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eyewoo · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:02 pm

Just beginning this picture -- Wacom and Photoshop 7

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ELLioT · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 2:17 am

Love those colors

neff · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 3:55 am

uhm, how to do those lines please?
btw. very nice picture

eyewoo · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 7:11 pm

Haven't had much time to work on this the last couple days... but I have done some work on it...

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Ian Jones · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 1:13 am

eyewoo: Nice colours and perspective. Great style. I really am enjoying your latest pics. Good work. The building at the front left looks wonky. The major horizontal base plane seems to angle upward, as if there is another horizon. I'm assuming of course that you intended it to be parallel with other objects in the scene. Those background city lights are a great addition for the sake of scale and perspective. good job!

NeFF: To draw perfectly straight lines with any of the brush tools, simply make a mark at your starting point, then hold down shift and make the end mark of the line. Photoshop will draw a straight line between these points with whichever brush you have selected. To continue drawing more connecting straight lines just press shift again… simple.

To draw a shape with straight lines and sharp corners, like a triangle for example, just make a selection with the Polygonal Lasso tool, set to point by point mode. Then paint in the selection. Other shapes with curves can be done using the pen tool. On a separate working layer, draw your shape with the pen tool. Goto the Paths pallete (usually docked with the layers pallete). Hold down ctrl, and left click on the path in the paths pallete. This will load a selection of that path shape, which you can use to paint within.

neff · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 5:08 am

I'm knowing of that shift-function,
i'd like to know how to do that vanishing point lines on the top picture so accuracy

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 5:44 am

NeFF...

I have a template with no background layer... a LARGE circle with a line every 6 degrees or so. It lives in a separate file which I simply dump onto its own layer in whatever picture I'm working on...

neff · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 12:57 pm

Thx! Good to know it.

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 5:22 pm

Spent some time on it today... Here's where I'm at with it...

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Kenshin · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 5:47 pm

nice picture well this is all i hve to say since i am new i cant critize, but over all very good

zak · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 2:18 am

not really my field, but i like the colours
*makes note of pallete

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[666]Flat · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 2:44 am

EYE CANDY

eyewoo · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 7:49 am

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Scott Robertson · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 3:47 pm

Philip, as I do not have many environmental pieces under my belt, take these comments for what they are worth. I really liked the first rough sketches. The palette has a hip retro feel with the strong forground tree graphics. I think that the current direction of the piece is tending towards what a friend of mine calls the "3D curse". It is starting to look like a stiff 3D rendering. Where are the roads for acces to the buildings? etc.. In my opinion if you were to start with a stronger drawing indicatiing all the elements of the piece it might come together better. You might be planning to add more texture and designed elements to pull it together, if so, ignore my last comments. IMHO try not to rely too much on the PS drawing tools ie. shapes etc....

Nice step by step, I'll check back to see the finished thing, I'm sure you will pull it together nicely as you usually do.

eyewoo · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 5:13 pm

Scott... Appreciate your comments... Haven't got to the roads yet... understand the 3D curse thing (no 3D in this pix)... haven't pulled it together yet... hate planning it out before starting (so boring doing it then)... am certainly planning more texture and design elements... Please do check back... I love the PS drawing tools and quick mask... they are the essence of digital IMHO ... 'course I'm pretty wierd about that sort of thing...

EDIT-- Refreshed the above image with the start of the roads...

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Ian Jones · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:10 pm

Blimey! you like your detail.

What sort of res do you work at?

eyewoo · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 5:50 am

Ian... The working rez is 5000 x 1888 including the gray throw-away border, which won't be included in the final image.

Details, details, details... it's said God is in the details...

Its actually not all that detailed... I think it just looks that way because of the high rez.

eyewoo · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:41 pm

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eyewoo · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 9:08 am

Just about done... For anyone interested, I've put together an animated gif from the initial start upto this point... not the finished point as yet, but it might be interesting to view... It is 820K so prepare for a big download...

Click here - animated GIF - 820k

KAH KAH · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 11:25 pm

man philip I love this work. I hope to someday be where you are now. Your stuff is just so amazing. I love the fantasy/3d style too. Really makes things interesting. I want to try to do some buildings and stuff of my own in PS but and somewhat unsure as to how to do it. I'm sure I'll figure it out. You really inspire me man. Once again fabulous work.

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 1:52 pm

I decided to get rid of the foreground trees... They were really starting to bother me... like a bad postcard...

Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 11:32 pm

I liked the trees.

BloodStone · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 11:42 pm

I liked the trees too. They led the viewer into the picture.

eyewoo · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:23 am

Yea, I liked that the trees led you into the picture, but... it just seems like a pretty obvious way to do it. I'm trying some other things first... may get back to the trees...

Godwin · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:26 am

WOW, that is fantastic

the trees looked good, u cold try leaves or grass or something(just bothering the top corners and not the whole sides?)

eyewoo · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:13 am

Here's where I'm going with it...

eyewoo · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 1:36 pm

new details...