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[telophase]

DAMN but I am TOTALLY ROCKING this cover, if I do say so myself!








Their skin tones still need a bit of work - haven't adjusted Rinchen to be browner yet, and Manoj isn't popping as much as Rinchen is because the color I used to define the edge between the light and the shadow isn't as saturated as it ought to be. I'll be putting highlights on them near the end, too. But all that is to be done in Photoshop, and I don't want to start messing about in Photoshop until I've gotten the Painter stuff out of the way, so that'll probably be done after I get the mountain background painted.

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[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Wow. I really love the detail on the xxx design of the clothes. Everything pops out really nicely!
When you are not busy I would love to know how you did the metal on the knife. It looks so shiny.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I did it in Painter. I used the oil pastel to lay down a generic pale blue for a base and locked transparency so I could color and blend with abandon without going outside the lines, then put in some streaks of white and a dark grey, then used the Just Add Water blender in Painter to blend them, keeping my strokes going in that same diagonal direction. Then I used the eyedropper to pick up colors from nearby areas, since metal reflects things like that, and put them on, then blended the same way. The blender started picking up black from the outlines, even though I was working on a separate layer, which fortuitously looked good (they're the dark streaks on the upper half of the blade). To finish it, I put a veeery thin white line that you can't see in the jpg along the upper edge of the blade and along the top edge of the line down the middle of the blade.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Hmms. I'll have to see if I can do something similar in Photoshop.