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Published: 2009-06-30 04:11:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 11064; Favourites: 242; Downloads: 710
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STEP BY STEP for my b.u.g. concept [link]I was lucky to hold 3 PSD files of that concept so i was able to gather enough material for logical steps.
the first pic is a quick sketch generated in ALCHEMY
it all started from there
i simply love to fantasize and interpret shapes
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For sure man! I dog all your stuff!
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Its really great seeing how this piece evolved.I think alchemy is a very powerful software and youve put it to great use here.
Fantastic stuff!
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thanks for the glorious words 
appreciated!
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Dang Adam you are hemmoraging art! Great tutorial!
I, on the other hand, have had no inspiration or motivation as of late.
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thanks man! im trying to do as much as i can as long im still motivated! i tend to have some holes i drop into from time to time 
seems that you fell into one right now. how can i help you get out?
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awesome! 
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omg a WITCH!!! BURN THE WITCH!
thx ^^
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hehe, yea,upgrade everytime man!n i just stood here watchin ur works!
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thanks man. i would appreciate if you stayed longer ;D
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apart from all the other things you keep teaching me, i think i need to learn how to make things subtle and delicate while still being tough. I seem to just whack down shapes and they're big and bulky and in yourface.
this is really cool. something more to study. Cheers!
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its just a matter of scale you want to achieve. have a HUGE metal globe and add a tiny valve or hatch and youll see what happens
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hehe my tiny details end up being huge. I feel like im detailing with a crayon and not a pin
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is that so? then do the following. resize the image to 300%, zoom in and add a detail. dont worry about the image being pixealted and blurry.you didnt resize it to rework the whole image but only too be able to paint with a thinner brush.
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you know what. that makes so much sense its like its been staring me in the face. now i just gotta work out where to put the detail....
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where you wanna have the main focus at of course ^^
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i never know where the main focus is. maybe i needs teh glasses
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it's really cool to see the process. i think that alchemy, is an awesome way to start sketching. i've used it a couple of times and i love it
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its really a great tool! i just miss a color picker.....
wheres my color picker?! you cant provide colors without being able to pick em!
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yeah, probably the color picker should be there, but i really only use it to sketch in black and white... so i really don't miss it
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so do i! but i would do it in color too... if THERE WAS A COLORPICKER!!!!!
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I used to play with legos too!(whattam I talkin about? I still do!) But it's interesting to see you're entire process. I noticed up to the fith step you changed the arms to rails. Nothing wrong with it I'm just curious. Man I wish I had your photoshopping skills!
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the arms kinda worked against the flow and disruppted the silhouette too much. they also looked too stiff so i stopped trying to save them and just cut them off
thanks. well why dont you get your own skills then?!
these are my skills 2 years ago
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i hope i was able to encourages you ^^
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0.o first pic must be hard to work with...
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noooooo! its acutally the most fun part
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it looks like a fuzzy beetle -.-'
its amazing that you can get from that ball of fuzz to that epic robot 0.o
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its like an adventure ^^ i dont like when it comes to clean out shapes and smooth the rendering 
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thanks for this step by step
very intersting and very good job mate
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You found them - great!
I'm definitely going to try out Alchemy - looks fun ... but you interpreted the abstract form really well. NICE!
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This is great! I love it. I really enjoy looking at how your idea evolves.
I got two questions: What is alchemy and does it work similar to photoshop?
And in step six to seven, how do you add that dim reflection? Ok see, when I do digital drawings (Pathetic digital drawings) I generally start the whole thing in b&w and then I add a layer which I set it in "multiply" so I can add colour without going over the black lines.
But you dont seem to do that. How did you add the colour to this?
I'm sorry, I'm just following the idea of "Learn from the masters"
Great work!
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forgot to answer about alchemy! but it was done by someone else already 
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there are 2 options to get it done.
first is: you simply choose the desired color and paint it in with one quick stroke and erase unneeded areas using a mask (more secure way since you can alter it any time)
second: you use different layer blending modes. sometimes you can get neat results with OVERLAY and COLOR DODGE.
but be aware .when only using this method you will never learn which colors to choose by your own and you end up depending on effects too much
I added color with the COLOR BALANCE effect layer and set its blending option to COLOR. this way i can tint my greyscale piece without changing the its values! thats pretty important.
dont hesitate to ask if something is still unclear
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Ooh wow thank you so much. This was really helpful.
I really like how you handle the colour in your works.
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thanks! yet still much to learn there is
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Well I can answer 1 of your questions, this [link] is ALCHEMY
And it is DEFINITELY worth the download!
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Hey thanks! Yes I can see that, I just watched some videos and the software seems amazing! Thanks a lot!
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That's a pretty interesting method of getting from point a to b. It's really neat to look between the images and try to decipher your thought process between each.
I stared at the first image and actually thought to myself, "How can anyone go from this to this?"
Very, very cool. I'm interested to try something like this now myself.
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i guess ive played with lego too much xD
thanks!
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