I'll try to update this post to give you all a quick summary of my work so far

Thanks a lot for the great help, Kunai!!!

Updated:

Edited the clothes, the sky, the trees.

369 Cover:


http://j4ckie.deviantart.com
http://j4ckie.sheezyart.com

EDIT: Updated the 371 Cover, has a slightly changed BG and an improved shading of the jacket.

This post was last modified: 03-05-2008 05:09 AM by j4ckie.

So the picture isnt finished as yet so its hard to make critisicm as i dunno if you intended to put those things in but...anyways..i'll try here.

The best advice i can give you, straight up, is to work with a pre-cleaned material. For a beginner, nothing can be more stressful or annoying or discouraging that having to clean out the black bits and see dirty lines and having trouble with the quick select tool etc. Having a precleaned work is going to be better for us too, as we can see your ability straight up and not be distracted by nasty line-art.

I think i remember you mentioning the trees causing you a bother or a long time to do. Here's the easiest way I know how to do trees.

1. Do the darkest areas first. In fact, for good measure, start the trees with the darkest shade.

2. Choose a medium shade and start applying it to different places, keeping in mine the light direction and a visual of how trees look and how the different shades are kinda scattered randomly. This shade should probably cover and overall 60% of the total tree area (i.e you should be seeing mostly this color when you look at the tree) Oops almost forgot, when applying this use a semi-hard brush, and lower the opacity to around 70% or so, and just dot the areas of this shade. Dont brush it with a sweeping motion, just dot it Its OK to let some of the dots overlap.

(That looks a little untidy to follow, i hope it was clear. Also I wanna point out that i'm kinda doing this outta my head so if it doesnt turn out great its becuz i'm not actually trying it out before i tell you Use your own discretion and artistic taste to improvise as needs be )

3. Right well you can keep that brush setting, xcept make it a little smaller maybe and then change the color to that of an even lighter color than the two you've used before. Apply using the same dot techniques. Apply ONLY to areas where the medium shade is. The highlight of the trees is supposed to be the least (depending on the lighting of course) so i'd say about 17% .

4. Well nice it up now by using a bit of smudge to take out some of the obvious circles you've made by the dotting motion. [If you've used really smally dots though, its okay to leave them unsmudginized and drop the later mentioned 'adobe leaf brush' tip] .Crap, just realized i forgot to mention layers well i'm saying it now, if all this can be done on 1 layer, its fine, mistakes just cant be made thats all . Also adobe has some built in leaf brushes, reduce there sizes to really small and apply them over the trees. DONT OVER_DO IT. Its an 'enhancement', its just supposed to compliment the picture.

Hope that helps!! Sorry i have no pics and examples and circles and arrows and stuff to help but i suck at tutorial-ness

This post was last modified: 10-24-2007 12:43 PM by kunai-knight.

shade darker and shade more, naruto is missing a nose...lol.

check out batanga's tutorial, has a great way to do metal in it, as well as other stuff. (does batanga still colour for zarosaki???)

http://batanga.deviantart.com/art/Color-...y-28286457

hm i finished a new pic....look at the first post to watch it

@kunai-knight: THANKS A LOT!!! the tree-"tutorial" helped very much and i think my trees look much better now......

EDIT: kk the pic is fully finished now! despite my cut finger

This post was last modified: 10-25-2007 02:42 AM by j4ckie.

For sure, batanga colored a few pages for zarosaki but that was years ago...

I miss battie ;_;

MMM this is better explanation. Use in conjunction with my previous post -



1. Brushed using dots to get the bump edge then strokes for inside

2. Lowered opacity, changed hardness. Apllied in circle bumps and stuff

3. Change brush size, colour using scatter option in the f5 drop menu. Blurr tool on bushes. Help given if asked

Awesome sense of humour <3

oh yeah
btw could you please comment my work?
i still have to improve heavily so i need you to comment my work and help me getting rid of my mistakes...


btw kunai how in the world do u calculate the integral (?) of mc in an interval from infinite to pi?^^
would be new to me if such an interval exists

This post was last modified: 10-26-2007 03:37 AM by j4ckie.

I miss Battie

Good times :/

But he was a lolzfinn, I hate them all :/