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Published: 2008-01-27 01:47:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 10850; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 3210
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Its pronounced Heroine Sheek. Its a play on words of the early 90s fashion style called Heroin Chic, made famous by the model Kate Moss. I thought of the idea while leaving work the other day when I noticed they bleeped the word heroin out of a Papa Roach song. I'm not about the drug but I thought it would be kind of cool to dress a fashion model up in a heroine's outfit, namely chainmail, leather and a sword. Its also my first attempt at using the airbrush tool in Painter which turned out to be insanely easy. For additional reference, I used Omar Dogan's coloring tutorial for helping me out airbrushing the greyscale values and then multiplying the flat color layer on top. Thanks Omar for the great tutorial!Please fullview for best viewing.
Edit: Omar Dogan gave me some awesome comments and I made some sizable edits, most noticably drawing the chainmail instead of using a repeating chainmail pattern. Thanks for calling me out on being lazy Omar. Man, my hand hurts.
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(at as starter, she looks Way cuter than Kate Moss !!) and I love the whole thing : theme, pose, idea and what she wears 
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Thats got to be one of the coolest and well thought out comments I've ever gotten, Thank you very much! I'll hop over and check out your gallery.
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and it was my pleasure to give it out
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Awesome drawing, awesome coloring, it's sexy, your good
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Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad people are digging this one.
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That's a beautiful picture 
Great job!
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Thanks, it was a new technique that i'm still refining. I'm glad it found your fancy.
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It definitely did
You're very welcome
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I'm a huge fan of her eyes, they really pop out at you. The redish lineart is a nice touch as well and the airbrushing looks really good too. Good idea with drawing the chainmail instead of a texture and I love the pose. The sword looks mighty awesome and that is one sick belt for it. I like the loops that hold her panties on (the big metal looking loops), they look pretty sweet!
Great work
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Wow, great comment, I'm glad you liked it. I felt it was a pretty solid piece, I do like most of it. With the eyes, I used a repeating brush to make the iris's which is the first time I've attempted anything like that. It was fun to make. The chainmail Idea was Omar Dogan's, it was a good suggestion I think.
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Cool, thanks. I'm glad you liked it so much. I'm going to make some prints of it to sell at this years Katsucon in DC. (in 1 week)
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Good luck with the sales 
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Well, you can certainly have books one and two done. Have you looked at any publishers?
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eeep! Books 1 and 2 by december 
Not really, I plan on using Lulu for the first book and then send the book version off to a few publishers (like Tokyopop and Broccoli book)
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Well, good luck with that, its tough working on the manga. Any exposure you can get on DA or other comic sites will help you out along the way.
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Oh this looks really good!
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Thanks I tried a new thing. i'm glad you like it.
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Youre welcome!
Well, I think youre 'new thing' was sucsesfull!
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I do too. I have some new ideas for it and may use it with some of my anime in the future.
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Oh that sounds really cool! 
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I will, I will. After the convention of course.
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Oh haha yes, you dont have to rush it
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I got plenty to keep me busy. You'll see some new stuff though.
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Neat! I really like the sword-belt across the hips, and the non-black lineart sets off her colors really nicely. Nice job : )
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Thanks, I appreciate the comment.
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I love the play on words.
Great work! I love the softness. The work (and pain) that went into the chain mail shows.
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Thanks, yeah, the chainmail was not so fun but I think turned out better in the end. I'm still experimenting with the techinque used here. I just realized that you're supposed to tint the grayscale underneath to make the image alot warmer. I think its what I'm missing. I still like the pic though. thanks for your comment.
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You're welcome.
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The cooler skintones are airbrushed overtop on a seperate layer. If I warmed the grayscale up, the cool tones would still be there on top, its just that the skin would look more alive and less gray. I need to try it. thanks.
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YAY! She looks even better than she did in class. I looked at the tutorial and I'm gonna use it for my Heavenly Sword picture ^_^ It was a good idea to do the chain mail by hand, the patten looked good the the hand draw one looks really Great
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Thanks, yeah we can go over the PSD file in class, I can show you how I put it together.
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I like it, I like it, I like it.........Did I mention I like it? Maybe it's just me, but I think the airbrush tool makes the colors feel "soft", which is good cause it is easy on the eyes. Awesome!
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The multiply mode is probably making the colors softer. It did turn out good though so I'm most likely going to be working like this in the future.
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I like it, I hope you do so we can see more of this style from you
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It seems like a professional and efficient way of working. I'll be mixing it up but I'm 100% positive, I'll do this kind of thing again.
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Cool, can't wait to see some more. I acquired a new and bigger desk over the weekend, so hopefully I can try and put out some more work myself.
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Great, I'll be anxiously awaiting new stuff from you.
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Thanks, I just updated it. I went back and hand drew all the chainmail instead of using a pattern. Now my wrist is sore as well.
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