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Published: 2006-01-26 17:40:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 3238; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 77
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Description Lineart by the fabulous furry =Fastfood , check it out here and then do yourself a favor and take a look around the rest of his gallery because the man kicks about a dozen shades of ass, booty and behind.

I haven't colored anybody else's work since, well, forever. Late 90s, I think. I must say it was a ton of fun, though, and if Fastfood doesn't completely hate what I did to this piece (my coloring style having basically nothing in common with his), I think I'm going to take another shot at one of his works next week.

Coloring something I didn't draw myself obviously required a considerable amount of interpretation as I didn't know what Fastfood was going for with some elements and the original is intentionally very "open for color", so to speak. Some things just fell in place - the sunset scenery/lighting immediately popped into my head when I looked at the pic - others I messed with a million times over until I had something I was satisfied with, mainly the color scheme on the character itself, which is now loosely based on a picture of a Bubblegum Crisis action figure I found online. But this is also somehow liberating; very often when I'm coloring my own stuff, I find that I'm limited in terms of creativity by ideas I had when I drew the pic.

Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with how this turned out, it's very close to what I had in mind, which doesn't happen often. I'd appreciate some feedback on the clouds in the background, by the way - I've never done anything like this before, really, so I'm sure I effed up in every conceivable way.

Wacom on Fastfood's inks. Please full view for maximum metal mammary mayhem.
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Comments: 45

bittersweetdreams [2007-09-08 22:23:12 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work!

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spacehamster In reply to bittersweetdreams [2007-09-09 07:47:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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bittersweetdreams In reply to spacehamster [2007-09-09 07:50:09 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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P1Y [2007-03-21 01:12:29 +0000 UTC]

damit man that is very bad ass ....really

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spacehamster In reply to P1Y [2007-03-21 15:35:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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JimField [2006-05-06 19:44:08 +0000 UTC]

Great stuff, I'm liking the colours used in this, and the sky in the background is great

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spacehamster In reply to JimField [2006-05-06 20:48:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Fastfood [2006-02-02 21:56:10 +0000 UTC]

Fuck Yeah!! Oh,...can i say that? Whatever, this rocks bud!!! Very happy!! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you and all, buy whoooaaa!, Sweet work, let me know if ya wanna tackle another!

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spacehamster In reply to Fastfood [2006-02-03 21:38:05 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it, man. I definitely want to do more - you'll hear from me soon.

Oh, and are you cool with me using this on my website now?

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ember-reed [2006-01-29 05:30:46 +0000 UTC]

thats pretty awesome. really good job with the coloring. it has a unique style too

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spacehamster In reply to ember-reed [2006-01-29 12:18:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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nyctoinc [2006-01-29 04:46:45 +0000 UTC]

really nice bionic figure . love it.

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spacehamster In reply to nyctoinc [2006-01-29 12:18:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks - all praise for the character design should go to =Fastfood though, it's his lineart, I just did the coloring.

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Kyntio [2006-01-28 21:59:32 +0000 UTC]

Metalle und Steine hast Du super im Griff, bin aber auch der Meinung, dass der Rauch noch ein bisschen mehr detail braucht.

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spacehamster In reply to Kyntio [2006-01-28 22:48:17 +0000 UTC]

Der Haken an der Sache ist eben, dass das Outline bei dem Rauch keinen Sinn mehr machen wΓΌrde, wenn ich ihn detailierter/realistischer bearbeitet hΓ€tte. Im Grunde ist der Hintergrund mit den Wolken fΓΌr das Pic stilistisch einfach unpassend - wΓ€re der simpler gehalten, wΓΌrde auch der Rauch nicht aus dem Rahmen fallen, denk ich.

Ich hΓ€tt die paar Striche wohl einfach lΓΆschen und den Rauch durch etwas anderes ersetzen sollen, aber ich hab mich nicht getraut.

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Kyntio In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-28 23:21:44 +0000 UTC]

Ja ich seh was Du meinst, eigentlich ist es der Himmel der vom Stil her nicht so passt obwohl er ganz cool ist. Obwohl ich auch nicht an allzu realistischen Rauch gedacht hatte, nur ein klein bisschen mehr Schattierung

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NathanRosario [2006-01-28 11:37:49 +0000 UTC]

Great coloring job! The smoke was mentioned, everything else looks good to me! Nice job!

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spacehamster In reply to NathanRosario [2006-01-28 15:30:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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carra [2006-01-28 09:00:00 +0000 UTC]

Good lighting and coloring work. Clean restult!

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spacehamster In reply to carra [2006-01-28 15:30:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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kawazoe [2006-01-28 05:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Loving the clouds o_O;; Thats so good! The armor is nice and shiny I just dont like the lack of detail in the smoke The pile of stuff behind the guy looks nice

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spacehamster In reply to kawazoe [2006-01-28 15:32:00 +0000 UTC]

The... guy?

Glad the clouds work for you, and yeah, I'm not entirely happy with the smoke either, but I just couldn't figure out what to do with it. Anyway, thanks!

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kawazoe In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-28 21:49:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh...is it not a guy? Sorry @_@

Ur welcome

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Jazine [2006-01-27 23:16:36 +0000 UTC]

I like how you colored the ruins.

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spacehamster In reply to Jazine [2006-01-28 15:33:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks - textures are your friend.

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Tabatrix [2006-01-27 20:59:32 +0000 UTC]

the clouds look realistic to me. Perhaps more orange on the pink cloud would be great, but this is my personal taste and... sunsets in Tuscany... by the way the coloring is so good

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spacehamster In reply to Tabatrix [2006-01-27 21:27:01 +0000 UTC]

Orange, huh? I'll have to try that. I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to clouds at this point, this is all trial and error and photo reference, really. Anyway, thanks!

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lwcldylan [2006-01-27 01:56:44 +0000 UTC]

love the little blad popping out, that's radical

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spacehamster In reply to lwcldylan [2006-01-27 09:52:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, I can't take credit for that because =Fastfood drew it, but I thought that was a cool idea too, yeah.

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lwcldylan In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-27 20:15:51 +0000 UTC]

ah. and by blad I mean Blade

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spacehamster In reply to lwcldylan [2006-01-27 21:25:53 +0000 UTC]

So I figured. Of course my first thought was that you meant "Vlad", but then I realized this isn't a Dracula pic.

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lwcldylan In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-28 02:19:30 +0000 UTC]

Vlad the IMPALER!

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Farblade [2006-01-26 22:55:52 +0000 UTC]

Dude, you rock at Metallic coloring. Seriously. This came out beautifully.

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spacehamster In reply to Farblade [2006-01-27 09:55:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, mang. I did pick this one because I thought it would play towards my strengths, which clearly is the shiny stuff.

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Farblade In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-27 11:22:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, you're the man at shiny stuff.

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ChrisMcJunkin [2006-01-26 20:31:48 +0000 UTC]

Looks pretty nice. The only thing that seems to not be doing it for me is the area with the smoke clouds to the right of the figure.

The reason being twofold (uh oh, might get long winded here). First off, there's a lot of depth and tonage happenin' with the sky. The sky looks awesome. The smoke underneath it, though, looks really flat in comparison. I think this could be partially contributed to the line art itself since it was drawn in a kind of bubbly quick manner.

The second part is due to the gun's color being so closely matched to that smoke that it kind of overly blends with it. Throwing some highlights on the right side of the gun to kind of make it stand out would help. You could also add a kind of light brownish tint on top of the smoke to differentiate between the smoke clouds and the gun.

I do really like the sky.

Well, other than that tid bit of criticsm/observation I think you did a bang up job. Let me know when you wanna' color something I drew. We could do a swap or something (referring only to art, we are not sharing girlfriends or wives).

Later, dude.

Chris

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spacehamster In reply to ChrisMcJunkin [2006-01-26 22:34:45 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, you know, the smoke is the one thing I'm not happy with myself. I didn't realize the problem with the gun until now that you pointed out, but compared to the digitally painted background, it just looks like cardboard cutouts. It works great on the original lineart piece, but I couldn't come up with a way to color it that would've meshed with the rest of the piece, and I didn't want to just erase the outline either.

Glad you like the sky, anyway, like I said, this is my first serious attempt at clouds, and I was really kinda making it up as I went along.

As for the girlf... I mean art swap, I'll get back to you on that. Your stuff is even more different from mine than Fastfood's, so it should definitely be interesting, and doing this has kind of made me want to do more coloring on other people's work.

Thanks for the input!

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ChrisMcJunkin In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-28 23:54:50 +0000 UTC]

Aye, collaborations are fun. Working on inking a pic for a fella' named Dario which I couldn't resist once I saw. He's got a really cool style.

But yeah, I'm not going to just drop this collaboration thing so don't forget about it. I'm sure you've got a few pieces lying around that you wouldn't mind seeing ruined by my colors so shoot them my way, dude.

I'll see if I can find anything that I've drawn that needs a coloring on it.

Chris (forcing others to collaborate with him whether they want to or not) McJunkin

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spacehamster In reply to ChrisMcJunkin [2006-01-29 12:26:09 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, oh, I wasn't going to weasel my way out of this, don't worry.
I'll have to see if I have anything for you to work on, but honestly, practically all the stuff I've done lately that was worth coloring, I colored myself. The rest just pretty much stinks and didn't get inked either. You just let me know what you want colored, anything's cool with me.

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ChrisMcJunkin In reply to spacehamster [2006-01-29 17:09:40 +0000 UTC]

Good, 'cause I just finished a drawing for you to color. Now if I can just find your blasted email addy...

Chris

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spacehamster In reply to ChrisMcJunkin [2006-01-29 17:25:13 +0000 UTC]

Check yer notes, dude.

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SRSobotka [2006-01-26 20:08:56 +0000 UTC]

I was about to say something a bit rash, until I finished reading the description, since this bears close resemblance to Sylia Stingray's hardsuit from BGC.

Great work on the coloring, man!


Maintain and Check Six!

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spacehamster In reply to SRSobotka [2006-01-26 20:13:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
Yeah, if you look at Fastfood's comments on the lineart, he specifically describes it as a tribute to Bubblegum Crisis, so nobody's denying anything here.

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GH-MoNGo [2006-01-26 17:43:27 +0000 UTC]

"metal mammary mayhem"?

Great job on the colouring, though! I don't think you effed up at all.

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spacehamster In reply to GH-MoNGo [2006-01-26 17:49:21 +0000 UTC]

Well, she has... mammaries, and... they're covered in metal. Also, I'm half asleep, and pointless alliteration amuses me right now.

Thanks, glad you like!

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