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Published: 2007-12-06 11:45:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1200; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 14
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LOL EMO ANIMU---
I finally finished this piece (for the most part)!
Taro is more integrated into the environment now (He has a shadow!), and I improved on the shading and highlighting, especially around his hair, face and clothes.
Just for fun, I put in a little drabble, too. ^_^ LOL EMO ANIMU
SECOND EDIT MUFUGGAS!: Working more on the environment; darkened the sky and the streets, desaturated some of the brighter colors, trying to make it seem more dark and dreary. Working a little bit on the print around him; trying to make it more legible if that's the way your eye happens to wander.
Also did some work on Santaro himself; namely, his face (modified his nose and position of his eyes) and his clothes (trying to figure out how to draw wet fabric. So far, not sure if I'm succeeding. ehehe
)As always, I appreciate comments and critiques.
Santaro is © me.
Colored in Photoshop CS3, in God-knows how many hours.
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Thank you. :3
I've been working on this sucker for nearly 2 years now.
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Thank you very much. That's where I spent most of the time working.
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whoa.. the effect and the street light is just.. great!
nice job!
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Thank you very much. I'll be making improvements to this piece as my abilities advance. Stay tuned!
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ha ha sorry but i don't have time to read the artist comment, i have a bunch of stuff left to comment. the piece however i have time to look at and give a crit. You have a lot of nice detail in the background and what not, it just seems that the character lacks the depth the background has. He's rather flat whereas the environment has a lot of depth. I dunno exactly what's wrong with him it just seems he is too flat. the rest is good though.
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Don't worry any about the comment. I don't expect anyone to read it.
If he seems flat... maybe if I put a few cast-shadows on him? From the umbrella and such?
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I don't think the umbrella would cast shadows with the light the way you have it. he just seems far to bright for a dark alley. it could be that you used a white highlight. White has a way of flattening things. You look at most good art and you'll realize that it rarely turns things pure white the way you have it. It's just a lighter base color. You can add white when you have a surface that you want shiny and it is normally in a sparse amount. Normally just one dab of the brush on the highest surface. it's so hard to describe this crap. I really need to make a tutorial on how to color.
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So a gold highlight from the store window, and maybe some bluish or grayish shades from the rest of the background?
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I'll pretend to read your lllllllloooooooooonnnnnng...ga comment and just smile and nod. he he
I remember you working on it last quarter and I know you put a lot of time into it, but I think you should have re-done it to up-date with your "improved" drawing style so we can compare then from now.
And yes I commented twice....
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Heh. I don't mind.
Now that you bring it up, that's probably not a bad idea.
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Very emo. I just don't have the heart to change it.
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nifty dude. i like the coloring job you did.
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I love the detail that you put into the background and the perspective has been done well too.The biggest problem I can see In the background is that you've shaded everything with grey/black. On the reds it would be better to shade with a blackish-purple, black can really kill a picture especially if it's pure black.
On the metal covering it would be good to see a little blue on there and if you really want to get into detail some rut or dirt spots.
Also, the street light is way to bright. Tone it down a little and it would look better.
Overall it's a really good pic.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll follow up with the results as soon as I can.
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Thank you very much.
I've put a lot of time into this picture. I had actually just picked it up again when my computer decided to shit out.
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Just thought that I'd comment on this one because the background looks so complicated in the thumbnail. =3
[This was also the reply for the forum post. Exact same thing. 
Giant picture. @_@
Good thing it's that big though, or else the details in the background will be lost, and that will be a pity. It seems like you spent most of the time on the background. =3 It looks very realistic. Everything has the right perspective, the right size, and looks suitable.
Of course, the person is great too. It looks like he's really walking toward the viewer. His expression is well-drawn too, so closely related to the story, and the atmosphere. 
But as great as this picture is, I just thought that there might be a few minor things.... Umm... I just thought this was a bit too bright, with the lights and the colours of the shops/streets (bright yellow, and bright red)... It makes me think it's still morning, just dark because it's raining. (The stores are all closed, and his grandparents worried, so I am guessing it's night?
Also, it looks like it's raining hard, but his clothes/shoes do not look wet at all... His umbrella is towards his left, but the rain is coming from his right, so wouldn't his sleeves be soaked?
And one more really, really minor thing... Ummm... the pouring rain is translucent, but the splashes on the umbrella are black. O_o Yeah. xP
Those three little things are only my crazy ideas. No one has to listen. Or maybe you've improved on all those things by now. 
Btw, what does "persona non grata" mean? =3
(Hope this wasn't too long and annoying for you.
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All right! I've put up an edit!
Something more like this?
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Someone actually listened to my crazy comments. Thank you.
Anyway. Yeah. It's a lot better now. It actually looks like it's nighttime, when everyone's gone home, and the poor guy is all alone in the dark streets. The whole mood looks better than ever! Good job!
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Thank you.
(sendusmoney)
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Haha, that sounded like what they say on PBS. ;D
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Eeexactly. Who said public broadcasting is useless?
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Not at all! I love long comments like this!
Yes, I used reference pictures, and I carefully measured the background to make sure I had everything in perspective. The background is based on Dobuita Street in Yokosuka, Japan, where Shenmue (one of my FAVORITE games!) is set. I loved the look of the town; it was closed in, with a lot of alley-ways, but it felt cozy, as opposed to claustrophobic. And on the wider streets, it felt like an old-fashioned market place, very homey and personal.
Tone down the color and lights more... okay. Nothing some more good old-fashioned Photoshop Magicking can't fix.
It should work out well; I've been meaning to go back and fix the light for a while. Let's see if I've gotten good enough to render wet fabric.
Wha-- Aw, crap. AGAIN, the umbrella foils me!
Oh, and Persona non Grata is Latin for "Unwelcome Person." When used as a non-legal term, it basically means a person is ostracized from a group; their opinions don't matter, they're not listened to or welcomed by anyone in said group; they're treated as though they don't even exist.
Thus, Taro Ueda is persona non grata in his age group at school. Because of his biraciality, his sordid past, his scars, and his social ineptitude, he's an outcast, forced to watch everything that happens with his peers from the outside.
At least, until he met the girl mentioned here, whose name is Mariko, by the way. Later, he meets Shingo. The story as I have it so far is about the three of them, all outcasts in their own way, finding solace and friendship in each other.
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Very nice. Good job with the lighting and perspective. Deafinitely looks a bit rainy dreary there too. ^_^
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Thanks very much! Taro's the result of my love for anime and my morbid fascination with scars, both mental and physical.
Fortunately, his story brightens up a little bit later on...
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Very cool mix. Anime has a lot of that and I think it's a great medium to express those concepts. ^_^
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D'ah! Commented on the wrong piece! DX
Hiding this one.
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very nice! i love the percpective, and the design of the city, its very hard to think up of that on ones own, great job! (i agree with your sign off, wish the same were for me too! lol)
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no problem! using references is perfectly fine, still an awsome pic
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Well, I can't take all the credit for the background; a good deal of it is based on Dobuita street in Yokosuka, Japan. I had to make up a lot of the details because the two good reference pictures I could find, weren't good enough, to be honest.
Sorry I took so long to reply.
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i LOVE the background and just the general layout of this picture ^^
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Thank you. I've been working on this picture for several months now; it's good to see it's paid off.
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Thanks kindly!
...God only knows how much time I spent on it. I don't even remember half the things I did to render the light, and the rain... >_<
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Nice, looked good before, looks excellent now
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And it was all thanks to contributions...
...from Viewers Like You.
Thank You.
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Good work. You really managed to capture a "city"-feeling.
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Thank you. I based the backdrop on Dobuita Street in Yokosuka, Japan, using a couple of screenshots from the first Shenmue game, and a few photographs.
I always liked Dobuita; the layout and design of the town was just so charming in the way it mixed old-fashioned and modern. I hope I get the chance to go there someday.
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Ahh, that's interesting. I kind of want to go to japan someday too.. but then again I don't want to since I'm scared of earthquakes.
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I love it.
-Adds to faves-
Keep em coming!
~Lynsey/Tari
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