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Published: 2006-01-09 15:35:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1330; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 46
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Remember this picture from April? ([link] ) WELL I FINALLY COLORED IT!I got good at cel shading overnight somehow. I've been messing around with it for a week or so, trying to get a better feel, so now I am comfortable submitting a full piece to the gallery instead of scraps.
The pearls suck, but they sucked before. So...yeah. That's the fault of the line art.
Eyes in cel shading are tough for some reason. Gotta work on that.
Eleanor is a stylish chick who lives in the American colonies during the 1770s. She enjoys the same things most girls of that era enjoyed...knitting, dancing, and reading novels. o_O Yeah, not real exciting. At least her hair is cool. (Women of this era would only do their hair up like that for special occasions, like balls and big dinners and stuff. Ordinarily they'd have their hair in some sort of lace cap or bonnet...at all times! So if you've watched that show Liberty's Kids and you remember Sarah running around with her hair in a ponytail...uh, no. That would have been extremely improper).
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Sakura Micron pen on bristol. Scanned and colored in Photoshop.CREDITS
A reference was used for the face shape (it was a Pantene ad LOL). This is my original character and design.
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I like the lineart version of this, too, but I think I like the colored version a bit more.
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The curls are what impress me most. The whole pic looks great, but the curls best of all
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she looks gorgeous! I really love her hair, the curls are amazing! Good jorb!
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W00t!
Great job on the line work, her hair looks awesome.
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Wow, this looks completely new from the original line art. The colors and cel technique really make it pop. The hair is gorgeous (perhaps a wedding do?). I agree with the pearls not looking too hot, have you thought of erasing them and redoing them in photoshop? It might look unnatural, but that seems like the big thing with animation companies now to mix in "CG" with traditional animation. When they blend it together well and pull it off it looks really good. I also like the very subtle blush in the cheeks. Nice work.
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LOL you have 'wedding' on the brain or something. What's up with that? You got this wild desire to conquer me!!! Weirdo.
I'm not really a fan of that CG/cel-shading mix that they've been doing in animation as of late, but thanks for the suggestion. I don't think I'd be able to make it mesh very well anyway.
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Thank you very much! 
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This is absolutely gorgeous. I think the cellshading looks marvelous.
And her hair is so nifty. I'd so love hair like that. :3
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Thank you very much! The cel-shading thing has taken me a while to grasp, so I am glad to hear it's working out well.
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I loved the lineart for this pic! So awesome to see it coloured!
And hell yeah! I'm in love the hair, it's beautiful. >D
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Thank you very much! When I first started working on the hair, it was looking really weird and I was scared it wasn't going to turn out.
I hope I can keep getting better at this cel stuff.
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Do you remember a debate you and Marie had awhile ago, about computer art vs. traditional art? And how you said CG is just as difficult because you still have to know where the placement goes, all that changed was how you put the color on there?
Maybe that's why you 'suddenly' got good. The last peice you did cel-shading on, that I can remember, was the AEC Mascot. That was a couple of years ago, and you've had time to develop your skillz in art period. So when you tackled the tablet again for Crim's Vampire character, it just clicked.
Well, that's my theory on how it happened anyway. XD!!!
I personally like her eyes. They're not like...how do I put this? Every time I see eyes in cel-shading, they look the same, but your eyes, I can tell that they are yours. You know what I mean? Or am I putting that badly? -_-;
That hair is awesome though. Damn. :applause:
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You actually like those eyes? I thought they looked kinda shoddy. Or really, REALLY amatuer.
Yeah...I just thought they sucked. LOL.
HAHAHAHA no tablet used here! Just the pen tool and lasso. Actually, I colored this much the same way I cel-shaded before, just a tad different and...a lot better....
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Der. Before you go thinking I'm an idjit, yeah, I know you had to use a mouse for the vampire. I have *NO* clue why I said tablet. Ignore my lapse into bubble brain territory. -_-;
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Wow! Excellent colouring there, especially with the hair... da-a-a-mn girl!
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Thank you Teeny!!
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