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RMRK General => Creativity => Topic started by: emidy on January 14, 2008, 03:44:21 AM

Title: [Visual] Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on January 14, 2008, 03:44:21 AM
It's been awhile ever since I post any of my artwork. Thanks to my busy life, I'm not really enjoying my drawings. ;_;;
But no worries, the artists around here inspired and motivated me to improve my artwork. Once again, I hit the colorful world.
Please give me what you think about my artwork this time. :D

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi219.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc113%2Femidy%2Feyes.jpg&hash=c60552f2655eacb3e7a0d8d1a3a9fa8677cb198b)
What eyes can see...

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi219.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc113%2Femidy%2FM1.jpg&hash=58f124f79709f174f56e321d9347479db93459d6)
Misunderstanding.... Fixed the color, how's it now?

These two pictures will be my entry at 100 themes art challenge under the themes of Eyes and Misunderstanding.

Just done this the other day. This is a pic for my fantasy comic.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi219.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc113%2Femidy%2Fgray.jpg&hash=13064dc10ae6e3ed3dd019d90c54fd5b4fe03ab9)
I bet you can't find the comic everywhere, cause I'm still working on it XP
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: Dwarra? on January 14, 2008, 03:46:24 AM
Those are both great, thumbs up to you.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: garygill on January 14, 2008, 03:47:23 AM
Great work, Emi!  My only complaint is that in the second pic, it's hard to see what's going on in the room.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: emidy on January 14, 2008, 03:53:49 AM
Oh..thank you!

Yeah...it's hard to see what's happening there, that's why she's misunderstanding...hehe.
The original size is bigger and clearer, I'll upload the big size at the 100 themes thread. Later, coz I still need to finish my work. :P

BTW, I think the direction where the flowers fall is kinda weird, did anyone noticed that?
Nevermind, I think they're better the way it is.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: garygill on January 14, 2008, 03:23:47 PM
Well, it's possible for the flowers to fall that way.  But if she just dropped them then yeah it should have fallen the other way.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: emidy on January 15, 2008, 06:47:03 AM
She's unconciously dropped them. I've tried that and...so many possibilities I guess.
This is the original size of the pic, tell me what you think please.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi219.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc113%2Femidy%2Fmisunderstanding.jpg&hash=360ad28d247cc202eab939081c850893b471e2a4)
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: garygill on January 15, 2008, 06:53:15 AM
I like it a lot more now that it's easier to see what's happening.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: Tezuka on January 15, 2008, 11:21:13 AM
Brilliant Emidy, and you thought I was only joking when made a comment on you profile. :tpg:
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: Arwym on January 17, 2008, 05:18:06 AM
Wow!  You're good!  I love them both...  <3
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: emidy on January 17, 2008, 06:17:00 AM
Brilliant Emidy, and you thought I was only joking when made a comment on you profile. :tpg:
Well…I rarely post my artwork so….I’m surprised you can found one.
Glad that all of you like them.

I won’t be able to post any of my artwork for a while.
Thanks for your comments, guys. =D
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: Leventhan on January 19, 2008, 03:46:16 AM
Excellent work, emidy.
Can't say no more ^_^
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: djkdjl on January 19, 2008, 03:56:43 AM
It's awesome

I Lol'ed when I saw red hair.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: JAP on January 19, 2008, 09:55:35 AM
CUTE~! XD

The hair's great. You should post some tuts of how to make it so natural like that.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: emidy on January 25, 2008, 08:54:57 AM
It's awesome

I Lol'ed when I saw red hair.
You made me giggle.

Natural hair...muzukashikunai yo, jappy-chan.
The key is on 'burn' tool and 'dogde' tool. For the lines on hair, please keep in mind that the size of the 'burn' and 'dodge' tools must be small. As for the shading, use the burn tool to darken em. Last, the lighting. You need to imagine where the lights came from and...made em shiny.

Some little tips : I suggest you not to draw lines (Black lines when drawing sketch) on hair.
Make them blank, draw the lines on next layer!
That's all I can tell you for now. I'm not really good at teaching but perhaps someday I will post a simple thread of how to color hair and lighting.

Oh and... actually, I think you have a great potential jappy. When I'm at your age, I can't even do any coloring! Lol
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature
Post by: Arrow on January 25, 2008, 03:38:48 PM
Good job, emidy, these are neat!
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on February 02, 2008, 05:19:47 AM
Thanks!

I've added a new picture, please see the first post.
I will put the pic for the challenge, but I still don't know what's the theme. Will someone be kindly enough to me and suggest me a good theme? I've think of a good theme. =)
Also, since I just start working on the comic, I'm confused with little thing.
See the guy on the left? I still don't know whether to change his eyes and clothes color to blue or not.

This how it looks like if they're blue
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi219.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc113%2Femidy%2Fblue.jpg&hash=7e45e72c246f35525eb71e303f153bbb7c854d9a)
Which one do you think better? Thanks.

I’ll be very grateful if anyone can gives me some construction advices.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: garygill on February 02, 2008, 06:23:08 AM
Cool.  Changing his eyes and clothes to blue would make him contrast more with the man with yellow eyes, so I think it's a good idea.  In fact, try giving him really dark purple eyes and see how that goes.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on February 02, 2008, 06:27:29 AM
Dark purple? I see, that's a good idea. Thanks, Al!
How bout his cloth? should I change it to purple too?
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: garygill on February 02, 2008, 06:29:43 AM
Try white.  If that doesn't work then either leave it black or dark purple.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on February 02, 2008, 06:43:45 AM
Okay, I'll see what's the best. Thank you so much for the tips! =D
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: garygill on February 02, 2008, 06:44:34 AM
You're welcome. =)
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: tSwitch on February 02, 2008, 07:50:59 PM
I agree with garygill on the coloration
but I'd like to point out how it looks like the yellow eye'd man's chin runs into his neck with no separation at all
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on February 03, 2008, 05:55:16 AM
Oh..I see. I'll try to fix that, thanks for telling me, 1namkcorI! =)

<EDIT> How's this?
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: Yossy on February 05, 2008, 12:07:55 AM
I'll have to try out using burn and dodge tools, I've always just smeared colors around by painting them in and smudging a lot. :lol:

Monochrome is a neat technique, it works well in the third pic you've posted here, but unfortunately it's also a victim of one of the tricky aspects of maintaining a single color scheme - and that is that everything in the pic seems to meld together and it's not immediately apparent where one figure/object ends and the next begins.  I think it could be improved with either a heavy outline for the two full-body figured in the center or a subtle dropshadow for them.

One thing I really like about the third pic is the shiny stuff on the blue vest! :lol:  Haha, my eyes are drawn to weird things, I know.
Title: Re: Eyes of Nature (Need help on few things)
Post by: emidy on February 07, 2008, 09:41:33 AM
Yes, I understand what you mean. The reason why I didn't bold their lines or dropshadowed them, is because I'm planning to washout the two men behind. Added black phoenix on the left and white phoenix on right for the background. I made them clear so I can hear your opinions if I had overlooked anything.
That's my original intention for my comic's cover. =)
I'm still workin on it but I need some time coz I have other things to do in real life.

I use smudge tool too, for shading, yes. But I don't use it for everything coz I have to make the original pic as huge as I can then resize it or the pic will be blur... Coloring a huge pic will only lowering my computer memory, it's slow.
So I use brush and eraser almost for everything.

...and yes yossy, we have a same taste! I'm attached to weird things as well. =D