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LoneMuffin — Caught in the Wind
Published: 2009-02-10 20:34:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1064; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 10
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I HATE when I forget to close my window, and the wind blows my notes everywhere! I’d be kicking up a storm and swearing my head off if I woke up in this situation. My OC, however, would probably just wake up, see the mess, and go back to sleep XD. He’s a lazy guy usually found bumming around, sleeping, or eating candy. And yes, my male OCs are usually girly looking. I have more male OCs than female ones, but I tend to draw the girls more so my style leans more that way. I don’t have any intention of changing that either XPAs for the piece itself, I got lazy and sloppy. Hopefully it’s not as painfully noticeable for everyone else as it is for me. Also, instead of notes, I was intending to put sketches on those pages
The picture lost some of its meaning because I did this, as the sketches were supposed to be of his dreams. I have the PSD floating around so maybe one day I’ll change it… I also have to apologize for the graininess; I think I saved it too many times.
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Comments: 36
I love it, it's awesome, the colors are so smooth and I love the 'night' colors you used, it makes me want to sleep lulled by a breeze xD
You did a great job!
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Lol, thank you! Your comments always mean a lot to me since you're one of my art heroes
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I am? LOL I'm honored! *blushes* Thank you!
I don't consider myself very good but thanks, it means a lot ^^.
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I think you did a great job! It's really nice. My window is never opened...because it's taped shut. xD
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Thank you! Taped shut, really? what do you do if your room gets stuffy or something!
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You're welcome! ^^
I use a fan or ac during the Summer and that's about it. xD
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Ah seriously, I'd go crazy like that. I need some fresh air flow sometimes!
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Yeah, fresh air is good sometimes. ^^
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ohhh sooo pwetty 
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Thank you. Tone and mood are important to a picture, but I often neglect it
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hahahaha xD well u did great on this one xD
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His hair is so nice! I want to pet it it looks so soft.
The curtains are adorable. I wish I had some for my room.
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Thank you, that hair gave me a headache! I didn't have lineart for it this time around but painted it anyway *dies*
As for the curtains, that was just me being silly. I was worried I was going to get comments like, "what the heck is with those curtains?" xD
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Really? Lol. I thought the curtains were fun.
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Incredible drawing! Do you use photoshop or something?
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I use Photoshop for some of the stages. I'm a bit all over the place when I do art though.
For sketching, I use normal paper or a program called Open Canvas
Inking, usually photoshop and the pentool it has so I can get straighter lines and then program Paint Tool Sai for the small stuff
Coloring, mostly Sai with a bit of Photoshop
Finishing touches and such Photoshop XD
I wouldn't recommend my process to anyone
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Oh, i see.
I don't have Photoshop anyways.. how much does it cost?
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Photoshop is quite a powerhouse of a program so it runs pretty expensive I think around $700 USD I'm Canadian so even more here XD
There is a legal, freeware program out there called "Gimp" however, which is pretty powerful in its own right and has most of Photoshop's abilities. I find it's screen set up is a bit more complicated, but it works wonders all the same.
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Oh, I see.
(ZOMG!!! I'll never be able to afford it!!)Gimp? Never heard of it.
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That is SO AWESOME! I absolutely love everything about this picture! And your background is absolutely incredible! He doesn't look girly to me, nor does the picture look grainy. I think it is just you! lol. You must show me how you do the BG, especially the window and floorboards! I am fixing to do something along those line on my next picture. GAAH! I am just blinded by awesomeness! ;A;
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Lol thanks. I guess the power of over analyzing is with me for good XD
I'm not sure you want to learn my scary methods. Most of my self taught processes tend to take the long way around *gonks self on head* but I'm willing to share them to get idea's flowing.
Wood planks is it? or did I get confused there?
And thanks again lol
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Looks like it, but it seems to help! XD
Uh...your methods are probably like mine. I always wonder why it takes me days to finish a picture.
Yesh, teh wood.
Your welcome.
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I'd say it's a combination of my methods, and my staring blankly at the screen that makes it take so long in my case. I can sit for a good hour just looking at the color wheel trying to decide where to go with the piece *fails at life*
I was thinking about making a scrap tutorial for this wood thing but I'm full of epic fail at that. It's not a tough process though so I'll just type it out here. I hope that's okay >_<
I personally do this all in Sai but I'm guessing it can be done just as easily in PS
1) draw the lines and color in a random wood color. (If you're putting cracks along the vertical cut lines, I recommend doing those free hand so it looks more natural.)
2) draw in the highlight lines along the boarders of the wood behind the lineart. (click at the top of the line hold shift and click again at the bottom so it draws nice and straight along the line art [it's quicker than using the pentool/vector layer if you ask me]) Same for shadow lines on the other side of the lineart lines.
I use a fuzzier brush than the lineart layer for this process. and depending on how much depth you want your wood to have you may or may not need either the highlight lines or shadow ones. I usually draw both and then just delete the one that seems unnecessary later.
Depending on how dark or light you go with these lines, you can make your wood look really flat or deep. In my piece here, I was trying to mimic the floorboards at my house which have 3 planks glued together and then a gap so I made the shade layer more dominant after every 3 planks.
If your wood has deep cracks along the vertical cut lines or anywhere else, you may want to apply the highlights and shadows along those too. The floor in my piece doesn't have vertical cuts though so I can't show an example XD
3)water tool is your friend because it can blur itself nicely so your lines aren't harsh. In a color close to the shadow lines and on a new layer use it to draw random lines of varying width and angles (maybe throw in some back looping lines too since wood is inconsistent like that) put more lines closer to the shadow side than the highlight side.
4) if it's still not detailed enough, use a really small pen and randomly scribble on a few more lines.
In contrast, if it's too detailed, blur and airbrush random parts.
I think that's about it... Aside from that, if the wood your working on is really small you could probably skip the water step and just use a small pen and some airbrushing. And if the lines look too harsh during the process, before deleting a layer try messing around with the layer's opacity before making a final decision. I find myself doing that more often than not.
I hope that helps get idea's for your own process somehow and I hope I didn't sound like a know it all or something. I usually don't explain things to people for fear of being misinterpreted as condescending
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WOW, I do the exact same thing! And sometimes I will just sit there and stare at my piece of paper with my pencil in my hand and just sit there thinking of what to draw for a good hour. Yesterday, it took me two hours to finally draw something. I just can't ever think of poses to save my life. It's terrible! I was going to do the Pocky one, but I didn't feel like working on that one so I started something else that popped into my head after a long time. I got the idea from looking at a hand tutorial. O_O
That's fine. It would save you the trouble of having to make the tutorial anyways.
Now on step 3, are you talking about the water color brush? Otherwise I have no idea what the water tool is. O.o
Wow, that actually helps alot. I will experiment with it. We have faux hardwood floors, so I don't know if I could copy that. Who knows? I can always try! XD Thanks for writing all of that down for me! I'm sure it took you a while!
And you didn't sound like a know-it-all. It was sort of like a tutorial, which means you were instructing. So you are supposed to at least know what you are talking about, don't worry!
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Lol, as usual, not surprised to hear you say that. It's like our artistic brains function in the same way xD
Yes watercolor, sorry about that >_<
It's fine. I had some time earlier, and I type at the speed of light!
*breathes a sigh of relief* well that's good then. Now let's just hope I didn't lead you in the wrong direction...
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I know, they must! lol. You know what's weird? The picture I am working on now has turned out WAAAAY better than the crappy, crappy, crappy, CRAPPY scanned version of the picture. It doesn't even look like the same one! lol, I will post the lineart hopefully tonight sometime and put the scan on Photobucket (I wouldn't DARE put the original sketch on dA, for it is embarrassingly bad. You will laugh when you see the difference...).
Oh, well that makes more since. I though there was a water tool and was getting excited! XD
Me too! Unless I am on my iPod, which means you have to poke the little keys on the screen, which is a HUGE pain. I sometimes get so impatient I yell at my fingers to hurry up. O.o
I don't think you did. It will be fun to mess around with it when I get to that picture. After this one, I am going to try to work on our "collab/art trade" (which is going to be very interesting XD) unless I can't get a good idea...then I might start on that again or the other idea that has been floating in my head since yesterday.
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Lol I love when that happens. It's like instant evolution. It kind of gives you a bit of pride about instant improvement too. xD
wahahaa, I'm sorry I got your hopes up.
Awesome to hear. I'm excited for our team up, but remember to work on whatever your in the mood for not what you feel pressured to do. I'm stoked for whatever gets produced.
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lol. Yep!
It's okay. I wouldn't even know what to do with a water tool anyway! O.o
I will keep that in mind. I feel bipolar, as I get really excited about how a picture is turning out, but then it somehow goes downhill and it make me depressed. T~T
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Ah I know that bipolar feeling, that's why I learned to enjoy working on multiple pics at once. If one starts getting irritating, I leave it until my hate for it passes.
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lol, maybe I should start doing that. seriously, I was getting SO fed up with that one. i know I keep saying it, but I am still very disappointed with the way it turned out. T~T
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I think even the best people have pieces like that from time to time. Working on multiple does help sometimes, but sometimes there are one's you just have to let go and free your stresses from entirely.
I don't think it's a bad piece myself, but all the same, I think now that its out of the way, you can pick yourself back up again and move forward with something more awesome. No sense in stressing over something that's finished ^_^
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Yeah, I guess so. What's weird is that even today I got a huge dose of messages. Now when I submit something, I end up getting around 40 when I check again, but another 40 the next day? O.o Sorry if that sounds...braggy, but it is just weird! O.o
Really? Well, I will take your opinion on it (because I know you will be honest about it
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I'm not surprised. You've improved a lot so people are finally giving you the recognition you deserve. It's not braggy. You have every right to be happy.
That's a lot of collabs o.0 don't die on me! As for our picture. I'm going to be selfish and ask that you start first when you have time >_< I'll be needing a nudge I think. Truth be told I'm feeling a bit of anxiety over it, because I feel like I'd be a leech. I don't offer much to the table so I don't want to drag you down with this
You can do a full or half body or whatever angle you'd like of your character and then I'll mash my character in. I find half bodies thumbnail better, but it's not really an issue xD.
When you're done, (and again no hurry implied on this) tell me the kind of feeling or theme was running through your head so I can adapt my brain to it.
I think the more collaborative part will probably kick in during the coloring since that's where cohesiveness would be more noticeable.
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I don't know about that.
Not really, I have seen people have 30 or 40 different projects they do, including commissions and collabs. That's fine (and not selfish! XP) NO, don't feel that way! You so aren't! I actually feel that way...O.o your better with BGs and poses than I am! By no means will you drag me down, but I feel I might do that to you.
Yeah, full body always makes it harder to do backgrounds, plus it makes the picture look long unless they are sitting down or something. And your character is going to get just as much space on the page as mine! Don't mash her in! lol
Okay, I will try! Maybe I can give you some ideas too (once I even find something for myself to do).
Yeah. USUALLY it seems coloring makes mine better (excluding that last pic I did, of course).
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xD I'm replying to you all over the place. Sorry for the bombardment! lol.
I disagree and think you're better with these things, but this argument will probably go in circles so I'll leave it at that.
ok ok haha I'll fit her into the picture nicely. Regardless of when or how, I'm sure we'll make this piece work awesomely somehow. Don't think too hard though, sometimes things can start out simple and evolve to something more complicated as it goes on. Or maybe you can draw her just however with no theme in mind and I can interpret something from it. However you'd like or what ever strikes you at the time really.
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Lol.
Yesh we shall! It's gonna be epic! XD I am hoping to get inspiration for it. Right now I feel like I am gonna be inspired (and maybe ToS will do it for me! XD I just love the character designs). That will also work if nothing hits. It's easy to draw her, but theme is always hard for me. Let's just see what I do, cause I don't even know. See, I am so unpredictable, even I don't know what I will do! lol
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