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This year, I was a part of the ~SecretSnowflakes holiday gift exchange! I was supposed to draw for *chieri , who wanted a girl in colorful fashion clothes. I was really indecisive about what fashionable clothes to use, but I eventually settled on this design. I hope chieri likes this!~------------------~
Cyan, Rien's childhood friend and modern-day confidante. She's often seen ooh-ing and ah-ing over display windows in the fashion district, or trying on jewellery, though she actually doesn't physically like the feeling of wearing them. She's snarky, oftentimes downright pessimistic about everything -- which is probably why the time she spends in the very fashionable part of town doesn't actually correlate to the amount of clothing in her closet. She's a constant flaw-finder, and nothing is ever perfect enough for her, or from her.
Possessing no incredible powers, she is usually more useful to Rien's team as the brain behind tactics and clue-finding and -assembling.
She's been on countless dates with countless people (yes, women included), which is actually how Rien met Tangerine to begin with. A double date resulted in a mess of a cafe, and the surrounding five city-block radius. The day ended with Cyan saying, "Well, there goes another date. How was *I* supposed to know she was a domineering man-hater jewel thief? She had such good taste in lipstick, too."
Then again, Rien was doubly unimpressed by her date, so it wasn't much of a loss for either of them. Men are intimidated so easily, it seems.
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Comments: 26
satek [2008-01-06 12:51:27 +0000 UTC]
Nice work Dev. I think you should work looser and faster like this, so that you get more art done and free up your style a bit more. Being meticulous may look nice, but at times it constricts what the art is about. I'm guilty of it too. So good to see you being a bit quicker. Love the colours and the shading. She has a nice solid 3d feel to her
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exdevlin In reply to satek [2008-01-07 05:21:12 +0000 UTC]
How did you like the character? :3
I think it was a good thing of me to procrastinate on it. I mean, I did the majority of the work in probably.. a day's worth of work. I took a Saturday and did the whole thing. Before that, I had vague outlines. It's good to know I can actually.. deliver something in under a few days, but it was interesting to feel that rush. Maybe I SHOULD paint faster. :/
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satek In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-07 09:32:40 +0000 UTC]
Yes you should! I like the character, her outfit is very cool too :0
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exdevlin In reply to satek [2008-01-07 18:26:06 +0000 UTC]
Alright then, I'll start doing that with the Byron painting... I think his head is way too big. Har.
But I've started doing it already, trying not to restrain myself and just moving forward where I want to.
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Wata-yan [2008-01-06 06:40:14 +0000 UTC]
Holly crap, I can't believe you painted your entire character on a plain white background! You are crazy (I would never do that!) Well done!
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exdevlin In reply to Wata-yan [2008-01-06 18:09:16 +0000 UTC]
I was REALLY tempted to smear on some kind of neutral shade in the background halfway through my colors, but then I realized that I couldn't do that without screwing up the parts of the character I'd already painted. *sigh*
Next time, I should send you WIPs so you can tell me things halfway thorugh that send me into panic-depression. *hahha*
Thank yooou~
How many semesters do you have left??
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Wata-yan In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-09 17:40:53 +0000 UTC]
panic-depression eh? well now that you mention it... haha just kidding. I could never paint anything on a white background
I've already started my last semester! WOOO!
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exdevlin In reply to Wata-yan [2008-01-09 21:58:34 +0000 UTC]
Yay!!! we definitely need to celebrate after you're done!
Why not on a white background? Is it too noob for you?
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Wata-yan In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-10 15:42:47 +0000 UTC]
haha, I find the white background the hardest thing to paint over. Colouring a char. over a shaded background is wayyyy easier. So to answere your question, YES i am too noob for a white bg
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exdevlin In reply to Wata-yan [2008-01-10 15:56:15 +0000 UTC]
Huh, really? I've ALWAYS used a white background O_O. I'm doing a shaded background for the painting I'm doing now, and I find it hard, because I'm trying to keep the piece in a dark room lit by a fireplace.. I have issues contouring faces >.<
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chieri [2008-01-02 04:42:58 +0000 UTC]
yay! i like it a lot :3 she's very pretty and i do like the outfit. thank you so much~ hope you had a good holiday season
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exdevlin In reply to chieri [2008-01-02 14:51:23 +0000 UTC]
I'm so glad~ :3
!
I had a great holiday, I'm all fully rested and things. How about you??
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chieri In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-03 05:46:18 +0000 UTC]
i had a pretty fantastic december in general
i'm about to move.. so getting ready for that, and relaxing :3
have any exciting plans for '08?
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exdevlin In reply to chieri [2008-01-03 06:14:22 +0000 UTC]
Hmm.. none yet really! I have to get my passport so I can travel, because it appears that I will be doing a lot of that. I'm probably going to Bahrain in the spring.
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Jolttenks [2008-01-02 02:54:37 +0000 UTC]
Good job! I like the coloring and her hair flowing.
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exdevlin In reply to Jolttenks [2008-01-02 14:52:28 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!! I've never worked with this color set before, so it was.. really interesting trying it out for the first time.
And i've seriously given up on JPG and PSD file formats. I'm just gonna stick to PNGs from now on.. stupid Painter.
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Jolttenks In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-03 04:38:41 +0000 UTC]
Your welcome.^^ Very good job for a first time.
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gibbz [2008-01-01 21:39:41 +0000 UTC]
Nice outfit! Her eyes look a little wide to me, and I would've liked to see what kind of shoes she'd put with that outfit, but this is great. It's nice to see new work from you!
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exdevlin In reply to gibbz [2008-01-02 14:56:05 +0000 UTC]
Oy, talk about me stagnating eh? Lol!!
I hoped you'd like that I used a color scheme totally alien to me. You can fully appreciate it, because you're the one who gave me the lecture on it! *huff*
Her eyes were like.. the last thing I did. I wasn't entirely sure HOW I wanted to do them. I think I may have positioned the irises/pupils incorrectly. It's a little hard to do them somehow. O-o.
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gibbz In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-02 17:07:32 +0000 UTC]
They just seem a little small in the eye... When your eyes are looking at something normally, without an extreme expression, the eyelid usually covers at least a bit of the top of the pupil, if not a little bit of the bottom.
Yep, I like the colours for sure.. One of my favourite combos
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exdevlin In reply to gibbz [2008-01-02 21:42:28 +0000 UTC]
Blue and orange? I guess that explains some of your earlier character designs
I was messing with perspective.. you know how they say that it should be a circular curve perspective, instead of a strict 3D grid with vanishing points, etc? I figured that if I was looking up at her head, she'd be looking down at me a little bit.. but yeah, even I thought they were a little too 'shock' wide. I guess I should've made the irises and pupils bigger. Should I fix it, you think?
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gibbz In reply to exdevlin [2008-01-03 04:45:44 +0000 UTC]
Iunno, it's up to you I guess! It doesn't look "bad" as it is, but it could help it to look "great" if you did decide to fix em.
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