cheesecake and ecchi

Zwickel · January 21, 2009 01:57 AM

Quote from: REDMONGOOSEI'm only recalling what I've seen up close in the past

haha

dont lie to the internet

Hammi · January 21, 2009 02:05 AM

Cheesecake?

What?

I am confused now.

Cool unicorn sculpture though, and the fire pic looks awesome. What did you use for the stitches? Unless you really did hurt yourself.

redmongoose · January 21, 2009 02:48 AM

Quote from: ZwickelStudios
Quote from: REDMONGOOSEI'm only recalling what I've seen up close in the past

haha

dont lie to the internet

speak for yourself bluesky

I mean skyfall whoops

Zwickel · January 21, 2009 07:21 AM

Oh, the stitches are real, I got too drunk and hit a window by accident... so fucking stupid, now it's really hard for me to draw-
Redmongoose ur musics cool.

skyfall and auracore

jjjjjjjjjj · January 21, 2009 11:05 PM

how did you hit it by accident?

Daveb0t · January 21, 2009 11:10 PM

I once accidentally sat on my own balls

LordZeebmork · January 21, 2009 11:37 PM

make a sculpture of goatse

SnawsBall · January 22, 2009 12:10 AM

Quote from: LordZeebmorkmake a sculpture of goatse

Zwickel · January 22, 2009 05:57 AM

I punched the window, I was too drunk lol

MRat · January 22, 2009 11:23 AM

too drunk lol

I really love the second drawing. She looks surprised by her tits, which makes it work I think.

Zwickel · January 24, 2009 08:43 AM

I think it takes a lifetime to make something that is photomanipulation and glowing in PS look more organic than plasticy. Just trying some shit I've seen on tutorials. I regected photoshop as it was too hard for me im a lazy shit, but some tutorials, and a bit of imagination and thinking on the appproach on stuff using the tools kinda makes it. Here I managed to expand the line of motion, even if the hand and the light below breaks that a bit. This is like my 3rd shot at PS, i'm quite happy with it but still looks as crappy amateur "I did this in 10 mins with a youtube tutorial" stuff, nut nah, took me like an hour 10 mins which is too much, but we all gotta start from somewhere and keep progressing. Made this after seeing MaMIND's flash glowy thing.[attachment=2468:eMOTIONbyZwickel.jpg]

rtil · January 24, 2009 06:49 PM

i wouldn't say it takes a lifetime, more like a few years mastering a couple of lesser-known tricks

Zwickel · January 25, 2009 02:07 AM

Quote from: rtili wouldn't say it takes a lifetime, more like a few years mastering a couple of lesser-known tricks

Well, if you want to share some of those you can tall them to your old friend.

rtil · January 25, 2009 05:40 PM

i'm not really interested in photo manipulation, but i do have a lot of painting "tricks". it's mostly a matter of building a library of custom brushes that suit your painting style

texas · January 25, 2009 07:53 PM

how do you make custom brushes

Fuzz · January 25, 2009 08:11 PM

Quote from: hickoryhow do you make custom brushes

Adobe Illustrator

Flash · January 25, 2009 11:43 PM

apologies in advance for the long, long comment :b

I like the direction of effects, the "flow" of the piece, so to say. It's nice that you didn't try to spread the effects too much, two different directions is actually sort of the limit if you want your pic to look really nice, imo.

The effects themselves are pretty simple, but that's how it starts, of course. I'd recommend messing around with the smudge tool on the pic you used, as a way of setting up a "background" under an unaltered copy of the pic; filters like Ripple or Liquify can help, if not abused. After that, it's up to you - following rtil's suggestion of making custom brushes and using them, trying to make a few vexels with the pen tool, using the Displace filter, idk, that's for you to decide! You can do many different things.

What bothered me most about this piece, though, was that the effects were too bright, and the whole image was white/purple. A bit of contrast and color variety can do wonders. A good way of adding different, well-looking colors to a pic is getting a 0% hardness, 15-25% flow, big round brush. Then you choose a bright color and color the image in a separate layer (put the layer in "Lighten" or maybe "Screen"). It's the way I used to do it and it worked well; just a suggestion, though.

Another important part of it is treatment. You know the p&b circle at the bottom of the "Layer" window? Brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, gradient map, selective color, photo filter... These are all important. Then, you can always press ctrl+a to copy and paste the whole image on a single new layer, allowing you to use filters like sharpen, diffusion, blur etc.

I didn't like how the guy looks, you could have weakened the color of his face using the Sponge tool, and lessen the blur.

But it's really good for your 3rd piece.

Zwickel · January 27, 2009 02:53 AM

Now that's what I wanted, thanks for the review man.. yeah I'm really new at this but will take all of that in consideration. True, it's too purple, some hue changes would've helped.

billy · February 1, 2009 08:43 PM

Quote from: lenkabiscaboobs are soft n squishy

Zwickel · February 3, 2009 06:07 AM

Quote from: Billy
Quote from: lenkabiscaboobs are soft n squishy

some are hard and rigid