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I am very impressed by her jewelry/clothes/shoes. This is impressive how you succeeded in creating the gold shine and metal touch to it. Did you use one of the special effects from photoshop or did you just toy with the colors to give the texture and shine to the material?
I also like very much the design of the city in the background. There is a fuzzy touch to it and yet it is very detailed. That gives a nice depth to the picture.
This drawing reminds me of A.'s sci-fi novels covers!
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That would be the ideal - doing Sci-fi covers. I have always been pretty good at painting shiny metal. Using the Photoshop airbrush just makes it easier than a regular paintbrush. I have been thinking about toying with this one for a while now. There are some things that I think I could improve improve on it. Always must draw people better. Practice, practice practice.
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
John Singer Sargent
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Well I must admit that I was impressed by the shiny gold of this piece. I need to have a look at the airbrush feature of photoshop.
Are you using a tablet?
Nothing's better and worse than practice!
I am bad at drawing people but that's my own dawn fault. My first approach of drawing people was when I drew manga! So you can guess that my anatomy is all wrong!!
I love the quote!
Well good luck if you work again on that piece. Retouching something that I considered done is very difficult for me.
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Pretty much nothing I do is ever finished. Considering that I am at a certain skill level and presumably always improving, when I go back to look at something I did before, I always want to make it better.
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Oh there is not one former drawing that I find perfect and should not need improvement.. but I just cannot push myself into trying to improve it afterward. I fear I might make things worst, so I just leave it and try a new piece.
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That's the beauty of doing things in Photoshop. I can always save the original and work on alternate versions. Of course there are plenty of things that I just never work out. Nobody's seen them.
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True photoshop has the magic of letting you work on a piece without touching the original.
Ahah same here. I do not scan or upload everything I do...far from it! I hide them under tons of stones so that no one knows they even exist!!!
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A question about Photoshop. Does your version allow you to choose a brush that starts off small gets larger in the middle of the stroke, and goes back to nothing at the end of the stroke, independent of the setting for the pen?
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Ahah so funny you should ask that because I was looking into it last week and getting frustrating with that.
Yes my version of photoshop does however I was enable to activate it despite having a table graphic! *sigh*
But I figured out why! I had not installed the tablet driver on my computer!! (stupid me) As such my computer recognized my tablet as a mouse but the pressure sensitivity was not activated, so I just downloaded the proper driver and now I can use the pressure sensitive (applied to the size of the brush) to photoshop.
Does your version of photoshop allow you to do that?
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I would be lost without pressure sensitivity on my pen. My problem is that using it to draw lines can result in unpleasant aliasing effects (jagged lines), at the beginning and end of the stroke. I may have to bite the bullet and buy a new version of Photoshop.
M
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Well I was lost and very frustrated, now I need to learn how to use it with the pressure sensitivity.
Oh I see...
Sigh, true that newer versions are better, but so expensive!
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