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Published: 2012-09-03 08:47:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 615; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 8
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Description This is Silicon, my acid spitter Thanks to the amazing and wonderful ~AmelieTwist Silicon is now my character.
Even though she won the adoption bid, she contacted me and let me know that she'd let me have him, which is something I'm not sure I'd be able to do.

The lineart was done using the pen tool just to see how that worked out. I quite like it, but I think I'm still going to use my thick lineart style for most things.
The face is my favourite part, which is quite funny since I redrew it about four times before I was happy with the sketch, then I changed it quite considerably when I started the lineart. It was a real hassle to do, but when I started shading it was suddenly the best part of the drawing.
The shading was the same as the last flat shaded drawing I did, I think I quite like this method of shading.

I hope the anatomy and the rest is ok, since I haven't drawn these creatures much.

Acid spitters and Silicon's design belong to =DemonML
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Comments: 29

BlueNephelim [2012-09-28 02:38:50 +0000 UTC]

Aww, I'm glad you ended up with Silicon! This is an awesome picture of him; very dynamic. Nicely done. ^_^

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Fluffysminion In reply to BlueNephelim [2012-12-03 15:54:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I'm really glad it worked out that way, I just need to make sure I actually draw him now.

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CarmanMM-Dirda [2012-09-03 20:10:11 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! That was nice of them
Looks pretty awesome too if I may say so~

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Fluffysminion In reply to CarmanMM-Dirda [2012-09-04 07:25:20 +0000 UTC]

I know, I don't think I could do that.
Thank you! I think I finally understand shadows.

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CarmanMM-Dirda In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-04 07:27:54 +0000 UTC]

Yes, the shadows look great!

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Fluffysminion In reply to CarmanMM-Dirda [2012-09-04 07:31:07 +0000 UTC]

I suddenly realised that I'd be shading based on the 3d structure, not where the shadows were, if that makes sense.

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CarmanMM-Dirda In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-04 07:33:22 +0000 UTC]

Yes it makes sense c:

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Fluffysminion In reply to CarmanMM-Dirda [2012-09-04 07:43:35 +0000 UTC]

Glad to hear that, it feels really good to have made some progress,now looking back I don't know why I didn't see it before, but that's how it goes.

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CarmanMM-Dirda In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-04 08:00:49 +0000 UTC]

Not to work on light sources! XD

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Silver-Rook [2012-09-03 19:36:25 +0000 UTC]

He looks great!!!

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Fluffysminion In reply to Silver-Rook [2012-09-04 07:25:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! And thanks again for letting me have him.

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JB1992 [2012-09-03 16:41:09 +0000 UTC]

WOW epic!

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Fluffysminion In reply to JB1992 [2012-09-03 16:48:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I really like this shading style, it's great.

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JB1992 In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-03 20:13:02 +0000 UTC]

Yeah! It's more realistic,

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MichikamiDragon [2012-09-03 16:16:55 +0000 UTC]

Nice, epic pose. I love him and the way he goes "RAWR". XD

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Fluffysminion In reply to MichikamiDragon [2012-09-03 16:46:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I love the design, I'm forever indebted to ~AmelieTwist for letting me have him.
Yeah, he's not a friendly spitter.

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Wyvernadas [2012-09-03 11:43:38 +0000 UTC]

Wow Fluffy! This is so awesome! The lines (you can use the pen tool??? I can't even begin to start with that thing xD), the cell shading, the pose. I especially like the shading on the head!

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Fluffysminion In reply to Wyvernadas [2012-09-03 12:39:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I spent ages looking at tutorials and then I suddenly worked it out XD I've never been able to before but it seems I've cracked it.
The shading on the head is my favourite part, it took the head from being something I was embarassed with to the best part of the drawing, it was very odd. Still, I think I know where I've been going wrong with shadows now, so that's good news.

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Amadoodles [2012-09-03 09:29:28 +0000 UTC]

whaaaaooooaaaaa fluffy! In all honesty I didn't recognise this as yours! The style is so different. It looks SERIOUSLY awesome though, that body and that pose and the way you coloured it is really really cool!

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Fluffysminion In reply to Amadoodles [2012-09-03 11:41:26 +0000 UTC]

I know, the shading's new, the lineart's new, there's very little there that's not new.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it, I'l seriously pleased with shading now, it requires more thought but the difference is amazing. I don't know why I never thought about it like this before. I'm not sure where the pose came from but it sorted itself out in the end XD This went through so many stages of looking terrible, I'm really pleased I stuck with it.

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Amadoodles In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-04 15:20:02 +0000 UTC]

Yes I can defenitely see the difference in the shading. What caused the breakthough?

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Fluffysminion In reply to Amadoodles [2012-09-05 15:08:58 +0000 UTC]

There was a drawing in one of the groups I watch with a dragon and you could see all the dragon's spines on the shadow and I wondered why I'd never drawn a shadow like that, then I saw this random tutorial and suddenly realised that things in real life only have one layer of shadow, and it's where the light isn't. I'd never looked at it that way before, I'd always worked on what was sticking out and what was further in.

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Amadoodles In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-05 20:30:27 +0000 UTC]

Haha weird how that all came together.
That is one interesting way of looking at shadows though. I can see how it would make a difference. I don't think that I ever really thought about them like that before.

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Fluffysminion In reply to Amadoodles [2012-09-05 20:54:32 +0000 UTC]

I know, it was a genuine eureka moment. I don't get them often, which is why I mentioned it to start with. It was quite odd.
Really? I didn't either, but I don't know. I found it quite hard to start with, but it does kind of make sense after a while. I'm not sure what it'll mean for lineless work, but I'm sure it will help them just as much as it helped the more cartoony stuff.

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Amadoodles In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-06 16:50:12 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah I'm sure. Im going to sit here and wait for an eureka moment. Been a while since I had one

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Fluffysminion In reply to Amadoodles [2012-09-07 16:49:57 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure you will get one, everyone goes through periods where they don't get as many.

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Sovereign64 [2012-09-03 09:20:44 +0000 UTC]

Not bad. I like the spine and head.

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Fluffysminion In reply to Sovereign64 [2012-09-03 11:42:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! The head is a mystery to me, I have no idea how it did such a U-turn on me. And the spine I think says that I have a fondness for exoskeletons, since my last two drawings have included external spines.

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Sovereign64 In reply to Fluffysminion [2012-09-03 11:50:44 +0000 UTC]

Cool.

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