First a simple draw.
Figuring out the basics about phoshop.
Now I feel like a professional!
I had difficulties with making it obvious that the character had satyr-like legs, but hopefully you will see it easily now. I am doing the trial of photoshop right now (30-day version), it seems that I don't get Photoshop for christmas because it is too expensive (7500 norwegian money divided on ca. 6,5 should be about 1000 U.S. dollars?). But hey! I have never been spoiled before! Seems to me that people hack the trial to play it longer or buy pirate copies of Photoshop.
I had another thread on this forum before you changed the site design (november/desember 2006), but I don't like those pictures I had there anyway.
Wow! that is really good.
I have never used photoshop but it looks like a really good piece of kit.
Pity about the price though.
Thanx!
It was quite fast and easy to learn photoshop, but I think there were many things I havnt tried out yet.
Wow! You learn fast!
I don't know where my first photoshop work is, but it was very plain and stupid compared to yours.
When I finished this work I had found these tools quite nice for my type of drawing:
Burn to make more shadows or simply darker, dodge would be the opposite.
Smudge to move the shadows on the character.
Liquify if I wanted the chest to be wider or head to be smaller.
Clone stamp to copy the metal plates on his armor along his chest and to copy the coloring I had done on the character elsewhere.
I also found paint bucket usefull to change the color some places (if you right click with paint bucket you get some options) but it was easier to print the picture out, color it and then scan it again and finesse it in photoshop.
Can't find the edit button!
Yeah, and also blur and sharpen is useful to make things look close or textured or non of them.
Yeah, I'd like an edit button, too. Dx
I discovered Dodge and Burn quite early *used them in my second CG*
I never actually used the liquify thing before, and I normally used clone stamp to fix minor mistakes and to clear photos of face blemishes.
Another pic of the same character, I've tried to perfect it. I am not sure if the character should have hooves or claws at his feet. It is logical that he have hooves because of his satyr legs, but this is a character who fight between floating asteroids and he possibly need claws to stand at an asteroid. He might also need hooves when he collide with an asteroid. He might get hybrid feets between claws and hooves.
Some details to fantasy, I like to write it, you may not like to read it.
The character isn't always in space, he is noramlly on land. So my fantasy has action in space, with at least one mutant, maybe more and possibly populous alien species. I think a such setting have large potential for my fantasy. I don't want it to be like other very fictional fantasies, there should be some emotions aswell.
I think it will be boring if there ain't any normal humans as main characters so there will be at least one. The character I have illustrated is also a main character which the "potential movie" would allow viewer to get to know. He is evil to the humans. He does things that seems to hurt them, these things would be presented as horrific in the "potential movie". His weapon is a whip with a blade in the end.
In one of the "potential horrific scenes" he uses the whip to kill humans in a snowy and stormy plain. The humans try to keep themselves warm by collecting together, which also makes it easier for the "evil" character to kill them. If they get out in the cold they may freeze very fast. There will be many screams in the "potential scene".
I really hope that sounded horrific, you might have to picture it to understand the scene. Please criticism, I really want to know how it could be even more horrific.
Have the character use pretended kindness to further hurt his victims. Or, the ultimate evil, have him corrupt someone innocent--a child or a good character with a fatal flaw to exploit. If you really want to make your readers hate and admire the evil character simultaneously, have him corrupt a good
and likeable character... in such a way as to make him think he is still doing good--he's just more enlightened, efficient, or realistic now.
If your evil character has organized opposition or a nemesis, the coolest thing I think you could have him do is not to defeat his opposition--but to subtly deflect the opposition's plans in such a way that their actions, meant to hinder him, actually serve to help him. If he can use his enemies as tools to fulfill his own desires, he's a truly great villain.
Don't stoop to just having him do "gross" things like playing with the guts of his victims... you want to horrify your readers, not nauseate them. Puppy-kicking is right out. Actually, give your evil guy a puppy to take care of and love in quite a normal fashion--that'll throw the readers for a loop.
Also, make sure he's not just EVIL... make him understandably EVIL, so the reader can understand why he does what he does. Even psychopaths can be made somewhat understandable (for example, Hannibal Lecter) and even, in a twisted way, admirable. Have him either believe he's doing good (genoicide is a particularly delicious example of this), or else not care about the evil he's doing--"Evil's just a word. I do what I please." Give him goals beyond chaos and world domination. Give him a moral code--twisted, maybe, but it should exist. Heck, give him a loving family, if you really want to go off the beaten path!
People like complex, truly evil villains. Take it from me--I'm a DM. >
My evil character has a conviction that makes him hate almost everyone. He is kind of disillisioned after experiencing "the Truth" wich is some sort of magic that affects his mind. One of the themes is
"You thought that there were a right and wrong but suddenly it seems that there isn't any"
He hates the brutality in the world, things like "survival of the fittest" and therefore he which to eliminate everyone who performs the brutality. The humans who were killed on the snowy plain were killed because they killed some non-intelligent aliens for food. Their excuse were that the non-intelligent aliens "had no souls" which made the evil character hate them even more.
I am not sure of what I should name the "evil" character. I assumed Kezzil would be an appropriate name, but I am also interested in Saccarrine Sorlakk. Maybe Gam Corteh but that would also be the name of the fantasy universe.
I also think that my evil character hates the brutality because of something he had experienced before. The idea is that a group of aliens hhad born him, he got left behind because he seemed abnormal and probarbly wouldn't survive. The group of aliens left him behind because they didn't want to waste any resources on a child that would die anyway. But he did survive, because the universe was changing and he easily adapted the changes in contrast to other creatures.
The group wich he originated from were one of his first victims, killed because they left him behind to die.