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Jedaka
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posted 20-05-2005 01:40 AM     Profile for Jedaka   Author's Homepage   Email Jedaka     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yep, here it is, my first CG, a fanart of Faye Valentine. Sorry about the weak gradient tool background, I've yet to actually draw a background heh... Line art was done in pencil and inked in.



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Erock
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posted 20-05-2005 08:59 AM     Profile for Erock   Email Erock     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Nice pic man i think if you worked on the chin and mouth a little more it would be perfect. Man she is sooooooo hot!!!!!!
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Jats1
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posted 20-05-2005 07:37 PM     Profile for Jats1   Email Jats1     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I can see where you have the light source coming from, but some of the shadows and highlights are in the wrong places - it's sorta hard to explain verbally, so I'll just say thats a very good effort for your first one, and I look forward to seeing more

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Masamune
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posted 20-05-2005 08:28 PM     Profile for Masamune   Email Masamune     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
i kno nothin about cg so anything looks cool to me ^_^
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Webb
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posted 21-05-2005 01:14 AM     Profile for Webb   Email Webb     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Right first off good work for your first attempt like Jats says a couple of places where the lighting isnt quite right and these can cause the overall piece to look strange which will detract from the overall affect.

A couple of points with the picture as a whole, the arm holding the gun seams a little thick to me and seems to be detached from her body (try holding your arm in that position with a gap between your body and the arm) the solution to this is to add in the top of the arm going down towards the elbow just below the breast or change the arm to more of an angle and bring the base of the forearm back towards the body. And there is the small point of her index finger being at an impossible angle! All that needs though is an adjustment of the nail!

Her hair needs more definition in the centre just a few lines showing how it moves back from the band then curves over and down her face would improve the look loads.

My final point will be with the gun. It seems to look a little odd... my inclination would be that the end of the barrel is showing too much and you should slightly lengthen the underside of the barrel.

Hopefully that all made sense... if it doesnt let me know and i will try and explain it differently/more clearly.

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Jedaka
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posted 21-05-2005 01:24 AM     Profile for Jedaka   Author's Homepage   Email Jedaka     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yes, my thoughts exactly on many of the points. The arm looks completely detatched from the body. So either bringing it in closer or showing the upper arm below the breast would help.

The gun I pretty much accepted would suck, since I've never drawn a gun before. I intended to have less of an angle on the gun, but by the time I was done with it I realized that it was sorta angled towards the viewer more than I wanted, which distorts the view and made it confusing, but was too late to change once I inked it in >_<

Like, the only tools I used the whole picture was paint brush, eraser, and gradient tool for the background. It seemed really... rudimentary if you know what I mean. Although as far as shading goes I was going for cel style shading, although in the future I do plan on doing more airbrushing soft shadow (Although I can't quite get the hang of making smooth gradients with airbrush yet for some reason)It wasn't really what I expected for "CG"ing =p Have any suggestions for "neat tricks" that could improve it ?

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Shadowshaman
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posted 01-06-2005 11:56 PM     Profile for Shadowshaman   Author's Homepage   Email Shadowshaman     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hrmm i dunno if that worked...so ill put down the link
http://fanart.theotaku.com/view.php?action=retrieve&id=80414

There is that! My first Cg no as good as the one that you did...but i tried. She is an original character and sadly that took me about 4 hours. First time doing anything on photoshop so i guess its reasonable.

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