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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:02 am


When I think of you

NANA!!!
Yeah well.. >.>

Screenshot from two hours ago - click
Screenshot of now - click

I'm no where near finishing, but I've been sitting here working on it nonstop for the last 5 hours so I'm thinking I should take a break >.<

Any helpful tips, comments, crits are welcome ^-^ But please don't be too harsh.. I still haven't gotten the hang of real humans.. sweatdrop

Ref pic off Google
Photoshop CS2 + tablet
currently 5 hours

the miles between us disappear~
PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:10 pm


Wow, it's gorgeous so far. I've never tried paiting realistically, so, I probably couldn't give you many helpful tips. |D The only thing I can tell you is to maybe make the shading a little softer- I mean, blur the changing colors so they look smoother.

Great job so far, though. I love NANA, this is giving it a lot of justice. ^^

elbourne


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:59 pm


oh man. i feel sorry for you, 5 hours! thats gotta suck..my butt starts hurting after 2 hours or so lol
very nice work though

spose you want to be faster though? just try to keep the amount of strokes you use to a minimum, and dont keep working and working on the one area for too long, it makes it get all choppy, and you lose foucus after a while so take a break every hour or so.

its also good to use purples and blues in realistic painting, cos if you look closely at pictures you can see purples etc in the shadows, light has colour, remember that. the purple really makes a big difference, livens the whole thing up!

another trick is to make the 'canvas' (background) a colour other than white, cos white puts off your colour sense and makes you see the colours as being lighter or darker than they really are...also it really starts to hurt and damage you eyes when you have to stare at it for a long time.
i always make it green lol, but dont make it a really neon-bright colour eiter cos thats almost as bad for your eyes lol


wooooooow lots of writing, hope i helped anyways, good luck with your picture! its gunna be awesome i can tell
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