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Published: 2008-04-11 08:35:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 1191; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 22
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This pretty much came straight out of nowhere. Wanted to do something a little bit different... and I discovered that while I like hair that looks like that, it was horribly difficult to make it turn out right. And I really have no idea how long her bangs took. >_< Urgh.But, I'm rather happy with it.
Title = big word Frotu likes. Although there is a biiit more thought to it than that, I'm to the point where I just want to post this.
EDIT: Found a brush I approved of, and also made the texture show up a bit more. NOW it feels completely finished to me.
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wow...
DEFFENETLY ONE OF YOUR BEST!!!
The texture looks like popyrus! I love it!
You always choos the perfect colors!!
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Thanks! I was kind of surprised with how it turned out -- it was a bit nicer than I had planned!
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Aw, what happened?
you were down in the dumps?
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Well... I don't really remember anymore. *laughs* I'm guessing that I was more just worn out from school and testing and getting emotionally ready for my friend's wedding, etc etc... I was kind of worked up the first half of April. ... Or rather I was until a few days ago, the levels just varied. Now it's almost vacation, so everything is glorious now. ^__^
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well, im happy everythings...well!!
daw, good for your friend!!!
yeah i know, summah time!!!
it feels like you dont have to worry abuot any crap!!! It's GREAT!!!
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Much pretty! Looks like a desktop background out cover art for something. Love it.
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Haha, I kind of thought that it looked about the right size for a desktop background. XD Anyway, I'm very glad you like it!
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I'm getting a distinctly Art Nouveau kind of impresson here.
A gorgeously positive and sedate piece. She looks like a gal who'd take it on the chin and get right back up again. There's something so optimistic about her.
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Yeyness! Some of the art nouveau stuff has really intrigued me in the past, so I'd really like to do a piece that is actually like that sometime. But maybe I'm even getting ahead of myself. XD
I'm very happy that you like it, and that you got the air you did. I was really hoping to get a "relaxed" sort of atmosphere to it, regardless of some of its fussiness. ^^
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Lovely piece of work! Her hair is gorgeous! And the background kind of reminds me of papyrus fro some reason...
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Thank you very much! ^^ I'm really happy to hear about the hair, since that was rather time consuming. I rather liked the background myself... it kind of didn't seem to be specifically one type of '
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I actually found a picture of old paper on google... *laughs*. Then I messed with the color balance, saturation, contrast, etc etc until I was happy with it. I am sadly rather lazy...
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Oh my gosh! I love the hair! *wants hair like that*
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I wish I could have swishy hair, too. Sadly, hair doesn't like to cooperate much, does it? *commiserates*
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Yes, swirly hair would be nice, insted of the monster that lives on the top of my head.. (aka, my hair)
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^___^ Yeah... I couldn't quite decide if I thought it was more Japanese or Chinese.
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idk really but it looks like a geisha in a way
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I was hoping that she might have a touch of that look to her, so that's very yey. ^^
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She is absolutely lovely. I like the background, too.
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I'm glad that you think so! ^^ I found the background off of google and then messed around with it a bit, but I thought it worked pretty well!
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The face is good.^^ I can't complain about the shadows *g* But I have a suggestion: Make her look like a painting, putting a layer of papyrus not only in the background but also over her. Some asian winter mountains in the back and maybe an ornamental frame...
Sorry, I got carried away. You said you just felt like posting it finally, so I thought what could be added.^^ I feel like it's not complete.
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I did try to make it look like a painting! T__T I flattened all the colored layers and then put the opacity down to 85%... when I did more than that, all the detail on her face disappeared. *sigh* And I have thought about putting something in the top left corner, but I couldn't find a leaf brush that worked with the style of the rest of the picture. I might go back and find something.... then I can add my watermark, too.
At least your suggestions were things I had been thinking myself! ^__^
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sorry for underestimating you and for too much believe in drawing programs *g* You know, I am on the traditional side... *sneezes* oh no! I just finished this thing and now it's crap. v_v
xD
This can happen, but it never happened to me. All you could suffer from is a spoiled screen.
I'm talking crap. It's late. And I miss you. 
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Nonono, it's fine! I was just getting tired so and I am not used to uploading brushes, so after a while I just had to say "enough! Bedtime!"
I thought that you didn't like computer programs though. I really like computer programs because I can avoid the problems of making mistakes like that. Although I still make mistakes in the lineart... *sigh*
*huuug* I don't mind crap talk. XD
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craptalk, yey! xD
*snuggel*
I like computers, but the things I hold dear, like pictures or stories, I want to hold in my hands, to be sure. And I have no inspiration with a blinking cursor in front of me. I have to feel the pen and the paper under my hands to get it done.^^
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I agree... I can't draw on the computer. >_< I always have the pencil sketches or the inked versions of my pictures that I scan and then color on the computer. I think it would be nice to have real copies of my pictures... but then I would be afraid that water would get on them or they would get torn... or lost... or stained... or crumpled... *sigh* Computer or traditional, there are always problems! *laughs*
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The problem is not the computer or traditional... you misorganized your nutrition! xD *random crap*
The problem is to let go: what we created we want to keep. You know what the japanese people do to their temples? they are all made of wood, and every 100 years or so they are torn down and rebuild completely. We run around with cameras when we are on holiday and depend on those pixels to save our memories, therefore our mind makes no effort to remind the view and the scenery. We watch the screen and not the nature. I try to keep the attitude, that everything I make is not for keeping, but only the making itself is sensible. If DA shall burn down and my room and all is gone, that's no great problem.^^
But... I would be angry to spill tea on a picture >_< that would be not fate, but stupidity. I keep pictures in files.
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Yes, that is a good point. Isn't there something in the Silmarillion where somebody is told not to love the work of their hand too dearly? For some reason I think it has to do with Gondolin, but it has been five years since I read the Silm, so I could be wrong!
We visited the shrines at Ise when they were taking a new log to where the new shrine would be built. I thought it was an interesting concept, and definitely worth considering. I think you are correct about memories, to a point. When I was in Japan, I think I took over 600 pictures. But... they were not all just for memory. Much of it was to show my friends and family at home. That is maybe the biggest reason why I take pictures -- I want to be able to show somebody else what I experienced. I want to be able to share. Although it does perhaps make my memory a bit lazy... XD
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yes, it was about Gondolin. Ulmo told Turgon not to love the work of his hands too much, but he didn't listen, and Gondolin was destroyed.
yes, pictures are very handy to show around where you have been, that's true. But I wonder how the people told about their journeys when there had been no cameras. They described. And our society is glued to the screen. We usually do not make long sentences with complex structures, and there are few people who would understand us if we did. I am not against pictures, but screens are a dangerous medium, and we are not taught properly how to handle it critically and careful.
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Yey, I win! ... A little. <_<
Yes, well, society went to hell in a handbasket when MTV came out. That's when everybody got attention spans the length of those goldfish have. *sage nod* It's sadly true... it was discussed in one of my classes.
I really enjoy hearing about your views on the world and how we live... they are very refreshing! It is nice that other people enjoy storytelling and description still.
Oh, and you must check this picture again. I added some of the stuff we talked about. ^^
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Oh, yes that looks good!^_^ Really very old. Our art teacher told us that in Asia the motives are always decentral, and you did place the branch as well as the woman more or less at the edges of the picture. It's not perfect, but it's really good.^^
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I'm happy that it looks better now! I've never studied art, so I don't actually know about the Asia motives... but that's pretty neat if I managed to almost get them!
Well, I think you do a good job about being honest, and I think it's very good. It is true that few people do it, although I do suppose there must be a line that is drawn somewhere. To be too blunt is actually a form of antisocial behavior -- you can't really get along with everybody if you tell the complete truth all the time. We discussed this in my child development. But I definitely think that you speak very genuinely, and your efforts are definitely working well!
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Yes, I know it is very difficult to walk on that line of being honest and hurt noone at the same time. Very difficult.
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I'm happy that you think so!
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Omgsh! she is so beautiful i love her hair and outfit so much! 
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Thank you!
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