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Wolfs-echo — Water's Touch
Published: 2009-01-23 20:15:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 2861; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Ok this is my sexy new character Blaze, he is some sort of hybrid thing. Any way since I'm still waiting for people to tell me what they want for valentines and I'm sorry but I couldn't be bothered to do requests I decided to do a personnal picture.I've had this guy a while now but I've never done a picture of him so here he is.
I know this picture really sucks but I tried hard.
ART AND CHARACTER (C)
All edits are thanks to and thanks for the awesome advice and tips guys
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Nice colours for him ^_^
I like the ripple effect in the water with the paw and tail.
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I like this character (then again, everything red seems to make me feel good 
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well he is just a mix up, head of a wolf but the body should be slim like a cheetahs, the ears remind me of a rabbits and the tail is like a dragons. Thanks
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Definitely need a referene sheet for him. In case someone else wants to take a crack at drawing him...
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hahaha I'll work on it but his design is simple really
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It doesn't suck at all. No offense but I really love the colors, they remind me of Santa Claus
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hahahah yeah I think red and white look really cool together, nice and simple yet bold. thanks
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I like the look of him, I really do, his expression is adorable, but I'd say if your going to do shading like that, do it on a separate layer (you have photoshop I'm guessing???) and set the brush to a very light opacity, about 10, and make it a dark color, in this case like a dark gray or dark red, and then shade the sections you want. Also it would be good if, while you were in that, you made another layer and added the sine of the water on him, which would be a light blue.
His lines should be darker though, don't go lighter, go darker, a good way to do it is if you choose the darkest color on the character and do it that way. Lock the layers and ten you can paint over them without going outside of the original lines. (that would be the transparency lock)
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ok thanks for the advice my friend, I do make seperate layers but yes the shading doesn't appear very dark i may just go change the opacity now, how do you do the sine of the water?
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oh oopse I meant it to say Shine of the water on your character lol
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Oh ok lol, so how do you do that? Oh and I darkened the shading. And do you think this picture needs a reflection? If so how do you do it? I'm just learning
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its always good to add a reflection to the water if you character is that close to it, really all you need is the arm and tail and a small portion of red on the edge of the water and out to where he touches it with his paw and tail. If you want to do that then I'd say on another layer with your "fuzzy" brush, lower the opacity to about 20 and (the layer should be between the wolf and the water layer) draw very faintly the solid outline of the arm, then take your smudge tool and smudge it a little on the outside. after that if you think the reflection stands out too much go to the layer opacity and lower it a little bit so that it blends with the water.
to add the shine of the water again on another layer over the wolf with a fuzzy brush on the lower portion of his body and on the edges of his arms and tail add a very little bit of light blue. (again doing this with a veryy light opacity at about 10%)
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thanks my friend, if I reupload this will you tell me if you like nthe improvements or if I've done it wrong?
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did you change this file? or did you upload a newer one?
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I am going to change this one now, I was just busy on photoshop
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when you get it up let me know and I'll help yyou go over it again
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Its done, sorry my computer was being slow as it is a big file
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thats fne mine does the same thing
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lol and I have given you credit for the advice and tips
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lol thank you
I like where its going, really all you have to do is start messing with setting, making this darker and lighter adding different color shades. I mean it took me forever to get where I am now. but its because I listened to what others had to say and edited things by listenign and seeing other peoples art and seeing what makes them so amazing.
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Yeah thats what i'm trying to do I mean on every picture I ask for people to criticise to help me improve, next time I will make the outlines darker. And I do look at other art to see what makes their's so mazing, actually I hope you don't mind I looked at yours for the ripple effect as I couldn't work out how to do it
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lol thats fine, I'm working on another water picture now actually, part of the WIP I just uploaded. I like trying to improve my water all the time.
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me too this is the best so far I think anmd while I am here I'm so sorry for the delay in submissions at the club, did you get the note saying why there was a delay? I was totally devastated when i noticed they hadn't been submitted
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yes I got it, I sent another one back. And honestly its no problem don't worry. lol I don't keep track so I didn't even notice it until you said something lol
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Oh ok sorry I had to go last night without saying bye
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I really like how the water came out, though perhaps trying to put his reflection into it would be more effective?
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thanks for the advice. How do you do reflections?
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I don't know the way you're comfortable with, but I would make a new layer ontop, set the flow of the pen to something like 50% with it a lighter shade of the colour you're copying, draw in the reflection, perhaps smudge it? Then put another couple layers of really slight blue colours for more water (opacity of the layers no more then 30% each).
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thanks my friend I will keep that in mind
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