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Published: 2007-02-02 05:54:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 42976; Favourites: 585; Downloads: 6025
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As I promise a while back~ This is the 2nd tutorial of an illo I did for Dragon Magazine, just to show the general progress for it and not focusing on anything specific this time
Again, the final image's nothing too interesting, it's a scene about a lost adventurer coming out of a cave in the middle of some Persian desert~ Cee yaw~!
[Photoshop CS2]
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Your tutorials are all very helpful -- at long last an amazing artist unafraid of showing us his humanity. 
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ok how much time do you spend on a picture like this?
i always run outa of time or patience to do it in one day... then by the next day im sprung with a new idea that i have to start right away...
what im left with is a buncha unfinished works and works which started off good but were rushed at the end and look dodgey
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heya, hmm usually i do any work over a period of few days, even simple stuff, my brain seem to always find ways to waste enuff time to spread my work time so that it fits into a few days lol. But it's more like a habit to get use to being patience with your artwork if you want to produce something good, take ur time, challenge yourself i guess heh. Anyways, tahnks for visiting!
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Hey nJoo, thanks for sharing with us your progression while working! Very helpful tutorial indeed. But I've a question in mind that I wanna ask, if you don't mind.
For the linework, how long do you spend normally in cleaning them. And how much do you zoom in to clean them up? Thanks a great bunch!
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This one's kinda easy, I don't clean up the lineart hehe, maybe just brightness and contrast a bit, but since I end up painting over the line, I usually don't bother cleaning the lines
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Oh! I see. But those linework that you have done looks perfectly neat! *Rub eyes* Anyway thanks for answering my question!
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cool tutorial but hehe ....tyou are in other level...
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Very helpful and informative tutorial, it really shows how the painting is built and gives lots of great information. If you don't mind a question; what did you use to achieve such natural bush-like textures? Was it a standard splatter brush or a custom one?
Thanks again for showing how you work. 5 stars!
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hmm I actaully don't really use special brush, a lot of time it's just the circle brush, or the default photoshop brushes, I think the trick to make a piece look like natural paint is really just how you color the picture, the colors, the strokes,etc color mixing,etc. Might be a hard to explain but I might try to write a tutorial about it if I have time~
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your tutorial is really helpful! Thanks for sharing.
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your tutorial is really helpful! Thanks for sharing.
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amazing work as always, the thing that really boggles me though is that you dont seem to have to tweak the colors through some filtering process at all. Everytime I do a painting, I constantly have to change the contrast or the color tone to make it work, It takes great skill to get it right on the first shot!
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I actaully do a lot of color tweaking, less during the process, but at the beginning when i'm trying to lay down the colors in general i tweak it a lot before going any further, maybe less in these 2 tutorials i showed, but ya I do it too
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WOW! I saw a cave like this one on the internet one of this days. Here it is: [link]
but it is inversed. LOL. Well, it doesn't matter! You rock big time!
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lol it actaully looks like the one I did, awesome find 
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awesome yet educational 
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Thanx for this tutorial.It explains a lot of tip's that I can now use in future.
It's very helpfull for me, becouse I just starting to draw on grafic tablet.
I think this is good technique of drawing on PC,and using it but not on a such good level like U.
ps Thanx one more time for helpfull tutorial
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thanks for sharing your trade with us
if you dont mind, i have a question. you mentioned "line-over", does it mean you drew new strokes over your line art?
sorry if the posted question sound dumb
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thanks. just to let you know, im glad you took up illustrating in the end cuz you are very talented. keep uploading your works!
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ya i make a layer on top of the lineart and paint, covering some lines,etc making it more painterly touch to it~!
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whoa thanks for the tutorial , this really helps me focus on aspects of art ^_^
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