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Pauldew — Lara Croft - Debalfo
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Coloured in PS CS4 with help of a Bamboo One tablet.Pencils [link] by: Mike Debalfo
Inks [link] by: Nicki Andrews
Colours by: Me
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How do you layer textures on to your characters?
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There's only one texture in this image, in the background. The rest is painted in by hand; starting with a layer for dark shadows and new layers for lighter colors. I used a very soft brush on this image; I'm trying to step away from that though to get some crisper shadows and highlights. Hope that answers your question
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It does indeed only the mesh texture is very accurate with the contour of her body I had assumed that you used a texture overlay.
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Oh, I see. The mesh was already part of the original pencils and then expertly inked by Nicki. Can't claim any credit for that myself.
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Ah, I see, still your technique is very well founded. Hat's off sir.
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Very nice. she is well represented in all of her glory.
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Sweet, love the colours.
Any chance you'd be interested in doing a collaboration one day?
I'd be honored if you'd consider it
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Thank you.
I'm flattered that you would ask for a collaboration. I've still got a ton of learning to do where coloring is concerned though. For that purpose, I prefer to stick to lines of professional quality, like Debalfo's. Lines like those really help me get to grips with my coloring.
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That's no problem, thank you for the prompt reply- good luck with your future art! ^^
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I would be honored if you and the others who helped you make this depiction of Lara Croft would allow me to feature this in my new Lara tribute video. If you all agree, I will put all your names, screen or real, in the credits and have a link to each of your respective pages in the video description.
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Thanks for your interest
I do not own the line art to this piece and cannot speak for Mike Debalfo or Niki Andrews on rights to use this or not. If you obtain their permission, I'd be happy for you to use it in your tribute video, with the understanding that it will never be used for comercial purposes.
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AWESOME! O.O beautiful works! congratulate! great team obviously!
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Wow. I didn't even like Tomb Raider until now. Excelsior!
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Amazing job guys. Now if I could just buy a big poster of this for my game room
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Well, Nicki Andrews is selling the inked versions here: [link]
A3 size, at largest, if I'm not mistaken. Should make for a sweet poster
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I can make it a coloured print if Paul is ok with it
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Yeah, I'd be fine with that
Can send you the high res. file if you like. Just let me know where to send it.
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Thanks
Yeah, can't go wrong with Debalfo's lines and someone like Nicki doing the inking!
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Thet look like DD's to me but then again, I suppose on Lara, the boobs could always be bigger
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Thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed coloring this, awesome lines to be staring at for a few hours
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Thank you dude, you really did a great job!
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