Fanart Wallpaper - Sawada Tsunayoshi XGlove Version Vongola Ring

Hi guys, its me again after a long dawn. Sorry didn’t update the blog much but Im still working with my artwork. To date I’ve created 3 wallpapers and 2 of it has been submitted to Animewallpapers.com. I like the AW.com forum very much because there are very good users that give me a good critics here and there, which help me to improve my work very much.

Okay so let me introduce my first of the 3 artwork I’ve done lately. Introducing Fan-artwork from Katekyoushi Hitman reborn, Sawada Tsunayoshi Xglove version vongola ring. The background is created using 3D Studio Max but because I’m still learning the software so the output from the 3D were edited heavily using Photoshop. Below is the step by step how I do the wallpaper.

As usual, I do the pose skeleton first, then the rough body sketch, and finally refining it based on screenshots.

Coloring process is quite easy as the screenshot provide good enough details for me to refer from. Plus the character is quite simple.

For the background, I try to draw a factory scenery from the photo I got from the net but the result are not very satisfying, so I make my mind and do the background with 3D instead.

The character with the unsatisfying backgrounds..

So here is the 3D version of the factory. Created with 3Ds Max the modeling process goes very smooth but because I’m still learning the software so the output from the 3D were edited heavily using Photoshop. The end result is as seen on the first picture posted above.

Lost of artwork source files

Hello, here is me again after a month since last post. So my past 2 days reveal my deepest nightmare, which is the lost of my latest artwork source files PSD. Where did I put it? Last time before purchasing new Hardisk I burned almost all the files and also numbered them. But last 2 days I just want to re-check my previous artwork on the DVD cake, I've count atleast 4 DVD are missing. This I notice after the I decided to do a numbering scheme! how about those hundreds of DVD burned before this?

Damn, if the DVD which is missing are not so important, or at least anime which I already watch then its quite okay, but unlucky me, the one which is lost is my own artwork which can never be re-download back!.

hah but something similar has happen to me before, which wipes a 400GB worth of many precious files and my own flash source code just because of faulty SATA power cable. Some says "backup your files!", but what if the backup itself gone missing?

My Favourite Food

This is my latest work done in my computer modeling class, which teach me how to use Adobe illustrator. In the lab we learn how to make apples, but I do my own favourite food instead. The green fruit there is Guava, the small dark purple is blackcurrant and the pink colored fruit is..... err I dont know what its name in english, but in Malaysia we call it "Jambu air" which direct translation to english is "water guava" <- haha...

Currently I'm not doing any anime type of work, as I'm focusing on learning 3D modeling and OpenGL programming as I'm taking those class this semester. quite boring and frustrating but this is essential for my future I'd say.

By the way, my fan art wallpaper is little outdated as I've modified somethings after several critique on animewallpapers. But I dont finish it yet (since May) as I suddenly lost focus to my work and instead I do many unnecessary things.... haha quite long to explain here.

The thing is I will always do something else after I go hometown when each of the semester ends (I live in my college hostels every semester). I do enjoy it but after the semester start, I always end up frustrating on what I've done before.. which is wasting time. Now I only have 1 semester left to study and I still dont have enough knowledge to reach my ambition. The university failed to teach me anything useful instead of stupid subject which is unrelated to graphics and multimedia at all.

What's the use of "Management information systems", "System Analysis and Design" and "Digital Logic" for me? Does that useful for 3d modeling? photoshops???

Hah nevertheless I know the truth is cruel enough and I've decided that I need to learn all those things myself. And now only 1 semester left.. which is exactly 4 to 5 months left. Can I learn all that I want myself? I afraid to doubt anything, so I just do it the best I can.

Fan-Art Wallpaper - Inuyasha- Waiting for a new journey

Inuyasha- Waiting for a new journey

Here is my latest fan-art wallpaper which I done after watching the 93th episodes of Inuyasha anime. Quite a good anime I'd say, although the story plot is quite simple, unlike Eureka 7 and Gundam series. At some point if I were to watch 2~3 episode in one shot I'll feel abit boring because the story pattern (on some episode) for each episode is quite the same. For rating I'll give 3.8 over 5.

I really impress on their background paintings, very well done and beautiful. The grass blades is painted in great detail, rocks and slides shows their characteristics while sky shows the beautiful scene when the sunset came.

The grass blades are painted in great detail

Beautiful scene of sunsets

I wish I could draw like that too.

So to potray their journey and their world, I create this wallpaper. The wallpaper is designed so that they just take a break from an event (let it be,say, after fighting with "Naraku" people). Inuyasha is tired after fighting so he decide to rest just here, and his friends agree. Inuyasha just about to sleep, while Kagome and Sango watch Shippo and Kirara playing together. Miroku watch the sky dreaming about new girl she just recently met.

Heh hows my story? Pretty good eh?

Supposely Shippo and Kirara is chasing a ball while Inuyasha suppose to hold his Tetsusaiga, but I just let it be.

Below is a step by step progress on how I did the characters and the background.

Sketching the character pose and locate best position for them.

Drawing the characters base on various screenshots

Color the characters

Roughing out the background

Add details such as grass, clouds. I'm using normal round brush with opacity and flow set to 20%~30% to color the background. This will result some blotches and textures similar to watercolor/pastel paintings.

Final results as the first picture above.Color level tweak was done, add some haze below the mountain, add some shines over the characters, and add some sunshine between the clouds. If you look carefully the character pose and lineart is slightly different in the final result as I fix them after I've been commented about the unnaturalness of Kagome and Sango hand pose. I've also re-draw the lineart of all the characters except Kirara (the cat) to make it look crisp and sharper.

I think that all about it. Until my next artwork, bye~

Fan-art | Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess

Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess

Hi~
Thanks for reading my blog.
Its been a while since i've posted updates in this blog. Although is that, I'm still actively
working with my artworks, which you can see on my deviants.
The update for the blog and in my deviantart is somehow repititious
but I'm using deviantart to post my latest artwork, where else i'm
using this blog to tell a step by step process on how I do
my artwork.
Updating both takes time so there will be a gap of update
time between this two sites although the update is about
the same artwork.

Okay~ enough about my personal problems, now its time for the artwork.
Introducing my latest artwork; Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess is
my second (sorry for my mistake in deviantart that I said this is the first, actually my Cloud VS kratos artwork is the true first)
crossover fan-art.

Draw in photoshop using tablet, then vectoring in SAI paint Tool and coloring in photoshop.

Below is a step by step on how I do the drawing :

Sketching Keiichi Skeleton

Sketching Keiichi Body

Adding his clothes

Keiichi sketch finished

Sketching Grimmjow body pose skeleton

Fix Grimmjow skeleton pose

Sketching his body and head

Draw his hand

Draw his clothes, sword and detailing several parts.

Combine Grimmjow with Keiichi

Vectoring using SAI paint tool
Base coloring
Add darker / lighter color shades using soft shading method

Why I choose Grimmjow as his angel? because he's my favourite character in bleach and I thought he is more suitable to become an angel for keiichi instead of Ichigo (as I shortlisted to those 2 as his angel).

So the drawing took 2 days I think.. and the coloring takes about 3~4 days. Before this drawing I used to finish coloring my drawing in a days, but the result is a bit sloopy so I decided to relax my coloring time a bit to increase precision and quality.

The background is created in 4~5 hours, without any idea in my head I just keep playing around with plugin while experimenting stone textures as its base. After several trial and error the result is the one you see there..

The character did not blend well because the bg color theme does not match with the color mood of the characters as they was colored with a bright environment in mind. I'm still searching a workaround for this.

I hope you enjoy the wallpaper. Comment and critics are always welcome~

Tools of Trade : Photoshop CS3, SAI Paint Tool, Stone textures from http://photoshoptextures.com/, Tablet.