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Published: 2008-09-05 02:13:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1671; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 17
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Dark Magician Girl.
This time, I haven't used PS. No edits and such...
I know her feet looks weird, I give you that... Can you blame me for not having a scanner?

I only took this with my camera and I think it did not look the way I intended it to. So yeah~ if you don't like it.. It's not gonna be my fault >.<'

So anyway, I used here a mechanical pencil for the sketch, a 0.5 Leone Stylus gel pen for the lineart, Faber Castell classic pencils for the color and an ordinary liquid eraser for those white thingies stuff..

Again if you think it sucked... Oh well.. Nobody's perfect

DMG (c) Kazuki Takahashi

Gah... Darn... I could really say I need improvement X.X
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Comments: 23

burningfrost888 [2009-06-12 15:20:55 +0000 UTC]

Hey, good work here Mayu. You draw colors well kahit hindi scanned, saka di halatang liquid paper yung mga white areas ni Dark Magician Girl ah. I couldn't tell the difference. Nice.

Too bad, I don't have my own scanner as well, I also take pictures of my drawings with my camera.

May scanner ka na ba? If you still don't have one, share kita ng techniques ko sa pagpicture ng drawings - closeup, if you don't mind.
DSC-H7 pala pinagkuhanan niyan, mas advanced pala model mo kaysa sakin, DSC-S750 lang gamit ko. Heehee.

Lighting, angle, alignment, and resolution.
Have some good lighting, ako kasi maliit lang kwarto ko, ang nagpipicture ako sa ibabaw ng doubledecker ko para mas malapit sa ilaw. With good lighting, maeeliminate yung unwanted shadows and noises that usually accompany drawings taken from cameras. Be as near as possible to the light. And you need the flash para mapotentiate yung effect ng ilaw, but if it's colored, low flash setting would be fine to retain the colors. The camera, based on my experience, should be around 8-10 inches to 10-12 inches above the drawings, that way maiiwasan yung washout from the flash. Kung medyo washed out ang resulta, raise the camera higher as necessary, but you have to use the zoom now to get better quality. The zoom should not exceed the x3.0 setting.

Angle, make it straight and true. Although it requires a bit of good hands to get this correctly, minsan way off ang mga kuha sa digicam.

Alignment, take the picture as squarely as possible, whether portrait or landscape pa yan.

And lastly, always choose higher resolutions, para hindi smudgy kahit i-resize. ^^

*For closeup takes, it's better to have the lines very dark. I use sign pens, pero mas maganda ata plain ballpen kase hindi glossy, pag sign pen or marker kase, yung lines medyo may shade of navy blue.

If done correctly, you're going to love the results, parang scanned drawing na rin ang dating. Lawl.

Here's a link as well, hope it helps: [link]

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ShootingStar03 In reply to burningfrost888 [2009-06-13 00:38:15 +0000 UTC]

Nyaaaw~ Nagustuhan mo siya kahit papaano TT^TT

Aheheh, Liquid yan, bad trip hahahaha XDD. Wala akong scanner eh. DSC-H7 lang talaga pangkuha ko hihi..

Waaa~ Salamat sa mga tips kuya~!!!! ;o;

Nung binasa ko napansin ko ang dami ko ring mali... Shoot! XD

Sige, sa kung may hindi uli ako scanned na deviation, aayusin ko na talaga buhay ko. I'll try it your way

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burningfrost888 In reply to ShootingStar03 [2009-06-13 00:57:25 +0000 UTC]

Langanuman.^^ Okay lang yun. One of my best pals in college kase, si , photography naman ang forte, nagkataon ding malupit din magdrawing - I saw his array of drawings and sketches, very simple but striking, lagi ko kasing katabi eh ang hilig magscribble - nursing school = boredom, boredom = art. So I kind of observed his techniques and workaround with the camera, medyo dinagdagan ko lang ng sarili kong style so that it'll suit my needs.

If you'll be trying my advice and it did work, no need to thank me, you're very welcome, I'm glad nakatulong ako. If not, well, you just have to give it a little touch of your style. deviantArtists experiment on better ways, tama?

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ShootingStar03 In reply to burningfrost888 [2009-06-13 01:09:57 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha XDDD

Oh okay okay X3.

Basta, from this moment on, susubukan ko nang maayos yung photography ko ng mga.. yun XDD

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burningfrost888 In reply to ShootingStar03 [2009-06-13 01:12:15 +0000 UTC]

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Happy1n0n [2009-03-10 10:11:40 +0000 UTC]

She is very cute, especially with that expression. n_n Haha, I only used a camera to upload mine too. XD

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ShootingStar03 In reply to Happy1n0n [2009-03-15 02:38:57 +0000 UTC]

Why thankyou ^^

Sometimes, uploading only by camera could be irritating as it could affetc the quality

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Ejiputotsuki [2008-09-13 19:51:18 +0000 UTC]

I don't think her feet look weird...
The pose is really well done and the coloring is amazing. Keep it up.

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ShootingStar03 In reply to Ejiputotsuki [2008-09-19 16:07:03 +0000 UTC]

thankyou

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Ejiputotsuki In reply to ShootingStar03 [2008-09-19 19:11:29 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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Els-e [2008-09-06 07:45:15 +0000 UTC]

I love how you drew her ^^ The coloring is nice, the pose is lovely and I adore the anime eyes you make X3

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ShootingStar03 In reply to Els-e [2008-09-06 08:38:04 +0000 UTC]

Heheheh thanks

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Avatar013 [2008-09-05 10:26:41 +0000 UTC]

Very cute! Yeah, i remember when I just take pctures of my drawings just to upload it. Luckily, the local computer shop had a scannes.

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ShootingStar03 In reply to Avatar013 [2008-09-05 13:15:53 +0000 UTC]

Yeah and it's pretty hard not having a scanner

Cameras don't usually pick up the important details...

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ranpha15 [2008-09-05 09:47:54 +0000 UTC]

it looks so nice!

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ShootingStar03 In reply to ranpha15 [2008-09-05 13:16:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

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XxNarutoIsMineXx [2008-09-05 03:28:56 +0000 UTC]

aw kawaii! x3

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ShootingStar03 In reply to XxNarutoIsMineXx [2008-09-05 03:29:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

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XxNarutoIsMineXx In reply to ShootingStar03 [2008-09-05 03:29:59 +0000 UTC]

chu welcome!^^

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ShootingStar03 In reply to XxNarutoIsMineXx [2008-09-05 03:30:56 +0000 UTC]

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XxNarutoIsMineXx In reply to ShootingStar03 [2008-09-05 03:32:36 +0000 UTC]

:3

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Ombreon [2008-09-05 02:14:35 +0000 UTC]

I think it's kawaii. ^^

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ShootingStar03 In reply to Ombreon [2008-09-05 02:16:13 +0000 UTC]

You think so? Ehehehe... Thanks

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