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KaelNgu ā Material Study
Published: 2012-05-14 01:39:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 34171; Favourites: 926; Downloads: 1113
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Finally got my hand down to do this lol. Need to improve my understanding of material properties and how to render them. I should learn how to render with less stroke and yet maintain the level of details tho. Oh well just need to do more of this.Anyway, just a boring stuff from me but thank you very much for viewing.
Photoshop, all painting, no photo texture.
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Dear,Ā KaelNgu , I've made my own still life, so can you please come over to my page and critique my work, it would be very much appreciated!
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These are great! Did you paint the text in the glass ball or use an image and warp it underneath the glass layer?
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See the face UR profile pic is making, that was me for like two minutes when I saw the picture XDĀ
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Hello!
As an admin of I'd like to inform you that we believe that this artwork would fit with the subject and the quality to our 'digital' gallery.
Keep up good work and have a nice day
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HOLY.... These look so real!! I am very impressed!
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I wonder, how do you approach this? Do you like have this flat circle on the board and you go like "Ok, now I'll do a glass ball" and then paint it? Or do you use photo's of glass-objects and then try to fit it into a spherical shape? Thanks for the answer in advance and the awesome artwork!
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Reference photos of original glass ball on the side for me to study how it works in real life, and then paint it on a flat circle
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are you using a special brush to get the rust on the iron?
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Yeap there is a custom texture brush as a base, and then default brush for all the detailing
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you probably don't have any WIPs of this? I would be happy to see your progress on this one (because I'm planning on texture challenge myself)
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Nope I dont save the WIPs since its a small study. Just explore your way and you might find magic
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Whoaa... That texture is amazing o_O
Do you just draw the reflections out yourself?
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Hey thanks alot. Yeap they're hand painted, if you see carefully it's actually kinda rough lol. Anyway if you dont mind me asking, where lead you to this artwork? Because I suddenly receive thousands of view today on this particular one.
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A really popular piece, 100 texture studies or something, made it to the front page of the dA page. At the bottom of their description, the artist linked a thumbnail of this piece on there, recommending us to go and look at other artists's work. That's why you've gotten so many views recently. XD
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Ahh I see now, well thank you very much!!
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so realistic! especially the stainless steel one and plastic also the rusted iron.
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i really really need to ask! how long does it take for you to complete this ? >_<
and yea these are awesome O_O
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Haha Ellie, thank you. These dont take very long, that is if you capture the colours accurately. Otherwise it could take i dont know lol. About 10-15 minutes for each ball i guess
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gulp! >_<
i haz speed problemz
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it would be really awesome if you do this on livestream..i cant even start to figure out how you get to this level of realism
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Thank you. Though I'm not farmiliar with livestream at the moment but will try to catch up with that 
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it would be cool, thanks for you reply
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hey dude, how come did you do this stuff wow... It's amazing.. I'm planning to do this stuff also in my practice mode soon...
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Thx for this, I'll have to dig into materials and textures more as well, some time soon.
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Just do it mate, bet you'll have some fun with it like I do
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Good stuff, man! Is this a standard part of your college coursework? Or an exercise you did on your own?
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Hey thanks man. Its an exercise I did on my own,
college did not cover so much, too much things for students to learn lol.
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Well then I really admire your dedication and your skills. Respect, sir.
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nah, just a little practise in order to catch up with the world lol 
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These are really amazing! I'd love to try my hands on this. The wood threw me off for being a bit too reflective? Maybe just me.
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Thank you very much! Yes it seems that the highlights are abit too much, I'll definitely be more observant next time!
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Reminded me of this, [link] which is definitely a great thing.
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Well, congratulations, that's some frigging amazing painting skills you have there.
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Thank you very much! Yes Janaschi had definitely gave me a huge inspiration to start this study, she's really good.
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Looking good! Wood ball doesn't fit somehow, since it's tree barked ball. xD
Maybe a carved and smoothed wood ball would be interesting to study too~
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Ahh yes, should have written that instead LOL let me update it XD
And yeap a smoothed wood ball will be in my next package of material studies, too much for me to explore. Thank you!
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Thanks, but definitely not there yet, a lot more to go
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