【COLOURING/MISC.】 angeling | Shin Angyo Onshi
This post comes with many things!
Firstly, I'd like to apologize for my delay in voting lately. I've been busy, and the past few days I haven't been feeling too good - I took a shot at a vote today, but I'm not sure it's very good (sorry, rabanastre!) so I'll be saving more votes (and critiques) for when I'm feeling a little better and actually can pay attention to your samples and such.
Secondly, here is an unfinished piece of work that is likely to remain unfinished due to a) laziness on my part; b) really stupid light source in the original scan; c) hueg. No .psd or .oe4 this time, sorry. :(
Series: Shin Angyo Onshi
Character(s): Hae Mo Su
Time: ehhh idk. 2 hours...ish... maybe.
Program(s): OpenCanvas 4 + adjustments in Photoshop 7
Credits: N/A
Original: here
THE LIGHT SOURCE IN THE ORIGINAL SCAN IS REALLY DUMB. WHY ARE THERE SHADOWS ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF HIS FACE WITHOUT ANY INDICATION OF BRIGHT LIGHTS IN BETWEEN. Wah. Anyway.
SAO has pretty arrrrrtttttt and Hae Mo Su is really pretty. And I like pretty. :( Coloring that much hair and skin in the original scan's size was not fun, though. But I needed practice with blending large areas wah.
ANYWAY on to the next point of this post.
I was thinking of making an experimental "interactive tutorial" of sorts. I'll explain.
Basically, most long tutorials involve skipping a lot of steps, and if you screw something up in the middle you usually don't know WHAT you did wrong, right? Well, how about a tutorial where steps are updated one at a time, and between each step people following it have time to do it? For instance...
I make a tutorial and start with the most basic of things, picking a scan. And I post a picture of the scan I picked.
People who want to follow it also pick a scan, and post a picture of the scan they picked. Then we can comment back and forth and people can comment among themselves about the choice of scan. Then, a couple of days later, the next step is posted and explained - cleaning up the scan. And then everyone cleans up the scan, cue comments session, etc. Next step, base colors. I add base colors, post the next step, everyone does the same, more comments, feedback, etc etc, until the finished product.
I dunno, it sounds like it'll take a long time, but it seems more helpful to give feedback after each step than on the finished product as a whole. Most of the time when people ask me for help, they'll ask me how it's coming along every time they do something new to the picture, so it seems a more natural learning method than just "here's how it goes from start to finish, now do it!".
Would anyone be interested at all? I'd likely not post each step here to not flood the community, but I'd announce it here if enough people care. D:
Firstly, I'd like to apologize for my delay in voting lately. I've been busy, and the past few days I haven't been feeling too good - I took a shot at a vote today, but I'm not sure it's very good (sorry, rabanastre!) so I'll be saving more votes (and critiques) for when I'm feeling a little better and actually can pay attention to your samples and such.
Secondly, here is an unfinished piece of work that is likely to remain unfinished due to a) laziness on my part; b) really stupid light source in the original scan; c) hueg. No .psd or .oe4 this time, sorry. :(
Series: Shin Angyo Onshi
Character(s): Hae Mo Su
Time: ehhh idk. 2 hours...ish... maybe.
Program(s): OpenCanvas 4 + adjustments in Photoshop 7
Credits: N/A
Original: here
THE LIGHT SOURCE IN THE ORIGINAL SCAN IS REALLY DUMB. WHY ARE THERE SHADOWS ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF HIS FACE WITHOUT ANY INDICATION OF BRIGHT LIGHTS IN BETWEEN. Wah. Anyway.
SAO has pretty arrrrrtttttt and Hae Mo Su is really pretty. And I like pretty. :( Coloring that much hair and skin in the original scan's size was not fun, though. But I needed practice with blending large areas wah.
ANYWAY on to the next point of this post.
I was thinking of making an experimental "interactive tutorial" of sorts. I'll explain.
Basically, most long tutorials involve skipping a lot of steps, and if you screw something up in the middle you usually don't know WHAT you did wrong, right? Well, how about a tutorial where steps are updated one at a time, and between each step people following it have time to do it? For instance...
I make a tutorial and start with the most basic of things, picking a scan. And I post a picture of the scan I picked.
People who want to follow it also pick a scan, and post a picture of the scan they picked. Then we can comment back and forth and people can comment among themselves about the choice of scan. Then, a couple of days later, the next step is posted and explained - cleaning up the scan. And then everyone cleans up the scan, cue comments session, etc. Next step, base colors. I add base colors, post the next step, everyone does the same, more comments, feedback, etc etc, until the finished product.
I dunno, it sounds like it'll take a long time, but it seems more helpful to give feedback after each step than on the finished product as a whole. Most of the time when people ask me for help, they'll ask me how it's coming along every time they do something new to the picture, so it seems a more natural learning method than just "here's how it goes from start to finish, now do it!".
Would anyone be interested at all? I'd likely not post each step here to not flood the community, but I'd announce it here if enough people care. D: