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draconianspirit — Christmas Kitsune
Published: 2008-12-26 01:52:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 2639; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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I feel so sick and horrible right now.Meh.
Anywho...it's done..
I'm not really all that happy with the eyes...even though I spent forever finding a decent eye fucking tutorial.am I being too ahrd on myself?...guess I am....whatever...
here it is Hannah Dear. Sorry it didn't come out the way I wanted it to.
EDIT: One Day later.
meh, well it's definatly not the effect I wanted...but it'll work I suppose, it was my frist time working with fur...and I just couldn't get the right type of eye down...wasn't working out for me.
Fur is a fickle thing...you can only fuck with it so much before it doesn't work anymore. I had found a tutorial online of fur...but it was only good for little things...so I ended up just using my judgement the way I had been for Fire Guardian. Needless to say it made me sweat.
I'm very glad that I have so many people supporting this, regardless of the fact that it hadn't lived up to the expectation that I had for it, and thank everyone who's dealt with my emo ass recently.
Cheers.
Oh and I DID fix some things with this just now...the arm...and the placement of the eyes....they felt a little too far down...I think I'm on ok terms with this piece now.
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Whoa, that looks so awesome! Uh...do you mind if I download this and maybe use it as part of a Christmas Card I'm creating in my Graphics Class? I promise to give you fair copyright.
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sure, as long as money isn't made from it.
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Nope, it's just a Christmas Card I'm gonna send to my sis.
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oh ok. Hope she likes it.
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this is so beautiful! I love how you did the fur and shading on the character, and how it stands out from the background. The perspection used in the background is really neat too, and I like how you used mostly blue in the backgrounds. I really like the clouds also, and how you made them look so realistic and soft/puffy-ish XD Anyway, great work on this!
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aww thank joo so much 
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nice work there D i like the fur, it flows in the wrong direction in a few places but overall it looks nice nd fluffy.
though the bottom left corner of the background looks like it hasnt been finnishedand i'm not fond of the green glow around the eye either mainly because its quite sickly looking... i'd have proberbly picked a diffrent shade of green to work with there... proberbly a more cool one to match the coolness of the blue and proberbly to the more blue side then the yellow, but thats me. the blues a stuning colour though and has a lot more depth to it.
but overall nice work there
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thanks xD
yeah I barely have anatomy down...then I added fur so I'm not surprised it's not flowing correctly in some places. As for the green eye...I just wanted somthing different cause I was so fucking sick of the blue....but it's an easy enough thing to fix, so thanks for calling me out on it.
And yeah you're right about the bottom left corner....good eye.
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the green eye itself isnt a problem, its just the blue eye is quite a cool colour and the greens more walm just go for a cool green instead and will kill the sickly look as well. its nice to have another colour but blue and orange in the picture, the green does make the eyes more intersting however the green glow reminds me ofthe glow off neculor stuff and slime in cartoons. it would fit the rest of the picture more if you knock it into the blue side of green also.
i like the background its nice, just that corner looked alitle wierd. but it is definatly nice to see something compleated and with a background. dont get to picky with the mistakes, sometimes its better to put apic to rest for a wek and come back too it and work on something else. just keep the problems identifide in the last pic in mind and try to work on those problems.
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I think the fur worked out well. I mean its a little sharp on the edges and could stand to be fuzzed out but that alright.
And that blue eye really hooks me. The green eye not as much but that's the inherent nature of the colors not the art.
What I'm most pleased to see? The DA watermark
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but yerah the important thing is I actually finished it..lol..
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lol....yep....I had meant to make my own...just havn't the time. xD
Yeah I had tried fuzzing out the fur...but the more I did it...the more watery she looked...so I tried to lower the strength on the smudge tool...and then it just made it sharp again...so I used the blur tool...and that was a fucking mess...so I started selecting areas and using different blurs and filters...but I lost my definition lines...and then like...after that xDD I said fuck it, threw down the pen and made a cup of coffee. But yeah....I'll find a way...still learning xD
Thanks for your comment.
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That is fucking gorgeous! 
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yeah... you're too hard on yourself...
Nice fur... (home made spackle brush I'm guessing ^_^ ) really nice depth and shading with it.
I like the eyes... there may be errors but you can't really see them unless you look super close.
is he supposed to be floating or does it just look that way?
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yep just floating..
and nope, no spackle brush actually. Just a regular hard brush, using an angled smudge tool.
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wow! nice job... it's got great texture...
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Wow its awesome! I actually LOVE the eyes and think they turned out great! The fur texture is good too!! It's so cute as well!
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sorry you feel bad, get better! And the picture is awesome!
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how can you think this is bad? its amazing! great job!
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eh. Thank you very much. I've just been a bit hard on myself. xD
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well, most artists are hard on themselves about their own work. so you're not the only one.
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I LOVERS IT 
I love it sweety, thank you >w<
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I also tried fixing the arm a little bit..it's still a little too scrawny for her...but better than it wa.s..and the placement of the eyes O-o they were too low before.
And yes I enabled a watermark, but if you want a print of this send me your mailing address and I'll send it to you.
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ah yes....even after you redline shit for me I STILL aint got anatomy down. Ahh well...I'm glad you like it so much...and the front leg was actuallly fine..it was when I added the fur that shit kinda changed and morphed...
and yeah...I was tired of the damn stereotype of kitsunes...and fire...so I said fuck it, and went with a winter theme...
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Well, it was a good thing you did, cuz I'm water element anyway XD
I'll note you my address
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I used Photoshop seven. Just a simple brush and I raped the smudge tool. xD
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OMG that's adorable
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aww thank you very much. Apprecaited.
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