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Dahkur — First attempt in coloring
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Published: 2015-02-05 17:22:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1610; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 12
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This is my first attempt at drawing a coloured artwork with digital means (or to be correct: it is the first attempt that I dare to upload ...): Wacom intuos with painter X3 I have still much to learn and a long way to go until I feel as comfortable with the results as I felt with the colour pencils. Yet I see a faint light at the horizon
.I would like to dedicate this first piece to Damon1984. It was his wonderful art here on DA that finally made me pick up the "brush" again after all these years
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And now I see the progress you've made since that piece (which was already awesome in my eyes XD ) and I go all Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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You'll make the same progress, I'm positive! It took me from Feb 2015 (when this drawing was done) to August to realize that airbrush isn't necessarily the best tool when trying to draw photorealistic. August I got myself a corel painter X3 tutorial book (unfortunately most of the tutorial literature out there is for Adobe photoshop) and began to understand a bit more about the program I'm using. From then on till this month I used the 6B real pencil for almost everything from sketching to all coloured painting. Then suggested I should try not to use the blender tool so often but brushes where I obtain the smoothness with the strokes themselves. So I started experimenting with the oil brushes and I guess I will be at them for some more time to come until the next idea strikes.
The learning process is a lot of fun. I feel like 20 years ago before I stopped drawing for a long time. It's nice to be back
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How com Jadzia Dax is wearing a blue collar instead of a green one on her uniform?
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I see the colour of the science division as blue - yet I have to admit the blue I used in this drawing is way too brillant, it should be much more on the grey side. The slip happened cause I used a Jadzia-screenshot as reference where she was wearing the older uniforms with the bright blue shoulders. I just used this colour without thinking.
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No Jadzia's collar is Green, not blue. I mean I can see how you can think the color is blue because the colors look close to blue; but it really is green. From Next Generation on Science and Medical Officers are Green. Only in Star Trek Enterprise & The Original Series are the Science and Medical officers are blue. Here is an image of Jazia Dax from the episode His Way. Even though it is kind of dark in the shadows but it is green. ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/album…
It is also green in this piece as well even though it is a different uniform but the collar is the same color. ilnere.deviantart.com/art/Jadz…
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Sorry, I don't want to be argumentative (if this is the correct English expression). You're right, the colour in the drawing is wrong, there is no arguing about it.
Yet I was extremely curious why I would realize a colour as blue while you see it as green. In my childhood I had a lot of arguments going on whether the middle colour in our traffic lights was yellow or orange - so I know that people percieve the same colour in different ways.
The last weeks while I was working with my digital painting program I learned that the program would "see" a colour very differently from what I would have chosen. So I made the test with the screenshot you linked in your post. I opened the pic in my painter program and switched to the dropper, collecting colours in various places on Dax' collar. The results in RGB were all in the grey part of hues from dark blue to turquoise with 15/28/26 (R/G/B) being on the farthest side in the direction of green. Yet none of them showed in the green colour panel.
Again ... I apologize for this nitpicking stuff ... it just awakened my curiosity.
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Oi du hastn Grafiktablett. Sehr toll. Und ist richtig gut geworden. 
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Yup, ich habe mir - wie von Dir empfohlen 
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Sehr schön, sehr schön...
Ja, die Colo ist noch einmal eine Sache für sich, die funktioniert (leider?) anders als mit analogen Mitteln. Man bekommt sehr schöne Sachen hin, aber muss sich eben drauf einlassen. Mir ist es auch noch nicht so geglückt wie ich das gerne hätte...
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Das sieht absolut klasse aus! Man sieht, dass du viel geübt hast.
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Ich krieg's mit dem Colorieren aber immer noch nicht gebacken. Letzte Woche war ich kurz davor das Tablet gegen die Wand zu pfeffern. Wenn ich irgendwie noch den Platz hätte, würde ich sofort wieder auf meine Stifte umsteigen 
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Manchmal geht halt nichts über klassisches Zeichnen, denke ich. Ich schätze, da kann man präziser sein.
Ich hab so ein Tablet-Dings nie probiert. Kann ja eh nicht gut zeichnen, aber allein das Mischen der Farben stelle ich mir digital etwas schwer vor.
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This is awesome!!
I love all your arts of star trek! 0w0
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Oh, that's so nice of you to say! I'm flattered!
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Thank you very much. I'm glad you like them.
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Sehr schön, vor allem Kiras Gesichtsausdruck ist dir gut gelungen!
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Und das Blau von Dax' Kragen ist immer noch falsch, wie Du bereits angemerkt hattest ... pfeif ...
Ich war auch froh, als ich den Screenshot von Kira gefunden habe. Es ist mal etwas anderes als das übliche Geradeaus-Schauen.
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This is so great <3 <3 <3 You seem to be quite happy to do some digital art~ I find Kira very beautiful here~
You know what? I watched the episode DS9 "Trials and Tribbulations" with my kids this afternoon (I have it on my TOS DVDs) and they were so happy to recognize the characters on your drawing afterwards <3 <3 I show them many of your drawings, they were fascinated ^^ They're so used to see only TOS characters (not to say only Spock and Kirk...) on my drawings XD
And I've just ordered the DVD box set of DS9 (a birthday gift for myself, in advance...) !!! I knew I had to watch it, you really convinced me in the numerous discussions we had, and now I'll be able to do so~ That's so great XD Convincing me to watch StarTrek without Spock, that's no mean feat, I can assure you XD
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It is fun with the digital means, yet I'm still way from being content. Whenever I have a look at my old pencil drawings I see what a long path I still have to travel. The digital pics I create are still way too smooth for my liking. I guess I should stop doing whole pictures and keep to simple portraits until I get the hang of the colours. Unfortunately I didn't have much time those last weeks, so I did not draw a single line
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I have no idea but I believe that digital drawing cannot totally imitate traditional pencil drawing? I mean it might allow you do do some effect impossible to do with pencils, but however some things are less possible to do with digital art?
I mean, each media has its specificities?
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well the likenesses of everyone is wonderful!! and the coloring is better than anything I could possibly create! And hey I have the same drawing pad as you! just got it for Christmas! anyways beautiful job!
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I know right! it picks up so many little details of the brush stroke that I never thought it would!
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I'm glad you like it. Thanks for your kind words.
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This is amazing! Especially for one of the first tries.
Also: Good job, ! It would have been really sad if Dahkur never restarted drawing!
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It's still too "flat" for my liking. When I compare the colouring to my pencil drawings there are lightyears inbetween. Yet the Trial and Error approach is a lot of fun.
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Oh wow, this came out so pretty. Love the lighting!
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Thank you very much, that's nice of you to say. I'm still struggling with the 1000 varieties of brushes that are possible in this program. But it's fun
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