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[Epantiras]

This is Azsil, my imp familiar. He greatly enjoys changing form and playing mind games with its master. smile.gif

Based on the one Epantiras draw for my "baldurizaton". Do you recognise him? laugh.gif Dedicated to Flysoup and Epantiras who helped me in my "baldurization"! Special thanks hug.gif to Epantiras for his overall help and guiding. biggrin.gif

you're welcome

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

you're welcome

So do you like it Epantiras? It's my first digital painting and it took me many hours to complete it! Hope you're not dissapointed by the result...

[WeeRLegion]

Nice colors you picked. :]
It looks kinda ethereal, I suppose you intended it that way, what with the wisps of smoke and everything, hm?
Neat. :]

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

Nice colors you picked. :]
It looks kinda ethereal, I suppose you intended it that way, what with the wisps of smoke and everything, hm?
Neat. :]

Thank you WeeR! Indeed i intended it that way and i'm happy you like it! Basicaly a big credit for the colours goes to Epantiras as i tried to stay somewhat close to the original. Well with such an inspiring reference and hard work, i added some personal ideas and here's the result!

[flysoup]

This is Azsil, my imp familiar. He greatly enjoys changing form and playing mind games with its master.

Based on the one Epantiras draw for my "baldurizaton". Do you recognise him? Dedicated to Flysoup and Epantiras who helped me in my "baldurization"! Special thanks to Epantiras for his overall help and guiding.

Made during October-November 2008 by digital colouring my sketch.

Credits: Brushes used from Obsidian Dawn http://www.obsidiandawn.com

I'd love to hear your comments!

That familiar ROCKS! I love the mood and the creepy uncanny feeling it gives me. As mentioned before that is what makes a illustration good, when it awakes feelings.

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

That familiar ROCKS! I love the mood and the creepy uncanny feeling it gives me. As mentioned before that is what makes a illustration good, when it awakes feelings.

Thank you so much flysoup! I'm so glad you like it! You advise is great and i hope i'll keep it that way...

[Jarno Mikkola]

Yes, the imp looks quite nice, but a close examinations shows one really disturbing thing, the imp itself is takes from a completely white sheet, making the borders look very bad, if not horrible... so it looks a bit off.

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

Yes, the imp looks quite nice, but a close examinations shows one really disturbing thing, the imp itself is takes from a completely white sheet, making the borders look very bad, if not horrible... so it looks a bit off.

Thanks Jarno! Well, i can see your point, but think of that: Because the sketch was hand drawn, any zoom further that it's original size makes it looks worse. I worked on it, at about 150%-200% of it's original size (not a side of a desk lol). Working on very high zoom would be a point but it looks horrible to work at 1000% or more...
Do you have any suggestions on that? I mean, i'm an amateur and any help would be great! It's my firt ever digital work! I have many things to learn yet....

Edited by Silinde Ar-Feiniel, 08 November 2008 - 11:21 AM.

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

I uploaded a new version of Imp familiar with minor changes. Epantiras thank you for your great help! At least the borders are much better

[WeeRLegion]

Might have been a good idea to keep the original for comparison, the differences seem quite subtle. .p

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

Might have been a good idea to keep the original for comparison, the differences seem quite subtle. .p

I just deleted the original 2 minutes ago... (searching my backup)

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

Ok, here there are for comparison (the differences are quite subtle) :
How many can you find? lol WARNING: difficulty level: INSANE
1)

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No more white borders

2)

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a subtle outer and inner shading

3)

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altered the light effect from the tail

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a little blur added for making the imp blend somewhat better with the background

5)

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a whole new signature...lol

The old one:


The new one:

[Jarno Mikkola]

It looks so much better now...

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

It looks so much better now...

Thank you so much Jarno! An imp's opinion is very important it this matter...

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

I've uploaded my new drawing: Bone spider! Check the first post and i'd love to hear your comments!

[Aliya]

O love it! So... so... digitailed.

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

O love it! So... so... digitailed.

Digi..what? ??? Anyway, thank you so much Aliya!

[WeeRLegion]

o_O

O_o

What... What exactly did you do with it? o_O
It looks very 3D.
That's part thanks to how it looks detached from the background, but still, very 3D. Particularly the lighting looks like a bloom effect from 3d software stuffs.

Ummm. To be honest, I'm kind of stunned. It looks like a freaking giant leap from the imp... @_@

[Silinde Ar-Feiniel]

o_O

O_o

What... What exactly did you do with it? o_O
It looks very 3D.
That's part thanks to how it looks detached from the background, but still, very 3D. Particularly the lighting looks like a bloom effect from 3d software stuffs.

Ummm. To be honest, I'm kind of stunned. It looks like a freaking giant leap from the imp... @_@

Oh WeeR! Thank you so much! Your words mean so much for me! I worked so hard on this one! I used a combination of your tutorial, epantiras way and an other great tutorial on DA: http://drak.devianta...dobe-7-29640680 . Plus adding many, many more of my own ideas. Basicaly used extra soft brushes for coloring, about 3 layers of colour plus one extra lightening layer plus one extra shading layer + various effects like sharpening, blur, used pseudocolors in maintones and lightnings and spend countless hours trying different contrast mixes for better blend and lighting. The background is from brushes but it still took me many hours to create that magical feeling. Used shading + lightning effects too (from photoshop). The original spider has even more details but i used some blur to make it blend with the background. I worked about 18-20 hours on it! (mainly because i was making experiments with it more than just trying to complete it) I'm so happy that you like it!

[WeeRLegion]

Heh. Heh. Now let's not get too huggin' fruity here. .p



So, you put in the base colors sharp, then locked layer opacity to keep the edges sharp while you worked with soft brushes?
Juust curious; used without photoshop wizardry, soft brushes tend to make a mess of things. .p