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Jezebel · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 4:21 am

Yay yay yay! I finally got a tablet! I'm so happy now! To try and get used to using it I decided to take a sketch and color it. I happened upon this thread here and decided this drawing would be my first victim

http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/008019.html

I cannot believe how much easier it is to use to the tablet, all my lines look so much more fluid and controlled. I think I'm going to have a fun time trying to master all the different techniques I've seen floating around this forum. Anyways, here's the image I did:

Crits/Comments/Rants/Raves and all that stuff are always welcome of course

-Beth

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[This message has been edited by Jezebel (edited December 26, 2000).]

Ragnarok · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 4:28 am

It looks neat, but I think her left eye (our right) is too far from the nose.
The hair looks beautiful btw.

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 4:35 am

dig!

just needs silver hair, not blue.

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Jezebel · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 4:46 am

Umm... tried to fix that crazy eye that's trying to walk off her face =)

I also tried to define her cheeks just a tad more.

I actually thought about doing silver hair but I really wanted to play around with some color. Next time I'll try silver. ^_^

-Beth

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Bubonic · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 8:16 am

nice job jezebel, i really can't tell the sketch to your actual painting.. You added a lot of vibrance to her.. did you go back and fix some things up? like that lips and such?

can't wait to see more of your work, hopefully it will be your painting And drawing next time..

Solitaire · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 9:17 am

Oh Jez I'm so envious
*smashes crappy MS standard mouse*

well you really seem to like blueish hair

Maybe some more shading in her face would make her more plastic espescially the cheeks and eyholes are in need of some more depth,.....although well... I am not sure!
..but now that I look on her cheeks: did you noticed that she has two different cheekbones on each side? Somehow I got this impression by comparing shading and lighting in the two face-halves.

Ragnarok · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 9:30 am

Much better!

Jezebel · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 1:42 pm

Yeah, bubonic - I tried to change some things but I don't think I did too great of a job, hehe... my knowledge of proper anatomy is somewhat lacking ^_^

Hehehe, purple/blue hair rocks... I had this unhealthy obsession with wanting to dye my hair purple in high school so maybe I'm trying to release all those built-up desires into my artwork, hehe

It was a little difficult to try and give her face form when it was coming from a fairly basic sketch. I would like to tinker with this one a little bit more, define her hair and face some more - that was really quick hair. I dunno, we'll see. It was just some Wacom practice

Thanks Ragnarok!

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jHof · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2000 4:03 pm

Damn girl... Looks very nice. Can't wait to see you do some background work with that new tablet

Keep it up.

-Hof

Dakkan · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:25 am

hey cool, no one ever coloured one of my pics before

love the pic. glad u finally got ur tablet (i was jumpin' up and down when i first got mine hehe)

Jezebel · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:30 am

Glad you like it Dakkan... it was a cute drawing

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Frost · Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 12:19 am

Jezebel: I must say that is quite nice! The change is almost drastic from your previous mouse works. Glad you're getting used to it so quickly. =) Good work!

Jezebel · Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 12:31 am

Weee, thanks a lot Frost =)

I've had so many people message /post to /e-mail /tell me that my abilities have improved a lot since I got my tablet. It's really encouraging. I hope to post a whole lot of upcoming images!

-Beth

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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

I like this pic alot, your portraits have a very soft character to them that's very appealing.

One thing I would say is that the eyes are usually in the middle (vertically) of the face. Take a ruler or pencil and measure the distance(roughly) from the bottom of the chin to the eye level. The distance from the eye level to the top of the head should be roughly the same distance.

Anyway, a real cool pic, nice one!