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Published: 2009-12-28 10:17:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 11109; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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More awesome lines by *7th-Seal that I couldn't resist coloring. It only took me about 6 hours too, which surprised me. I have a Witchblade pic and an Iron Man pic I've been working on all weekend. -___-And I start this and get it done in 6 hours...and it's twice as big as either of them. -____-
I dunno what's going on. I think it's magic.
Anyway, I tried not to focus too much on keeping it smooth, though I didn't intentionally do rough shading either.
I didn't feel like doing much for the background. I just added the moon and a big 2500-pixel soft round brush on screen.
Originally, I pictured him fighting on an alien planet with a green sky, with a yellowish, gold kinda sunset going on, but the shading made it look more like a nighttime scene, so I went with it. Let me know what you think.
Ok, just looked at this, and the highlights were a lot stronger in photoshop, so I'm gonna fix that later. It just looks weird the way it is now.
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Alright, so like you mentioned in your comment, the line work by 7th Seal is great. Has a very dynamic feel to the piece that really attracts the audiences' interest.
That being said, I think this colouring does not do the line work justice. The main problem in the colouring for this piece is real simple, colour balance.
Lets just say the colours you choose and how you apply them are how some might say "straight out of the bottle". What I'm referring to is similar to when you paint on canvas, and you just grab paint straight out of the tube and use it. It makes it really hard to unify the art together, and stops the flow of the eye around your artwork
For example, in this artwork, you have a lot of dark neutral colours surrounding Spiderman, and plop in the middle are a bold primary red and blue, and a random purple in the top corner. The problem with this is that because spiderman is the main focal point, the viewer's eye just gets stuck between him and carnage(?). As for the purple its just locked away in the corner, and makes it hard to relate to the rest of the artwork.
The solution to this is real simple, just mix up the colour abit, spread it around the artowrk as well. Has your teacher ever told you about using Carbon Black paint out of a container? Well its kinda like that, basically don't forget that their is thousands of different shades/tints of each colour. So for black their is just one neutral black, if you mix it around with blue, red, or yellow, it forms all sorts of black that will blend in better with oyur artwork. Same thing applies to this artwork, try and play around with other colours and distribute it more evenly so the eye can unify and travel around the artwork better.
Well, sorry, I'm not very great at explaining my thoughts on words, hope all this makes sense to you. And please don't be discourage because I said the colouring does not do justice to the line work, I just want you to learn from this and make wonderful colouring in the future.
Anyways, good luck.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Love detailed crits like this. I totally agree. I wanted to do less saturated colors, except for Spiderman, but then I kinda botched it when I started shading. Lack of sleep and care probably affected it most.
Anyway, I'll take your suggestions and make a version 2.
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Really?! Awesome! I'm really glad I can help....I'm not very good putting my thoughts into words, so I was afraid It wasn't going to make complete sense x]....
Good Luck!
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A daytime scene is what :7th-seal: had in mind. He even told me so when I told him I was doing a second version. So that should make things easier, but zi'm thinking of just having them all really dark and shiny, and not so colorful. There'll be subtle color differences though to keep em separate. But your crit made sense. I appreciate what you had to say. You provided good reasons for the things you thought were negative aspects about it. So I really can't argue with it, cuz they were very valid points. But the bestt hing about it was your suggestions to fix it. That's what really helps. So again, thanks. I hope you'll take a look at the second version when I do it.
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Wow. I really like this. If only you could. . .you know. . .draw a picture of. . .batman. . .raping. . .alexis? AH FORGET I SAID ANYTHING!!!! D8
*Damn. .too bad I can't draw Batman...*
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Hahaha, I could always dress up like Batman.
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Teeheehehehe!!! =^o^=
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Gonna be a fun party.
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And SYMBIOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just found out you're color blind....So how would you know? lol jk.
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lol IDK hahaha.
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It's ok, I still value your opinion.
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This looks great! Sweet job on the highlighting!
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Thanks! I wanted stronger highlights on the purple one's arm though.
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Hehe, you just like his butt. -___-
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I cant even see his butt so 
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Oh it's there. He's mooning the moon. You should look closer.
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Hahaha. The man in the moon's gonna pissed.
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He's hiding from me tonight.
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