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DanHowardArt — The Tifa Process
Published: 2008-04-04 06:41:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 18229; Favourites: 316; Downloads: 0
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Yup, stretching your page yet again with another step by step painting. This time the Advent Children Tifa from start to finish.Please Full View for the best experience.
Scrapped soon.
Photoshop and Painter.
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i love it when you show your process. did you use painter or photoshop? what do you use to blen the skin?
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It's always fascinating to see how other people do things. 
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i'd be curious to see your painting process
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My process? Ha! It's very unorganized. :-P Okay, I'll post something sometime. See if I can dig out drafts of old pics or maybe try to save some process shots of future ones.
It's just cool because people do things in such varied orders, yeah? I've seen process shots of yours and yrindale's and a few other people. And none of them are alike. Which is great.
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mine may look organised, but i'm really sloppy...least i feel as such. some pics may go straight background to forground , dark to light. others may have multiple background layers and progressively be altered alongside the characters till something feels cohesive 
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just a question... how'd you get rid of (minimize?) the lineart at the end?
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hehe, paint right over it
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ahhhh... simple as that? 
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yup. opaque layer under the lines, then an opaque layer over the lines. no frills, no secrets.
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Very cool process! I always wondered how you managed to include those reds in purples in most of your pieces so flawlessly! Do you by chance have any linearts that you don't want or need? I'm bored and I really like your actions poses.
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hehe, sadly the linearts are usually saved over with the painting. the jpgs here are about all that's left.
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Heh, that's alright! I'm just glad you even considered it! Thanks a lot!
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Looks to me like you always paint on one layer. Do your paintings always look this good if/when you use real media?
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actually i hardly use one layer anymore. Tifa definitely had a few layers going on. There's usually painting under the lines and over the lines and one or 2 layers for multiply and overlay for the sake of toning and texture.
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I love your step-by-step paintings. It's so much fun to see how your work comes together. <3
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your color is amazing. I love the shadows with that color.
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I love the way you use such colorful and exageratted tones. Apparently, they wouldn't mesh together, but in the end you come with a wonderful composition and colors.
But she still don't look like Tifa and AC still sucks
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how is tifa supposed to look? or are people looking for a direct rip of the established style?
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Man, calm down... i was just joking cause you said something like this when you posted the first version.
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i like your paintings because your whole painting and drawing technique is awesome, but their faces and bodies (with a few exceptions) are all the same. "the black-haired girl", that i think is actually you yourself.
but apart from that great work!
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the lighting on her face made her non-tifa-like.
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what is..."tifa-like" ?
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Now, I've seen this a few other times before, but is it better to start off with the darkest tones first and work towards lighter ones?
It seems weird to me... I don't know.
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it's how i learned to paint. there's no right or wrong. some people are more comfortable with light to dark. work the way you understand best
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Okay, cool.
I've just gone from never seeing it done that way to bam! Almost everyone doing it that way.
I'm used to using markers, so that wouldn't work for me it that medium, and I guess that I'm used to that process of coloring.
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markers and watercolours are for really refined artists though since you have little to no room for correction, so i envy you if anything
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Yeah, well, haven't done anything in marker in a good while.
Just steal some of Donovan's and play around with 'em. He's got like a box of Prismas.
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Like the coloring on her stomach, really came out nice ;D!
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I don't know, I like her face a lot better when it's not painted. Something was lost, she looks just weird.
Sorry if it came out wrong, I don't mean to hurt ><
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to each their own. no offence taken at all
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Hey i'm beginner and this kind of "making of" is very intersting, thanks a lot.
You mention u use photoshop and painter, what you use them for? I mean what part you do on painter what part on PS ?
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painter was the quickie "fire" background and textures. photoshop was the drawing, tifa colours, and final adjustments.
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