K-ON Fan-art Wallpaper

Salam and Hi there,
Somehow I got a mood to do a fan art again. After a few search.  I've decided that K-ON should be the one.  I get inspiration from its Opening sequence where the character jumps from the stairs.
Then I screencaps the video and start sketching up the characters. As usual all done in Photoshop using tablet for drawing.

I thought I've done the best composition for the character. Somehow I decided to post it in my facebook. Later, I got comments from fellow friends which I've tagged them.
They complaint about the missing of Azusa.

"Huh? who is that?" said my self..

Unfortunately I only watch up to episode 5 of the first season at the time. To find out who is Azusa I then dig in the 1st season of K-ON stored in my harddrives.. Its already too late at that time so I decided to watch it tomorrow.

The next day I continue to watch K-ON from episode 6 until 8. Well thats all I have for the first season but lucky enough Azusa does come-in in episode 7. After finish watching I then capture a few reference of Azusa.

The sketch was done at 1024 x 576 pixel which is quite a low resolution. This is done intentionally because drawing at low resolution limits the pen stroke that photoshop captures, simulating sketching on paper. After sketch, I upscale the artwork to 1920 x 1080 pixel, then re stroke the artwork again.

The finished artwork is on the first picture posted above.


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Tsubasa Chronicle - Kurogane VS Kamui

Hi,
Above is my last wallpaper artwork which dated back at 6 Nov 2008. It is a fan-art based on the OVA of Tsubasa Chronicle - Tokyo Revelation. The movie is awesome, and I love the batle scene between Kurogane and Kamui. So I decided I should make this a wallpaper.

The development of this wallpaper was a major milestone to me.
I've learn how to :
1) Painting rocks, ground and dirt from scratch
2) Create a believable sky.

The process  of creating the wallpaper :

1) Sketch. I use Wacom to draw in Photoshop.

2) Then I start painting in base color. 

3) Then I start detailing the ground by painting in some rocks.

4)More detailing process.

5) I add light shines over the rocks and objects according to the light position.

6) Then I paint in the clouds. I also colors the tower at the back.

7) Done with the background, I then block in colors for the character.

8) Then I start coloring the character

9) I decided to change the sky as it looks fake. I use real cloud brush for photoshop to replace the old cloud. I also modify the sky color to more dramatic.

10) Based on comments in Animewallpapers and lowyat forum, I improvised the composition where I reposition the character and the tower. The final version of this is the first picture i posted on this post.

I hope this process breakdown may help someone who wish to do a digital painting or anything related.
Thank you

Blog Resurrection

Hi everyone,
It's been almost 2 years since I updated this blog. Before this I primarily use this blog to showcase my fan-art based wallpaper and its method used, however since I stop doing wallpaper so do the blog update.

Currently I'm trying to develop a 2D + 3D animation, so I think might as well I post my progress here so I can keep track of my project development.

Thank you.

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?