em... no need for shading first lah, try drawing the outline of ur character without any shading.... i also suck at shading....

can use photoshop to colour ur pic and do shading

my contribution to this thread.
drew this 4 years ago.


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cute though~

stranger- thats a fine piece of work, but theres something about the face....i dont know what. :/

^^

U mean her eyes?

This post has been edited by Mie: Sep 28 2004, 02:05 AM

nice work stranger

ps: no scanner to scan my works
guess i'll do more vector art

top notch.... cool shadows and shades... u da man!

wooooooooooo... nice wat....

one more think i want to ask bout vector design.. can we use photoshop to create it.. and save it on what file?

.... not sure. never used photoshop b4. only seen.... try asking those photoshop taikors.

here's a quick one with photoshop 5mins or less
both are in jpeg form....don't know if it really matters, as long as the compression isn't too lousy (or lossy) i guess...
(source is the one below)



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appreciate all of your words, people.
looking back at my 4-year-old work, it does have a lot of flaws.
too bad my skill has gone rusty, i can't even draw up to that standard of mine now.

it's not exactly a vector if you use photoshop.
looks vector but still not vector.
it's better if you learn using illustrator or freehand.

This post has been edited by Stranger: Sep 28 2004, 02:46 PM

another one..


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very well drawn muscles, ryu lookalike.
but the shape of the head...

This post has been edited by Stranger: Sep 28 2004, 05:51 PM

Runs a lil tho, did u use the effects? but nice still can see it's a face tho...

yup, hehe...cos' that one i just simply do one
steps:
1)artistic -> cut-out effect
2)and some unsharpen mask
3)play with curves

voila...vector in less than 5 mins
spend more time if you wanna have a nicer effect.

I think i never posted it yet..(maybe i forgot.. but who cares)

Wow Mie, is that the 'leng-lui' of your dreams?

you modeled dat urself??