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Published: 2009-06-30 15:30:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 8027; Favourites: 95; Downloads: 0
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My first Drow and my first tablet picture as well. I think I finally made a proper background. advise is most welcome!Related content
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I like this background 
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well... the start is quite easy! Its very comfortable to work with... just plug it in and its ready to go. To find out the finesse takes more time...but its fun along that road
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Advice... cannot give... brain stopped working upon seeing hot drow.
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Thanks! I'm happy you like it!
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Heya! I faved this yesterday. I was going to comment and leave advice at the time but it was getting really late, so I came back to do it today.
Firstly - for a first ever tablet/digital piece, this is brilliant. The detail you've put into his eyes, jewellery, and the texture of the background, are all great. You've even handled the black skin/white hair issue (which usually makes colouring Drow a bit of a problem). You've picked exactly the right shades of grey to make the skin work, in particular - not so dark that his facial features have become lost in his face, nor so light that his skin doesn't look black enough.
If you wanted some advice, though, I'd recommend giving his skin a similar level of shading to the background - the background looks a bit more 3D than he does. I'd suggest adding some extra highlights and shadows to his skin - make the extra highlights smaller, and a lighter colour, than the highlights currently on it, and put them on the bits of him that stick out most/are most illuminated, and make the extra shadows darker and smaller, and put them on the bits of him that would barely be illuminated at all. Don't be afraid to go really light with the extra highlights and really dark with the extra shadows - provided you keep them small, they won't make him look too light or too dark.
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Thanks for this comment!
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Bizarrely I find their skin easier to do than the hair, because from my experience it's actually pretty easy to shade dark things effectively, but very pale things are difficult to shade while keeping their pale-ness intact.
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True... I think I have to find something for hair in general...I just cant seem to get it fully right yet ^^
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Well, I was planning on making a hair tutorial soon. Would you be interested?
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definitely!
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Ok I have to ask Exactly what is a Drow? I see pics of them but never understood what they were.
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a Drow...pfew... that will be a long story^^ best to search it online, its on wikipedia. The word Drow is found in some sort of fairy myth as I recall but the Drows you find around here are based on AD&D where they started out as the black skinned bad to the bone evil elves that were only legends. Later, I believe in forgotten realms, They are what they now are. The smallest elves, dark skinned, very light to white haired with violet, reddish eyes. Very good with magic and they hate the sunlight. Their most important deity is lolth. she is depicted as a black widow. Well...much more to tell but I think these are the headlines^^ oh..they live in underdark...before I forget
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I'll bet my wear panda was hard to make her not metalic.
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Oooh, nice tattoo's! I love the shineyness
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Your first tablet work? Cool! I love the tattoos! I started using photoshop and a tablet three months ago too.... it is fun!
*purrs* 'Come over here, my little black fellow...'
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It is a lot of fun! Though I lose more time in finding out how everything works than that I'm actually drawing hehe^^
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The same here though I'm getting better!
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Yes, even from this single drawing I learned really a lot
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Photoshop can be a wonderful tool!
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