orb tutorial

in this tutorial i was taught how to make a orb. i was taught how to make it part of the picture and how to make a light reflection on her skin. the tools we used were a very smooth and large brush and our own scatter brush that we were shown how to make. another thing we used to create this look was the quick mask tool.
i like the orbs but i didnt use them in my final outcome because they would of looked out of place

drawing tablet

i used a drawing tabelet to create my picture because i found it easyer to use a tablet do draw curved lines. i also used a tablet because when you colour you can be more acurate with the colouring. another reason is because you cant get much control with a mouse

tutorials i used

for the eyes i had used a step by step tutorial on how to create that look.

health and safety

in order to be safe at a computer we have to take eye brakes so we dont develop any illnes in our eyes or get headackes. we can do this by either looking away from the screan every now and again or going on 15 minuets eye brakes.another thing that we have to do is we have to sit in the upright position so we dont get back ackes. and dont damage our back bone

work in progress

first of all i started with a ruff sketch of what i wanted to draw after all my research

then i started to draw the lineart and colour in the skin

once i had finished colouring in the bace colours for her clothes and hair i created the background. i tryed to make the background look like she was in water and the sun was shining through. and the way i created this look was i hade a layer of blue and ontop of that i made a layer with white lines were i whant the light to be. i blured the white lines with gaussian blur. and then after that i added a layer of black and then blurred it again and changed the opacity.

but then i wasn't happy with he desighn so i re drew her. i made her hair like this because it looks more different to other hair desighns, i also changed her dress and added pearls to it so that you could tell she was ment to represent a pearl. i also gave her a teara/head band to make her look important

then i coloured her in. i added shading to her clothes and hair by using a soft brush in a darker vetion of the base colour. i drew the lineart for the background  wich were ment to be sea wead

i coluored the shell. i added a rainbow tint onto the edge of the shell because when i looked at shells they had a oaple look. i did this by colourning a rainbow around the edge of the shell but on a seperate layer than the shell and i then lowered the opasity of the layer

and then finaly i colured in the background with a  round fan stiff thin bristles brush to make the plants in the background and then i added a layer of ontop of everything and changed the opacity to make it look like she was in water

final pice

if i were to do this again i would have put the bubbles on a diferent layer so that i could change the opacity of the bubbles and make them smoother. i also would have made the lineart thinner so they are less visible.
i used photoshop for this picture because it lets me create alot of diferent type of efects.
i like her eyes and the shaiding that i have done on her clothes and hair because they give it some depth

oyster shell research

after looking at pictures of oyster shells i have noticed that there are 2 diferent insides of an oyster shell. the first type is that he inside is a bright shiney silver/white and te second type is that the inside of the shell is a dull brown or gray. i have decided that for my poater i will use a dull gray/brown for the insid of my shell because i dont want the shell to take away the focus of the girl .

another thing that i have noticed is that the shell has indented lines starting from the bottom of the shell going outwards to the top of the shell

changes to my poaster

i have made some changes to the design of my character. to show that she is ment to represent the pearl i have drawn her using the colours white gray and pink. i put pink in because you can get pink pearls. the pink circles on her dress are ment to be pearls and when they are coloured in it will look shiny. the reason why i hve drawn my lineart with colour is because if i used black then it will dilute the colour and the colours will be less vibrant

i have also changed her hair because before her hair wasnt well thought through and it didnt look spetial. another reason why i changed her hair was because it would take up less time colouring it in so then i could do bettr shaiding

my poaster so far

this is my poatser so far. today i drew the lineart and started to colour ad shade the skin.

i dont like the way that my lineart has turnend out because i used the brush tool so it didnt give a line with the same thicknes all the way down so i will re-do my lineart with the pen tool

typography

today we looked at typography there are three types of typoghraphy
serif, sans serif and sckript
the way i made this typography is i opened up photoshop and then whent to the window option and clicked character, that brought up a small window that let us change the text.
it let you change the space imbetween each letter (kerning and leeding)
it also let us cange the colour and font of the text

ruff sketch

after doing my research i came up with this as my poaster. its just a draft and i may change it. i also nead to add some things into the background

under water reasearch

we were told to create a poaster that related to under water life so
i have researched a few things to do with under water. the first thing i had noticed is that the light shines through like rays and the closer to the serfice those rays are the brighter they get. the second thing i looked at was the sea floor and what lived on it. after looking at a couple pictures i noticed that you would normaly find shells and other furry plants. so i decided to look at shells.

i realy liked the idea of having shells in my poaster so i looked at types of shells and i liked the pearl clam shell so i thought of ways to make the pearl have more ephisis because it is and important part of that shell and then i found this picture (picture bellow) and it gave me an idea. i want to create a picture of a pearl clam under water with a girl representing the pearl because then the pearl which is normaly small and not realy notisable would then become a big part of the poaster

Simone Legno

i like how he uses bold lines and few colours because it makes the character stand out and the limit of shaiding makes the characters brighter. i also like the way he draws the charcters with not much detaial and smooth edges because it makes the characters look cute
but i dont like the way he draws the eyes on the girl (human) because they are just a line and i think that the eyes should be drawn with some detail as that is the moast important part of the face

hyung tae kim

hyung tae kim is a Korean artist. He has designed characters for video games such as the magna carta series and the later installments of the war of genesis series. Kim began a video games career working in the field of background music, then shifted to art and design. He has also branched out into the comic book industry

hyung tae kim works with SoftMax 

i like the way that his style is halfway imbetween manga and a realistic style. the way that the character is standing is intereasting. and i like the way that the character relates to the background. all the colours compliment the character very well. and the background isnt plain there is actualy objects in the background that have something to do with the character.
i dont like the way that he puts a glowing outline behind the girl in the picture above because it makes her look like she isnt part of the background behind her

raynkazuya

i love the way that raynazuya makes his characters look so life like. the detail in everything is realy good
the girls eyes look almost as if it was a photograph. and i also like the way that the composition of the picture works realy well and what she is wearing isnt boaring it is intreasting and the orange of her clothes stand out but not in a bad way
i dont like how the backgrounds are a bit plain compaired to the character but that could take the emphisis away from the girl

Lorland Chen

 lorland chen uses photoshop

Lorland Chen has worked as a fantasy artist for game and publishing companies, as well as teaching at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Art in Sichuan, China. He’s now a freelancer.

lorland developed a love for art when his mother first took him to the childrens skill training center
in their home town, Pan Zhihua

i like lorland chen's work because it protrays a fantasy world. i like the way he makes the character and background look right together for example he doesnt put the girl in the pictuer in a battle feild as it would loock wrong.
i also like the way he draws the clothes because he makes them blow in the wind
 but i dont like the way that his pictures look more like paintings.