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Published: 2015-01-17 14:14:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 990; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 0
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Big file watch out.Look at that new methods again. This time it's permanent hopefully
I tried photoshopppp. I liked photoshopppp.
It's really quite fancy.
So ages ago I watched a video on how to paint with values and I gave it ago and no I hate it Β I will never attempt it again. It was horrible I love colour we will never separate <3 Also gradient maps a so horrible, oh you didn't make that bit as smooth as possible??? EVERYONE WILL BE ALE TO SEE THAT EVEN IF IT'S 10 PIXELS WIDE. So yeah I then tried a different approach. Normally (in SAI) I draw the base in one collour then add other colours on new clipping layers, then add a clipping layer of sightly transparent darkness, which I erase to create light bits n stuff. This time eeeeeverything is on one layer, all the colours and all the shading and yeah. I like how painingy it looks. Very fancy 10/10.
So yeah that's my life story. I really need to draw Lozzy with a happy face :/
Also critiques are very welcome~<3
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Character (c) me
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Hahahah Wow this looks amazing, your best artwork yet a.deviantart.net/avatars/m/o/m⦠" alt=" " title="monkeythumbplz" />
The style in which it is drawn is incredible :]
At the moment, I would say that something like this would be worth 20-25 pounds
But there are a few things you could to do make it better [and worth more money] xD
The easiest of which would be adding a background which is not just a solid colour, and making the background more....a part of the piece...
Just something as simple as adding a cast shadow underneath her would make it look better. You can also make the background a radial gradient too, so going from 50% black on the outside to around 20% black on the inside. Adding a subtle texture on top of the gradient also adds interest. [but it would need to be very hidden; the viewer should not notice it there.
That, if done right, can make it worth an extra 10 pounds.
Also, I am not sure if Lozzy has scales..........but I assume that she has small ones like fishes scales.
To make scales show without painting scales, in the most illuminated areas in a colour very close to white, use a speckle brush to paint.
One that should work well is the soft skin brush from DanLuVisiArt's brushes .
It might also help it look better if you make the bounce lighting a bit more.....extreme xD
Also the feathers might look better if you added short loose strands at the bottom :]
also maybe desaturate the colour as it gets lighter
Also
uhhhhhhhh
For her wings, are those supposed to be folds?
[hahahahah if they are I'll edit in what i was gonna say]
Also, on the back wing why is there no bone part at the edge?
And why does the floppy membrane part of it not meet the edge of the bone part on the front wing, like this sta.sh/09tzdbcw59i
Aside from that, It is a perfect artwork :]
also your signature looks like it says gairl-in-a-fez xD
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Solid.
Do you know a good place to get textures? I remember there being an adobe one but i could be imagining it, if you know any others that would be good too.
I do have an idea for scales with I'll try at some point, it will kinda look a bit like tiering.
They're like... creases?Like tiiiiny thingings of the wings. I think? I knew at the time of making them. I do know they aren't like massive folds though.
Do you mean the wing arm? It should be visible but because the wing hand bit is too far forward it looked wrong, so I left it out.
It goes to her back.
Thank you for this <3 It was very helpful X3
Perhaps I am gairl-in-a-fez
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Texuremate has loads of free textures, and you can use them commercially and you do not need to give them credit. :]
Cool, I look forward to seeing them scales
Creases?
What do you mean?
but with is gone it looks like it is missing something
You're welcome :]
Glad it could help :]
Unless it didn't help and you were just saying that to be polite
in which case, damn.
Why hello gairl-in-a-fez
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No it did help >:I
Like tiny wrinkles????
yea i know but hmm
hola
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ehhhhhh
wrinkles wouldn't be like that????
To keep the wings from looking plain, you should add veins, and a few wrinkles where the membrane meets the bone, and in the center of the membrane; but not all the way through the membrane, parallell to each other xD
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I don't think wrinkles was the right word.
I don't know how to describe them but they made sense in my head XD
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Were you trying to get a painterly sorry of look with it?
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A while ago, I wrote a critique.... but then my laptops battery died.
Sighs
it had advise on pricing too
Lol ill rewrite it soon xD
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Ahhjh I have at homework to do -_-
It was really sure ashes ago in November
But I had one of them trainee teachers who never checked it, but now I have my normal teacher so I need to have it done -_-
I need to research medieval fashions. ..
which would be okay if we were allowed to do it digitally, because painting armour and did is fun then, but traditionally I can't do it xD
lol look at this attempt from a while ago xD
sta.sh/02a687b6noz5
Art homework sucks xD
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Ah, great drawing
That's a very muscular dragon...
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np it is really aesome
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This looks really great in full view.Just seeing all that detail really showcases the amount of work you put into it
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Thank you so much ~<3
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