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**Full View**Process shots for the Samus pic.
Samus is Β©Nintendo
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wow great job! love the form and the detail X)
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Interesting.. I don't think I've seen other people approach an image this way.. throwing the background up in the first step, throwing up dark and blurred colors and working up from that.. cool ideas. I wish my computer was working so I could try it out : /.
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i dunno, back to front, dark to light is how i was taught oil painting. heh
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I love tutorials! Great style by the way! Glad I'm watching your stuff~
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The jummy end results are always nice. But imho the path to it is much prettier. I love to see how art is made from scratch as that tends to be quit educative and teaching. Hence I liked watching that old white-bearded dude on Discovery or NatGraphic when he made an other painting with at every end "see? It's easy..." and then I try and fail in epic proportion haha
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Outstanding work, i love how Samus looks here, very nice idea.
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this is great, so u're always begin with rough sketch like that and end with high quality result..
what program did you used?
and if u're using corel painter, what kind of brush did you used?
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i don't always have a tight sketch, but usually there's some kind of line work. very very rarely do i just paint in shapes and go from there.
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If I tried working like this, I could see myself quickly destroying the texture of the background by painting over it around the borders of the figure.
is there a way you work around this issue? do you mask off the figure in any way? or maybe just restore the texture in various places where it is painted over? Anyways, thanks for sharing it.
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masking is for people with patience. thing is, it's not hard since it's an abstract texture frenzy for a b/g, so i just use the cloning tool. that's my usual process for any non-specific background.
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Your process is so foreign to me. I think that's why I love seeing these. The more differently someone works from me, the more fun it is to see them work.
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what do i do that's so different, i wonder? xD
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-- You start with line art.
-- Your picture's planned out from the beginning and rarely seems to change too much once you've started.
-- You work on everything at once, building on to every part. As opposed to finishing one section, then moving onto another. I tend to do the latter. Kind of like when I eat, I don't mix my side dishes in with my main dish. It's always got to be separate, sequentially, rather than parallel. I don't think that's the best way to work, but I can't help myself. Did that make sense? XD
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actually the base sketches in the last 2 pics have been not much more than just ideas compared to the final result. a lot more compared to my usual "follow the lines verbatim"
in samus' case, the face and non cannon arm were greatly changed via the painting and not with line art
as for working everything at once, it's something art teachers have beaten in my head for years xD though i think i'm somewhere in between...i'll lay in basic colours and ideas, but i still tend to do my final details piece by piece, area by area.
and who knows, come next pic, i may do something different. xD
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I've tried working everything at once, and it drove me batty. I think part of it is because I feel like I'm going nowhere, or that I'm scattered all over the place. It's hard to pay attention to things that way, and I lose focus too easily.
I'll look forward to the next progression then. Heehee. ^_^
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there are 2 schools of thinking when it comes to painting. some teachers will eat you alive if you don't work as a whole, while others just care about the final product and how you get there is really up to you. you achieve a cohesive painting in your work, so it doesn't matter <3
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Oh yes, I'm all for the latter group, heh.
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very nice.
thanks for sharing the process. teachs alot.
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this is both awesome and helpful!-
samus is bomb! heheh
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Cool, I love pic like this that show progression of the as you work on the pic.
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Intresting how dark the image is you start with
Lovely fanart!
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that's how i was taught with oils 
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