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mixzed
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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:04 am Post subject: K9 Concept Art Of The Day Thread |
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This is an attempt to kickstart myself into finishing up a backlog of concept art for my project Kali 9.
I almost hesitate to call this an "Of The Day Thread" but I will do my best to post K9 related quick concept art sketches once a day, excluding weekends (if I do post on a weekend, consider it a bonus). Lets see how long I can keep this up.
Anyway lets get started. Here is today's sketch.
The 3 Fates
Antigonists in the game (From bottom to top: Lyra - The Event, Anki - The Ruin & Coluhua - The Source)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Kinda feels like it can go on a DVD cover or movie poster. I like!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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I really like the overall style.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Fridays are always busy for me at work. I'm not 100% on this one. I rushed it.
BTW: They are not elves
Thanks for the comments so far
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Mondays are quieter for me at work. I can put more polish into a sketch.
The City of Koshingo
Market Capital
the perspective is purposely skewed
thanks all for the feedback
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That looks very cool!
Does the world have two suns?
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Okay man, I hope you don't mind, but I stole your sketch image and made a crisp version...
Don't worry though, I'm not using it..I was only using your sketch as a test for a technique to create crisp line art from sketches :)
Your work is AMAZING man! Keep up the great work!
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haha...mine looks like it lost a little detail here and there...like a coloring book page XD
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Okay, tweaked the settings of the conversion and this looks better I think:
(edit) ..oh and if you would like me to remove these images from my server, I will do so. I don't want you to think that I'm stealing your art. .. I only removed your signature from the images because the conversion was not legible. Again, your work is simply amazing! You have much talent!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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sorry to those expecting the larger images but I made them smaller to save some bandwidth.
It's no problem man, I don't mind. your probably using a similar technique that I use before I color them. I'm basically using those style sketches in place of cutscenes.
You wouldn't believe the amount of work and practice I had to do before I could draw like this. I used to be a programmer, I pretty much lost 90% of my programming knowledge in the process. Eh thats the way it goes I guess I just couldn't hold on to both.
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good catch, it's actually their sun and a sister planet.
Here's today's drawing. I cleaned it up a bit
I'm not sure what I'm calling this monster. I was thinking a boss but it's not menancing enough. It's sort of a pokemon from hell, so it will probably end up a regular monster.
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It's no problem man, I don't mind. your probably using a similar technique that I use before I color them. I'm basically using those style sketches in place of cutscenes.
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Yeah, I figured that you were doing cut-scene stills.
My technique is simple; I import the sketch into Inkscape, and then I trace the bitmap into a vector image, and then export the vector to a png; I then open that into gimp to give the white background;but I save an xcf in gimp so that I keep layers, and if I want to color, I can keep the line art on top with a transparent background; and colored cells underneath.
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You wouldn't believe the amount of work and practice I had to do before I could draw like this. I used to be a programmer, I pretty much lost 90% of my programming knowledge in the process. Eh thats the way it goes I guess I just couldn't hold on to both.
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Oh I'd believe it all right. I've been studying art for over 17 years and my skill still doesn't compare. ..though I am like 80% programmer, 10% musician, and 10% artist XD
Programming keeps me from blowing my brains out..so I think I'll stick with what I'm good at.
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good catch, it's actually their sun and a sister planet.
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Hah...I was thinking that it was a planet ..cool good to know my intuition was right.
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Here's today's drawing. I cleaned it up a bit
I'm not sure what I'm calling this monster. I was thinking a boss but it's not menancing enough. It's sort of a pokemon from hell, so it will probably end up a regular monster. |
POKEMON FROM HELL! XD
I love the character's design. Very cool!
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Yeah, I figured that you were doing cut-scene stills.
My technique is simple; I import the sketch into Inkscape, and then I trace the bitmap into a vector image, and then export the vector to a png; I then open that into gimp to give the white background;but I save an xcf in gimp so that I keep layers, and if I want to color, I can keep the line art on top with a transparent background; and colored cells underneath. |
ok... that doesn't look simple at all lol. We do different methods after all. there is a convert bitmap to vector function with flash. After messing with the settings I can get a vector version of my lineart then it's just a matter of locking off the shades/highlights and filling in colors. I'm pretty much incompetant with photoshop/gimp etc. I can do basic stuff but anything else requires me to scour for tutorials.
I'll admit I didn't finish today's drawing so instead I'm posting a little something I did a few days before I started this thread.
The Main Antagonist - Kei Mishima w/her nagitana
<cliche>Once Reilynn's best friend now her greatest Enemy.</cliche>
I hate to do this but after tomorrow's drawing I might have to take a break from this thread until Monday. I have to do some artwork for an exhibition in a few months and I don't want to procrastinate anymore than I have already.
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ok... that doesn't look simple at all lol. We do different methods after all. there is a convert bitmap to vector function with flash. After messing with the settings I can get a vector version of my lineart then it's just a matter of locking off the shades/highlights and filling in colors. I'm pretty much incompetant with photoshop/gimp etc. I can do basic stuff but anything else requires me to scour for tutorials.
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I use Linux as my development platform.
Flash isn't an option for me.
I am still learning new things to do in GIMP, but its really really easy once you get past the oddness of the way it works in comparison to something like photoshop.
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I'll admit I didn't finish today's drawing so instead I'm posting a little something I did a few days before I started this thread.
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Nice.
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I hate to do this but after tomorrow's drawing I might have to take a break from this thread until Monday. I have to do some artwork for an exhibition in a few months and I don't want to procrastinate anymore than I have already. |
Take a break! :) Get your exhibition artwork finished.
Keeping daily pic posts is not a necessity lol.
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I don't mean to nitpick but...it's naginata, not nagitana. :)
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