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Published: 2017-11-21 01:52:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 7775; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 15
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For . Because I can.The safest place to be when Jinx is looking to have some fun is two countries away. And if she's really in the mood for fun, even that might not be safe enough.
Story? Well, can't say there's really much of a story as far as Jinx is concerned. I mean, Jinx just kinda does what she wants to, and she is a total disrespector of persons. She was walking along the road and she happened to see a prince passing by on his way somewhere. Well, Jinx is never one to pass up an oportunity for mischief and, well, the classics are always fun. So, one quick zap later and that poor prince (she never bothered to learn his name) went hopping off into the undergrowth in blind panic. After he managed to get a hold of himself, he recognized the classic frog tf curse - who wouldn't? - and set about making plans to find a fair maiden to kiss him and change him back.
What he didn't know was that Jinx put a twist on it. A kiss doesn't break the curse, it just causes it to transfer to the person who kisses him. Whoever ends up being the one to set him free will take his place.
And meanwhile, Jinx went on with her business without a care in the world.
Edit: Man, now that I actually know how to real lighting effects, this pic looks really bad to me. Adding this to the list of pics I should redraw sometime.
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Comments: 19
A funny picture! And I love the description of the second curse ....
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Such a mischievous scamp that Jinx.
I see what you are going for with this piece, though you may have wanted to brighten the light to get the effect you seem to be going for. The spell light is not as intense as it could be to get that blinding effect. Your dynamic poses are great though, and do an excellent job of guiding the viewers eye.
I also think you did really good with the background here. Lots of detail.
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Oh, yes. Jinx is definitely an imp.
Yeah, I was trying a lot of new things with this bit. Well, not exactly "new" things, as most of them were things I'd already tried before, but I was trying new ways of doing them. I use Adobe Illustrator, where most people use Photoshop, so while some people have explained some tricks to me, the exact way to do them is not always entirely cross-applicable. I'll no doubt keep experimenting with it to see how I can improve on the effect.
The poses in this one really come down to the references I found. But I feel I'm validated so long as I didn't trace them. The after-image pose is based on a pic in a "how to draw anime" book I've got that has a section on people getting blown away by explosions. That one was easiest because it was just going to be a silhouette, but I did change the clothes to something a prince would wear. The frog is from Black Cauldron, though to give myself some credit, I did completely change the head to give it a more panicked expression and do a tiny bit of modifying of the overall body to make it coming more towards the viewer. And I had to do quite a bit of modification to the reference I used for Jinx, because Jinx has significantly larger hips and breasts than standard references.
Sooner or later, I hope to graduate from needing to rely on references for poses, but considering I couldn't draw anything just a year ago unless I had an exact image to trace, I think I'm improving at an acceptable rate.
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Mmm, I applaud you for using Illustrator, it comes with a lot of limitations you won't find with photoshop, but you will get smooth linework unlike anything I could do with the brush tool.
There's nothing to be ashamed of with using references. Great artists use them all the time to get across the style they wanted for a piece. You just used yours in a way that you felt fit.
My suggestion is when drawing for your references try to imitate the shapes you see before imitating the style of it. Break down what makes that reference work so that way you get something to take with you on the inside.
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Yeah, I only use the references to make gesture drawings now, so I know about using shapes. The rest is all a matter of getting better at it.
And yeah, Illustrator is really good for linework. I mainly use Illustrator because I don't have a pen tablet and have to use a mouse and Illustrator's pen-tool works really well with a mouse. I do feel some of its limitations at times, though.
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Phew, you do these without a tablet? Man, I remember when I didn't have a tablet, it was a nightmare. But the fact that your stuff is actually really good regardless of if you have a tablet or not is a great sign of your skill.
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Yeah, the pen-tool in Illustrator works really good with a mouse if you can learn how to use it.
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Looks great I kinda like the foggy night look it has to it
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It's not really night, per say, but I used a semi-transparent black/white gradient overlayed behind the flash image to try and imply the viewer's eyes are still recovering from the bright flash of Jinx's spell and also increase the contrast so that it draws the eye. I'll probably experiment further with this effect to see if I can make it look any better, but I'm pleased with the overall effect.
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Ah that makes sense still the effect works on so many levels
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Yeah. The gradient effect was something that someone suggested in my frog Link pic from a while ago. Thought I'd give it a try. it worked out pretty well. It even hides some of the flaws in the background, which was a nice side-effect.
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yeah its a great effect I like the over all look to it
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