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Catfish
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 Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 3:38 pm |
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About 4 years ago, I actually used to be pretty good at traditional art...
I really wanted to start up again - This is my first serious attempt at using Photoshop for handdrawn artwork.
Two hours later, and this results:
What on earth possessed me to try glass, I have no idea. It turned out to be pretty tricky.
It's a bit messy. I'd like to put that one down to my own individual style, but I suspect it's more likely a newbie attempt to cover up errors. If you've got any tips on how to avoid being messy, let me know...
I must admit, it didn't look anything nearly as interesting as this until 15 minutes ago, when I started hacking around with channel ops and equalizers. It's about 500% more vibrant now 
Anyway - gimme crits. I wanna know everything that's wrong with it.
[EDIT: Interesting... What color palette do I have to put photoshop in so that it looks identical in IE?]
[EDIT Mrk II : Nevermind. I was comparing them on different monitors.]
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Catfish
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 3:31 pm |
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| So uhh....it's so good that there's nothing to criticise? |
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Digital Genesis
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 9:34 pm |
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well, it isn't photorealistic, but you did capture the essence of it really well.
If I were to crit, I'd say to make sure the edges and details were defined more. Right now it all looks kinda washed out.
But, good work nonetheless |
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eyewoo
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2002 4:56 am |
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| Very nice... I don't know whether the glow around parts of the glass is style, but it doesn't work well for me... everything else is really well done... the essense of heavy thick glass... |
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Catfish
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2002 12:37 pm |
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The glow is kinda an artifact left over from me repeating my original glass layer with about 10 extra layers of different blend modes. Not intentional, but it does make things look a lot warmer. But yes, it does look a little odd.
I might go back and clean it up a little. It's tempting just to start again at a massive resolution, so my messy brush strokes will be scaled down to nice neat ones |
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