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mirabe — Sheena - Step-by-step

Published: 2011-04-19 16:32:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 3673; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 42
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Description I decided to make this hoping to be helpful to some people.

I am actually a total amateur, who simply started digital drawing half a year ago. My first submissions to DA I think are pretty crappy.
But in the past six month I have learned a lot from tutorials and step-by-steps. They give me ideas about how other people draw. Plus, it's always good to realize that every finished work started as a messy sketch^^


finished drawing: [link]
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Comments: 29

Suihara [2011-06-01 03:48:08 +0000 UTC]

nice work

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mirabe In reply to Suihara [2011-06-01 18:00:37 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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meteor-boy [2011-05-28 21:40:33 +0000 UTC]

Great job! How do you do the highlights?

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mirabe In reply to meteor-boy [2011-05-28 22:13:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
For highlights I mostly applied light colors with the SAI airbrush tool. Also, I used overlay and luminosity layers.

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dangsoo [2011-05-28 19:30:06 +0000 UTC]

How do you make the lines so clean?

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mirabe In reply to dangsoo [2011-05-28 20:12:38 +0000 UTC]

I use Paint Tool SAI (the lines are much cleaner than with Photoshop or gimp).
In SAI I use a very high resolution (about 400 dpi). I use the pen tool (about 8px size).
Hope that information helps you!

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dangsoo In reply to mirabe [2011-05-28 21:56:36 +0000 UTC]

thanks

I have been considering getting SAI - I only have photoshop elements and it is very annoying and fiddly to use.

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godeyes [2011-05-10 18:41:32 +0000 UTC]

lol your messy sketch looks like my finalized work

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mirabe In reply to godeyes [2011-05-11 12:39:07 +0000 UTC]

what? nooo, your art is much better than that, I checked^^

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Yukiko-berrie [2011-04-19 19:33:25 +0000 UTC]

very pretty, great job!

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mirabe In reply to Yukiko-berrie [2011-04-20 14:14:37 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Yukiko-berrie In reply to mirabe [2011-04-20 14:29:34 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome!

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AmethistTheElf [2011-04-19 19:10:47 +0000 UTC]

COOL!!!!

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mirabe In reply to AmethistTheElf [2011-04-20 14:14:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Haboui [2011-04-19 19:00:14 +0000 UTC]

IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFULL!!!!!!!

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mirabe In reply to Haboui [2011-04-20 14:14:21 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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Haboui In reply to mirabe [2011-04-20 17:35:29 +0000 UTC]

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kittygirlnya [2011-04-19 18:32:26 +0000 UTC]

Niiiiiiiice I like! You're so awesome! nya~

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mirabe In reply to kittygirlnya [2011-04-19 18:35:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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kittygirlnya In reply to mirabe [2011-04-19 18:36:00 +0000 UTC]

No problem. ^^ nya~

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gamertjecool [2011-04-19 18:27:37 +0000 UTC]

Your sketch.. it's so... clean!

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mirabe In reply to gamertjecool [2011-04-19 18:33:27 +0000 UTC]

Wha- I find it terribly messy...
When sketching I use the eraser and the transform tool a lot, though, because I get confused if I have to many overlapping lines ::

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gamertjecool In reply to mirabe [2011-04-19 18:36:20 +0000 UTC]

You should see my sketches, it's a miracle I can see people in them, they're just a bunch of squiggly lines!

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mirabe In reply to gamertjecool [2011-04-19 18:37:58 +0000 UTC]

haha lol

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TheStarsAreWatching [2011-04-19 17:33:56 +0000 UTC]

Wow. That came out really awesome! ^^

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mirabe In reply to TheStarsAreWatching [2011-04-19 18:29:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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TheStarsAreWatching In reply to mirabe [2011-04-20 04:03:32 +0000 UTC]

Certainly! ^^

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Soki-the-Deviant [2011-04-19 16:38:49 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure I'll be able to do this in 6 months XD
thx anyway X)

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mirabe In reply to Soki-the-Deviant [2011-04-19 18:28:55 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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