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Posted Oct 2, 2011, 9:32:49 PM UTC

im super proud of this one!! its the first drawing i have done where the lineart is not present! i got rid of that sucker, i been trying not to be so dependent on my sketch lines. there were no reference pictures used the girl i drew does not exist i made her up as i drew lol

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ArkillianDragon
Oct 3, 2011, 9:39:32 PM UTC
And it deserves your pride You did an awesome job with this ^^ The hair looks alot more natural in this picture ^^
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- sheridan
  Oct 3, 2011, 10:33:14 PM UTC
  thank you!! yes I was pretty happy with the hair came out, It was actually an accident that I just went with and was like heck yeah I like it!
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 3, 2011, 10:57:40 PM UTC
  It's cause the lines of the hairs aren't as obvious in this one, and the ends split from existing lines so it looks like it starts at the root. Your earlier one you could see the ends, or where it looped back on it's self. That's why this one worked I love it when things work finally though! It makes all the effort worth it :3
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  sheridan
  Oct 3, 2011, 11:31:33 PM UTC
  totally! yeah they other one I had did I was still learning how to use photoshop (which still drives me up a wall) and this one with the good hair was done in corel which i understand a little better, but I have always said my greatest works come from my mistakes
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 4, 2011, 12:15:37 AM UTC
  I heard that Corel is more painter like than Photoshop. I still can never find a liking to them. They don't feel like paint to me- even the high tech programs. *sighs* I'm forever stuck scanning things with the wrong colours :<
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  sheridan
  Oct 4, 2011, 12:30:44 AM UTC
  it is at least in my opinion, i can understand not having a strong liking to them, i know the scanner pain my scanner always gave me rage face lol
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 4, 2011, 2:30:42 AM UTC
  You know why it never turns out the same though, right? And why it can't turn out the same.
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  sheridan
  Oct 4, 2011, 3:09:17 AM UTC
  hmm no I dont think i do lol XD
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 4, 2011, 3:19:12 AM UTC
  You paint in RBY (additive colour scheme), but the scanner scans in RGB (Light colour scheme), but prints in CMYK (subtractive colour scheme) RGB can't pick up every colour in the spectrum so pretends with metals, and it knocks back the almost whites and almost blacks with light noise cause it works by reflection. Your monitor is rarely calibrated perfectly so you paint with the colours mixed incorrectly anyway, but after you re-render your image perfect again, there's colours that CMYK isn't capable of that RGB is (fluorescent greens, pinks etc...) End product? Frankenstein's monster. At best. Even if you test your image for gamut errors (colours that can't be printed).
  
  The fun world of CMYK printing for tradtional AND digital users
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  sheridan
  Oct 4, 2011, 3:38:43 AM UTC
  oh wow! O_O thats crazy I never knew that! gotta love technology it never makes anything easy lol you take 4 steps forward and end up 3 steps back lol
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 4, 2011, 10:26:25 AM UTC
  They're just curve balls. as I said. Digital is not superior to traditional, neither is the other way around. Each have their quirks.
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  sheridan
  Oct 4, 2011, 4:41:44 PM UTC
  that is true, i guess in the end it just matters on your what you prefer to use lol
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 5, 2011, 9:42:51 AM UTC
  Or which is best to use in a situation. I hate digital drawing, but some art requires it to be digital this picture wouldn't have been half as good if I didn't vector it even though I knew nothing of vectors at the time but the basics. I had to learn 2 programs for making comics, and learn complex procedures to make this. It was worth it in the end. Illustrator is a good puppy to me now
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  sheridan
  Oct 5, 2011, 10:48:17 PM UTC
  that is very true and I must say that picture is AMAZING! its funny how complex they seem and then you figure it out and its jeeez thats easy pish posh I got this
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 6, 2011, 12:24:13 AM UTC
  Heh- I wouldn't call it easy though I still threw 20 hours of my life into this battling illustrator. I know MUCH easier ways of doing it now but if you can imagine, the face and the arm have heaps of tiny little vectors? Yeah... that slows the process down a heap. Live fill is the best though. You can flood fill all sorts of weird crap with that tool :3 Just need the vectors first.
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  sheridan
  Oct 6, 2011, 1:30:15 AM UTC
  lol you have more patience with a program then I do lol if i picture starts clocking over 8 hours with me I start rushing it and half doing it XD I have no patience with it lol
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 8, 2011, 1:06:15 AM UTC
  You just need to make sure that you keep interest levels up- that's all. IF the picture is boring, then stop or make it better. It's also a frame of mind. When you're being creative, time is less important. I could easily spend 20 hours on a picture if it was detailed enough.
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  sheridan
  Oct 8, 2011, 7:00:08 AM UTC
  that's true, and being creative really helps Although I seem to be losing that haha sometimes Ii feel the only time I have my muse and creativity going is when I'm in school and suppose to be doing school work XD
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  ArkillianDragon
  Oct 10, 2011, 10:39:25 AM UTC
  Urgency can create it's own version of muse. The only way of getting out of that mind set is by just drawing random stuff, or starting a project. Sometimes both at once XD The more new stuff you try out the more muse seems to come. IT works for me anyways
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  sheridan
  Oct 10, 2011, 7:32:31 PM UTC
  lol I will have to give that a try!!
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  sheridan
  Oct 4, 2011, 4:41:44 PM UTC
  that is true, i guess in the end it just matters on your what you prefer to use lol
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