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Published: 2005-12-07 18:51:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1853; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 307
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Description A new character~!

This took forever and a day to crank out, but the lineart went faster because I found a new way of inking (bless thee oh pen tool~!). Colouring took a long time too, but the whole image took about 2 and a half days (I work really big).

Sketched in my sketchbook, inked and coloured in Photoshop 7
Original: 1774h x 3700w
Music: DOA - Foo Fighters

I'll post a character sheet of this in scraps soon~

[edit] - I forgot to mention the brushes are V-brushes, and the crest on her shirt is from....ndsj.org? (I googled "crest" and that was what came up...)

[edit again] - Sorry for spamming your inboxes, I forgot my sig...^_^;
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Comments: 24

Cheaster [2006-10-20 04:38:41 +0000 UTC]

Sweeet!

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falling-angels [2005-12-13 22:01:48 +0000 UTC]

She's sooo cute!! I love the design on the pants leg and shirt. Great job!

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Callypso In reply to falling-angels [2005-12-14 05:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks!!

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spehygirl [2005-12-10 03:04:55 +0000 UTC]

nice characterization. adds character

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Alexandrathegrt [2005-12-09 17:53:34 +0000 UTC]

WOW! Astounding costume design - really amazing!! How do you map such complex images onto your clothes ... it's mindboggling lol

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Callypso In reply to Alexandrathegrt [2005-12-09 18:38:01 +0000 UTC]

It's nothing special at all, all i do is find an image, make a brush out of it, and then stamp it onto the clothes. It's nothing special at all~

And thank you!!

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Alexandrathegrt In reply to Callypso [2005-12-10 21:39:33 +0000 UTC]

that's much more than I know how to do Your art looks super-professional!

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nekokawai [2005-12-09 03:01:15 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing, I love it to pieces :3

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miss-bean [2005-12-08 19:37:45 +0000 UTC]

i love her outfit!!
look like strong and self confident girl
i like that very much!!!!! :3

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kodamara [2005-12-08 14:45:25 +0000 UTC]

great picture
hope they aint being to though on you at school
later

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Juri-Noise [2005-12-07 21:54:26 +0000 UTC]

I become inlove in her!!!!! +______________________=

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SenjiMakoto [2005-12-07 19:50:04 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic. Love the deatil, she's just so adorable.

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Xodex [2005-12-07 19:16:42 +0000 UTC]

In love with her

New way of Inking...??

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Callypso In reply to Xodex [2005-12-07 20:04:05 +0000 UTC]

Haha

Yeah, I usually ink with my tablet and the brush tool, but I'm so obsessive about having clean lineart that one pic literally takes days. I found the pen tool is much faster and gives much smoother lines.

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shebid [2005-12-07 18:53:37 +0000 UTC]

i love this, the detail and everything is great! I love anime pictures XD

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Vernhal [2005-12-07 18:53:10 +0000 UTC]

Cool Why is she called archer though?

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devil-in-grey [2005-12-07 18:52:57 +0000 UTC]

=3 wow this looks awesome, the coloring came out great and the details are just as good.

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Callypso In reply to devil-in-grey [2005-12-07 20:01:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I wasn't sure how well the colour came out, the jpeg compression kind of killed them. The original is much more crisp, I wish i could upload that!

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devil-in-grey In reply to Callypso [2005-12-07 21:34:09 +0000 UTC]

That's happened to me before, especially when resizing. I think if you save the original file as a TIFF and then resize it you have a better chance of keeping most of the quality. Then after that you should be able to save it as a jpg with as little compression possible to also maintain the drawing as it is, the drawback is that the jpg has a bigger file size but normally it's not a problem.

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Callypso In reply to devil-in-grey [2005-12-07 22:59:40 +0000 UTC]

I never thought of that, thanks! I'll definately do that next time.

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devil-in-grey In reply to Callypso [2005-12-08 03:36:00 +0000 UTC]

You can alwyas just save the jpg with the highest quality, which usually has a low compression but i suppose the method i told you is best when resizing really large images ^^
Glad i could help by the way =3!

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Vernhal [2005-12-07 18:52:40 +0000 UTC]

WOw awesome! why is she called archer though?

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Callypso In reply to Vernhal [2005-12-07 20:00:33 +0000 UTC]

It has nothing to do with bows and arrows and that kind of stuff, I just like the name~

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Vernhal In reply to Callypso [2005-12-07 23:27:13 +0000 UTC]

Yah it is pretty cool!

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