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amichaels · member Member # Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 105

I have been having trouble adjusting to painting everything, so I decided to scan something and color it in.This is a contest entry I did for Wizard magazine. I inked it and scanned it. Using Painter 7, original size is about 2000 pixels high.

I am having trouble finding good referrence material for the background, so if anyone has any suggestions on background, feel free to comment. C and C welcome.

I changed the hand position a bit and tried to fix the lighting problem, which I am still having trouble with in general. As far as how I went about painting, I laid the basic colors out first. Then, I blocked in the basic shadows and went over them again with a lower opacity brush in Painter with a strong red to blend the shadows and highlights together. Same thing for the blue. I am still pretty new at painting. Eventually I would like to be able to work without any linework, but I am having trouble doing so.
I just wish this hadn't have blurred when I resized it.

fukifino · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:49 pm

It's spidey...a cityscape would be the obvious choice. If you wanted to go for something more unique than that, I dunno. But you can't go wrong with some highrises/skyscrapers etc.. seen from the level where spidey's swingin'.

Looking nice, btw, although I'm sure someone will comment on the inconsistent light source. Possibly remedied by nearby buildings reflecting light off the glass?

AndyT · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:15 pm

It's great so far.

Yeah there seems to be light coming from all directions.
The right half of his chest looks weird somehow IMO.

And I'm not sure how he is using the web. To me it looks as if it's a free fall.
That might just be me though ... maybe he should be tilted a little.

Is it possible to make the canvas bigger so that he has more space?
Maybe a slightly different composition could make it seem more dynamic.
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Tazeron · junior member Member # Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 7

Hey dude....im kinda a newbie.....could you tell me your process of shading? (how do "you" do it brush,tool,program, technique)

I can draw well...and fill it......but shading is where it gets me...

Thanks,

John
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DeadbeaT · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 2:35 pm

If you look at his right arm, you notice his fingers are slightly bent, as if they're supporting some of his weight. ( theyre beeing pressed down) If i were asked the question: What is he doing? (judging only from what we see here) i would guess that hes just pushing himself off something (a roof top or maybe a gargoyle) and is going out into the night (maybe rainy) hunting crimials.. (whoa i could be a writer Very Happy

) or maybe hes in the midle of some fight attacking his foe with his web pushing himself off the ground. i dunnop about you guys but if hes in mid air u really dont think his thumb should be bent like that.. so there my opinion. GL with your background.
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Ylla · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:47 am

usually, what people do with painter paintings... is they save them big, open in photoshop and shrink there. painter isnt very good at resizing stuff.

it's pretty good. the web hand kinda bothers me. like, the thumb should be thicker, both throughout and at the base, should attach higher on the hand, and the two middle fingers, their knuckles should come forward to us more (try that with your own hand. it'll hurt if you do it the way you have it drawn)

i like how the rest of spidey is drawn tho
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AndyT · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:43 am

DeadbeaT:
There was an earlier version. That's why earlier comments might seem a little strange to you.
The updated version is good ... but I don't remember the earlier one well enough.
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amichaels · member Member # Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 105

I'm not feeling ambitious enough to change the webslinging hand at the moment, mostly because I would have to redraw quite a bit around it as well. I have been playing with it though and I realize the right arm just isn't going to work no matter what I do. So I have to redo it. Or maybe I'll just leave it as is and move on to something else.