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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 14, 2011 4:59:03 GMT
Ok, so in my birthday thread I'd mentioned this project, and put up the link to the sketch which was all that was posted at the time. I have however just completed the colored version and am now supper proud and excited to share it! ^^ Please check it out and let me know what you guys think! aquabluejay.deviantart.com/#/d3iuzxwI Will likely come back to this and add a few more elements to make it more suited to be a desktop background for my computer...
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Post by jjpor on Jun 14, 2011 20:41:16 GMT
I like that a lot - especially Eight and the ranks of colour-coded Time Lords. Good work indeed.
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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 15, 2011 4:34:50 GMT
The time lords were actually the first thing I drew in when I was starting the project with no idea where I wanted to go with it really. They do seem like the kind of people who'd like color coding...
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Post by jjpor on Jun 15, 2011 20:36:13 GMT
Heh, yeah, and they seem to enjoy dressing up in their robes and hats and stuff too.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jun 15, 2011 22:55:13 GMT
Oooooo!!! Pretty!!! I was bowled over with just the line art, but your gradients and use of colour really bring the drawing to life. This must've taken forever.
...how do you use the gradients by the way? I haven't had much experience with them since my sketching style doesn't really lend itself to cell shading.
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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 16, 2011 4:06:56 GMT
I feel as if there are probably other ways of doing this, possibly better, less labor intensive ones, although this wasn't too bad... Compared to some of the things I've done the ridiculously hard way in the past...But this is what I did:
The first thing I did with the line art was scan it in black and white and then I used photoshop to select every, and only the black pixels, making them their own layer to sit on top and stay perfect. I pretty much went in and used the magic wand tool to select the areas I wanted the gradient to show in. Then I went under the layer tab at the top and selected "New Fill Layer" there are three options under there; Solid Color, Pattern, and Gradient. Choosing Gradient obviously, you basically proceed to create a new layer. You get a box asking you what your base opacity will be and what it'll be called and all that trip that doesn't matter all that much because you can change it later anyway. Next you get a box that pops up showing you your gradient. You can select different shapes of gradients from there, the angle of you gradient, the size of the gradient, and if you actually click on the bar near the top that displays the scale (gray or it may have color depending on what it's deflating to) you will pull up another window which allows you to select a preset gradient, of fiddle about and customize your own.
(You really just have to play with the gradient creation part until you start to understand what the settings really do there.)
You can close out of that box when your happy with your gradient and open it up again and fiddle with it however times you want. The first box though, which allows you to select the scale and angle of the gradient, when you 'OK' to that one, it's going to go ahead and actually create your gradient. At that point you can't actually change it much, other than changing the layer opacity later one. If you don't like what you end up with for whatever reason you can always go back a step. The gradient will show up as it's own fill layer, and you can change it's opacity, and add other cool affects to it by right clicking on the layer and selecting "blending options".
That was probably way more detailed then you wanted, but there you are, hope that helps. And yes, it did take forever. XD
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Post by kirkg on Jun 16, 2011 5:41:36 GMT
Oooooo!!! Pretty!!! I was bowled over with just the line art, but your gradients and use of colour really bring the drawing to life. This must've taken forever... Yes, as a matter of fact, it did...
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Post by leamichelle on Jun 16, 2011 16:02:07 GMT
I'm really, really glad you finished this, because it's amazing. Clocket mentioned the gradients - love those, and the broken fob watch gives me shivers for some reason. Very well done!
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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 16, 2011 16:20:17 GMT
I know, it gives me them too. Especially when I was putting the finishing touches on the piece (like coloring in the watch chain on Eight's waistcoat in the panel above.)
I have to thank my friend Danny for the watch idea. That was the last empty panel, and I had no idea what to put in it and he threw out a few suggestions, including, a fob watch. I was actually going to get my brother to come and do all that doodling and scribbling so it would be messy male handwriting, instead of my messy girl hand writing. But alas, he wouldn't come up from the basement, where he was playing Runescape.
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Post by librarylover on Jun 17, 2011 0:24:57 GMT
This is gorgeous! I want it as a poster, or a suncatcher, or something.
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Post by kirkg on Jun 17, 2011 1:07:56 GMT
I know, it gives me them too. I was actually going to get my brother to come and do all that doodling and scribbling so it would be messy male handwriting, instead of my messy girl hand writing. But alas, he wouldn't come up from the basement, where he was playing Runescape. Oh, tell the truth, Aqua... you've got him chained up in front of the TV monitor, forced to watch Dr. Who episodes like Alex in "Clockwork Orange"!
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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 17, 2011 23:41:06 GMT
No, no. That's not it at all. He's chained himself to the basement, via the computer. I merely spent a couple of months going down and exploiting the situation to force him to watch Dr. Who.
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