[Trunist]

I now sport your look! Thanks Taiki, endless <3's for you

[Taiki]

NPC pics without the button things. o3o Click to make bigger.

[Duchess]

Your name is Laura..? O_o I don't figure you for a Laura...... It seems like such a passive name. Maybe a Jennifer.... hmmm

Anyways. Did you originally draw them so small? =O Or did you shrink them later.

[Taiki]

Yes my name is Laura. o3o

I usually draw things pretty huge and shrink them to 20%-50%. It makes the line art much more crisp looking. For these, the pic up there when you click on it to make it bigger is 50% of what I drew them at. Here's an example of Taiye at 100%:

That's how big I drew them all at.

[Duchess]

ooooo oki. =O That's still rather small for me XDDD I draw HUUUGGGEEE. sohuge that when i Save for Web in Photoshop, they tell me that its tooooo big and may cause problems XDDDD

It's mainly cause I'm lazy and i bucket fill my line art =w= with leaves tiny uncoloured pixels in sharp corners. and of course... if I'm lazy for 1 and also too lazy to colour in those tiny corners XDDD So working large makes them invisible when i shrink c:

[Taiki]

I could kind of tell that you drew huge. xD Those are actually quite small for when I draw. I did them on a whim and didn't really plan them, otherwise they probably woulda been bigger. What DPI do you draw at? I draw everything at 300dpi.

xD I hate those little corners too. In photoshop I usually use the magic wand and then expand the selection by 2 pixels so I usually catch most corners. Plus with my line art, I add a lot of black "shading" that usually covers most of those places before I even color it. O:

[Duchess]

I do it at 300 dpi as well *nods* Once I went crazy and did it at 400...... that didnt turn out too well so i stuck with 300 XDDD

I'm afraid of the colour black when i draw XD If the art has black in it... be guaranteed I'd make it dark blue/purple. I'm also afraid of contrast :S SO I almost always end up fiddling around in the colour balance and levels. OTL

I always love to see line art with shading in them. It looks so cool and professional and i totally suck at it XDDDDDD

[Lucid:]

I got jealous of Taiki's awesome linearts one day and tried to do it with shading like her. I totally failed at it. XD
but my vectorized kitty I made for Kami kinda turned out having a little bit of the black shadey lines on accident. XD yay me and my accidents.

[Taiki]

I don't think I have ever tried anything over 300dpi. xD

I feel like I ruin my pictures when I color them. I do basic cell shading but it seems to lose all of the line art's bold effect. I like my line arts way better before I color them. @_@ I love the way you color though~ I tried soft shading for a while but grew tired of it.

Here's an example from the header I made for Anonimar/Chamaros' fight:


@ Lucid, you like my line arts that much? ;o; aww thanks! I liked the effect that you got on that kitty. Vector art is hard to do. O:

[Duchess]

I've felt the same about this particular piece. XDD

I sketched these lines on paper and inked with a pen.. I thought it came out amazing... so I wanted to do some digital work on it.
I did the line art with the pentool for it. It came out fine... but I lost something from the traditional work in the process :S So I thought colour would fix it
yeehhhh... it just made it worse. OTL

Oo Maybe you'd need to experiment with your colouring style to find out which compliments your lines the best. Your lines ARE amazing. ZOMG I should colour one sometime x]

The way I colour.... is a lazy cheap way of "colouring" xP It's like... fill bucket -> pen tool -> burn -> smudge -> burn again -> dodge -> more dodge desu

Aaandd you're done. xP If you have complex pattern, insert a layer mask somewhere into the steps.

[Taiki]

Wow. O: I love the traditional one~ You have such great anatomy skills. xD

I used to burn/dodge like crazy too but it never looked anything like you do! You should livestream it to me some time so I can watch the awesomeness in progress. *o*

haha maybe we should collab some day. xP

[Duchess]

My anatomy skillorz only applies to females. @.@ My men look like crap. I need practice with them.

I do have a livestream... that i never use.. because nobody would ever watch.. boo hoo hoo TT_TT

[Rem]

i wish i could insert something wise and impressive into this conversation but even tho I've been drawing / coloring digitally for like 8 years I still don't know what the proper dimensions are / how to scan anything well / what all the settings are xD
Literally every time I color something I'm starting fresh and guessing every single step. ;p kinda sucks..

but I wanted to say I love the concept of that pic Duchess, the Bubbles one x3 (I love Bubbles, shhhh >u> lol I used to watch that show all the time)

is it kinda sad I want to get some art of me and Taiye drawn? XD is that official obsession?

[Taiki]

@ Duchess, wanna know something stupid? xD I never took life drawing seriously because I was always like "I draw anime stuff, that isn't realistic, that wouldn't help at all! D:<" And now, I wish I would have started life drawing sooner because it helps with ALL drawing styles. xDDD I need to learn better anatomy.

@ Rem, you should set up some templates or something. xD Most often I scan a piece of paper at 300dpi and leave it at that size when drawing.

I'm glad that you like Taiye so much. xD It's ironic cuz you're on opposing teams, but then again, that hasn't stopped her from being friends with Blaqkin. I would love to see art of her~ O: So far Duchess' art is the only one I've seen.

[Ice]

Your art is pretty. o w o; I love the lively facial expressions on all the drawings.

[Glass Heart]

Laughs slightly on the Laura Jennifer thing
My name is Laura though spelled a little different
and I Have been mistaken for a Jennifer as well
(few people said so, and a teacher did it... she did it for years after I was out of her class)
by the way, nice drawings ^-^