237, 248 Jiraya and Gaara.

[sam034]

Sooooo,

I did my second cell shade last week and I turned out a lot better than my first one (you can see the other one here)

I chose this cover beacuse it's a relatively uncomplicated one. Tell me what you guys think! I tried some things like let the background colour show on the character a bit. Any tips would be great, especially what you would do differently or how I could add touches or effects that would make it better. ( I see a lot of people you some blur/shine effect which makes the the picture seem glowing)

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I thought I'd do another one this afternoon but I wasn't really sure which. I also wasn't sure about the style or approach I was going to use. I chose the J-man because other people have also done this one, so I could look at those. (although this didn't help as much as I thought it would have) I wanted to have a different angle from which the light came than I would normally use, but.....meeeh.

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Some things - I tried to make grooves/cuts in the kanji on the headprotector, but failed.
- I tried to do the hair above the foreheadprotector, fail.
- lighting on the face, fail.


Anyway, I worked reasonably long on these, enjoy.



btw, both lines by Orochimaru, thanks man.

 

[- aMt -]

you have a unique style, but is still in very good.

you remind me of the gallery of the unhai.

improve your style, but is not that bad.

 

[tEchIe]

nice, looks time consuming

 

[sam034]

Thanks Amt, I quite like the work of unhai, but if I'm honest I don't think they look alike a whole lot. I'm indeed trying to improve (always)

Yeah techie, because I'm really a super amature I take waaaaaay longer to have it even look like this, which is even a very long ways away from anything good.


Anyway I've also posted these on my new deviant page. See here


and here

 

[nat]

Aha, you're using different color compatibilities. I like that, it gives depth to objects and believable shades, because using different shades of the same color makes an image look flat....though if you could blend the colors more smoothly, the result would be even better, Sam.

Like J-man's face, colors are good but that lighter colors triangle looks a bit strange, with some smoothing it should be great.

but really great job on the head band and hair

 

[DarkFlameDragon]

good job keep it up