Amaretti's Gallery

[Amaretti]

Welcome aboard Amaretti! It was a little while coming, but finally we have your beautiful work collected into a single thread.

I have to say, I am astounded by your 'I-didn't-know-what-the-hell-I-was-doing' piece. It's actually one of my personal faves. Goes to show...

EDIT: you know that one with AL overlooking the city? What was the inspiration behind that particular colouring style? It reminds me of the old children's illustration books.

I've no idea! I guess I was just going with what I thought looked best. It's just the colouring style I was used to using at that point. I did several rough drafts with different colour tones and styles, but this was the one I was most comfortable with and thought looked best. I think it's just a conglomeration of inspiration from all over the place.

btw, where does the handle amaretti come from? i know willitblend's....i can't seem to find the right icon for the cult of amaretti.....well anyways...doing a google image search gave me these....

XD I normally like to name myself after things I don't like, so I won't get bored hearing the names of the things I do like, and there's nothing I hate more in the world than Amaretti biscuits, so naturally I had to call myself that.

Seriously. They're vile.

... amazing *.* (I known already a lot of them )

what about if you do a little tutorial? you have an own nice style...

I've been planning on doing a few tutorials. A few people have already asked me to do a really basic one about layers and lineart, and I wouldn't mind doing one that's a little more advanced. I'll post them here, if and when I get round to doing them.

I love it! Now I've said it ^.^ But -asking again- Are you going to include more pictures, I mean, as your avatar here and the one you got at Narutoforums? I'd really like to see them (large version) because Sakura is my favourite character! But this doesn't interest you 0_0'

The only things I haven't posted yet are two panels of Sakura that I haven't quite finished yet (it looks finished in the avatar, but it's not quite done yet, believe me). I'll probably post them in a little while with a few other panels I'm working on. I injured my hand though, so it'll be slow progress.

And thank you everyone else for your kind comments! I'm glad you like the thread!

[Zoe303]

Yeah I knew it! Hope it gets better Amaretti!And thanks for creating your own gallery...and I believe you....I'm suuure you haven't finished yet....suuuree ^^*

LOL 0_0

[kyubisharingan]

dude....my jaw pretty much dropped. i love your colorings. im also looking forward to that tut your thinking about^^BTW, will we see you on DA more often?

[Amaretti]

UPDATED with four new panels

Yeah I knew it! Hope it gets better Amaretti!And thanks for creating your own gallery...and I believe you....I'm suuure you haven't finished yet....suuuree ^^*

LOL 0_0

Ok, finished them now.

dude....my jaw pretty much dropped. i love your colorings. im also looking forward to that tut your thinking about^^BTW, will we see you on DA more often?

I've really neglected that place, haven't I? I hope I get round to spending more time on DA, but I seem so busy lately. Hopefully I'll get some more time this summer to work on things there.

[TechnoMagus]

so you really hate what your handle stands for....kinda weird??

anyways...you have one of he most eye-catching color palettes i've ever seen in my life and being able to have a coloring similar to your style has been seen as a bar for the other colorists here...

how'd you come up with those amazing earth tones? what are you coloring next? you clean these panels yourself right since you don't credit any cleans?

could you please do the naruto-gamakichi poster and the 341 (?) naruto-sasuke fighting stance...willitblend did justice to these panels and i hope to see your own interpretation of them...

pretty please?????? with amaretti biscuits on top...

[Amaretti]

so you really hate what your handle stands for....kinda weird??

anyways...you have one of he most eye-catching color palettes i've ever seen in my life and being able to have a coloring similar to your style has been quite an achievement for the other colorists here...how'd you come up with those amazing earth tones?

I dunno, I just pick them straight from the colour picker. I guess I prefer a certain sort of tone, and that's what I naturally gravitate towards, and then I usually spend ages tweaking the colours after I've finished till I'm satisfied. I've never really noticed I had a particular colour palette style, but looking at all the colourings side by side, yeah, I can see that now. XD

what are you coloring next? you clean these panels yourself right since you don't credit any cleans?

Yep. I used to clean Bleach for Mangarain, so I like to do it myself. I'm anal like that.

could you please do the naruto-gamakichi poster and the 341 (?) naruto-sasuke fighting stance...willitblend did justice to these panels and i hope to see your own interpretation of them...

pretty please?????? with amaretti biscuits on top...

I thought about doing those, but willitblend and AK totally blew me away with their colourings! I don't think you can get a better interpretation than theirs, so I probably wouldn't be able to offer anything new there.

[kyuubiseal]

Amaretti i must say you are good you are like a inspiration to me as much as paintpixel.
Keep up the awesome work! yeah Amaretti

[TechnoMagus]

I dunno, I just pick them straight from the colour picker. I guess I prefer a certain sort of tone, and that's what I naturally gravitate towards, and then I usually spend ages tweaking the colours after I've finished till I'm satisfied. I've never really noticed I had a particular colour palette style, but looking at all the colourings side by side, yeah, I can see that now. XD

i sure do hope you incorporate your color palette (with the exact color values ) into your tutorial

I thought about doing those, but willitblend and AK totally blew me away with their colourings! I don't think you can get a better interpretation than theirs, so I probably wouldn't be able to offer anything new there.

well it's hard to top those...but i DO know you have a fighting chance of doing that! besides, it's not a better one we all like, but something that been done by you!
if you decide to do it, i'm sure a lot more artists are gonna be inspired and a lot more fans are gonna lose their jaws!

btw, maybe you can use them for your tutorial? but probably for the advanced ones though....

Amaretti i must say you are good you are like a inspiration to me as much as paintpixel.
Keep up the awesome work! yeah Amaretti

@kadoman, everyone
i keep hearing about paintpixel...are his/her works also here? any more info on him/her?

[kadoman]

@ Techno

Paint Pixel is an artist with a huge reputation across the Naruto fandom, who has influenced and inspired countless artists (including DD), but she hasn't been active for about 2 years now, maybe more? Many people consider her to still to be the best artist the Naruto fandom has seen - even today. Her style is simple, elegant and classic - it hasn't dated.

I've quite a few of her works - I'll post some samples in a separate thread so we don't hijack Amaretti's!


On that note, Amaretti is the only artist I know of to be compared with Paint Pixel which, by itself, is a real accomplishment.

[GrayFoxx]

I think Amaretti is even better than paintpixel. Amaretti's style is something I haven't seen before, very original. Anyway, both of them are great artist's.

[kadoman]

I agree - they're both wonderful. I love Amaretti's softer, more modern approach, but I like Paint Pixel's for their timeless quality. Incidentally, I think Amaretti's colouring of AL overlooking the city is the best single page colouring - ever. I think that one colouring blows all competition away, or at least, I've yet to see a colouring better than it.

I forgot to ask my questions Amaretti!

Which artists do you get inspired by?

What started you off colouring?



P.S - what part of the UK are you at?

[sakura-aneki]

I love the last sakura panel ! good job! and I want to ask you something too ^-^ it's clear that you use a tablet ...duhh so that question drops
ummm ...for a panel like the sakura one you just posted , how long does it take you to color it and in what size (pixels)? I know that you can't say exactly but an estimated time would calm my curiosity also how long does a full page take you (approximatively) to color ?
and besides the questions which kodoman put umm when did you first start coloring on the computer ?

Thank you!

[TechnoMagus]

I agree - they're both wonderful. I love Amaretti's softer, more modern approach, but I like Paint Pixel's for their timeless quality. Incidentally, I think Amaretti's colouring of AL overlooking the city is the best single page colouring - ever. I think that one colouring blows all competition away, or at least, I've yet to see a colouring better than it.

took the words right off my mouth.....willitblend's naruto-sasuke fighting pose comes second to me....

[Amaretti]

I agree - they're both wonderful. I love Amaretti's softer, more modern approach, but I like Paint Pixel's for their timeless quality. Incidentally, I think Amaretti's colouring of AL overlooking the city is the best single page colouring - ever. I think that one colouring blows all competition away, or at least, I've yet to see a colouring better than it.

I forgot to ask my questions Amaretti!

Which artists do you get inspired by?

What started you off colouring?

Now that you mention it, paintpixel and DD. Whenever I saw paintpixel's colourings I was always in awe. She has a very classic, very uniform style that's consistently brilliant, but even then is was pretty different from how I liked to paint, and although I loved her style, I was never really motivated to emulate it (though I have more recently looked back at her work to see her technical take on background art and the like). Then I got to more recent chapters and starting seeing DD's work - whose style seems to cover many different styles - and it made me want to try my own hand at it. I think it was DD's cell-style painting of the first page of chapter 315 that actually inspired me to want to colour the pages rather than the covers.

P.S - what part of the UK are you at?

Manchester~

for a panel like the sakura one you just posted , how long does it take you to color it and in what size (pixels)? I know that you can't say exactly but an estimated time would calm my curiosity

Panels ususually only take me about a day or two (cleaning the panel first eats up loads of time), but those particular Sakura panels took me several days (weeks? i can't remember). I stopped halfway through because I stopped liking the way they looked, but I decided to post them anyway.

And the new panels I'm doing from the recent chapters are as big as the RAW allows. Kylara has been scanning high res RAWS lately (which is fantastic!) so the individual panels are roughly 1000x800. And if the panels are large on the page, about 2000x1000. Ish.

The older panels that I redraw get enlarged to about that same sort of scale.

also how long does a full page take you (approximatively) to color ?

Normally about four days, inbetween procrastination and distractions.

and besides the questions which kodoman put umm when did you first start coloring on the computer ?

Well, I started doing digital art when I was about 14-15. So about 4 years ago.

[Uchiha Kaede]

i must say it.. you're awesome!!
how can you do such a wonderfull colorings?