Chapter#46

Hello Human Butter Jelly Time!~

It's been...More than a month since I was last here...The shame...The pitiful shame...
Well I'm here to redeem my sins whatever that means, its 2 in the morning, forgive my
spelling errors and such and just look and glare into the recent works of my fist~

So, still inspired by the Evangelion Series, I decided to create another mecha
creature but in a different approach to better my technique and speed in completing
works~ Cause well...I'm just show shlow :( ... Moving along~

I first started by brainstorming different poses for my mecha creature~ I wanted it to be
scary, very beastly like and so aimed for the snarling, crouching pose, while making the
creature stare down at the viewer so its like, 'aww shiee-- it's looking at me'~ kinda thing.

So I first made the silhouette like always not shown here. (Somehow...lost it.) 

Then I made an outline of the pose.

After that, I accidentally (being such a bad example here) went straight into too much
detail here I think and drew out pretty much of the design I had in mind~
-Probably because I had the design in mind already that it came out so fast...-

When you're done with the initial drawing, create a layer mask around the object and
only the object so that whatever you do outside the lines, automatically becomes invisible.
Then after that, I added one more layer and outlined it once more so the lines become
much more thinner & defined than before~ Gives it much more better quality than before.
Add two layers afterwards and use one for the general shading and the other for hard
shadows; areas that light does and cannot reach.

 After that, add a layer and give it a coat of color~ Smexifuls, aye?

 A new technique I tried here was a gradient shade~ Because the above pic looked
really plain to me (So...Flat with solid colors) I decided to give it more dimension, and
with each limb I gave a gradient of grey~ You might not see it here very well, but...
When you do it yourself you'll really see the difference! (Strange example...)
After that, give it a color overlay on a new layer to bright and give life to the image, and
use a linear dodge layer to give it rim light to push out the character out of the canvas.

Add final effects~
Light trace of glowing eyes,
saliva, and gave it white shining
spheres around sharp areas to
push the image out once more.









Andd done!!!
Click >> HERE << for Full Size Image!

This piece took 25 hours, HALF the amount of time I took last time for a piece similar to this~

Hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter!!!

Will try to update more regularly now 

that I'm back in class ^^

See you next time!!~

Chapter#45

Hello there my little shmoop-plops~ (?!?!) How do you all dare do?~

Today's post is about a tribute I did for Street Fighter X Tekken which I'm sure (HOPE)

you've heard or seen of before, since it was one of the most anticipated games of 2012~

My tribute goes towards 2 of my probably favorite video game girls of all time;

Asuka from the Tekken Series, and Sakura from the Street Fighter Series~

Two of which both happen to be school girls...

Anyway! Onto the process~

For this piece I cheated the silhouette stage for some reason and went straight into the

rough sketch~ For me I thought the rough sketch looked pretty cool~ Kinda dynamic.

After I made the lineart however, I noticed the image lost quite alot of the 'energy' it had back in the initial sketch...I think while I was working on this part of the piece I got irritated with Asuka's hair not being able to reveal much since both sides of her head are being blocked by Sakura's head and arm ): Her hair is her main charm in my opinion, besides her chest...I mean her ass...I mean ah ha ba booshka. (face)

Irritated, and believing I would soon quit this piece I plunged on anyway, with the

shadow'ing and the colors (on the left)~ As usual, the piece looked so poor by then.

But the good ol' overlay did its job and brought vibrancy and life into the picture~

Amazing what that Overlay option can do. Takes 2 seconds too!

Finally, just fix / add more little details and voila~ Done! 

Although the quality is no where what I wanted it to be....

I'll remake this piece another time in the future :P

Click >> HERE << for Full View!!

Thanks for tuning in! 

 See you next time! Take care!

Chapter#44

Greetings! Fellow warriors!~of~ Ass, kaban!~
Been too long :( Hope you guys have been good! I've been pretty busy with myself
for the pass...Huh, haven't blogged for a month. Lolol, yes I've been busy with stuff.

Anyway! A quick update before I go is about a piece I finished quite awhile ago~
This piece is called Demon Dragon Slayer~

Below you'll see a quick design process of what I went through to complete this ^^

So first I made a quick silhouette of the character I was drawing~
Next, I made a quick outline for the silhouette~ Something I'd like to note,
even as early as by now I was thinking of stopping since it looked so bad =,="

Next, I made another layer to add on armaments and weaponry to the character.
As you can see the trickles, this image was actually suppose to be of him
slashing the 'moon' as splashes out of the water~ But the idea was dropped
due to time constraints and such (you'll be hearing that excuse for awhile ):



Next is fine outlining, and abit of a clean up~ Followed by a layer of color underneath :)

>> CLICK HERE FOR FULL VIEW <<

Then afterwards, dash it off with a sprinkle of overlay and you're done ^^
The background was made using random smoke brushes I made during my course.


Welp, that's it!~ Sorry for the lack of updates! Will try to keep up to date!
Keep up with whatever you're doing folks! Stay safe and out of the weather :)

...I need more Vitamin D...

Chapter#43

Hi guys!

So a couple chapters back I showed you guys this~

Well, it was pretty much finished and I was gonna post it up and all, but a day before 

I could, I had a talk with my brother in law about Steve Jobs; legendary man who 

created Apple. 

At first I wasn't very amused or interested in him at first (since I haven't actually 

purchased any of his products (i own an iPod but that was a gift..)) but something 

tickled my nerves and I decided to do abit of research on him via the net, which led to

Youtube...He was apparently a very crude, if anything, mean, yet a very inspiring

man. He had alot of deflects, but his vision is what drove people to buy his products.

Using Steve Jobs as a figure of inspiration, I went on and expanded the design of

my creation. Instead of the head, I went on and created the whole~

So first, I used the head as a guideline to the angle and perspective of the rest of 

the body. At first for the rough sketch it looked like that.

PRETTY PRETTYFULS AYE??? 

After that, I started on the design stage, aka the fun stage!~ Remember to always

keep loose when designing as getting too focused can ruin your flow of creativity,

equalizing! Block! So yeah, it started to look like this.

After that I decided to clean things up and refine it abit so we know exactly what

and where is at~ This is probably the best and last time you get to resize and 

adjust the image, so you better decide if you're happeh with the image now! :D

And finally, the coloring stage!~ Yayyy funn~ Don't forget to shade as well

on another layer setting the gray tone to Multiply for the shade look~

Finally, we got this!~ Almost done!~

Add the final details and we'reee donee!~

 Hit the link >> Here << to see the full sized, completed artwork! :D

So overall, that took 40ish hours of work...Thank you, Steve Jobs. Lol.

Hope you guys enjoyed yourselves!~ See you next time!

Chapter#42

Not in the loveliest of moods as I write this...Oh well, anywaiiz~

So shortly after finishing the course I put myself to the test and quickly whipped up

a drawing~ Testing to see how fast I can draw now...
Now I know most of you guys reading probably aren't into aliens...And neither am I...

But I decided to draw one anyway, cause of a recent idea I had which i couldn't get

out of my mind...So try bare with me? If not, you can skip this post, cause this post

is All About Aliens!~ xD

Front...

...and back!~

Not really alien like...But whatever!!!! ):

Took like, what? 1.5 - 2 hours each? Record time for me P: Which is sad.

Knowing people can probably do this in an hour or less time given.

So that's Garuel...Yes, I named the bugga~ He's some kind of alien with four eyes

and gills as part of his 3 senses; taste, smell, and a sense of its own which enables

'im to feel the air vibrations around it so it can visually picture its surrounding environment~

After doing those two images I wanted to do a close up version~

I was pretty much aiming for a 'character design sheet' look~ 

But, I kinda got carried away and I got lost in the Matrix...

So first it started like this....

Honestly, right after I did that, I was like what am I doing...Looks terrible!!~

But whatever I said!~ Just keep on, truckin'!~

The next thing I knew I rendered / cleaned up the whole thing O,O"

Didn't know I could do that with black and white, Lol!~ I guess I learned something

from painting Space Boy! :D

^ Lololol, looks so silly now that I look at it...LOL, its so ugleh. ^

I was surprised although I was able to do that all on 1-2 layers! O:

Pretty alright~

After that, I just hit the colors and slapped it on on another layer with the layer set to color~

And then yeah...I just touched it up from there...

Concept was he had the top 2 eyes transplanted, and when the bottom two eyes

cry, the top one cries too but blood, not tears...~ And yeah, those little funny looking

fin thingies are the sensors which look pretty gay now \:

It looked better in my head...In the reality in my thoughts...Haha~

That's it for today folks, see you soon!!~

Chapter#41

The Last Lessonnn-zzzz!!! In one!~ :P
So I'm just gonna put the last few remaining classes together into one post cause...
No point leaving it in 2 or 3 since...The tutorial for it is pretty long and/..*sniffles.
Probably no one will use emmm!!~ O;

So anyway!~ We learned how to use a variety of textures for Lesson 6!~
Many (all) of which, I will not explain because that will take just too damn long ):
So yeah! Basically for this assignment I had to use 7!! different type of brushes
to make an image~ Which was a real pain in the face to do!~ (My eyesss!!)
I couldn't really think of what to do, so I started off with a circle..
Then kept going from there till...

I got this!~

Yeah...A random egg in the middle of a stampede...full of, DINOSAURSS!!! :D:D
Probably the most realistic piece of art I've made me whole life...Prob the last?
Came out unexpectedly too~ I thought this piece was kinda kool since everything 

even the brushes (which I'm new to) was made by me...And it looks realistic! 

So I thought that was kindovan achievement :P

My next but not last (It's actually my last) assignment was to create an image/
character and set it in 6 different thumbnail environments~
Meaning the picture didn't have to be detailed and should be rough~
Time that should've been spent on this was 20-30 minutes or something my teach
said~ I spent either 1-2 hours on this...Cause...Yeah, hi Internet Surfability (???)
So yeah, enjoy this last piece of work you'll be seeing... :D

...From this course! :D Theres actually one more assignment but I've chosen not to post

it up cause it just looks embarrassing =0=" Soo bad. But anyway! That's the end of

that course!!! Yays! So all up, according to my knowledge, I got a 29/31 for my course..

Ok I think! Apparently my main weakness was technicality! Which was the use of the

things he taught us -,-" Kinda gay, but hey I'm new to them! So...Take that!~ *Smug face

I did very well to excellent though in effort and creativeness! So...That's ok. Anyway!

It was great doing that course! But now it's up to me with how I'm gonna use it...

And now I'm back to looking for work...Sucks! Anyway, Will blog again soon hopes!

See yous next time!!!~ ^^

Chapter#40

Hi guys! Been busy, busy! Not really? Yeah kinda. Anyway. For Lesson 4 we learned a

new really cool technique! It's like painting but…Painting digitally! xD

When it comes to rendering in Photoshop, I or a lot of people usually use a soft brush

to color in pictures for a soft gradient look~ I, once upon a time~ used to do this too~

That look can look good, but can make the image look pretty flat in a way~

So this technique is used to back-up that as well as giving it a better form as well.

So basically, imagine we're painting in real life, and all we have are two different

colors - red and yellow. By using the color pick tool (using the alt key is ultra handy!)

we can quickly select any color on the canvas (so like switching from red paint to

yellow paint) and paint over color over color! Like paint!~

Quick demonstration; we have red and blue, color pick the blue and paint on top of

the red. You'll have a slightly altered shade of blue on the red: color pick the new

shade on the red and apply to the blue side! From there do the same from the blue

to the red! Easy as that! Getting used to color picking can take awhile but.

When I saw and tried it for the first time, I was so slow! But after an hour, you'll

get the hang of it easy! It's all about rhythm! Here was my first time doing it! :D

The red blue combination doesn't actually look as good, but my teacher used the

same example! xD And his didn't look as good either! (No offence sir!)

And see that nose like thing there? That was made from 3-4 colors~

Pink, yellow, and black and white~ Pretty ok for a start I rekon. Anyway,

since the technique is pretty like painting applying paint over paint, there's not

that much to say about it~

So, pretty much do everything from the start of the last lesson up to the overlay

part. I actually didn't expect this image to look any good since I rushed those first

few steps pretty (PRETTY) badly. But as soon as I the rhythm of applying paint

started, I got movin' and the next thing I know was pretty much done…

Doesn't take that long at all! And there's nothing to is as well. Here's the first

three steps, to the final:

  First three steps...

Final. (Click here for Full Resolution)

On the alternative, because I didn't think it'd end up looking good, I was working

on another piece at the same time! Although it didn't really help cause at the start

it looked pretty horrible as well! Got better towards the end I think. Here!

So yeah, that's it for now. Till next time! Bye!~

Chapter#39

Holy crap, Blogtown's upped its game! This new post page looks so different O,="

Anyways! I'm aloive!~ Been awhile? Afew days? Weeks? Month? Yeeah~

Been caught up in the assignments cause they got abit more difficult with each

assignment so yeah. Let's get back to where we left off~ Mm, chyeah~

I'm just gonna go straight into the coloring, since the
basic lineart of the drawing was covered in Lesson 1~
But before that, make sure every layer for the lineart is
set to Multiply so that everything and anything under or
over blends with the lineart. Important!

Once done with that, on a new layer below the lineart
(for most layers used for coloring/shading) using the
lasso tool you pick out the darker areas of shade, and
fill it with a shade of grey with the layer blend mode
changed to Multiply~

After that, again with the lasso tool on a new layer below
pic out areas one at a time to color in~ Lasso Hair,paint
bucket red for example~ Here is what you should've
produced so far~

Extra steps from here; you can add other little minor details like patterns and such on the character, so that this way you didn't have to draw all the little details during the lineart stage~ This also looks cleaner too! And speaking of clean, you can do an extra step; make a new layer and refine abit of the lines that may've been lost during the process.

Continuing along, make another layer and set the blend mode to Overlay, and with a big (BIG) soft edge brush, with a bright color slap on some colors that'll brighten the image:

 So this is what we have so far (notice I've added text to the skirt and bright color overlay to image). Tip to make the last couple steps more noticeable; add a background layer and just fill it with a darker color :) 

Last two steps! Add a new layer, and add highlights to the image~ So make the hair as shiny as you please, try not to make clothes and skin too shiny cause they don't reflect light as much as hair~ And finally, FINALLY, add a rim of light on the edges of the character~ 

An awesome secret technique used by the pros!

It really makes the character PoP out!

Highlights: light reflecting on hair and back.

Rim Light: that bright white/yellow stroke along her shoulder and breast~

By the end of all that, plop in a shadow underneath to character to 

create a sense of space and you should have something like this! ^^

 Now, an extra tip! If you're not happy and wanna add extra stuff to it, all you gotta do is group all the layers into 1 Group so your workspace isn't all too messy. 

Create new layers on top and repeat the process! Draw the object you wanna add and color using the method taught in this lesson :D 

If it's an object placed on top of the character, always remember to create a shadow so it blends with the already placed character.

The character seemed incomplete and

I didn't really like the hands in the first run cause it looks burnt and blistered, so I decided to add more to the picture~

< image + ...

A tail, and some fingers and glove.

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Click + HERE + for the full size resolution and details on the concept! Thanks!

Hope this helps you guys in coloring! It may be abit to read, but trust me,

it's peasy easy! See you again soon hopefullies!~ ^^

Chapter#38

HEADACHEEEE....~

Just realised my feedback from Lesson 1+2 gets sent to a different area on the website, 

instead of actually into my inbox...2 weeks of waiting for nothing =_=" Anyway!...Urgh.

So from the last part of the last chapter, he got us to shade the background in grey...

I was hoping he'd explain how to get rid of it in the next lesson but he did not...Lovely.

So I went on ahead and did it myself. Looked pretty cool actually! The procedure.

Just cropped out the grey afterwards with the lasso tool. Anyway, when he opened up 

his file, it looked so refined compared to his previous lesson! I was like eh? Did I skip

something??? And yeah, he took the time to clean his up and states that he should've:

"Noted that you be careful with your tonal values (how dark each part is) cause it is 

'critical' that you get it right in this lesson." I was like ok...How bad could mine be? 

IT WAS SO BADDD...I was like...

 

My piece looked like this after it was colored.

The colors were all wrong! So to color it, we had to put all the layers we created

for the drawing into a single folder. Then, you trace the whole picture with the lasso tool.

While the folder you created is highlighted, right click and select create layer mask

so that when u draw over it, it auto-erases everything that goes out of the lines; neat, a?

And to color, all you gotta do is select a new layer, set the blend mode to COLOR,

paint bucket the layer the skin color you want, then you lasso tool the part of the 

object you want changed, then paint bucket~

 Do that with all the parts of the image and you'll get what I got as I previously shown.

Finally, as the same process as before, to change the tonal values, we select the areas

we want darker with the lasso, and on a new layer; change the blend mode to Multiply, or

Overlay~ One of the two will do. By the end, it will have looked like this!

 

Yeah, he went through some serious color editing, lol. Still not happy with the color 

scheme but. After that, all the was left to do was create a new layer on top of 

everything, set the blend mode to Overlay again, and with a HUGE ass brush, 

brush in some prettyful shades in brighter areas, and more dull shades in darker 

areas to really push the image out~ The end result looks something like this.

Doneeee~ For this class.
I'm gonna touch up on this later in the future for professional stake. Give it a b/g and all.

Till then, look forward to our next class! Lesson 4! (Yay! Headaches gone!)

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Oh, and I got my review back from Lesson 1...Got a 3/5!!! Lols!

Will try to do better in the future -_-"