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Published: 2006-08-02 21:52:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1910; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 100
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My finished version!I did have some problems doing this drawing. Get ready for a long story, and imagine I am saying this in a horribly dramatic voice.
The main problem was that I actually wanted the coloring to look good. Not just good, but awesome. I haven't given two shits about my coloring in a long time, save the picture "Ender".
So I took a look at *shirotsuki 's gallery and thought, being me, "Hey, I could make my coloring look like that if I wanted to." I remembered she had a coloring tutorial up, so I downloaded, then opened it. An amazing step-by-step process suddenly enlightened me. I applied this to my sketch, and guess what? It started looking good!
And because of this revelation, I thought, "Hell, I could become uber like *shirotsuki overnight!". Turns out I was wrong. Dead wrong.
Her tutorial was only for base colors. After I put these down, I didn't know what to do. My mind froze out on me. I was unable to think, or act. What do I do next? My brain gave no answers, but instead played the japanese opening of One Piece over and over again. With no further tutorials to turn to, I was as lost as a lost person in a desert.
I must do something! I hesitantly put the tip of my tablet pen on the tablet, and started drawing, adding in shadows. But no! It looked hideous! For 3 days I slaved at the computer, trying to make my drawing look beautiful!
I was done. I brazenly tackled the swords. Much easier than I imagined! I got them dowe within a mere 2 hours. Alas, one final cliff loomed up before me. The background! I shuddered in fear. I spent two hours looking at backgrounds the masters had painted, and trying to juxtapose them unto my drawing. Failure.
Then I threw on some bullshit. THE END!
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Comments: 36
Uh, thanks. I'd have to admit he's pretty sexy. That's why it's so fun drawing him, cause you have somethign nice to look at while drawing XD.
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To true....bishies are always the best to draw...
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I thought it was okay. I wish it was more plotline than hair-centered though, but cloud is always my favorite.
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.........Okay, anything I wanted to say happened to already have been said by aydoo and Joc and like OMFG they left practically no room for me. -_- Haha, whatever. I don't plan on taking your pic apart just for my own amusement. :'D
Anyways, ahahaha the colors are actually BLENDED together! You might want to clean up the colors outside the lineart a bit better next time though. I also like the swirls but you could have blended it more, to make it appear more smoother and like... naturalish. As for the lineart in the bg, yeah I agree with aydoo that I personally would have gotten rid of it, but, if you really want it there like that, make it a tad bit lighter. :/ It'll help keep the focus more on the CGed Cloud. And yadeeyadeeya everything else is already said by the other two. Not bad for you being new at this kind of coloring.
Oh yeah, I loved your huge-ass comment. Gosh, you're so vain. XD Excellent story writer though. >_ob
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Total blend. Not like my usual: This is color A. This is color B. This is color C. BLUR TOOL LAWDS.
Yeah, looking back on this picture the background definetly isn't that hot. I totally agree with you on lowering the opacity on the lineart and everything; I wish I had gotten all these wonderful critiques while I was still drawing this (so I wouldn't have messed up so badly hur hur). What do you mean 'colors outside the lineart'? Are you talking about the background?
I will be sure to make another comment like that in the near future ;D.
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I mean "colors outside the lineart" as in... for example, like, when you have a coloring book you don't want to color outside the lines? Sometimes when you use the blur or smudge tool (or however you blend), the colors for the clothes or skin or hair or whatever go outside the lines, so that's a no-no and you want to use the eraser to erase the colors that went outside the line. :<
Oh dear gawd I actually used the term "no-no"! And I'll be looking forward to your future comments like that~ XD
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I did erase everything that went out of the line. I can't think of any places that it's showing. Unless you're talking about the bottom of the one pant leg where I didn't erase the lineart.
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Well, like his left elbow is "leaking" some color. o_O And also, there's this like... outline around Cloud except it's like... several pixels away from him and... oh gosh it'd be much easier to point it out in person. -_-;;; So nevermind. >_>
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Highlight color is extremely close to background color. Though I admit to my other mistakes, I have to call that artistic liscense.
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Better. Than. I. Can. EVER. Do. Yep, six words is how I feel about your coloring skills. Seriously, I suck at coloring. EVEN with tutorials from the masters of CG. :tear: But still, very nice! I like it!
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I don't think this is better than anyone could ever be, haha. If you want advice, I'll be happy to despense it at a moment's notice (I dunno why some artists persist in ignoring people). I was also thinking of taking screen shots of my work as it progresses, since I once saw one that really helped in laying down base colors and what the artists does, not specifically, but generally. What do you think?
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Ok lesse..
I really think the lineart in the back takes away from the whole of the composition. It doesnt fit well with the smoothness of the rest of the peice, and it loses a bit of balance because of that.
The contrast in your colors seems a bit high, and could use more medium tones to flesh it out. It goes from one extreme to another a bit way too fast. (Black grey white) They hair looks really nice though in this aspect but I think the hair and face could be fleshed out a bit more, and could use some highlight details (as apposed to just white spaces where light is hitting.) Your shadows are all in the right place but.. seem just way to strong and the clothing in general lacks texture. I also think you could have fleshed out the texture on the swords a bit to make them seem more grungy metallic other than just shiny chrome. You could have also added a bit more detail to his belts. I barely noticed them till I saw the lineart in the back.
As for the background I really like the transposed swirls but as I said before it could do without the lineart there, and you could bring the dark swirls from the right abit to the left (effectively making the canvas a bit smaller.) I think you could have also cleaned them up a bit more and made them blend in with the picture a bit better.
I gotta say the lionhead part came out great, and his hair is just the right tone, but could use a little texture as well.
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Thanks for the critique. I was really going for the whole overexposed look with the colors, and I'm quite new at this kind of coloring, so I'll try to pay more attention to that stuff next time. The lineart...I knew I should have vectored it or something before slapping it on, but the picture does look quite horrible with the blank space (It also looks static cropped, too)...whatever. I'll stop trying to defend the shittiness of this picture (I was obviously not trying to destract my audience with the length of the commentary, heh heh) and take your comments into consideration next time I draw.
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Well the idea with the lineart is fun, bit overused, and a generally nice idea, its the fact that you left it pencil that hurts the picture. Redrawing it with a pentool and making it a bit more opaque would help emensely. Personally i woudlnt have it and just crop the picture closer to the main image.
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hi
it looks great, i will like to see more of your verctor works too!!!!!
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i think i like the bullshit 
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Wow that description was actually kind of funny since I can really imagine your dramatic and desperate voice talking in my head 
The rendering of the colors was done very nicely, especially since you were pretty much experimenting with techniques from a tutorial.
I think the part you did best on in the picture was the clothing. To put it bluntly, it just looks really good. I see that the tutorial really did help you achieve that dream like effect right there.
Something you should work on is the anatomy of the body. Cloud looks a bit too skinny here and it looks like the upper half of his body got twisted up. To prevent that from happening, be sure to map out his waist line clearly before you start drawing the entire image with its details. I can't really see the waist line in the picture because it looks like there's two.
There's actually a secret to making your coloring look godly, but it requires a vast knowledge of color theory which is like the basis of everything when it comes to color (duh).
One thing I learned from art one that has really helped me is newton's color theory (not the same color theory as the one in art). His theory was that color is light. Remember that because it is a really really really really helpful phrase. See he theorized that you can only see color if there was light. For instance, a dark room, you can't see anything but darkness. The reason is because there is no light, therefore no color.
If you didn't get what that meant, it means the darker the atmosphere, the duller your colors/shadows will get. You'll still see some color because you need lighting in a picture to see, but it'll be very faint.
Keep that in mind if you are coloring something with a dark lighting, it helps me all the time when I'm stuck.
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That 'newton's color theory' thing you said reminded me of something I read on this really amazing tutorial I found on the internet (and one of the two tutorials that I've actually used)- he said that colors get less saturated when they get darker. I tried to apply this, but I didn't want my light to be saturated either, so I ended up working in the very gray area on the left-most side. The area was very, very gray. Maybe that's what you were talking about - and it does make perfect sense in your description. If you have any other tidbits of wisdom you'd like to share, I would be glad to hear them.
Yeah, I have to agree that the anatomy is really, really f*cked up. I didn't bother caring about the waistline cause I hoped no one would notice (haw haw haw). It would also require moving his legs (which were really hard to draw in the first place) to a less screwed up and more "comfortable" postition. But I should have, looking back on it.
Uh...and I did make him less top-heavy than I should have...and gave him pants that were too baggy...so that his body structure looks like a girl's (crap) save the face and shoulders. I think I will try to pay more attention to that next time.
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I see, but your lighting didn't neccessarily have to be saturated. You could've worked with lighting that had some color but then it would have made your shadows a bit tricky since you are adding a 3rd color into it besides the base color and saturation. Say you decided to use green lighting. The shadows would have a small hint of greeness in them because of the reflection of light. It prevents total black and whiteness in your picture but it can be hard to work with if you are not very familiar with working with colors.
If you think you are really bad at anatomy, I would suggest that before drawing your picture, sketch out the pose and position of the character very lightly. That way you are not killing your eyes to concentrate on detail and you can map out where the head, waist line, shoulders, leg, feet, everything is. If you make a mistake, no big deal; erase and correct it. After you think you got it all down, you can start adding on the real details by following the sketch you made previously. This way you are less prone to make fatal mistakes while drawing.
I know it sounds like extra work (that's what I used to think too), but it has its benefits and will take a load off of your eyes and actually saves you the effort/time of correcting your proportion errors. Your eyes can only take so much detail all at once.
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I actually colored him with the exact same colors all over, but just paid a little more attention to the face. Turned out pretty well.
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Wow. Great job
The part about the One Piece theme song nearly made me spit water all over the keyboard, which wouldn't have been good, 'cause then I couldn't write this amazing comment.
Is the other Cloud on the right the original lineart, or did you actually redraw that?
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It's the original lineart. Snazzy, huh? I am glad you enjoyed my stupid story. I've been working on my internet humor
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I should work on my internet humor ._.
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Woo! Awsome! It's so much better, now that it's complete! Nice work!
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Thanks for the compliement! I'm really glad you like it. I spent a lot of time working on this, so hopefully so
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That looks awesome-go-face. Rawr. I like how the swords are done.. And the background.
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Thanks! I'd like to thank the blur tool for this academy award 
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Whoops, haha, replied on the wrong one ^_^"
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