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Published: 2006-11-19 23:49:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 902; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 15
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[ OTHER HALF OF THE TRADE ]Yes, 'tis ANOTHER art trade! I do way too many of these, but this one was really worth it as it's a trade with a local Capetonian artist friend who's only recently joined up on DevArt. I know him from a South African manga/anime oriented forum . Hell, we've even met in person (4th frame, Darkwolf) : T
Anyways, his request was to draw the main character of his manga as a tundra wolf. The character's name is Ash and he's a Necromancer, thus the title (I'm sure yeh can figure it out from there).
I'm not sure what originally inspired me to do a rain scene like this, but once it got started the thing snowballed from there... ended up spending A LOT of time doing the rain effect, but hopefully it looks like it was worth it ^^
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I like this one, he's fluffy and wet and I want to hug him...
I'm very original with my comments so I will apologise in advance...
I usually base my approval of three factors:
1. Is the character undead?
2. Are they cute and huggable?
3. If covered in chocolate, will they be more appealing?
Errr ummm I do value artistic talent as well...honest...
*runs off for some chocolate*
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Original comments are always welcome! They're certainly better than the one-liners... aka "cute!" or "lol!" ... or "cutelol!"
Hmm, yeah I don't think I've ever covered points 1 and 3 before, so I've gotta make up for it with 2
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Good colouring, but the rain needs a bit of work as it looks more like mist!
You can add grain and then just use motion blur( i think, not too sure right now
It's stil a good image
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Thanks boet, I was kinda hoping to create a misty effect though
I will definitely keep your advice in mind for future creations of clearer-looking rain, I hadn't thought of using those suggested effects
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Ah =3 yes it seemed like you've put a lot of efforts into drawing this, and it's sure worth the work, looks awesome. Very nice rainy background btw.
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Guuh, late reply! Though I thought I did reply to this comment a while back :/
Anyways, thank yeh muchly Kerol, it was fun doing that rain effect... goin' wild with the smudge tool an' all : T
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OMG!
Damn that's cool!!!
I'm really 'wowed' by this pic...
I know your used to cartoony humorous pics... so I was wondering how you were going to pull of a 'serious' pose... but damn... that took the cake!
The rain really goes great with the pic (and with the characters mood 
I know rain (and the atmosphere of rain) is pretty tricky to get right... but it looks like you had no trouble with it
You nailed the outfit and stuff perfectly!
But yeah... sorry 'bout the hair... it's tricky for me aswell to draw it...
But it seems you got it right (even managed to give it that 'wet' effect from the rain
Great job man!
I'm really glad to see my character in your style... it's awesoma-la-rific!!!
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Well, I may be used to cartoony pics but I certainly started out learning with the serious stuff
Dunno exactly what inspired the rain, but your character just seemed to demand it!
Awesome, I just hope I got the tundra wolf part right... I couldn't do him completely white because the rain wouldn't have been visible on his fur then. Heh, the hair did take some time to get right though, lots of redrawing there : T
Many thanks Wolf-san, your ref-sheets were a huge help, so much so that I'm sorry I didn't have any of my own to help you with Kyla... though by the looks of your pic yeh didn't need any help there!
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ooooo! very cool gibbo! love the rain effect, shall we say superb
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Huzzah, and many thanks to you good sir
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ROFL I had to go through about 100 deviations to get to yours dude 
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Well I'm glad yeh made the effort to check it out! I know a lotta folks in that situation would quietly click 'delete all' XD
I got reference from mr Wolf with regards to his character's suit (check out the description on the pic and you'll find a link to that reference), otherwise I had to create the wolf version of this character m'self, as per his request. The rain was an odd bit of inspiration, dunno quite what influenced me to draw it
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Art trades are fun
Nice work on the mood, you can get his emotion well.
Interesting rain technique too
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Yesh, they are quite fun indeed!
Thanks KCA, it was certainly a strangely conceived rain technique, complete with smudgy goodness ^^
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very nice! i love it! it looks like you put alot of effort into it ^_^ I love the rain!
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I'm glad to hear that, thanks! ^__^
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Why thank yah Ray, would you say it's wet an' wild eh?
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oh indeed i would XD makes me wanna draw a wet piccy
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Thats pretty awesome mate. I love the pose with him looking up while the rain is falling down on him o3o Thumbs up
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Cool dude, yeah it was a good feeling to see that pose finished... while drawing it kept looking crap, especially the hair, but a few retries later it kinda started working out! Thanks Merc
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Wicked, much appreciate it CC!
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Nice, I love the effects. How'd you do 'em, teach me.
I also like his outfit, good job!
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Heh, which effects? I used a boatload here
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Hmm, how to shorten this. Lezee...
Rain: (layer behind character) Went crazy wild with at least 5 different shades and variations of blue, on two layers, all slightly lighter than the base blue background. Then used smudged tool and eraser to smudge straight up and down all over the place until it started looking somewhat rainy. The lightest blue was carefully smudged to simulate a raindrop, then cloned around the place in different ways.
Rain spatter on character: (new layer) Very light blue line in places where rain would bounce off character. Threw in some pure white dots, then used eraser and smudge tool again, 'bouncing' up and down with smudge to get desired effect, finishing by erasing close to the character to give space between him and the effect.
Ground Mist (caused by hot ground): (new layer above character) Choosing light grey, used a large brush that simulates marble texture to spread around the character's feet, then used smudge tool in a swirly fashion to create a mist-like effect. Lowered the opacity of the layer to desired effect.
Rain Puddles: Another brush tool that creates semi-circle swirls, used different sizes, copy-pasted and flipped some around... also put on a seperate layer and lowered the opacity of the layer to about 20
Rain riverlets on character: New layer, white brush, eraser, smudge, happy
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oooh I love it. I love the foggyness!
you rock~
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Yay, thanks Yoroshii! Fog is fuuun
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It definitely looks like he's in the rain and everything. I think maybe you could have done a bit more but, that might not have fit with the style. This looks very nice, very well done. I especially like the fade towards the bottom.
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Great, 'tis good to hear since I've only drawn rain once before. Thanks man, which fade would that be though? ^^
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The one that makes his feet nearly dissappear
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Aaah, heh... the result of the fog/mist coming off the ground ^^
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