holy cow, just realized PS CS5.5 got brush mixer (a.k.a water Blender or whatever that called)....that does makes colour smoother a lot easier.

oh dat feature
just like in SAI paintool thing?

dont know still figure it out how to use.
it doesnt looks like blender in painter

They're supposed to stimulate the feel of wet paint on canvas. The mixer brushes are a little bizarre, IMO, and from my experience, it's just easier to load up Painter and use the default Painter blender/palette knife brushes instead of fussing with the settings.

They're great at keeping colour saturation and variety though, which can be problematic with the "eyedropper+low opacity brush" method of blending in PS.

However, the "wet paint" simulation means that while they're great for achieving painterly effects, but not so good at refinement and finishing: the dry brush is too opaque, the wet brush is too smeary. If you're the sort that prefers crisp, bold lines and intricate details, they're only useful in the early stages when you're still keeping things rough and messy.

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Added on April 21, 2012, 2:04 amJust finished the elven commission:



Agrona Tabris by *DragonReine

This post has been edited by DragonReine: Apr 21 2012, 02:04 AM

theheehehe..

o hair there Hichigo

Created a walkthrough thing for the elven painting I'd posted earlier. Click the image below to take a look:

nice walkthrough
and i can take abit tips from thre

Trying different style. Hmm he looked like having a hard life xD

dang..nice crosshatch there..
i never know how to do this..

Here's one of my drawing I just finished. Comments and critiques much appreciated!

1. refer how to draw wing, no matter cartoon or realism one, your wing structure is a bit wrong. almost there oledi
2. the eyes. for me pretty much like Ancient Egyptian art's eye...oh wait, yours one kinda scary



refer how to draw the eyes no matter cartoon or manga or realism, the size of iris is affecting of the emotion / scariness of the character. or maybe soulless.

you can see some bigger iris contact lens can make a fake cute effect, smaller iris can make scary effect.

3. right leg sure patah oledi
4. palm is not right. too small. awkward fingers.
5. cloth folding need strengthen up.

haha thanks my first try too xD


the shape of the feathers is abit off xD would be nice to increase shading works take ur time not to finish it too fast

wow this is the best portrait from u

haha great job

Pretty good copy of Stormbringer. You need to observe the art a bit more closely, though:



You anatomy's somewhat off. Try observing the original posing that Gary Tonge used for Storm bringer:

La Danseuse by *darkmatterzone (NSFW for nudity)

This post has been edited by DragonReine: Apr 23 2012, 06:46 AM

nice find

wa really got this piece of art...

This post has been edited by Agito666: Apr 23 2012, 08:43 AM

u dunno?

i now quite rarely surf around DA.

@dragonreign lol... dono how you manage to find that XD

Qft. O.o

The shading seems fine to me, perhaps for a starter. It's clean and the gradient effect can be seen. But yeah, the anatomy may need some work here and there. As with the head and hair too. Use darker shades as well as stronger outlines throughout to make the image more appealing and balanced. (Looks kinda obvious that the body was drawn first and then the head comes in after.)

This post has been edited by vypur85: Apr 23 2012, 06:57 PM