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I'm nearly 21, A present to myself| MarcoSkoll |
Posted: Nov 3 2009, 03:28 AM
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Artisan  Group: Members Posts: 79 Member No.: 521 Joined: 10-March 09  |
My latest creation, one of my occasional 4th wall breaking pieces.
 DeviantART As Silva herself explains, I'm nearly 21, so I figured that was a good enough excuse to do myself some kind of present. She disagreed with my suggestion as to the nature of this present, but luckily for me, this kind of thing is in her contract...  |
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| 7skullz |
Posted: Nov 4 2009, 03:59 AM
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Artisan Group: Members Posts: 65 Member No.: 481 Joined: 2-January 09 |
Hahaha. This is pretty funny.
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| MarcoSkoll |
Posted: Nov 4 2009, 02:04 PM
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Artisan Group: Members Posts: 79 Member No.: 521 Joined: 10-March 09 |
Yeah, the humour in my art is typically of the 4th wall variety. They're easy jokes to make, but I'm no master comedian (although there are some deluded people that seem to think otherwise) so I go for what I can manage. I did the same thing a while back with this piece.
On a similar note, I'm no master artist either, which is probably half of why Silva has become my main OC, because her distinctiveness allows it to be clear that it's the same character from picture to picture. The other half of the reason would probably be that her strong and developed personality helps drive ideas in my mind. |
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| 7skullz |
Posted: Nov 7 2009, 12:40 AM
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Artisan Group: Members Posts: 65 Member No.: 481 Joined: 2-January 09 |
Well, it's still funny, and you get brownie points for the outfit. I really like the linework, too. Strong, it has presence.
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| MarcoSkoll |
Posted: Nov 7 2009, 11:41 PM
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Artisan Group: Members Posts: 79 Member No.: 521 Joined: 10-March 09 |
Well, my linework is a bit odd. It's my pencil work converted into near B&W via work in Photoshop, because I've given up on traditional inking (I have a horrible habit of messing it up...)
Anyway, my scanner has a habit of picking up on things which are much less visible on the real life version. The scan for this can be seen without any post production beyond piecing the two halves of the scan together and cropping slightly here. Either way, I'm left with a whole lot of clean up to do before I can colour it. Eventually, after converting it loosely into black and white with a slightly lengthy process I need to make more efficient... For the colouring, I then set two versions of the image as the top layers, one set to darken, and the other with a slight Gaussian blur and set as a multiply layer. Firstly, this softens the colour to line transitions, and also helps lose any "graininess" in the pencil lines. I've had my linework criticised at times for not "using line thickness", but really, I haven't the imagination to know how and when to do vary it, so I don't... |
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