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All Deviations
All Deviations

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Submitted: May 30, 2005
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I really appreciate everyone that commented on my Mary Jane piece and even took some of the critiques some of you gave and tried to incorporate them into this one. Mostly concerning the hands and softening the face a bit. I also wanted to practice doing shiney surfaces on clothing. Since Black Cat wears shiney black leather and is, for lack of a better word, curvacious I thought it would be good practice. Doing hard lighting on a uniform surface is difficult enough bbut doing them on something that is constantly changing as it moves and taking all the curves of the body into account is quite a feat. I decided to place her on a black background to add to the mystery of her character and make the highlights define her form a bit more. Also included a white background version so you can see the entire body. The drawing was done very simply using very few lines since I knew it was going to be on a black background and I was going to have her fade ot black.
Piece done in pencil and digitally colored in photoshop 5.5. Some people have asked how to color hold the linework. What you want to do is level out your drawing in photoshop until it's all black(no grey areas), then you change the drawing to bitmap with 50% threshold(this turns the drawing to pure black and white). Now change your drawing back to greyscale and create a duplicate layer of your linework. Next, you select your magic wand tool and make sure the little boxes marked 'anti-aliased' and 'contigious' are unchecked. Now select any white area of the duplicate layer and it will select all the white on that layer. Simply hit delete and it takes all the white away leaving a floating layer of linework. You should now have 2 layers of linework(one with white and one without) go to your original layer with the white and fill in entirely with white so there's no linework. Now you should have a bottom layer of white with a top layer of linework. Once you've done this you can change the image of CMYK or RGB. To color over the lines, simply select the linework layer and make sure the 'preserve transparency' box is checked. Now you can select any color you want and brush over the linework layer and it will only color the lines. Simply make a 3rd layer for your regular colors and you're in business!! Keep in mind this is simply my way of doing it and I've heard of others doing using channels so don't take this as the only way. I tend to work in a comfort zone which isn't always the fastest so ask around and find what works best for you. Hope that helps!

-Mark
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*Sajedene:iconSajedene: May 30, 2005, 10:12:27 AM
This one is totally better.... waaaay better. Its cool to know how you seperate your lines. I do mine differently but I will try yours.
~guitardave:iconguitardave: May 30, 2005, 10:15:37 AM
damn, this one is awesome. I really dig the colours on this one. the hair looks awesome.
the lines are so fresh, and clean... so fresh and so clean clean. *cough*

keep up the awesome work.
~ricsto:iconricsto: May 30, 2005, 10:16:14 AM
Superb. Nic lil guide as wel although I would never be able to make anything like this,

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=jaggyd:iconjaggyd: May 30, 2005, 10:16:44 AM
Very sexy work. I love your coloting style, and your abilities in general just blow me away.

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*candiice:iconcandiice: May 30, 2005, 10:17:20 AM
very foxxy!

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~alphin:iconalphin: May 30, 2005, 10:17:25 AM
This picture is really awesome. It looks really good. The shading is really nice, but most of all I really love the lighting for this picture.

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=megarea:iconmegarea: May 30, 2005, 10:18:07 AM
I like this one just as much as mary jane as well. I think this one is a little better though because the face is softer, and the against the black background she almost seems to glow. Very nice to know how you get your linework from paper to photoshop. I'm a noob at photoshop and its helpful to know :)

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=mornmeril:iconmornmeril: May 30, 2005, 10:19:01 AM
Hmm about selecting lineart... My way is grayscale mode, then go to channels and there's an icon that goes "load channels as selection". Then you inverse the selection and viola :) You'r way's cool too, just thought I'd be interestin :D Adnd shiny leather kills, but you defeated it! :XD: Great effect!

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