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Published: 2010-10-27 15:04:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 16290; Favourites: 303; Downloads: 152
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WARNING: OLD ART!! The art and comments in this Deviation may no longer represent the artist's current views or interests.
Homework for LASALLE College of the Arts: Tonal value, and another spectacular fail.
We can pretend they're angry because if you don't get that stash in quickly they're going to lock it and leave you to Archangel's mercy.
--Sak
Mass Effect © BioWare
All characters and artwork © Shamine Athena King
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Comments: 36
I love this pic! However if you want to mess with it a bit more, the sniper rifle is out of perspective. The opening of the barrels should be rounder, since they almost totally face the camera, and you could experiment a bit with making the barrel drastically bigger as it is getting closer to the point of view.
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Thanks. This is a very old picture, 3 years ago almost by now. It could probably stand to be redrawn sometime.
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That's not much of a bad thing.... XD
Beautiful job on the lighting!!
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I like the lighting alot. Fire glow is always fun to do. :3
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Fun maybe, but definitely not easy to do!
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True dat. *nod*
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Lighting isn't so bad, I bet you can do better than 70% of dA can!
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Looks good Sak, and nice lense flare! (flashbacks from the StarTrek movie blinding me every 5 seconds)
Lighting looks great. If you don't like washing out the colours so much you can tone down the orange or show it as a glare across just the edge of surfaces.
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Hard to tell when it's otherwise with these turians sometimes.
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reckon you nailed the lighting there!
and i adore the way you draw your emoting turians! <3
also looove that you kept the pencil line, really works so well!
(just noticed the 'mega' sign on the left ... thats awesome too!)
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It's missing the "O" at the beginning ... thanks. Pencil drawings are the quickest and easiest I can turn out these days, so expect more.
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haha, so it is! *gawd i missed that!*
but all the same, do love the way that sign looks!
and hazzah for you churning out more pics of this calibre!
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hm...the rifle barrel looks really flat.....like someone took a peice of paper and turned it...
I have the same problem, but far worse drawing talent
Cool peice!
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Do your teachers ever get angry that you're drawing fan art?
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If they did I wouldn't still be drawing them.
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Then your teachers are awesome.
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Inquiring minds want to know... :3
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This is great! 
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That turian yellin' reminds of that turian dude on the citadel that hates you if "kill" the original council. . . . that asshoe. . . aw well, he wants to have butt sex with if you save them so it all works out heehee
fuck, I LOVE YOU MASS EFFECT
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I think I am in love. This is just plain awesome! I love the feeling and movement in the picture. Lovely lovely turians <3
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Cool composition
Re the lighting here, I don't think this is as bad as you think it is. With the rimlights/highlights, I think the fuzzy brush/brushwork doesn't fit with the rest of this -- too digital, too gradient-y, too something that doesn't fit with the pencilly linework. Rather than go with low-opacity fuzzbrush over your lines and colors, which I think you did here, I'd suggest trying a hard brush (even if it's low opacity in multiple passes for some purposes) -- if you're definitive about your highlights and rimlights, you can suggest lines and details that can be left out of the shadows and stuff.
I also want to say you should think more about saturation along with your light/shade color choices, but that's sort of an instinctive suggestion and I couldn't really back it up with details as to why. I do think you should consider pushing your contrast higher -- with digital painting it's easy to wind up too close to the middle for highs vs lows.
Re the fire in that other page, I think you got the shapes just fine, but you left the lightness too constant -- try pushing the lightness of the flames' cores up, even to nearly white -- if you have an object that is white (against a suitably darker background) then you can rim it with another color, and it looks like the whole thing is the rim color, just that the middle part is giving off more light. (lightsabers are an example of this -- their cores are nearly white on the screen; it's their edges that are actually saturated at all). To make this play in a scene like that other piece, you have to push the lighting on stuff in the scene appropriately. Fire in a dark room makes for big contrasts between light and dark.
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Thank you so much for the tips. I really struggle with lighting, so this definitely helps. I'll keep it in mind for sure, and probably go back and edit this at some point, too.
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"Oh shi'..."
By the way, picking subject matter you supposedly aren't good at is the best way to improve yourself. Gives you practice, with a nice ragin' headache to go along with it, but you come out better in the end. No matter what you think, I still love this picture.
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Wheee! Turians! I love the way you draw them and their cool faces.
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Absolutely marvelous, I really like how you made the drawing so dynamic with the roaring Turian on the left.
Bad? Oh no not with this piece or the previous ones for that matter
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your ability to draw backgrounds and guns always stuns me
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That's ironic because I suck at drawing science fiction settings and guns without at least a dozen references and hours of sketch-time under my belt ... but thanks.
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