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z00tz00t β Azula in Colour
Published: 2007-03-08 16:30:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 8647; Favourites: 245; Downloads: 102
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HA! I finally coloured my drawing of Azula ([link] )It's 3:30 AM! Once I get into the zone, I just lose all sense of time! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
I was supposed to be doing homework, but I'm just enjoying my newfound colouring powers too much! At least I'm procrastinating constructively... >_<
I'm very happy with the way this turned out....in fact, I was so happy, I decided to sign it!
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So here's a question. How exactly did you draw this? Photoshop? What brushes/textures did you use? Did you make any of your own? Have you saved any of the seperate stages?
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Well, the lines were just done in pencil, then the rest was photoshop. No special brushes/textures used - just the regular brush with varying opacity levels - that's all I know how to do 
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always save your stages. They make great tutorials. plus if you want to go back a step.
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If this is your first serious attempt at digital coloring, I'm very impressed. I'm particularly impressed by how you managed to pull of such a realistic string of fire.
Did you applied that dark background before you started coloring this? If so, you win the prize. Many people just start off with a white background, on which everything looks impressive.
And now the constructive criticism to improve upon.
Lighting is a bit weak in my opinion, and it could've made the piece stronger. She's generating several kilovolts in that finger, that's gotta generate a fair share of light. Adding a blue shade on her face and everything surrounding the hand might do the trick. That also goes for the fire, but in a lesser extend.
And you might want to try to avoid showing the actual "paint" strokes, which are particularly visible in the folds in her "dress". They just look a bit unpolished and rushed. Not saying it is bad by default, it more like a suggestion for experimentation.
Anyway, well done, your definitely showing an amazing learning curve.
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Hey- thanks for the comment- coming from an artist of your calibre, it really means a lot to me!
You're absolutely right- the lighting is definitely not as strong as it could be! When I first conceptualised this picture, I had a really cool image in my head of how the fire was going to look like, and to me- colouring in Azula was more like....a way to get to the 'good part' which was colouring in the fire 
I have this weird drawing habit whereby once I start on something, I really don't want to stop, and I knew this would take me into the wee hours of the morning, so finishing Azula relatively quickly was something I had planned in order for me to get SOME sleep 
Incidently, the grey background was something that I had created at the start- I think that the fire would have looked less impressive if the background was white.
Thanks again for the advice!
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Ahhh... grunt carried through with something he said! Run for it!
That aside, for some reason i think the cloth is the best coloured part of the pic.
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I like the fire!
The cloth actually isn't anything special- my rough pencilwork helped to give it some texture
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So awesome! I love the colors and the shading and just everything about it is so cool!
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Wow, I've never gotten a comment like that before! Probably because I never colour my stuff!
Thank you very much!
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*$&$&!! π: 0 β©: 1
Awesome! I loved her before, but now, she makes my blood run cold
I love how you colored her fire both red and blue. Perfect...
Hehe- thanks! You're my biggest fan!
Sometimes, in Avatar, you'll notice that she'll shoot out blue fire, but after it impacts the target, it cools down a bit and becomes normal red fire. That was the idea behind this picture- that this little trail of fire of hers gets hotter as it nears her fingertips.
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Pretty in an evil kinda way. I love the fire. Swoosh!
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Pretty girls have a tendency to be evil!
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That would make a twisted compliment.
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I speak from personal experience
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One of your best drawings so far! It looks amazing coloured like this. The colouring is really great and the drawing already was great. ^^ I love it!
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Dank ΓΌ !
Usually, I like to consider my drawings as fully completed artworks, but this one was an exception. Looking at my Azula sketch, you can tell by the way that I didn't really define the fire that I was planning on colouring it. Also, the concept of the fire turning from red to blue as it nears her fingertips was something that I had no idea how to draw with just a pencil
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wow, that is ... amazing! It looks fantastic. The fire looks so friggin good.
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Yay! Thankyou! The fire is the reason why I made this
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