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Published: 2010-02-25 12:58:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 3507; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 0
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Description My second entry for the Alice in Wonderland competition rounds, this time starring the hookah-smoking Caterpillar... creepy-fied. It appears it's somewhat of a popularity contest (more votes = bigger shot at winning), so if you love me (or just my drawing), then go vote... for me. Hihi. -> [link] <-

I'm rather fond of this one, so much that I may have fidgeted a bit too much with it. x) And look at that, I made a background! What has the world come to?


Tools: Photoshop CS3, basic brushes. Texture from CGTextures.com: [link]

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EDIT: Problem solved! I thank the gods for people who have more brains than me, mainly ~onewayprophet .

Warning: /start dpi rant
Somehow the original scan of my sketch ended up at 1 dpi, which means the entire drawing is as well... yes, 1 dpi where I usually have at least 300. So it's 1 dpi and HUGE (like 2 kms height and 1,5kms width), which is so silly, but my mac dies every time I try to convert it to a higher dpi. If anyone has any suggestions how to fix this without a super-computer, please enlighten me! I can still print it (though with a bit of trouble) and show it on a screen, so I can live with it, but I'd like to fix it if I can.

To sum it up: WTH. + help! ):
/end dpi rant

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Comments, critique and suggestions are welcome.
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Comments: 21

MyCosPlayPhotos [2010-07-30 18:10:44 +0000 UTC]

i like how it looks neon so under a black light this must look awesome

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Cado In reply to MyCosPlayPhotos [2010-10-05 09:06:43 +0000 UTC]

Nice point. ^^

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F1yMordecai [2010-03-09 05:07:21 +0000 UTC]

he's lovely I wish I had more to say but I'm so blank right now

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Cado In reply to F1yMordecai [2010-03-09 10:10:58 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure he just overwhelmed you with his awesomeness. I know he'd think that.

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F1yMordecai In reply to Cado [2010-03-09 16:25:21 +0000 UTC]

hehehee

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Keyboard-Ninja [2010-02-27 17:44:19 +0000 UTC]

This looks great, I love the look of it, and the smoke skull is pretty cool.

Awesome job.

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Cado In reply to Keyboard-Ninja [2010-02-27 17:55:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks :] Glad you like it.

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Keyboard-Ninja In reply to Cado [2010-03-01 17:30:15 +0000 UTC]

^_^ Your welcome.

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mikofierro [2010-02-26 00:02:36 +0000 UTC]

Interesting visual re-interpretation of the caterpillar!!! Small but strong detail of the skull in the smoke!!!

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Cado In reply to mikofierro [2010-02-26 11:21:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it! The smoke wasn't part of the original idea, but these details tend to show up during the painting process. ^^

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mikofierro In reply to Cado [2010-02-26 23:17:52 +0000 UTC]

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onewayprophet [2010-02-25 14:08:11 +0000 UTC]

this may sound silly, but why didn't you scan it again, set at the resolution you wanted?

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Cado In reply to onewayprophet [2010-02-25 14:48:54 +0000 UTC]

That is a totally valid question! I didn't realize until much later, when I was 70% into the picture, so naturally I didn't want to start over.

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onewayprophet In reply to Cado [2010-02-26 08:46:48 +0000 UTC]

I can see how the prospect of starting all over wasn't very appealing in that case. I don't know what settings you used when trying to scale the image in PS, but did you check so that it was set to just change the resolution, not size? Because if you tried to create a document in 300dpi that was 2 kms height and 1,5kms width I understand why your PS died on you. Uncheck the boxes Scale styles and Resample image in the "Image Size..." window if you didn't do it all-ready.

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Cado In reply to onewayprophet [2010-02-26 09:39:44 +0000 UTC]

... I love you.

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onewayprophet In reply to Cado [2010-02-26 12:14:02 +0000 UTC]

So glad I could help, it's not often that happens! This way I get to see more of your beautiful artwork so double joy!

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Cado In reply to onewayprophet [2010-03-01 21:14:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I'm sure you'll be able to help more in the future. If I have any dpi issues, I know where to come! ;D

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BenBoyceArt [2010-02-25 13:05:46 +0000 UTC]

I like how the little specs of orange work with the image.

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Cado In reply to BenBoyceArt [2010-02-25 14:49:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It's always fun to work with contrasts.

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BenBoyceArt In reply to Cado [2010-02-25 15:27:05 +0000 UTC]

Can't make due without them.

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Cado In reply to BenBoyceArt [2010-02-26 10:41:24 +0000 UTC]

Nope!

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