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Published: 2012-02-09 16:34:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 866; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 18
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Feb9th sparkyyy background challenge [link]About 1 hour and ten, painted in Sai with new brush settings. Pretty pleased with it overall. I thought this was going to be impossible with all that foliage but I think I did a decent job of it, at least giving the impression of foliage anyway.
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You did great work rendering this one. The lighting came out quite well, which was what I considered the most difficult with this challenge. I think its pretty amazing that you were able to pull this off in just an hour and ten minutes! I struggle so much with not go over the two hours.
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Thanks! Yeah I'm also surprised I manage them under the time limit, I thought I took ages to paint stuff but its actually more that it feels like ages lol.
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I think it's a wonderful feeling, as I recall, you weren't really too pleased with your first entries for the challenge, and now you are! That's great.
As for this painting, it's a success! The tree is thick with foliage, and how the light passes "through" the base and the trunk is ace. Well done.
Sai looks interesting to use! I'm a go try it.
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Yeah I'm certainly getting more used to the landscapes now and how to approach them. Cheers for the comments too, I'm glad you liked how the light passes through as I tried to pay extra attention to that detail.
Yeah Sai is very good but you have to play a lot with the brush settings to get something that's not super soft, unless you like really soft brushes. This landscape painted with the pen tool with a changed brush type which allowed me to use it like a hard opacity brush.
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Soft as in a low opacity GIMP brush?
Anyway, cheers!
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soft as in; the brushes in sai feel like a real brush that's been soaked in a lot of water. Unless you tweak them about that is.
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Just tried it, and I'm personally loving it. Hadn't heard of the tool before, so thanks for that!
Keep up the good work.
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Ur welcome. Great work
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Ohh thanks, I'm enjoying the challenge and starting to get a bit more used to it now, look forward to the rest of them. Also painting to a 2 hour time limit is actually really good I think I'm going to carry on doing it with figures as well, because normally I get put off doing paintings because they take so long; like 6 hours normally, but sticking to a time limit I know just to try my best to get it done in that time and not go over it.
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Sounds pretty good to me, I might have to give it a shot haha
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