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Eddy H · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 6:41 am

Here's my first piece of artwork with my new wacom tabet. Yaaay. Going back to a mouse now is like trying to draw with a brick!
http://members.xoom.com/eddy76/sample.html

Let me know what ya think.

By the way...stupid question.. how do you post an image up (here)

Ed.

Stolln · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 7:56 am

*speechless*

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immi · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 8:14 am

Great job eddy! The whole pic is excellent but the hair...wow, the hair is incredible! One problem though, i think you cropped the picture a bit high up, ya know

heh heh

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micke · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 9:50 am

Nice work! Fresh colours.love the way you're mixing other colours in the skin tones!
I like the hair too!

-Mikael

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Ko · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 9:57 am

WOW! very nice shading there... so real!

Ko

Eddy H · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 2:46 pm

WOW! Thanks for all the great feedback!!

I worked on the picture over approx 4 afternoons, all up probably about 8 hours.

Funny, the hair was pretty easy to do (i just built it up laying down dark tones and building it up with lighter tones and thinner strokes, I had to put much more effort into the skin!

I tinted the skin slightly with colours using a new layer in overlay mode and took down the opacity of the layer.

By the way i did use an image of a girl from a magazine for reference...

Ed.

DuKEZ · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2000 4:40 pm

yeah i like the picture.. but why did u cut it off.. lets see the rest of her.. i know its there.. hahaha

alive · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2000 12:12 am

Arrrrrrrgh! I want one of these tablets!

Super pic Eddy!

What tablet did you buy and how much did it cost you?

Look forward to you second Wacom attempt. great stuff

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akh · member Member # Joined: 22 Jan 2000 Posts: 87

very impressive... the skintones and especially the hair... (drool)
Only thing, I think I would kind of reshape the jaw a little.. it kind of looks lumpy or somethin..
oh go here http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/ubbcode.html to see how to add an image.
Good work!

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ustorfixx · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2000 12:34 am

Stupid question but, how long did it take you? BTW, I love it. Good work and I hope to see more great stuff.

L8r.
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Danny · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2000 6:23 am

Hi Eddy,

great stuff! Good use of colour. I agree with you that hair usually is easier to do than skin. Then again I've always liked doing complex hair stuff. If there's one point of critique I might add, then it would be for the background. The vertical-grain filter is too evident if you ask me. But hey.. I'm nit-picking.. Good going!

Danny..

ps.. She looks like Tia Leone.. am I right?

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dennison · member Member # Joined: 29 Jan 2000 Posts: 247

danny what do you mean by "too evident"? :P

Danny · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2000 2:25 pm

Dennison,

with too evident I meant that it's clearly showing up as a plugin effect. Kinda fits into the Lens-flare category if you know what I mean... Just so there's no confusion, I am refering to the noisy darkened vertical lines spanning across the background. Eddy did a cool job on the figure make no mistake about that..

That's all..

Danny

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Funfetus · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2000 12:25 am

could someone post this somewhere else? I'm dying to see it, but I can't get through to the server.

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CyberArtist · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2000 1:47 am

dennison · member Member # Joined: 29 Jan 2000 Posts: 247

ahoy danny! the lens flare, of course!

damn, eddy.. she's so sweet

Eddy H · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2000 2:34 am

Verticle grain? In the same category as lens flares? Arg. It's not that bad?

I do tend to avoid using the default wack a plugin here effect, but here i actually used an ocean ripple also in the background too. I thought that would be more obvious than the vert. grain! I don't think i've seen anyone use it before...

Anyways, thanks for all the great feedback!! It keeps me going... I'll post my next image up soon. Any requests?

Ed.

PS. While doing this image i found the best method for a palette for the skin tones was to make a gradient strip of the darkest tone to the lightest and use the picker on that. I put the strip on the same layer as the skin so if i adjusted the brightness/contrast or the hue/sat. it whould alter my 'palette strip' too...

Funfetus · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2000 1:30 am

Wow, gorgeous skin tones. Pretty great pic overall, though there are some issues with the face, mainly around the brow and nose. Keep it up, i'd love to see more!

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TurboYVR · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2000 1:48 am

i don't think I can add anything not already said.. bloody beautiful skin tones, btw. Love it. The eyebrows are a bit hyper-detailed in comparison wit hte rest of it though... blur em just a smidgen. Not to much.. jsut enough to take out some of the crispness of it...