[Art] One Piece - Conis and Suu Coloured (G)

[justira]

Title: uhhh Conis and Suu I guess?
Fandom: One Piece
Characters/Pairings: Conis and Suu >.>
Rating: G
Crit/Feedback: As always! =D
Notes: Long story short: I stopped colouring for a while, and then every time I tried I got too frustrated because it looked horrid. For years. Then yesterday I decided that if I wanted to colour, I should just bloody finish something, and then colouring should get easier (and hopefully better) every time. So I pulled out this old lineart and sat my ass down and finished it. It's plenty flawed, but I'm proud of myself for taking the first step in colouring recovery =)

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A/N: I know there are flaws in this, but like I said, I'm just proud of myself for finally just doing it, and I hope to colour much more from now on. That said, I of course always love feedback =D


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Comments

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

Your coloring is really nice and subtle. I like the overall tone of the colors, it looks like you did a good job with your palette. The only real "flaws" to it are that it's not very detailed or bold, but those are things that come with practice. Which program are you using?

ps, I forgot you were going to Reed until Nay mentioned it the other night... I totally live right up Woodstock if you ever have time/inclination to do stuff.

[justira.livejournal.com]

WHAT WHAT WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS. You live like right next door to where I spend 99% of my time???

Interwebs, you so crazy!

We should totally hit up any of the 10 bajillion nearby coffeeshops =D

And also, thanks for the comment! Practice is of course exactly what I'm lacking at this point, so I will assume this will get better. I'm using Photoshop, but I have been told to also try OpenCanvas or Painter. At the moment I don't have the resources (computer/money availability) to get either, but I'm hoping to get a new station soon. What do you think, should I try those other programs? I looooonnng for a painterly look as opposed to the vaguely plastic-y airbrush effect that is kind of Photoshop's default. I know you can finagle PS into doing that too but uhhh I am still working on getting it to do that >.>

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

For sure, we should! I'm basically free up into the new year, until school starts again. And then I'm free sporadically depending on what projects are due that week. >D

I use painter almost exclusively for digital coloring. I loooove it. The only thing I use photoshop for is image resizing and color editing because painter isn't as good at those things. You can download a trail version from the corel website. I recommend just going through and trying out all the brushes until you get the look you want. I've used open canvas as well but to me it's too much like photoshop. It's just a matter of finding the program that is intuitive to you.

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

I-- I remember this! I love it! *u*

ALSO MERRY CHRISTMAS <3333333333

[justira.livejournal.com]

IT'S YOU. YOU STILL HAVEN'T EMAILED ME YOU HO.

But I am glad to hear from you anyway! And Merry Christmas to you as well =D

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

I KNOW I'M RETARDED I WILL EMAIL YOU RIGHT NOW. I DON'T GO ON dA A LOT SO I FORGOT

<333333

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, this is beautiful. ♥ The coloring is really lovely- it's cold tones, but it's so rich.

[justira.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much! =D Most of the hand-wringing and garment-rending I'd been doing about colouring was about lame-o palette choices, so it's very nice to hear that it actually worked out this time. I have much hope for my next foray into colouring =)

[aciel.livejournal.com]

She looks kind of like you.

[justira.livejournal.com]

Haha, you mean from when I had long hair? I guess maybe the hair, but I think our facial structures are very different.. she has kind of a more delicate nose, while I kinda have the Jew-nose thing goin' on.


Oh, and turns out that the traffic in old town that made me hand up on you? Multiple-cop car incident of some sort in the very middle of town. Good times.