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Published: 2003-07-28 05:30:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 4268; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 373
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Description This is drawn by Melissa Uran, and colored by me. It was a commission done for someone's player, as she does a lot of the art for the Exalted game line, so they got her for it. I colored it, and there are two versions of this - one is the blue version you see here, and the second is the correct fire aspect version with red and black armour and red tinted skin and hair, with gold fabric. Of the two I like the red more because the warmer colors pop off the screen better, but the mellow blue is nice too.

The reason you can't see the red version is because the person who commissioned the art in the first place likes it more and wants it t himself.

This is done, in all things, Paint Shop Pro, with the start done in pohotoshop just to remove the white from the lines. I'm thinking about taking another drawing and showing the methods I used to get this - I hadn't used the program for coloring a piece in erm...well, years, and had never tried painting with it, thinking like lots of other people have that it's not up to the task. I was happily wrong. This is in PSP 7, as I'm too lazy right now to update my copy to 8 from the website. All in all this took about 6 hours to do, from the start of culling the white from it to the final adjustment of color to the gold on the costume. I use a wacom tablet, but I think that if you were willing to spend about twice as long on it you might be able to do this with a mouse.

Nobody reads these parts anyway so I don't know why I bother explaining, but hey, there you go. I predict this will get about 7 comments, and a total of 158 page views, with maybe one favorite. Let's see if that pans out. Maybe I'll get totally blown out of the water and get a Daily Deviation or something *highly unlikely*
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Comments: 17

sicmentale [2007-05-20 13:41:07 +0000 UTC]

Though so it was Mel Uran who did the lineart. But who did a wonderful job coloring it! I love it!

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lepetitemort In reply to sicmentale [2007-07-17 05:48:01 +0000 UTC]

The coloring is by me.

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Lergahin [2006-12-28 21:31:42 +0000 UTC]

really great colors and pose ! ^^

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BigBerd [2006-09-19 11:40:33 +0000 UTC]

Daiklaves for everyone!!!!

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Aidelon [2006-04-04 16:30:03 +0000 UTC]

I really like what you have done with Mel Uran's work. It is really well colored. I do wish I could see the red version, but understand completely about players wanting to keep their peices to themselves. Exalted is one of my fav games, I think you captured it in color very well with this pic. Nicely done!

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justsunny [2006-01-03 21:45:40 +0000 UTC]

well coloured. do you know what kind of exalted she is? i'm a bit curious, because my friends and i are playing it . do you still remember how long it took to colour it?

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wallapuctus [2004-11-18 00:31:55 +0000 UTC]

This is very cool, I always thought Exalted had nice artwork. Everytime I see the books in the store I pick them up and flip through to look at the pictures. I guess there's a game in there somewhere too but who has the time to read all that?

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basakward [2004-09-04 08:02:03 +0000 UTC]

Bravo.. The attention to detail is definately the strong point in this, obviously.. I'd also love to point out that you have a wonderful sense of action and motion in this piece as well as a strong (and suprisingly on model) sense of proportion and foreshortening.. Bravo! Definately worth it's place as the featured deviation! Great stuff!

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BlackheartSahva [2004-08-15 06:33:50 +0000 UTC]

Hey I read all of your explainations. And this would be 9 comments and 2 favorites, so go rampage tokyo. And while you're at it, draw gidergi and tain.

You are de gozaru

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XimonR [2004-04-05 07:35:03 +0000 UTC]

This is very well done, nicely detailed.
I love her sword!

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juuhanna [2003-08-30 22:22:17 +0000 UTC]

This is gorgeous! It must have taken you forever to color all the details.
I really like the colors, they all fit together well.
I myself wouldn't put together blue and gold, but you have managed to make them look great.
This really reminds me of Masamune Shirow's pictures, not by the style that it's been drawn with, but more because of it's composition, the big sword, woman with *ahem* big breasts, lots of details and great computer coloring.

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lunatic-13 [2003-08-15 03:27:28 +0000 UTC]

So... so awsome O_O Dayum and double damn... you really know what you're doing with those cloths. And the blade, pointed at the viewer, not easy to do at all, but you pulled it off splendedly! I love, I love!

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powpowpow [2003-07-28 12:37:27 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap! It's amazing! The colors are striking, the pose is freaky cool, and her clothes are amazing! I love it!

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xeokeri [2003-07-28 06:08:06 +0000 UTC]

Nice, very nice. Love it.

- X

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edm [2003-07-28 05:35:30 +0000 UTC]

the angle is good and the pose is nice. The coloring is wounderful- I love it.

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patchworkpuck [2003-07-28 05:35:16 +0000 UTC]

Very nice job! The coloring rocks. It's a shame we can't see the red version. Oh, well. This is still great!

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karmaslave15 [2003-07-28 05:32:38 +0000 UTC]

Awesome pic. O_O that sword is huge!!...cool.

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