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as promised, a step by step process. 1 hour for the grayscale and 20-25 minutes for colors and touch-ups. this would look nicer if I used masks and ellipses. too lazy
that's why he looks like a molten clay model.you can turn the grayscale into colors in less than 5 minutes tho without tweaking and adding more detail.
I'm torn between playing mass effect 2 and practicing photoshop in my spare time. Gotta go back to pencil work tho.
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Could I possibly use this image for a character in an RP?
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ok, i've got a sketch, it's basic pen outline on white paper and when I add overlay in colour it's barely noticeable. should I make my sketch a little opaque over a grey layer coz I'm assuming it's coz of the white bg that the colour is non existent on top. I notice that your's is properly shaded b4 colour is added, I probably need to do that yes/no? I'll go get some grey markers?
Sorry if this sounds confusing but I think your method is the perfect solution to a project I'm doing
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yes, that's why you need to "fill" it with gray all over and do your rendering on your gray scale. bear in mind that you should only leave whites on highlights.
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thanks for the quick reply, thanks for the info too
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Nice lighting. The muted red gives it a worn used feeling. This thing has been to war!
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Has a "Heavy Gear"/VOTOMS feel to it, only Very modern and sleek...nice, Practice?
Can't wait for a final render/sketch.
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dude! draw Mass Effect 2 stuff in PS that way you can play AND practice photoshop at the same time 
besides we get to see awesome art from ya muahaha!
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"I'm torn between playing mass effect 2 and practicing photoshop"
Why not do Mass Effect 2 fanart?
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I like it, it turned out very well.
It reminds me of Armored Core haha.
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It could be a excellent concept art for a videogame.
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so after using the gray scale you just add flat colors on top and the shade would pop out by it self? can this work with markers?
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Sometimes, looking like molten clay is a good thing
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man Dude! Yer Mech stuff is CRAZY tight! Wish you got more of a chance to do that type of stuff over at marvel. Oh well... one can dream, hehe.
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Great robots.
Congratulations. They are sensational.
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Ur digital rendering is looking better and better man. Although I think the greyscale-to-color method has a certain limitation at some point, and you will still need to do direct coloring.
Well, as for pencils and Mass Effect 2: "I should go." XD
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oh yes, absolutely
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box of cartridges can be on the lower situation
it can easily fall into the box
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Nice!
Sometimes I would be lazy when working like this and use layers instead of masking stuff off. I would even work in a few layers at most and color things as I went along, merging the layers that I was happy with now and then. I found though, if you make a quick color breakdown at the sketch stage: you can keep you layer count down. Unless you have loads of memoryβthen it could actually be beneficial to keep everything on a separate layer.
I did try using a quick-mask but if you are not careful you can get fringes of color and grays all over the place. Then there is the flat method through either channels or layers. Of course both those methods take time and patienceβtwo things that can get in the way of speed and kill the excitement that you can get from this kind of work, so I try to stay away from them lol.
Awesome though! I say go practice in photoshopβit's fun and your save games are more useful to you in the real world.
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thanks man! will keep these in mind. yeah, too many layers can get out of hand.
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Cool.I like his stockier look, it makes him look solid. Very battle-ready.
Your colour palette reminds me of Keith Thompson's work.
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