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Published: 2012-09-03 08:47:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 616; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 8
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This is Silicon, my acid spitter
Thanks to the amazing and wonderful ~AmelieTwist Silicon is now my character.Even though she won the adoption bid, she contacted me and let me know that she'd let me have him, which is something I'm not sure I'd be able to do.
The lineart was done using the pen tool just to see how that worked out. I quite like it, but I think I'm still going to use my thick lineart style for most things.
The face is my favourite part, which is quite funny since I redrew it about four times before I was happy with the sketch, then I changed it quite considerably when I started the lineart. It was a real hassle to do, but when I started shading it was suddenly the best part of the drawing.
The shading was the same as the last flat shaded drawing I did, I think I quite like this method of shading.
I hope the anatomy and the rest is ok, since I haven't drawn these creatures much.
Acid spitters and Silicon's design belong to =DemonML
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Aww, I'm glad you ended up with Silicon! This is an awesome picture of him; very dynamic. Nicely done. ^_^
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Thanks
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Sweet! That was nice of them
Looks pretty awesome too if I may say so~
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I know, I don't think I could do that.
Thank you! I think I finally understand shadows.
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Yes, the shadows look great!
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I suddenly realised that I'd be shading based on the 3d structure, not where the shadows were, if that makes sense.
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Yes it makes sense c:
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Glad to hear that, it feels really good to have made some progress,now looking back I don't know why I didn't see it before, but that's how it goes.
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Not to work on light sources! XD
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Thank you! And thanks again for letting me have him.
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Thank you! I really like this shading style, it's great.
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Yeah! It's more realistic,
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Nice, epic pose. I love him and the way he goes "RAWR". XD
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Thank you! I love the design, I'm forever indebted to ~AmelieTwist for letting me have him.
Yeah, he's not a friendly spitter.
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Wow Fluffy! This is so awesome! The lines (you can use the pen tool??? I can't even begin to start with that thing xD), the cell shading, the pose. I especially like the shading on the head!
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Thank you! I spent ages looking at tutorials and then I suddenly worked it out XD I've never been able to before but it seems I've cracked it.
The shading on the head is my favourite part, it took the head from being something I was embarassed with to the best part of the drawing, it was very odd. Still, I think I know where I've been going wrong with shadows now, so that's good news.
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whaaaaooooaaaaa fluffy! In all honesty I didn't recognise this as yours! The style is so different. It looks SERIOUSLY awesome though, that body and that pose and the way you coloured it is really really cool!
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I know, the shading's new, the lineart's new, there's very little there that's not new.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it, I'l seriously pleased with shading now, it requires more thought but the difference is amazing. I don't know why I never thought about it like this before. I'm not sure where the pose came from but it sorted itself out in the end XD This went through so many stages of looking terrible, I'm really pleased I stuck with it.
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Yes I can defenitely see the difference in the shading. What caused the breakthough?
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There was a drawing in one of the groups I watch with a dragon and you could see all the dragon's spines on the shadow and I wondered why I'd never drawn a shadow like that, then I saw this random tutorial and suddenly realised that things in real life only have one layer of shadow, and it's where the light isn't. I'd never looked at it that way before, I'd always worked on what was sticking out and what was further in.
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Haha weird how that all came together.
That is one interesting way of looking at shadows though. I can see how it would make a difference. I don't think that I ever really thought about them like that before.
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I know, it was a genuine eureka moment. I don't get them often, which is why I mentioned it to start with. It was quite odd.
Really? I didn't either, but I don't know. I found it quite hard to start with, but it does kind of make sense after a while. I'm not sure what it'll mean for lineless work, but I'm sure it will help them just as much as it helped the more cartoony stuff.
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Oh yeah I'm sure. Im going to sit here and wait for an eureka moment. Been a while since I had one
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I'm sure you will get one, everyone goes through periods where they don't get as many.
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Thank you! The head is a mystery to me, I have no idea how it did such a U-turn on me. And the spine I think says that I have a fondness for exoskeletons, since my last two drawings have included external spines.
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