate our screens sometimes.
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O mai GAD, PURPLE! *loves purple*
I really love his eyes and the flowers. ^^
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Ahh I love the purple fandom my frequently-purple artwork brings out in my watchers 
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Lol No problem! Blue and purple are
my all-time favorite colors. You can never go wrong with them!
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Holy sh-- you have to make a tutorial for this. How can you paint such a realism pattern on the clothes?? I'm so curious...I can't do that -_-"
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Eh, there's nothing I could write for a tutorial that hasn't already been said. Well, maybe not just for those patterns, I did draw them flat and on seperate layers and I duplicated them, warped them to fit the contours of his clothes and repeated the process with different patterns, slowly covering the whole area and erasing parts that appeared where they shouldn't. I think I set the blending mode for the patterns layer to "overlay" or something like that
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sometimes if I set overlay mode , it gets too bright or the colour isn't as I wished , so I hardly ever used that 'overlay'. But wow , guess I'll try some later
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It might be that or "Soft light" mode, but then I have to duplicate it a few times...It's all about experimenting really
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Awesome His face is so smooth and beautiful . His chest is mmmmm well done perfect !! muscular .. and the hair well just great !! love the purple touch!!
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Thanks! I prefer my male characters clean-shaven and smooth - hair should only ever be on the head
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Yes I agree with you on that .. if all the men in the world looked like them ouch I would be drooling night and day.
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amazing work!!! That must have taken very long to make because of all the detail!
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It sure did, the patterns on his kimono alone took a few hours, hair another few, flowers more, and the basic shading on the skin and face always proves to be a monster to me
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yeah i hear you - I havnt had enough patience to finish 1 digital pic completely.
I have a couple half - done ones 
vgood pic tho
basic shading always takes frever!
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Such a lovely flowing, purple, detailed, elegant and attractive piece
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You listed all the things I wanted to have and all that I felt it required
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Woa it amazing I love the look and purple hair.
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Bah, I'm a girl....I like it. *sigh* Does this make me predictable and a bore? 
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Nope, it just makes me pleased I was right
I've been digitally painting for so long it's getting harder to remember what starting out was like. But I have some Photoshop disasters swept under the rug from back then 
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The hair detail is truly remarkable! I need to know how you obtain such skill!!!
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Many would say just practice a lot, but that's just half the battle - a lot comes to observational skills and your'e own motivation to continue, even if the drawing feels like it's going nowhere (like this did throughout most of it 
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I think you did a fabulous job! The colors are just gorgeous and the details are amazing! I really love how realistic the lovely flowers turned out and the patterning on the clothing is a wonderful touch.
One bit of critique though (if you want it). To me the nose and lips seem just a bit off center and crooked. It might just be the angle, but to me, it might help if you shifted those features a bit to the right. It might just be my eyes playing tricks on me (as I am bushed at the moment) but that's what catches my eyes when I look at it.
Either way, it turned out simply gorgeous. I always love to see when artists paint something different then their usual 'themes' and it truly shows talent when they can succeed that well in something they don't normally paint. Keep up the wonderful work!
Oh as well, and I had to comment on the bjd reference. *pokes my own who are sitting on my bed at the moment*. They can be wonderful to use as stock references (especially the poses) however I occasionally find that using photos of their faces for reference doesn't work all that well. I honestly don't know why, and that's just from my own personal experiences... but I thought I'd mention it.
Pew, sorry for the long winded comment. Keep up the great work and I can't wait to see your callendar!!
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I surprised myself on the flowers actually, while I can draw them - it's been a while and I was able to do them relativly quick (between you and me, there's only three uniquely-drawn ones and a lot of duplicates 
When you say the nose and lips, do you mean their actual position on the face or the angle of which they are drawn 
I think BJD's don't make good face references since their faces are kinda plain (but I think they look nicer that way) and show little expression. That wasn't so much an issue here since I did want a kind of vacant look, but if I decide to do something more expressive - I'll need a different model
Thanks for commenting
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For the mouth and lips its a bit of both; position and angle. Just rotate the bottom portion of the nose and mouth just a BIT then shift it upwards (towards the right). However, it might just be the angle of the head that's causing my eyes to play tricks on me. Although I did notice, by reading some of the other comments, that I'm not the only one noticing that.
Here is a trick that might work for spotting small errors that you might find helpful for faces: When you think a work is done flip the whole thing horizontally. It completely gives you a different sense of the picture and you'll find that mistakes that weren't noticeable before just jump out at you. Personally, I don't do this trick as often as I should, but the times I have its really made a big difference.
But like I said, you really did an amazing job on this picture, and you should be very proud of it. 
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Lol, well with critique, it's one of those things I still allow but don't promote. Just to stop me from having everyone break it down, which can be as discouraging as it is helpful. What I do is if I'm not motivated enough to change a finished work, I'll keep what people said in mind for next time
I did flip this several times. and even worked on it one way about a third of the time as opposed to this "normal" way here. I probably just havn't had enough face practice yet
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Well as I've said a bazillion times (to just people in general) practice makes perfect, especially with faces. I've done plenty over the last few years and even so I have so many that just don't turn out right. It simply happens to everyone at times. But like I said this painting of yours did turn out wonderful and everything (including the face) is simply gorgeous. A lot of people could only wish they had your talent. Keep up the great work my friend!
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Thanks, I can say the same about your pencil work
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