First attempt at airbrushing

[jumpman17]

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.

Click the images below to go to the actual page.

Vector:


Airbrushing WIP:


Airbrushing Final:

 

[Ace Gunman]

Looks pretty good! Unfinished, but good.

 

[JPH]

Ooh, looks very nice.
We can look forward to more?

 

[BoneMonkey]

very very good

 

[nando]

it looks pretty good, but you should probably use a tapering brush specially for the hair.

 

[laminaatplaat]

Awsomeness I want to learn that sometimes, but tablets are expencive and understanding Photoshop or Illustraitor takes much time

Or do you maybe have a good tutorial :?

 

[TaeK]

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.

 

[Sc4rFac3d]

I really really need to get me a tablet... Awesome work.

 

[Commander]

Nice work jumpman17, what wacom tablet do you use?

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

~ Commander

 

[Salamantis]

Really nice, jumpman!

I look forward to seeing more!

 

[bluebright]

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?

 

[benchma®k]

:'( I think gbatemp should do a competition to win a tablet next... I want one!!

Really nice work jumpman, i love the subtleness of the shirt.. its great!! Can we see the finished article soon?

 

[Sinkhead]

It looks great now, can't wait to see it finished! I wish I could draw like that...

 

[jumpman17]

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.

~ Commander


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

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.

 

[vinnick]

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.

 

[jumpman17]

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.

 

[GameDragon]

Wow, thats pretty amazing

It really quality work, nice job.

I gotta get me a Wacom tablet one of these days