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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: Keegan day

Keegan day is the second Saturday in September, named for the suffering of my late friend Keegan Penney. It takes place shortly after school (and the ensueing flood of responsibility) begins for most youth and shortly before Patriot day. It is a day in which adolecents may stop blubbering about how difficult life is, fight back the "slings and arrows", and be strong. It is a day in which no sucides can take place, lest you look like a total fuck wit.

This picture is a rare treat for me. It isn't often that I get the inspiration to do colored illustrations.

May Keegan's spirit never be forgotten...
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SilentAngel · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

Nice, Leroy!
I particularly like the two-hued shading you've done in this picture, it looks kinda like there's two different light sources. The only suggestion I have for this picture is to further build up the sky colour in the top left - you can see that it's a coloured pencil picture. If you add other colours to the mix it might make it look more like a pseudo-crosshatch rather than just lines. Other than that, good job! Happy

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Moogle1 · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject:

The shading/coloring is pretty good overall. The design is awkward, though. Consider the following:

* It becomes very obvious that you do not want to draw his feet when both legs are covered up just above the ankles. If you suck at drawing feet, cover his legs a little higher than that. His left foot looks like it should only be partially obscured by the cloud and the rest should be sticking out.
* How is he holding that sword? For that matter, does he even have a sword hand?
* How in the world is he holding that shield?
* Speaking of the shield, is the word "PENIS" written on it? Or what?
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SilentAngel · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:07 am Post subject:

I just noticed that, Moogle (The word which might or might not be "Penis"). And that's kinda scary, Leroy.
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hireintelligence · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 50 Location: NSW, Australia

There's really not much going on to the left of the shield except a sort of white smudge but other than that its great.
I think the shield looks more like it says Penne.

Mike Caron · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:

The shield says Penney, i.e. the friend he speaks of.

I like it, but how he holds the shield makes my wrist hurt just by looking at it...
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the comments so far, all.
Let me explain.

There are, indeed, two light sources in this image. One from the sword and one from the blue energy in front of the character.

I like SA's suggestion for the cross hatch of color instead of scribbleness... Unfortunately, I scribbled the background color to save time. While your suggestion would definitely be best, I simply ran out of time.

I coverred his feet with smoke for a similar reason. I thought it was a creative and easy way to avoid doing his feet. Oookay...

Oh my God. He's supposed to have a hand... Looks like he replaced it with his sword. Bad-ass!
And he is holding his shield by the strap. I know it looks wierd. He is struggling to hold the sheild because he is being barraged with magic. That's what I was aiming at, but I ran out of time.

Hire and Pkmn are right. It says Penney; my friend's last name. It does look an aweful lot like the word "penis" though. Sorry. O.O
Hahahaha! Severe contrast issues, me thinks. Hard to read.

Thanks again. Is there anything else?
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SilentAngel · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:

Another suggestion with two or more light sources - try and blend the hue shades from those light sources into the original material you're trying to colour. For example, if you have a grey metal, and the light sources are blue and red (say this picture), you would have a grey-red shading where it's at its most extreme....fading to a grey...and then going to the blue-grey. Depending on the light sources, you could even end up with a purple-grey in places if they're close together.
Another suggestion with this picture would be to blend the shading on the sword. At the moment it's distinct colours (red -> orange -> blue) which could look like a magical-type material if it gradually blended from one shade to the next.

Other than that, I can't see any big flaws. Overall you've got the shading in the correct places relative to the implied light sources, it's just a matter of blending them.
Just giving suggestions on the shading, mainly from stuff I've learnt whilst colouring. Hope it helps Happy

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rpgspotkale · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

The lighting is good, the overall character interesting, and the meaning for it, deep. Smokin'

Overall a good piece.

Congrats Leroy. Cool

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Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:30 am Post subject:

That's a great piece of art, but man, the coloring/shading kicks ass.
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Joe Man · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: