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Murrue Ramius of Gundam SEED/Destiny ^^

Cloud-painting practice.

I started out by re-CGing my vector: [link] to get a softer, painted style instead of anime cell-shading. Used smudge and darken brushes for the reshading, but I kept the outlines though, but changed from black to brown so they're not so stark.

Then came the background. Like I said, I wanted to see if I can try to do painted clouds.

First try: brushed in the colours and shading with pretty high opacity, big, soft brushes, then used the smudge brush to blend. Turned out to be an ugly smudged mess, didn't like it.

Second try: brushed in the colours and shading with big soft brushes, then used 'soften' instead of 'smudge'. Again, blurry mess with no definition whatsoever.

Third try: decided to do something different, like doing stock paintover instead. Tried using Terragen, but couldn't get fluffy enough clouds....

Fourth try: Might as well start from scratch and see how far I'd get. Used less opaque and harder brushes, lots of in-between colours by eyedropping constantly while painting. Also, resisted all urges to use the smudge or soften brush, instead forced to use colours to blend. Ended up with something okay, but rather... well, not soft and fluffy enough, esp at the edges. So finally gave in, duplicated layer, used median filter and lowered opacity slightly.

So yeah, my crappy attempt at painting clouds... still not enough definition or textures... and the shapes of the clouds are pretty bad 'cause I was going at random... But I sort of ended up liking it, esp how my re-CGed vector turned out. And I'm sort of proud of how I could sort of paint clouds from scratch...

[EDIT] Wallpaper version + other resolutions can be found at Captain and Commander

Description
Murrue Ramius of Gundam SEED/Destiny ^^

Cloud-painting practice.

I started out by re-CGing my vector: [link] to get a softer, painted style instead of anime cell-shading. Used smudge and darken brushes for the reshading, but I kept the outlines though, but changed from black to brown so they're not so stark.

Then came the background. Like I said, I wanted to see if I can try to do painted clouds.

First try: brushed in the colours and shading with pretty high opacity, big, soft brushes, then used the smudge brush to blend. Turned out to be an ugly smudged mess, didn't like it.

Second try: brushed in the colours and shading with big soft brushes, then used 'soften' instead of 'smudge'. Again, blurry mess with no definition whatsoever.

Third try: decided to do something different, like doing stock paintover instead. Tried using Terragen, but couldn't get fluffy enough clouds....

Fourth try: Might as well start from scratch and see how far I'd get. Used less opaque and harder brushes, lots of in-between colours by eyedropping constantly while painting. Also, resisted all urges to use the smudge or soften brush, instead forced to use colours to blend. Ended up with something okay, but rather... well, not soft and fluffy enough, esp at the edges. So finally gave in, duplicated layer, used median filter and lowered opacity slightly.

So yeah, my crappy attempt at painting clouds... still not enough definition or textures... and the shapes of the clouds are pretty bad 'cause I was going at random... But I sort of ended up liking it, esp how my re-CGed vector turned out. And I'm sort of proud of how I could sort of paint clouds from scratch...

[EDIT] Wallpaper version + other resolutions can be found at Captain and Commander