Drew this during free time took 2 days to complete. i used wacom bamboo pen + photoshop

i just use blur brush and keep stacking them till i get the tone i want.. with multiple layers of course

... never had proper lessons on painting in photoshop but yea.. i just recently learn about using smudge, burn and dodge tool to paint

Dear sifus... is there any easier way to paint realistic hair?

took me one hour+ for the hair alone and still got a long way to go

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 12 2011, 04:32 AM

am using the bristle brush but yea... still strand by strand ... some tutorial i find online using smudge to draw hair.. yes its faster but the edges are blury. guess there's no other way then

haha.. im starting to lose my patients already..

@agito thnx ... the images you showed me made me confirmed that there's no easy way to do hair ><

for me.. i just like turning photos into those.... painted movie posters . I still cant really draw anime characters/concept characters on photoshop yet.. the brushes makes it look kinda awkward to me ..some what looks real but with weird anime eyes.. i intend to keep touching up till it ends up looking like a freak of nature. i guess i still need to learn more but ive got no one to guide me ... never been through any art classes, all these while its all trial and error.

so for cartoon/anime i usually, ink, scan or sketch in photoshop and export to illustrator to vector trace and paint it there which is much easier for me

i cant quite create faces on my own.. so i still need a face as reference even if i did... it will look awfully familiar to people around me/idols/sometimes even myself .

one of my older artwork.. use camera to snap so a lil blury and senget hehe


owell... a lil more to go for my aragaki yui~ painting.. hopefully can finish by 2am

i guess its the angle of the shot that makes it look a little distorted.. dont have a scanner for yuri and no such thing as liquify to adjust on paper to make it perfect (whats drawn is drawn no ctrl+z)

yup... since my canvas is 2500X3500K pixels i used bursh size 25-50 and paint it strand by strand...then finish it up with burn(blur brush size 10) and dodge(blur brush size 80) for more contrast. (wondering if im doing it right)

face is blur and solid brush all the way with burn and dodge for shading adjustments.. used different layers for eyes, nose, mouth and face so can adjust and detail easily without worries of messing up other parts of the face (call it cheating )

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 13 2011, 12:28 AM

thnx.. well.. the aragaki yui is still not completed so i guess i have some fixing to do XD (man.. digital is so much more convenient)
im just drawing for fun and self satisfaction..ive never study art/design before so i guess there's definitely rooms for improvement ..

came across here to admire some artwork and decide to share some of mine

how you get the hair flow so curvy.. no matter how hard i try, my bamboo just cant register it it ends up squarish/scratchy. it really looks out of control. so i resort to chunky with the solid brush first then straight to bristle to hide the edgy look. could it be my settings problem?

btw, saw some of your artwork here. they're awesome how did you manage overall texture? its as if like its drawn on a cloth canvas. is it done with certain filters or pure brush strokes

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 13 2011, 01:26 AM

hmm smoothing is turn on.. i guess its the resolution and the pressure sensitivity which is half of intuos might be the limitation.. ive tried my best and its just not smooth at all..


ive finally get the idea of texturing came across some brushes for skin texturing when googling for tutorials.. guess im gonna give it a try.

i guess posting my artwork here is a good thing after all to be able to get some critics to make it better. youve taught me alot today @dragonreine thanks alot!

@dragonreine i tried using a cosmetic brush i found on deviant art for the powdery skin texture and used them on the face and neck..also applied the noisy overlay method you thought and came up with this ...also used solid brush to put some highlights on the hair

am i doing it right? any C&C are welcome

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 13 2011, 03:06 AM

thanks for telling me.. i didnt realized till now that they're smudged when i zoomed in.. dunno when it happened

well.. i guess art is not something easily learnt XD.. tho with proper techniques one can be even better.. especially the transition to digital. not everyone knows how to use photoshop straight away. infact i myself only know how to use brush, change brush type, layers and eraser thats about it untill i started using burn, dodge and smudge.

man.. after moving back to my rented house and found out there's alot of flaw in my artwork T.T ... monitor calibration is also very important.

you should try digital too .. i kena poison by those youtube videos and deviant art and decided to try it myself and get caught up into it. cuz i like painting portraits and i can do it rather cheaply on digital (no need paint, canvas and most importantly odourless and not messy)

tho im a lil frustrated with the precision.. start to feel like its my wacom's fault (its the cheapest bamboo afterall).. must find someone's intuos and give it a try lol.

@dragonreine...great one!.. eventhough its a wip.. its already really awesome.

guess ive got a long way to go :| being too stuck up to follow 100% as the photo reference.. i have to change that habit.
also what i meant earlier was monitor colour calibration.. the one i worked with was somewhat over saturated.. so the shades i applied arent appearing on my current monitor. which is somewhat frustrating that i have to do all over (or i can just use the saturation settings XD)

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Added on October 14, 2011, 3:42 amthis shall be my complete work after applying all the advises here thank you sifus especially dragonreine

what i did here was throw away the photo ive been referring all this while and do my final personal touch ups


shall leave it as it is already time to move on~

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 14 2011, 03:42 AM

just to share another older artwork.. one of my first digital potrait as you can see i used alot of bristle bursh as i have no clue yet on how to shade that time
man.. cant even do the hair properly XD

yea i tried applying fresco filter on this and woah! almost like cell shading effect sia...
edit: the image i posted is without

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 14 2011, 11:44 AM

i5 760 has more cache but its hard to find now.. but 2500k is a great choice.. go for 16gb ram as theyre cheap now.. as for gpu.. cant go wrong with gtx 460. basically thats my pc's spec haha

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Added on October 15, 2011, 2:00 pmamd kinda loses out in multi tasking except the bulldozer but again it might be out of reach as well

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 15 2011, 02:00 PM

amd apu 380? isnt that for laptops? i know bout llano 3850 tho... yes it has better built in graphic performance as compared to the intel 2500K. however in terms of processing and memory performance, it still quite far behind intel's lead. its better to use a dedicated pci-e GPU as well since there's hardware acceleration in photoshop cs4 onwards

huah... very nice weh..
anatomy problem? just fix it with liquify lol