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Playing with Tones: Terra

Posted: 28th July 2005 03:57

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The title page image for my FFVI doujinshi that I'm going to have printed, and shall be selling at a convention soon. (Not Otakon though)

My first -real- attempt with tones.
I had issues of the tones not being as large as my image.

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Posted: 28th July 2005 04:03

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That is absolutely splendiferous. Perfect SD style, lovely, uh... tones? Shades? Whatever they're called, they're lovely. And I love that she's in her Amano outfit.

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Posted: 28th July 2005 04:29

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I saw this earlier on your lj, Liz, but didn't have time to comment.

It is incredibly beautiful, I love how adorable you made Terra look, even though she's currently building up something that could fry a few soldiers to death. wub.gif

Are you going to make a coloured version?



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Posted: 28th July 2005 04:54

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Quote (Elena99 @ 27th July 2005 23:29)
I saw this earlier on your lj, Liz, but didn't have time to comment.

It is incredibly beautiful, I love how adorable you made Terra look, even though she's currently building up something that could fry a few soldiers to death. :wub:

Are you going to make a coloured version?

I wasn't planning on it, since the image in the doujin will be toned as you see.
Though maybe i'll make a coloured version for the back cover of the book.
That might be cute.
XD

I'm glad you like!

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Posted: 28th July 2005 05:05

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thats a really awesome picture - did you draw it yourself, or just played around with the tones, so to speak :-P -- either way, i like it happy.gif

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Posted: 28th July 2005 05:25
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Mind blowingly awesome. Leaps and bounds incredible. Took me out like a knockout punch.

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Posted: 28th July 2005 07:17

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Awesome. Her hair and clothes are beautiful. That belt looks like it was a bit hard to do.

Care to comment on how one goes about creating something like this? Was it done mostly on computer or all of it?

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Posted: 28th July 2005 07:22

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Holy Miho, mother of God, that's just too cutely awesome. As for artistic stuff...um, what they said, I'm too busy grinning stupidly. wub.gif

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Posted: 28th July 2005 09:05

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Holy mother of French. That is one hell of a piece. I LOVE IT!!! I love how you made it look like manga (that was dumb for me to say, seeing how you're using that image for doujinshi), I love how you did her hair, her Amano outfit, the SD, the tones/shading...

Hikaroo, can I be your slave?

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Posted: 28th July 2005 09:07

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Malshun - I most certainly drew it myself!

Rujuken - It's actually suprisingly easy. All it takes is finding the screentones (I believe I googled it and got one page that was really good. I have a link somewhere) and then a matter of using photoshop to select parts of the image, using the expand feature, and then paste into.
Then you can use the magic wand to select parts and play with the brightness to make the tone darker or lighter in spots, OR get a different tone to place over the existing one to make it look shaded, for example how I did her tights.

Huzzah!
Thank you all for the comments. <3


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Haha! My slave? I could make you my toning monkey. XD
Just kidding. What would I do with a slave? XD That seems inhumane! XD

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Posted: 28th July 2005 16:26

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wow - keep up the good work - that is an amazing drawing

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Posted: 28th July 2005 16:36

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Dang that was good. Wasn't expecting that. Uber-amazingz0rz.

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Posted: 28th July 2005 20:23

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Adorable. It's nice to see that not everyone on the board is opposed to anime-style, so I feel a little less alone now. XD

I especially love the fire; the sort of flat, simplistic style coincides nicely with the details on Terra.

Any chance you'll put up a copy online, or atleast a few sample page of the doujinshi for those unable to go to the con? I'd love to see more of this.

And you have an LJ? ::scours for it so she can see more of your work::

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Posted: 29th July 2005 05:10

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Adorable. It's nice to see that not everyone on the board is opposed to anime-style, so I feel a little less alone now. XD

I especially love the fire; the sort of flat, simplistic style coincides nicely with the details on Terra.

Any chance you'll put up a copy online, or atleast a few sample page of the doujinshi for those unable to go to the con? I'd love to see more of this.

And you have an LJ? ::scours for it so she can see more of your work::

I do have a livejournal, but the journal that has artwork is hikaroochan.
I could probably put one or two of the five stories that are going to be in the doujin online.
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Posted: 30th July 2005 17:49

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I like this! She looks so cute, and the texture on her outfit's so awesome. biggrin.gif Lovely!
I love the shadingness. ^.^


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Posted: 30th July 2005 20:07

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that's soooo cute, great job biggrin.gif
so... you're making an FF6 doujin? :0
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Now is this a clean doujin or a dirty doujin? XD Sorry, I had to ask that.

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Posted: 31st July 2005 08:23

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Clean doujinshi.
For no amount of money on this planet will I draw my beloved FFVI characters in nasty situations. I don't draw hentai.


The doujinshi is going to consist of probably four or five different short stories, depending on how many pages they are. This one was originally six, and I think it will end up ten.
I'm aiming for a 30-40 page doujinshi.

However large it is, it will most likely only be available at the conventions I go to unless people pay for shipping. tongue.gif And I can't get my eggs all in one basket. Something will deter me from finishing, like always. I'm pretty set in my ways on this one though.

So yes, to answer the question. Clean. >.>

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Posted: 31st July 2005 08:48

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I see. happy.gif

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Posted: 31st July 2005 20:18

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Just for curiosity's sake, is everything going to be in the SD style, or is that just the cover?

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Posted: 31st July 2005 23:27

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Like a manga, it will have parts that are chibi and cute, and parts where they are normal.
That's just a title page. That's not the cover, I posted the cover art forever ago. I need to redraw it, actually.
The cover is going to be the only thing in colour though.

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Posted: 1st August 2005 00:00

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Wow, I have been waiting so long since you last posted your art.

This one sure is lovely! wub.gif

Colored versions aren't always the best ones, but you are so good at colouring that I'd still give it a try if I were you.

It's really hard to find anything wrong it that picture, there would be a tittle thing: maybe polishing her left cheek? Maybe it's just me (this is SURELY jsut me) but I find it a little too dark there. Don't edit tough, it all depends on the people's point of view.

Whatever, you did a clean and perfect job for the light effects on her hair! thumbup.gif

I'm lost in wonder, this is just too beautiful, can't really find any other word to describe it.

How many tones have you been using, four? I sure never tought that someone would be able to do that. I have seen people using eight different tones, but you totally breaked the record in any way. ^^

For a first -real- attempt at it, I almost can't beleive it blink.gif

More, More, More!!! pinch.gif

PS: sorry for the smiley flooding ^^

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Posted: 1st August 2005 02:20

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I used at least ten different tones on that picture.

I won't do the doujinshi in colour because I want it to be more of a traditional Japanese doujinshi. No, I'm not Japanese and nor am I real manga artist, but I want to keep it as close as I can.

Her cheek could very well be too dark, I'll probably play with it a bit before I print.

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Posted: 1st August 2005 13:57

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Ah blame on me, tongue.gif

I tought there were only four or so until I noticed the one you used for her hair were totally different from the ones you used on the skin. Maybe my eyes and having trouble with black & white? wacko.gif

Did you choose the gray colour for any particular reason? Perhaps because it can reflect any colour you want?

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Posted: 2nd August 2005 03:19

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I did the image in greys and blacks and whites because that is how traditional manga is made with screen tones.
Granted, this was done in photoshop, but still.

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Posted: 3rd August 2005 04:26

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alright, before i begin, i MUST get this off my chest, Hikaroo, you are my favorite fanart creator or whatever, especially the terra picture that's somtimes in the background, you remind of one of my friends that won't see until i finish 8th grade this year.

anyhoo, the terra picture is great, i love it wub.gif so cute happy.gif

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Posted: 31st January 2007 15:20

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Can this please be moved into Site Submissions?

Thanks. :3

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As usual, hikaroo.....nothing I can say to improve it

Amazing stuff
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This is a really good picture smile.gif
if I could do something half as good, I'd be happy. Great work

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I think this is my favorite of your works so far.

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