First attempt at airbrushing

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All right, I've finally gotten around to using my Wacom tablet and now that I've figured it out, I love it. I took the lines from my existing Guy (from Tales of the Abyss) vector and dumped them into Photoshop where I began airbrushing. It's still a work in progress obviously, but I'm excited and wanted to show it off my first attempt at airbrushing.

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Airbrushing WIP:


Airbrushing Final:
 

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Awsomeness I want to learn that sometimes, but tablets are expencive and understanding Photoshop or Illustraitor takes much time
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Or do you maybe have a good tutorial :?
 

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Make your lineart the darker colour of the NEAREST colour, if you understand, since hard black lineart is best suited for cel-shaded art... not partically for soft coloured art.
 

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:'( I think gbatemp should do a competition to win a tablet next... I want one!!
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Really nice work jumpman, i love the subtleness of the shirt.. its great!! Can we see the finished article soon?
 

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Make your lineart the darker colour of the NEAREST colour, if you understand, since hard black lineart is best suited for cel-shaded art... not partically for soft coloured art.


Yeah, I don't like the black lines either but this is my first airbrushing and I didn't want to take too much on. So I just grabbed the lines I already had made so I could just try out airbrushing.

Nice work jumpman17, what wacom tablet do you use?

I prefer the vector because I do alot of vector work aswell.

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Wacom Intuos 3 6x8: http://www.wacom.com/intuos/6x8.cfm

On a side note, one of the labs we have here has about 30 of these bad boys: http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/21UX.cfm

my wacom changed my life. best money i ever spent (aside from my DS). Glad to see your digging it as well. Are you gonna post more things soon?


I plan to do more after I finish this one, but my works usually process slowly unless it's homework that has a deadline.

QUOTE(benchma®k @ Jan 7 2008, 09:41 AM)
:'(Â I think gbatemp should do a competition to win a tablet next... I want one!!Â
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Really nice work jumpman, i love the subtleness of the shirt.. its great!! Can we see the finished article soon?

I have a little more of it done, but it's at a stand still right now because I need to fix my PC (been screwy all week) and I can't do that until this weekend.
 

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Just some suggestions:

- You can just lock the transparency of the lineart layer to change the black line to other colour.
- I think the shade should be a bit darker. ^^ It is kinda hard to tell where the shadow is for the skin.
- The hair shine looks kinda... funny. Airbrushing and cell-shading is quite different... ^^; I think for airbrushing, it looks better if you draw strands of hair instead of in blocks.

That's all.

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Finished. Finally. I'm so lazy. I updated my first post with the final image. Click it to go to the page for it and if you want, you can download a larger version with the download link on the left.
 

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