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Published: 2006-04-21 04:36:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 2393; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 240
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Work on creating better architecture.
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Hee hee... He looks cool.
Fooly looks huggable.
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The lantern is where all the souls of his victums are traped.
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Great guess, however the spirtual idea is less used now, its more mechanical. (Which I know is werid consdiering something like this thing)
The latern does play its part, so stay tuned I suppose -_-
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I got that idea from the FF series and I'll try to stay tuned.
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Whoa... No more words can express the awesomeness...
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Uberwoot (heh, I made a new word) most fantastic job with the pencil work and perspective as always 
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I'm glad, as that's exactly what I was shooting for. However I still feel that the buildings are too bland. I'm really pushing to make everybuilding unique.
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Yeah, makign ordinary things like building unique can be difficult. I had a friend who was in technical drawing... what he'd do for inspiration is look ofr shapes that you wouldn't normally see as a building but making them plausible at the sametime. He spent alot of time studying buildings like the Space needle or that concert house in Sydney and learned how to use different shape while making them plausible according to what unual buildings actually exsist. Maybe that can help you a bit
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Its a good thought, and I shall be sure to give it a try. Though my imagination will really be streached to its small capacity. -_-
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O...M....Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and I thought it couldnt get better... (actually I know you better than that- i just say that for exceeding all our thoughts and ideas)
And how do you prevent it from smearing? x_x; Personally I have problems with my pencil artwork always smearing on me even when its "safely" enclosed in my sketch pads
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Unfortunately, I didn't really miss smearing, but with a few adjusted levels in photoshop, its harder to notice them : D
TO prevent smearing however here's what I and millions of others do. Its time consuming and takes extra planning, but you need to place something under your hand so that you rub on that surface instead of the one your drawing on.
While you can just use another sheet of paper, or a napkin etc. What will really work to your advantage is wax paper (since that dosn't smear your materail at all) or what some people have decided to use is a small panel of glass O.O. which prevents smearing even better than wax paper, and lets you still see what your doing under what's covered.
To prevent smearng all together however you need a literally rock steady hand, which can only be developed through practice practice practice.
If you want to know the photoshop techniques you can use to help hide smearing (that's hide not erase/prevent) ask me again, and I'll telly you about those as well
Thanks a mil, your comments mean so much to me.
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no problem fooly- even if I only ever do Paint (and paintshop when I EVER figure out how to easily USE the thing) i'll still start everything from Pencils! go pencils! especially mechanical- goodness gracious they rule- only until the eraser wears out though x.x and I can never find good eraser refills!! Oh well..
I would be interested in ANY and ALL photoshop/paintshop/whatever techniques- goodness knows I should even try to use the software I hoard.
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I got a Tuff Stuff Eraser Mate which is like a mechanical pencil for erasers. These and similar models can be found at your local Wal-Mart. They rock and are a total lifesaver.
For some early photoshop techniques.
LAYERS
ONE: Copy the image and paste it onto a new layer. THEN>>>
OPTION A: To create a darker layer, change the layer in the LAYERS menu from "normal" to mulitply, this will create a more realistic sense of pencils as seen on your paper BEFORE scanning
OPTION B: Create a SCREEN layer which will light the grays in your pic reducing smear's
There are more you can do with the tools too, but I'll have to leave that for another day. BEST WISHES
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YAY! MUST TRY.... later though- still have two classes for the day- English and German. Then I have a *short* ><; DDR fest with friends (blame parents- only gave me 30 min!!)
But I'll be home by 5 or so- I'll look through my old drawings and see which I'd want to grace with a scan. (or maybe the 3 newer ones in my sketchpad?)
THANKS MUCH!! And feel free to either wait until I get stuck again and ask around or whenever it's to your convienence write me more tips!
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How's about in your honor, with the next piece I construct, I'll do a step by step overview and post it here as well?
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*girly shriek of happiness!* 
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Superb job Fooly I especially love the background and creative designs of the buildings. Was this all done in graphite? O_O
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Yes, specifically, .7 HB lead from my mechanical pencil
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Wow, just wow. I love your high detail pictures, with the sort of but not really hatching for shading and things. Makes everything looks very textured :3
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Thanks, I'm hoping to use this technique more for penciling, and to apply it even further.
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Wow, good luck man. It's looks really impressive as it is.
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I wish I was that good at backgrounds. On one of the buildings to the right of his head, the railing and circular things make it look like there's a face on the side of it1
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I have a tendency to spot faces in inanimate objects, especially on stone walls.
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WOW. Love the background AND the character, the details are great and everything feels very even. ^^
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Thanks a lot, and a very HAPPY (be-lated) BIRTHDAY TO YOU
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Your a little too kind, but thanks a bunch anyways ; D
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Why do you always finish your descriptions with a man being carried away by baloons?
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Why not? Besides, this is my favorite emoticon, I love every single last impression you can receieve from it.
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I working on it, but I want prints to be a little bit above these in quality. There are plenty of improvments this could use, like better architechual designs, and slightly cleaner pencils (the smudging was everywhere x_x )
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Hey, it still rocks though.
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*insert jealousy*
I need to work on my enviroments more, thanks for inspiring me!
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[link] <<< Really I believe everybody does. Read the description with the piece. Could give you some great insights with backgrounds.
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Glad you think so, as that was a more vital addition to the scenery than some of the other, placed objects.
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Aha! I love this, Fooly. Pencil drawings are always so awesome to me. I gotta' do some more myself.
The texture in this drawing is incredible. You really are a great artist. The background's really great on it's own too. You finished this up quite well, I say!
Gah. . . Look at all those details. 
This is goin' into my favourites for sure. 
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you mean, "daymn"namic : 3 Thanks a lot for such a gratuitous comment.
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Daymnnamic. That's. . . SWEET. I LOVE IT. I AM SO GONNA' USE THAT FROM NOW ON.
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