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Published: 2011-04-21 01:31:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 1497; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 8
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Figured I might as well post this, since I wasted err, spent about 5 hours trying to make it look less terrible... yeeeah, I'm stubborn in the dumbest ways...;;Anyway. Really wanted to draw a more realistic portrait of Seth showing his current colorscheme/design (orange eyes, black hair), and uuuuuh just might possibly be entertaining the thought of drawing portraits now of all the Iris characters, though that really doesn't seem like a very good (or feasible) idea to me right now... 9v9; (Though, god knows I could use the facial anatomy practice, and hey, that's what summer vacation is for, right...? )
Anyway, Seth! Our half-breed Angel protagonist, though he's really not very charismatic when we meet him (nor was he ever, then again). Just a burnt-out, tired, insecure guy with some crappy health problems and a generally overwhelming lack of faith in himself. Kind of lives a hollow in-between-paths life when the novel picks up; he both wants to leave the dying city he currently works in, but repeatedly sabotages his own hopes with his pessimism. Kind of a loser, really.
Not really satisfied with this because it's not quite how I wanted him to look, but I guess that for now it'll do; I'm too sick of working on this any more with all its icky flaws, ugh. (Yeah I know his eyes are--graghhghghhh)
For some reason I like the lineart a lot better: [link]
It just, it catches what I wanted him to look like a lot more, but I spent at least 2 hours now futzing with the painting and trying to get it to match and failing, so I give up now... =w=;;
Anyway. Back to work. Will return to the world of the living in a month!
....../sneezes
Drawn at Craic Oekaki , Shi-Painter.
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Comments: 49
This is amazing. I love how you captured the tired effect. Not to mention the hair. Each and every strand is beautiful!
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Awwwww, th-thank you so much! I tried really hard for the tired look, though I think that I'll still have to work on it some, haha. x)
And hair, well, I've always loved drawing hair, sooooo~ xDD
Thank you, dear!
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He looks so real!! The folds are impressive.
The hair looks like it took forever: SO PERFECT!
Me envies your skills
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i can't believe this is just oekaki for you *___*
i mean... asldjklflasjfdk! D:
so sorry for the late comment btw,
but, anyways, it's so wonderful in so many ways!!! D:
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Ahahaha, and sorry for the even later response~ been so dead lately auuggghhhhh~
But, hun, oekaki really is quite fun, you should try it too! 8)
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no problem ! although, i do miss your art thouugh!
And comics and dumps! >_<
i doo, but im amazed about how you can paint like, it's photoshop/sai! XD
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Hahahaha, it's actually very simple, I just use opacity/pressure and the pencil tool, and scribble stuff down~ xD
And baaaaaw, I'm sorry, I'll try to post stuff once I get done this hellish semester~ I should pick up my comic again, huh. >>;
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haha, maan, we're kinda bad at being on time aren't we??
sorry for replying soooo late!! >___<
but but, It's not just simpleee!! XD
bah, I think your pretty awsm! you don't have to be super humble! >u<
looking forward to mooore stuff from youuu! 
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ffffff seth you beautiful baby i can't believe you ♥
NO WONDER ROUKA HITS ON HIM SO MUCH
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I FEEL SO BAD SOMETIMES WHEN I REMEMBER THAT IT'S NO LONGER CANON AND THAT SETH HAD SOMEONE ELSE
.....once upon a time
to be left out
until the sequel
lol
/fail
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How you paint on an Oekaki program without all those convenient little sliders and other stuff in Photoshop is beyond me. o_O
Hm... I think someone below pointed this out, but his nose is a bit too long. The shadows on the sides of his nose aren't quite right--the values look too dark, and the edges are too sharp (on either side of the bridge of his nose). The light source doesn't read too well, either; I know it's coming somewhere from his left, but besides that it's a little ambiguous.
Did any of that make any sense? I'm terrible at describing things in words. 8(
Does Oekaki allow you to flip the canvas? 'Cos I know I couldn't do without that feature. I need to hold up a mirror to my traditional stuff to see those little mistakes I missed, haha.
Of course summer vacation is for anatomy practice. Not for silly things like studying Orgo. *cough*
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Ah, nonono, it made sense, yeah. I really should've used a reference for this, ahahaha... but yeah, I'll work on it. Need to study more faces, study more bodies... it never ends. @v@;;
B-B-But, but oekaki has a slider for opacity and a slider for brush size, and that's really all you ever need! D: And, yeah, it has a flip option, but for this picture it somehow didn't help me....... :/
Thank you, though! I'll keep at it!
(once I'm done classes once I'm done classes once I'm done classes /mantra)
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I get you, man. I'm going to try for Life Drawing next semester so hopefully I will actually know what I'm talking about when it comes to anatomy.
I had so many problems with drawing the figure when we had to do it for painting because I didn't have those handy Photoshop features. So if my colors were wrong, they were wrong and I had to re-mix my entire palette and aaaaaarrrrghgghh so many hours of frustration.
I have a love affair with Photoshop, I totally do.
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Awmaaaaan, sweet! Well, if I don't get into sequential art then I hope I get into life drawing! In retrospect, maybe I should be taking the one before trying the other..... >>;
But, hahaha, I know how you feel about not being able to fix your colors. I get that all the time with traditional, too. That and not being able to add in white later with watercolors. 8/
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If you do end up getting into Life Drawing, I'm taking it with Mary Arthur. My painting teacher recommended her; my teacher says she literally makes you draw the body from the inside out. Which sounds awesoooooooooooooome.
I know right? It's not even the "undo" button I miss the most; it's the color picker and the color adjustment abilities. 8(
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Well, I went for whichever fit into my schedule, aka Monday nights. xD Sooooo we'll see what I get, if anything. /crosses fingers
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Monday nights wouldn't work for me, so I had to go for Tuesday mornings. oh god i have to wake up so early.
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Seth Seth Seth Seth Seth Seth Seth Seeeeth *u* GOD I LOVE HIS HAIR SO MUCH. And his face is so lovely too ahhh those eyes~~ *________* AND THE COLORING is also super pretty, especially on the skin~
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Aiyaaaaaaaaaaah, thank you always for your super-sweet comments, bebi~ ;v; <333
I think, yeah, hair will always be my favorite part~ xD
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awwe hon, don't give up <3
I do like the lineart better too though xD
but I've gone through the same things before, I hate it when the lineart and the finished product are so far off from one another :/
makes me frustrated.
he sounds like quite an interesting character though 
Agghhh making ocs is just frustrating over all, I might go buy some modelling clay and play around with that and see if it'll help me some. Getting those different perspectives just kills me :c
misssssyour works <3
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Ahhhhhhhh, I know how you feel, man! I want to learn sculpture so I can make my own models and have my own references, hohohoho.
But ahhhhh, thank you so much, hun. I know I shouldn't be too upset with it, it happens to a lot of us, but yeah, it's just frustrating when it doesn't work out, haha. xD
I'll be done with classes in two more weeks! Well, there's still reading period and finals, but even those can't be as bad, I swear~ @v@;; Just gotta survive two more weeks, and then I can draw again-!!
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yespls xD thought last time I tried I could not get the features correct c: so I guess I'll just draw more character sheets and hope for the best :$
how do you go about doing it?
OHMYGOSH!!! that's so exciting
we still have about 2 months of school left -.- ffff
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Ahhhhhh, sorry for my slow reply, I've been so dead lately~ *v*;;
But, actually, I know it doesn't help much for bodies, but I find this website to be amazing for hands and faces: [link] (beware, first scan is naked male, haha xD )
But yeah, posemaniacs has some real nice stuff! I'm trying to get a better grip on anatomy too, so I'll try to figure it out soon as well, soon. Hopefullyyyyyy!
And gosh, two months left! 8C That sounds kinda painful~ good luck! ;v; I'll be SO glad to have free time again, ahhhhhh. So tired! But, ten more days!!
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Don't worry darling! I've been super busy too and I think everybody is at this time
Oh yes Posemaniacs! I adore that site
You have a lot of time left right now right?
agsadfhajkhgsjkadhkayes, two more months...of torture...of deadlings.....-.-
sigh
but i'll get through C:!
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Ah yes, I'm finally done! Still so much left to do (my summer is poorly planned, if at all), but it's really relaxing without classes to worry about anymore~ @v@;;
Good luck to you too, hun! You can do it! >o<
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haiuhfsiuahYES!! No classes, no early mornings? xD unless you never had early classes in the first place c:
what are you hoping to do for the summer then? C:
I know some of my university friends are doing co-op or more classes xD
thank youuu! yesyes one more month I'll get by!
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Haha, I had 9 AM classes, not too bad, but still tiring. But, I got into the habit of getting up at 8 every day anyway, to work on my novel, so I'm used to it, guess I could say. xD
Good luck to you, hun! More classes over the summer for you?? oAo
I don't know what I'm doing yet; I got rejected from a bunch of summer programs so now I'm kinda scrambling real late to find something nice. ;v;
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Ohhh that's not so bad xD I remember when I was in grade 3 and that was the way it was...classes at 9am, qq so good <3
and noooo xD no classes in the summer, I pretty much refuse to take summer courses, summer is too precious to waste on more schooling c:
D: Oh hon ): that sucks! But you'll find something! maybe a co-op?
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Gyahahaha, brilliant philosophy, hun. I don't think I'll be taking summer classes either, just too painful..
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Stubborn? BAH! You say stubborn. I say...commited to quality.
I toy with the idea of agreeing with all those crazy, inaccurate things you say about your pictures. Just to teach you a lesson. But then I realise that you would just agree and think they were true because someone else thought the same.
So instead I'll just, once again, say you are crazy and that your opinion of your art is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off. WAY off. 
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But, but G no this is true, it's seriously weird and I just get so bogged down sometimes (mostly lately, haha) because I feel like I've gotten this far but my anatomy just gets worse and worse... augh, it's frustrating as hell. ;v;
I think I need to give up illustrating for a while and just practice, sketch sketch sketch bodies and faces over and over again until I get it right. ;v;
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But do you know what you want to achieve?
If you don't have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish then you'll just end up running around in circles. Saying 'better' isn't really enough. That's not specific.
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Uhhhhhhhh learn how to draw figures, learn how to draw foreshortening, learn how to integrate backgrounds and perspective into art, learn how to draw dynamic figures, learn how to color... the list goes on and on. ;v; I'm not sure how to proceed, but I think I need to take a break from portraits...
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You CAN do a lot of those things. If not all of them. So what you should've said is 'get better'. 
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Yeah, I guess you're right G........ I just feel like I'll never get to where I want to be, though. ;v;
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Not many people do, art wise. It's all about the journey.
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...........Y'know, G, I've thought this line over a long time, and I think it's really something I needed. I lose sight of it a lot, you know? I get really focused on the product, the finished deal, that I forget it's all just a journey, and I really shouldn't have such hard goals set so far away.
....Thanks, man. I think I needed that.
Still got these crazy expectations for myself, but I'll see if I can't cut myself some slack.
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You need to remind yourself that there will be other pictures. 
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You're totally right G, but I get so caught up in my pictures! I have very specific images I always want to draw, I plan them down in my head, but often enough I don't even START them because I know I don't yet have the skill to draw them the way I want to (perspective, lighting, etc) so I don't, and I guess I just get frustrated when pictures don't come out the way they were planned... 9v9;;
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You can always redraw them later when you feel more capable of doing what you intended.
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overall it look good, but something's wrong with neck. But I love his face so much, especially his eyes and nose. XD I always have problems with realistic drawing (why it's so hard @__@ ), but your looks pretty good.
and um I never saw CraicOekaki before, maybe I'll try draw here it's look nice :'D
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Ahhhhhh, thank you~ ;v;
Yeah, something's wrong with just about everything, haha. It's just one of those awkward pictures where nothing works out right... sigh... realism is touuuuuuugh!
But ahh, thank you so much for your comments dear~ <3
And gosh, so glad to have you on Craic! Looooooooooove your work sooo much! <333333
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Hmm... I'd have to agree about the lines, too. The slightly-off facial anatomy is more obvious in the painted one... I think you put the highlights in the wrong places? I don't know what you were going for in terms of the mental image, but the sketch looks more 'correct' to me.
...and I think his nose is too long.
But anatomy aside, I really like the way you paint.
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Hahahaha, yeahhhh....... I probably should've used a reference for this, but I just--ergh. Yeah.
Back to the drawing board, eh. I need more practice, seriously...
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Well, once you can spot what's wrong you can start to improve. c:
You'll get it if you keep trying.
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Haha, yeah, I hope so, but right now I'm just frustrated since I haven't drawn in forever and every time I try it just comes out wrong. Want to really just practice some stuff for a while, work on anatomy a lot more... I should probably push "productivity" to the side and stop trying to complete pretty finished pictures, maybe. Haha.
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Yeah, if you want to work on anatomy doing quick sketches is best-- that way you can get a lot more figures done in the same time it would take to make one finished piece. It's the sketch stage that's truly valuable when learning anatomy; finishing a picture won't really make you better.
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I like the lineart better too (which is kinda bitch, seeing as you worked decently long on this.) It just seems that with the colors you lose some of the illumination and shadow that is subtle but very powerful in the lineart. Which... is surprising? Sometimes less is more. The colors in the skin are very nice but when you squint at it, take a step back, etc, there's not as much contrast as you probably saw when working on it up close. Making it darker could help a lot-- not everywhere, but in select places. Also the hair could use some lightening on the top, which you hint at in the drawing.
Your rendering of the skin is quite nice and your attention to light and direction of muscles is spot on... just needs more contrast, I think.
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Ahahaha, naw, it's cool, I know, it just kinda works out like that sometimes, the lineart's fine but somehow painting over it just ruins it...
Your note on contrast is interesting, though; I'll keep it in mind! I kind wanted to soften it up though, since another friend of mine told me he looked more gaunt in the painted version, and that it had to do with how I shaded... I need to pull out references again and actually just draw them, jeez.
But yeah, thank you hun~ <3
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