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Published: 2006-05-31 05:05:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 17683; Favourites: 301; Downloads: 21
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EDIT: waaay late in updating, but late is indeed better than never. thanks @ Martialartmaster for sharing his/her knowledge of these forms. quote from his/her comment: "in order it is kendo, dragon kung fu, tai chi, karate,shaolin kung fu, and snake kung fu "this image is also now available in many more print options and art gifts. thank you!
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unfortunately i do not remember the form(s) of martial art that is displayed in this image. these silhouettes were captured photographically and finished/enhanced using software. no quality of the model has been altered other than making her completely black (original pose, shape, form preserved).
i'm thrilled that so many people have been viewing and showing their support over this piece since 2006. thank you again.
a revision in april 2010 to this file has enhanced the quality of the silhouettes while producing a larger file to enable the print feature on deviantART. sharing features were also enabled since they did not exist before posting this file originally.
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These are fantastic! I like how you included so many different types/styles of martial arts, both with and without weapons.
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I like how variety of styles can synergize.
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I practice martial arts. I greatly appreciate the exotic "dance" as some may call it
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In the second and third pose, there's not enough bend in the weighted knee. Nice on the shadow affect though.
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in order it is kendo, dragon kung fu, tai chi, karate,shaolin kung fu, and snake kung fu
beautiful pic though ^_^
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i'm a bit late with a response, but thanks
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I would really like to know what martial art is shown exactly... lovely poses!
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Awesome. Who said martial arts wasn't for girls?!
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I love this. I was looking for references, but something about silhouettes just gets me. Awesome work!
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Nice, but... Men with katana and sais hold their weapons in wrong way... (especially that man with katana)
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i think so, she's the expert
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Awesome. Sheer awesome.
Out of curiosity, could you show a shot before it was processed? I'm learning photomanipulation in photoshop but know very little about the 'photography' part in fancy shots like these.
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and thank you for the compliment
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i don't know if i still have the original images, but they are all the same person shot individually against a 9' white seamless sweep. just a matter of making selections in photo shop and filling with black
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if you've got illustrator, there's something called livetrace that used to be a program called streamline. It'll automatically convert an image into lineart. If you get the image on a seamless and do well enough with the lights, it can significantly reduce the time you have to spend tweaking the image.
great work. I wish I could find someone to model for something like this. alas, I'm moving anyway.
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thats a very good thing to know, i'll try using that out with the same images. when you say it converts to lineart, does that mean it also converts into vector based art and not pixel based? that would kick even more ass! thanks!
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yep, directly to an adobe illustrator vertor object.
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