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**Natsia** · 12-17-2005, 01:49 PM

I did this for my battle against Pointguard, I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out, so I thought Id post a higer res version of it up here.

**Magnetos_II** · 12-17-2005, 01:59 PM

argghhh natsia you had me jump off my seat

very coll picture indeed
i cant make out the black text though

**Natsia** · 12-17-2005, 02:37 PM

lol, you dont like snakes?
:P
the theme was fear, so the text says : you have nothing to fear, but fear herself.
Thanks for the compliment mags

You know that last pic of yours is rockin!

**Magnetos_II** · 12-17-2005, 04:50 PM

lol natsia yeah lets say i'm not really fond of reptiles

what do you mean fear herself? are you inplying fear is a she

**Natsia** · 12-17-2005, 04:56 PM

well... yes.
And I was playing off of all the old myths and things, women get shown in a bad light in most old ledgends.
I dont know if pointguard is a girl or not, but its also kinda "dont tread on me" thing :P
WHAT? It was a battle, you're allowed to be a little cocky :P

**arikb** · 12-26-2005, 04:13 PM

gj mag and nat.

Well, i just got into coloring. Here's my troll figurine drawn with prismacolors

**Natsia** · 12-27-2005, 03:09 PM

oh lol!
He's cute!
Very cute!
Cast me one in iorn, he'd look sooo sweet in my garden.
PS what does gj mean?

**arikb** · 12-28-2005, 12:43 AM

gj= good job

**Natsia** · 12-28-2005, 01:13 PM

Ahhhhh.
Shot.

**The_e-Tahn** · 12-31-2005, 01:56 AM

Happy New Year's, everyone

Natsia, wow your snake lady's scary!
Arikb, congrats on the Prismas! yayyy!
May I suggest some stuff?
Consider buying a blending stick or 2 or 3 or 10... they're like a clear pencil that you rub on hard (pc 1077, "colorless blender" also by Prismacolor) annd they mesh all your colors together!
Try layering a buncha different colors... don't be scared to press hard and get dark tones!
You can also blend with the white pencil as well.

Good luck with those and practice lots!

**arikb** · 12-31-2005, 02:06 AM

hey man, thanks for the advice. so, do you get that smooth effect with the blending sticks?

**Natsia** · 12-31-2005, 03:50 AM

Camel hair smudge sticks are good for graphite pencil. They're cheap and you can get them at any good art supply shop. Another hint is to use good quality pencils when you are doing colour, the better ones are usually water colours, the lead is softer and is easier to use when you're layering colours.
I dont like using them too much unless its with chalk pastels.
Too much blending on pencil drawings can rob them of thier depth.

**The_e-Tahn** · 01-01-2006, 08:44 PM

yeah, the colorless blending sticks for Prismacolors (because they are a prismacolor pencil themselves) make everything blended AFTER drawing it.
you can still go over and add some details, like defining lines and hairs and stuff, but you can't really draw too much over them without getting everything waxy-looking.
I agree, too m uch graphite blending does loes depth! Actually I don't even blend my graphite works (unless the areas are super-light) because it ruins the crispness and definition, but that's just me!
latest CG:

**arikb** · 01-06-2006, 04:10 PM

No blending sticks yet

**The_e-Tahn** · 01-07-2006, 04:56 AM

cool cool, lookin better!

getting used to color, I see... now try blending diferent types of blues and perhaps browns with the colors on the shoes... Indigo Blue makes a terrific almost-black shade, but without being too harsh. What size set did you get? just try mixing colors more, don't be afraid to experiment with them, because that's the only way to learn about them.

**arikb** · 01-07-2006, 05:58 AM

thanks for the advise. Next time i'll try to mix more colors

What size set did you get?

what are you talking about?

**Natsia** · 01-07-2006, 02:47 PM

Very Cool arkib,
The only advice I can give you is: when you've done prelim lines for a drawing, start your shading from the background of the drawing forward.
The reason for doing it that way : when you use pencil and start in the foreground of an image, the pressure you apply to your strokes is pretty much even right throughout, which means that a lot of the depth is lost. Starting in the back will help you (as the person drawing) see the depth, prespective and proper understanding of tone, light and shadow which will come across in the final image.
I think I'd like to see you using more shading techniques, they help with the above meantioned aswell.
Very nice drawing man. Keep them comming

**arikb** · 01-08-2006, 05:30 AM

thanks for the advise natsia

and ethan, I have this old box wich had 60 pencils, but some are missing now

**The_e-Tahn** · 01-08-2006, 01:45 AM

by size, i mean how many did you get in a box? I think they come in 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 120-sized boxes.

**The_e-Tahn** · 01-10-2006, 11:23 PM

oy wow...
what that looks like to me is an airbrushed-vector thing in Photoshop, I'm guessing.
Based on pure speculation... I'd say that the basic shape of the head was defined using vectors and then put as a layer on top of the black and then the neck layer, which was also defined with vectors... the shading is definitely painted/airbrushed. It could be a verrrry hi-res image that the artist was drawing way-up-close and exporting as a smaller image size (or with a high DPI). but yeah, it looks like the main shapes (the head, the lips, the eyes, tip of the nose) are sharp enough to be just vector outlines, then filled in with an airbrush or something down those lines.
I haven't worked much at all with vectors myself so that could all be wrong!!

WAIT just search the forums for zoneboy, and hither you go:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hlight=zoneboy

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