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Wind Waker Contest steps

If your expecting a tutorial of what I do then its a little different, here I'm just dotting down points and just show you guys what my process is to making some of my art stuff

This piece is for the Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD fan art contest.

I thought mines came out pretty cool, got a good atmosphere and a decent composition, I just hope I place, well I'm sure I'll place on the 50 winners that'll have their work shown at the concert, but I wanna be the top 5 so I can win the Wind Waker HD Bundle!!
This was a good practice for me to prepare for my side idea/project that I've been thinking about, will reveal more once I gain enough practice and more planning.

So first step is thumbnail, just getting some general idea of what kind of show I want to do.

Step 2: Rough sketch, try getting some atmosphere with the gradient background, figure out the perspective.

Step 3: Add texture to background, my textures were found at http://www.cgtextures.com/, you have to join to download the high resolution things but its free.

Step 4: the perspective was a bit weird so I played around with warp mode. I was able to get the dome like perspective, still very hard to do great perspective >_<

At this point I also finished up the coloring of the characters.

Step 5: Lets add smoke!! just adding fog and smoke effects to give it more dark cold feeling.

Step 6: I didn't like the dark borders (which were suppose to be the foreground pillars) but it just didn't look right so I just took it off and WALA! open space!

Step 7: Finally I just add some more special effects and make things more shiny glowy coolness.

DONE!

Oreimo contest Process

So just uploading the process of the picture for the ANN japan trip contest.

Sketch - .7 mech. pencil on regular 8.5 x 11 paper


Lineart - Photoshop and Wacom tablet


BaseColor - Photoshop

Shading/Lighting - Photoshop


Background/border/misc. - Photoshop

Finished. the end.

Byakuren Hijiri Steps

I was too lazy to scan the Pencil Sketch, so heres the other sketch.
So here is the process!! ENJOI!

1) Pencil Lineart with outlines to where each shade/light will go with the different colors

2) Lineart done digitally with Photoshop.

3)Make a simple gradient B/G to get a feel to what your B/G will look

4) Insert Base color to each part, make sure to make them seperate layers.

5) Then add shade and light to the works.

6) Add sparkly stuff to make it look pretty.
DONE

Shou Toramaru

So seeing how this year is the year of the Tiger, and everyone on DA was drawing Tigers and stuff, so i wanted to tag along and do a picture of a tiger and Shou from Touhou.

Sketch - 1 hour : Materials use: .7 Mechanical Pencil, Eraser, regular copy paper.

Lineart - 1.5 hours : Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Wacom Tablet


BaseColor - 1.5 Hours: Material use: Photoshop CS4, Wacom Tablet


Simple Backgroud - 1 hour: Material use: Photoshop CS4, Wacom Tablet


Shading/Lighting/Complete Background - 4 Hours: Material use: Photoshop CS4, Wacom Tablet


Happy new Year!

Bishamonten Sculpture

So for my Sculpture class, we are suppose to make a Public art, to display for the public to see, and i chose to do Bishamonten; the guardian of Fortune and War Lord. Why i chose to do Bishamonten is b/c at our school we have something called the P.U.B, the Pagoda Union Building.
Bishamonten has a role to protect the treasures that are kept safe in the pagoda, so as the protector and the bringer of fortune, i wanted to create him and display him in the P.U.B of our school.

so anyhow, here is the steps i took in making this hunk.

Wire frame: very important! make a wire frame before sculpting, it can really help you keep the sculpture from crashing.


Aluminum Wrap up : Depending on what Clay you use, you can wrap up the wire frame with Aluminum or not, with the clay i used, it really helped to wrap it, because it sticks on very well.


Aluminum Wrap up Finish.


Adding Clay : The clay should stick on fairly easily with the aluminum cover.


After 12 hours of work, 90% done.


Another angle of of 90% done


Close up


FINISHED~!!!

Front


Back


Bisha guarding my manga books


Anyhow in total, this project took me a good 15 hours. It was really fun. Next up is maybe an anime sculpture. XDD

Clay i used was the Le Beautouche Plasteline by Chavant.

Kanako Yasaka

Right after Suwako, is Kanako!
For this piece, i want to create a gentle feel night scene with Kanako.
gonna try to make it a wallpaper type, so see how that turns out.. orz

Sketch - 1 hour : Materials use: .7 Mechanical Pencil, Eraser, regular copy paper.

Lineart - 30min : Materials use: Sakura Pigma Micron 005 and 01 on Regular Copy paper.


BaseColor - 1 hour : Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Simple B/G - 45min : Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Complete B/G - 2.5 hours : Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Shading/Lighting - 2 hours : Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Final Piece - 20min : Material use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Yaaaaay, She be done.

if you want to use it as a Wall paper go for it!!!

Suwako Moriya

Next up is Suwako Moriya!!!! yaay....

sketching - 40min (surprisingly fast this time) : Materials use: .7 Mechanical Pencil, Eraser, regular copy paper. (will upload pencil sketch later, but not sure.. XD)

Lineart - 30min : Materials use: Sakura Pigma Micron 005 and 01 on Regular Copy paper.


Base Color - 1.2 hours: Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet.


Basic Background - less than 5 min: Material use: Photoshop SC4, Tablet


A little more defined B/G - 1.5 hours: Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Complete B/G - 2 hours: Materials use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


Final Image(including shading/lighting) - 5 hours : Material use: Photoshop CS4, Tablet


ANDDDD SHES DONE!

Hong Meiling WIP

My next Touhou Fan art and this time its CHINA!!!.. i mean Hong Meiling!

Finished!

1) Sketching - 2hours : Materials use - .7 Mechanical Pencil, Eraser, regular copy paper. (will upload pencil sketch later)

2) Lineart - 30 min : Materials use - Sakura Pigma Micron 005 and 01 on Regular Copy paper.


3) BaseColor - 1 hour : Materials use - Photoshop CS4, Tablet


4) Basic Background - not even a minute : Material use - Photoshop CS4, Tablet


5) Shading/Lighting - 2hours: Material use - Photoshop CS4, Tablet


6) Final - 1hour: Material use - Photoshop CS4, Tablet.


alright, what you all think? pretty sweet? pretty dumb? feedbacks please. XD