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Published: 2005-05-27 23:57:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 11708; Favourites: 110; Downloads: 1617
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Description Pencils - Micheal Turner
Inks - Townsend
Colors - Me

This is one of the pinups I colored in our computer coloring class. I'm a big fan of Vagrant Story and when I saw this pinup by Turner I figured, yes, I will color this. Of course, I seemed to disregard the fact that Turner is a FREAK and draws all these details in his drawings. So it was either color it like crap and make his artwork look like crap(although I doubt I could do that), go uber detailed and loose his lineart(I guess), or make a balance of both. In the end, I don't know what I ended up doing... No telling how long it took to finish this, maybe 8-10 hours. I'm not much of a computer colorist, I take forever with it. Much more comfortable with traditional things, but this was fun to do and I enjoyed the end result. I know when this was made, the blended airbrush look was all the rage for comics, but I'm more of a cel shader. I think it works. Tell me what you think.
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Comments: 21

Aurihalcon [2007-11-09 03:38:14 +0000 UTC]

Well, looks pretty good to me!

good enough to fave it!

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amordi [2007-09-11 10:32:09 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that is just awesome!

The colouring is gorgeous, and the characters look perfect!

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red-dorian [2007-06-16 00:25:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow, good job on the colouring, very true to townsend&turner (did they do witchblade & tombraider, & the like...)

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HWolfer [2007-06-01 15:55:58 +0000 UTC]

Detailed coloring to match the detailed drawing. I always thought that Vagrant Story didn't get enough recognition. I still enjoy playing it now.

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CemVural [2007-05-21 12:02:38 +0000 UTC]

I really like Turner's style With coloring it carries out some huge way

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KajusX [2007-03-21 10:00:55 +0000 UTC]

commenting on your artist comments, i think the cell shading works great. turner's work is so fricking detailed (take it or leave it) that he kind of provides the midtones with his lines. if you tried to go too fancy with your colors you would wind up muddying the whole thing up.
i think that's probably why your colors of this piece are the most preferred out of the other coloring jobs people have done and posted on this site. all their colors muddy the piece up with too many gradients.
your 2-3 tone 'cell-shading' stuff works great because you can clearly see all the linework.

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littleghostcalledboo [2007-03-12 19:22:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is awesome. Love the colouring.

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Seto9 [2007-01-14 14:42:05 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This picture is amazing. Everything about it looks immense.

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Mercurian [2006-07-27 22:11:56 +0000 UTC]

HOT!
too bad u didnt draw it... but i still like how u colored it! all the shading is spot on! Good job!

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Morducai [2006-06-27 08:08:01 +0000 UTC]

I somehow knew from the Thumbnail that this could be a work of Michael Turner,but anyway you did a great job!

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Goha7777 [2006-06-08 08:48:08 +0000 UTC]

One thing bugs me, Ashley's "shirt" looks like transparrent :\
But it's still awesome colouring, you surely put more life to the original Turner's lineart, gratz.
And greetings to all VS fans.

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ashish-avin [2006-01-29 06:33:59 +0000 UTC]

OMG...ur too good!!

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systm11eleven [2006-01-22 06:11:24 +0000 UTC]

So this is him? The VPK's legendary Riskbreaker?!? Get him!!

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TheKevster101 [2005-11-22 06:44:18 +0000 UTC]

I think you did a great job. I've seen some other people color this and they added all sorts of shine and glare or played on stronger colors. You kept it simple to a degree and just complimented Turner's pencils which is what a good colorist does. My favorite part of this picture is your choice in colors. The contrast of the earth tones in the fore ground and the blues in the the back. And I can tell that you are a true Vagrant Story fan by the subtle colors on the characters themselves. I do have to say that you made me like this piece. I am not a fan of Turner but I like what you did to his work. Nice job!

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vagrantriot [2005-11-12 02:57:00 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's awesome. You did a splending job with the colors.
I know that this features Ashely Riot and Callo Merlose, as well as a wyvern, but is that Mullenkamp in the background? Wonderful!

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pko [2005-05-29 05:57:52 +0000 UTC]

you vagrant story HOR!
looks good

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vaiox In reply to pko [2005-06-13 02:46:01 +0000 UTC]

yes, i am a complete and total hor for vagrant story, wouldn't you be with a guy like Ashley pimping you out? ^_____^

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pko In reply to vaiox [2005-06-14 06:19:24 +0000 UTC]

OMIGAWD
she lives!

*wrings you like a towel* ONNAA~A, where have you been?

Anyhoo, yes. I think men with assless pants should be the next big fashion trend, being the ass-fan I am. >XD~ (um, Ashley is the one with the assless pants...right? 6_6 durr)

i know where you live...

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hallbuddies [2005-05-28 19:03:03 +0000 UTC]

oooooooooooooo

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gaijinmanga [2005-05-28 10:59:30 +0000 UTC]

I almost had a heart attack when I first saw this. I was like: OH MY GOD! She's more amazing than I knew!

Then I saw that you didn't draw it, bwa ha ha!

I love this coloring. I love cellshading! You must recolor that picture I told you about for me!

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vaiox In reply to gaijinmanga [2005-06-13 02:44:36 +0000 UTC]

> well guess it's a little late now isnt' it.....

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