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Published: 2010-02-28 23:02:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 4002; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 54
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Submission for the Jabberwocky theme "Fan Fiction"Issac Clarke from EA's game "Dead Space"; a modern space horror game similar to the movie 'Alien'. Really a great game, and not for the faint of heart or those who are against the harming of alien beings
A finished version of this piece: [link]
Inked by hand, colored via Photoshop (first official piece done on photoshop)
Critiques and Comments welcome
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Comments: 37
haha the style is awesome! I like it pretty much *_*
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I love this! Great artwork based on a truly astounding game series. Playing these games in the dark is a blast.
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Ha ha thanks! The ONLY way to play was at night
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great pic love dead space and is one of the better fan art iv seen. nice work.!
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Thanks! I really appreciate it
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if you like dead space check out my custom isaac figure if ya want.
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Nice! When you compare it from ink from Photoshop, it looks great. I'm diggin' shadows.
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Thanks man. Now that I have figured otu layers and stuff, the next piece I'll do will hopefully be way more refined
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Nicely composed. Striking colors, considering your first venture into PS coloring.
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Pretty nice! The color job, and the shading looks very good! Shading in particular is very consistent with the light source of blue hot plasma. >:3 Very nicely colored, and does your lineart some damn good justice! 8D
Crit wise, I think the left arm could use a little less light on the top, being away from the light, and not directly facing it, and maybe use some light on the center of his arm.
and a question, how did you shade? did you use gradients or something, or a tablet, mouse?
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Thank you! and thanks for the critique I will most def keep it in mind for my next project
I shaded using different layers, so first layer was solid color, then I made darker shades of that color on different layers and then last I applied black to everything. The same goes for the highlights, only I applied light shades and white at the very end. And I use just a regular old mouse for that
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ah, i see now. This is just my opinion speaking, but I think it would look cool if you added some sort of a little wave around the beams coming from the plasma cutter, give it some feel of energy or something. :3
and dang, I WISH I had that kind of talent with a mouse. D:
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Ha ha thank you!
Yeah adding more to the beams would have been way cooler. Hopefullyy I will figure out how to do that at some point. I'm such a photoshop noob
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aye, I haven't used Photoshop at all. XD
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Until a few weeks agao, neither did I. But let me tell you, it's totally worth it if you plan do any digital work because I had some other photo manipulation programs and this one is, by far, the best
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sweet. 8D I'm using Sai right now, and it's pretty good. It's not a full version of Sai, so there's some tools and stuff missing tho. :\
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Bummer :/ I have never used that program. Is it pretty easy?
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Yeah. The hotkeys take some getting used to, but you can set them to whatever you want, so that's good. I mainly start and finish with it, and the pen tool is nice to sketch, and then ink, and unlike the Corel Paintshop Pro X I had on my other computer, when you select an inked area, the lines don't have to be all rigid and pixelated in order to fill it in properly with color. I used to use such big sizes in order to get a clear and smooth look to my drawings.
In short, Sai is good. :3 Color selection tools aren't quite as cool as the Corel PSPX tho, so that's where PSPX has Sai beat, but that's about it. XD
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Ha ha that's pretty cool 
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yeah, it's pretty sweet. I downloaded PORTABLE Sai instead of the full registered version *don't tell noone >_>*, you can check instructions to download it on youtube, and while it's not exactly complete, it works good still. :3
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Right on. I might look into that sometime if I need to
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well. you're sure as hell learning that software fast. Nice going, man.
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