"furryskulk Redux"
Beast
Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Coloured Ferai pic</div> I've finally decided to have a go at colouring by myself in photoshop. At the moment I am only messing arround, but hey, this is how you learn. Comments on what I am doign well/wrong would be extremely valuable at this point, as I'm only a nub, and I need to learn.
Ok the task at hand for me is to give <a href='http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulk.jpg' target='_blank'>this</a> Some colour. So not knowing what the hell I am supposed to be doing, I find out what the dodge and burn tools do:
This is the result of what happened:
<a href='http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulkredux.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulkredux.jpg</a>
After some advice from other artists (namely fam, coil, esuna, Eplekongen, snowfox, enforcer, visual mirage, kyliegirl and people you wont know - vijil and ignusdei - thanks for your continued support guys/girls <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)
I had another play around, this time slightly more educated than my wild random stab into the darkness I did last time. The eventual plan is to make this thing feel alive, with fur... This will take some time. I am still awaiting my graphics tablet to aid me with this (namely the fur) <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> The idea is I will slowly update this thread with the progress I make with this peice, andeventually what I learn <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anyway, this is the result of some playing around, I actually think it looks kinda cool:
Ok the task at hand for me is to give <a href='http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulk.jpg' target='_blank'>this</a> Some colour. So not knowing what the hell I am supposed to be doing, I find out what the dodge and burn tools do:
This is the result of what happened:
<a href='http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulkredux.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.haxgames.com/furryskulkredux.jpg</a>
After some advice from other artists (namely fam, coil, esuna, Eplekongen, snowfox, enforcer, visual mirage, kyliegirl and people you wont know - vijil and ignusdei - thanks for your continued support guys/girls <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)
I had another play around, this time slightly more educated than my wild random stab into the darkness I did last time. The eventual plan is to make this thing feel alive, with fur... This will take some time. I am still awaiting my graphics tablet to aid me with this (namely the fur) <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> The idea is I will slowly update this thread with the progress I make with this peice, andeventually what I learn <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anyway, this is the result of some playing around, I actually think it looks kinda cool:
Comments
Good work insofar Beastie ^^
Few crits-
The shading on the top of the front left arm is too pronounced, try toning down the dodging you did there and takeing to it manually with an airbrush of a color a bit lighter than the rest of the fir, and use thin strokes to get that furry feel.
Good work insofar Beastie ^^
Few crits-
The shading on the top of the front left arm is too pronounced, try toning down the dodging you did there and takeing to it manually with an airbrush of a color a bit lighter than the rest of the fir, and use thin strokes to get that furry feel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
lol.
good picture dude. may have been what the skulk looked like before the bacterium got em.
Thanks again for the feedback <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I'm slowly learning <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Btw, this is from my <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=39961' target='_blank'>story</a> that I have written part 1 of. I'm goign to have a stab at photoshop art stuff before I have another go at writing again, my hands need a rest from the sheer typing I did, as does my brain lol.
looks alot like a wolf, unless thats the look your going for! perhaps work on some of the shading more and zoom in close and try to use lighter and darker greys to create a fur effect with a really thin brush, but paint them on a new layer so as you can delete the layer whenever you want if you mess up! =)
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*note shading is incredibly basic here, I just did a bit of basic shading to give me an idea*
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well eh the top pic is good, but as someone said earlier the shading is perhaps a bit strange around the front leg,and also you might want to add some minor shading on the body itself to "suggest" its shape....
- but the finished one looks neato <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
and the last fur thingy looks like fur as it is now, but eh i guess ill leave it up to you how to use that piece....
Thanks, and keep the advice coming guys <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
have fun!
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1) It's hard to tell how large this is in comparison to the actual image, but it seems to me you may want to go for smaller, thinner hairs. Resizing the whole thing down might do it nicely (you DID do this on a separate layer, right?).
2) I'm not sure how this will work, but try overlaying additional fur at lower opacity. Depending on your blending mode (you might try screen or multiply) you may be able to get some pretty convincing highlights/shadows in this way.
3) You can still see through the fur to the base gray. What you might try is replacing the flat gray with a Clouds render (Filters->Render->Clouds), where your two colors are your highlight color and your shadow color.
Lastly, don't be afraid to add some color -- blues in particular could really set things off (in a good way).
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And if you want the lines to have more of a wave to it in some areas some of the "distort" filters may work out well.
Whatever suggestions i <b>did</b> have on the fur can be thrown out, all the suggestions i was giving were if you were doing a more cartoony style of fur, instead of relying on heavy detail, relying on suggestion of fur and so on, but what you've done with the individual strokes is far more effective than any of those methods, and you are doing it very well. What i might suggest, however, is ignore the people suggesting using the heal tool, while this may save a hell of a lot of time and effort, the end result won't be nearly as good as doing it all by hand. Have a little pride in your work. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Let's look at the pro's and cons:
<b>Individual hairs:</b>
<li>Pros
-Far more detailed
-Sense of achievement
-More realistic "flow" of the hairs
<li>Cons
-Time consuming
<b>Clone tool:</b>
<li>Pros
-Quick and easy
-Desired results fast
-No need to worry quite so much on the flow of the hair
<li>Cons
-Will look crap
-Far less detail
-Unrealistic hair flow
There's a few basic pro's and con's with the two methods, the clone tool method will produce quick results but the end image will be of a far lower quality.
Ok, i know i'm not much help.
Just got my tablet, and after having a play around, I can tell you one thing.
You know that fur effect You saw a few posts ago, in the final picture, you can expect a much better and more realistic effect <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I have a whole week to do this art peice, as I am going on hols and bringing a laptop with me. No internet for a week though ;_;.
Expect an update in about a weeks time <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Keep it up, your getting good at this stuff!
Yes I am back from Great Yarmouth (a place in the UK) and I have done a lot of work on my colouring, It's still far from finished (I have yet to do any shading), but the fur effect I have done so far I think is quite impressive. So here we go:
now finish it yes now hush hush
oh and the obligatory Beast Cookies:
/me hands out cookies.
This explains the lack of shading guys...
Looks great. I cant wait to see it finished. I think some hairs should be sticking out more, like near the ends of it's legs and tails. At the moment it looks well groomed...
Yeh, I agree...
Beast probably has this sorted though, he just hasn't got round to doing it yet <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->