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The work involved when I painted the Farscape picture.1-Line drawing
2-Basic overall colors
3-Local colors
4-Details
5-More details
6-Even more details + a blurry backdrop (I'm half-dead at this point)
7-Upload the damn thing all ready!
Cheers!
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Utterly fantastic!
I'll be honest, from the thumbnails I thought these were photo manips at first until I saw this one.
I'm starting up a Full color Farscape fanzine. Totally non-profit of course, but if you're ever interested in something like that let me know. I'd love to have your work in it.
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Wow! Thanks for showing the steps. Its great to see the process something goes through to get done. I don't really apreciate the final product as much as I do when I see it being worked on. ^_^
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Thats a freaking awesome drawing of Scorpious...
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HI! and i wanted to say that this pic is just fck! ubelibil! or what ever u say it.. but damm!!! asome stuff o.o; ... tough this is a bit confucing even that is understandeble but i would just love to see more of what u did on the image ^^. if u may
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Ooooh, this is awesome. And amusing to me too, because a few weeks ago I was sick and stayed home watching Farscape and sketched a picture of good old Scorpious from the TV. Bit of deja vu here.
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Wow that's awesome. I don't believe I could put that mush effort[sp?] into something like that... I'm more of a writer.
Anyways that's really impressive! ^^
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You've certainly got a talent. It's good to see the steps you took - I've learnt quite a bit from this.
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hmm, lärorikt
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Even seeing the steps that went into this I'm still flat out amazed. It's not a supprise.. but Still, nothing but 'wow'
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Oh! Så bra att du gör stepsbilder
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Gillar själv att titta på sådana bilder så man får väll bjuda till
lite ibland
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Scifi channel cancled the show some time ago 
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I'm curious, what program did you use for this? Photoshop, painter? Hehe, it almost looked like 3D Studio Max. I wouldn't have known otherwise if I didn't see the line work first off.
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It's made in photoshop from scratch
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Wow..ouch. Haha. I'm trying my hand at realism via photoshop, though it's harder to do then ever imagine.
I'm now just wondering about techniques that you used, and other things. I seem to be having troubles when it comes to detail and skin tone. I'm more of a traditional artist, seem to have more kindness from markers and watercolor.
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Hmm the techniques, I almost entirely use the brush tool (not the airbrush) and my wacom graphic tablet. Reference photos helps too if they are available
I also work in large resolutions, 4000-5000 pixels. Then when I'm finished I resize it to the intended size. This helps details mostly. Scorpy's size was 5600x4200.
On that last picture I added some sharpness at the end to get a more textured look.
Hope that helps!
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Wow, those are huge resolutions. I mainly work in a 300 (3000 or so pixel) resolution, just because I'm afraid that it'll bog down the computer and such.
I just recently got a wacom tablet and have been playing around with it, but still need a good bit of practice.
Also, do you work in small areas and then move on? And what do you use to blur..and blend colors? (sorry for all of the questions.)
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No bother
I tend to zoom in more and more when I'm coming closer to completing the picture. To work with larger brushes and with light pressure helps creating the shading smooth. I use smaller brushes to highlight edges and to add the last details. It helps a lot if you use the keyboard shortcuts, workflow gets a lot faster.
About the resolutions, yes they are pretty big 
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Ahhh..so that's the trade off. Yeah, i'll say that I don't like to use a lot of layers unless i'm uncertain about a section..and would rather try it on a seperate layer. But that would make sense for the high reso.
So, basicly, I'm guessing, the first layer is flat color, and then you build up the layers with the different types fo detail? Like first layer - flat color, second layer - shadow, highlight (blending and the like), and then the third being mostly detail?
That would make sense to me anyway, haha.
(This might be a double post, but blame DA!)
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Jepp, that’s sort of right
Layer1 - Line drawing, multiply mode so it only darkens the picture.
(Layer2 - Temporary layer used now and then for testing)
Layer3 - Main drawing
Background - solid colour
That's about it concerning the layers hehe. They are sorted in said order. The line art layer is on top of everything, but when I'm coming to an end I hide it often. But it is good to keep it until the very end to se how good the original line matches up.
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Ahh..alright, that makes a lot more sense! I see what you mean as far as the layers go..and wow, that's pretty simplistic (which I like when it comes to layers) and I like how you use one specific layer as a temp layer. Very nice in the ending.
And I notice, you don't end up using the original line art? That's what I always have troubles with concerning realism in photoshop, without the actual line art, I end up with a picture that looks less then par, so to say.
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Ahhh..so that's the trade off. Yeah, i'll say that I don't like to use a lot of layers unless i'm uncertain about a section..and would rather try it on a seperate layer. But that would make sense for the high reso.
So, basicly, I'm guessing, the first layer is flat color, and then you build up the layers with the different types fo detail? Like first layer - flat color, second layer - shadow, highlight (blending and the like), and then the third being mostly detail?
That would make sense to me anyway, haha.
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Sweet job man. i love the character on the show. you captured the life in this one.....................
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