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The genesis of this picture first occurred months ago. It was meant to be sketch of when Rossaer first meets Fuukou and Hinkan, his long hair wound into a large hat. Not being a hat person, I thought any hat bigger than one’s head is automatically ridiculous. After a while he looked mildly wizard-like so I chopped off his hair and tried to go from there. Months later, I decided to go back to the original idea, and of course at that time Rossaer is guarded everywhere by Tenanga, and that is the revolution of this picture (no1curr).
The whole picture is slightly unnerving (aka creepy). Tenanga actually looks to the naked eye like a real solid panther except when it is just materialising. Vivant might be the only one who actually sees it as that eldritch nebulous being.
I’ve tried using a slightly different colouring technique(?). I don’t even know if it can be called technique, but I wanted a desaturated watery look and I think I managed it this time, finally. He looks different with actual black hair, no? But somehow prettier |||Orz
He’s also dressed as a prince. I think one picture of him in garish clothes is quite more than enough LOL. Even if it were a public secret, I don’t think he’d ever bring himself to dress garishly in public, although he may force himself to choose clothes a little more extravagant than he prefers.
I think I miss that earlier Rossaer a little. In order to live, he gave himself no opportunity to question his self-worth, and so he could stand unabashedly before the angry crowd, derision ready before his smile.
You have no idea how satisfying it is to type “complete” in the title. It’s like that feeling when you hand in your last exam ever for university (except not quite, since then you spend days dreading the results).
(Click for large version with visible sketch marks Orz)
This took me at least 30 hours Orz I’m not sure since I did it in about 3 hour blocks per night, but it’s taken me nearly all of two weeks Orz
Done mostly in SAI and mopped up in Photoshop. I LOVE SAI. I don’t think I’m ever going back to PS again for colouring >0< Unless in future PS makes Wacom integration more intuitive so that I don't have to re-customise opacity sensitivity every time I change brushes.
Edit: I haven’t looked at my original pencil drawing in so long. Gah. Why do I always like my pencil drawing version better. GAH.
The background is meant to be a bit leaden. I can't imagine Rossaer + sunny (oi).
Rossaer's hair still turned out redder than I wanted. I kinda wanted to draw him with actual black hair for once. I've kept the colours a bit more realistic in this picture but still turned out a bit more saturated than I was going for ;__;
So you get a bonus black and white version:
….They look better in B&W ^oT <– don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I don't think I want to see my tablet again for a while…I've somehow managed to wear down another nib entirely because of this picture ||||Orz
I promise hereforth to lock up my artbooks, tablet, colouring programs, scanner, pencils and paper until after exams *facepalm*
I seem to draw a lot of profile pictures of Hinkan.
(Beware huge size original picture)
I had originally intended the girl to be Yunyi, which is why she’s a little shorter than one might expect. Then again, Rossaer was never meant to be short…it’s just that Vivant grows to be too tall LOL I’ve always imagined Hinkan shorter than Lyriel though, who probably doesn’t even break 160.
It was more likely for Yunyi, a maid, to help Rossaer dress, so the original picture was her helping him tie on the overall/jacket, but I gave up halfway (oi) so now it’s Hinkan helping him untangle himself, which I suppose she is allowed to do now that she’s away from Averron. Unfortunately it meant I had to redraw her entire hair (since the odango hairstyle is typically associated with maids) and there’s nothing more incomprehensible than ancient Asian hairstyles LOL
Also debated whether to give Rossaer long hair to match the Asian-styled robes, but decided to leave him boyish as he is. I kinda miss his long hair though =3=
最近彩雲國看太多，腦袋都轉不過彎來用英文講話了 *掩面*
大概連他自己都意識不到，他不經意中流露的淺笑看起來有多麽地天真。
雖然兩人在許多做法上會重疊，但他沒有Vivant那种凡事不挂在心上的天賦，對於在“交際”上必須拿出笑臉應對，他一定會引以爲恥吧。以前的笑容是那麽地骯髒，現在不管笑得再怎麽誠懇都會認爲自己太虛僞了吧。
所以我很喜歡畵他那在不知不覺之間的輕輕地一笑。不是獻給別人的媚笑，不是自暴自棄的自我嘲笑，不是充滿防備的冷笑——而是這個留給他自己的、毫無妝飾的微笑。
也許因爲我覺得他對自己太刻薄了，所以覺得他能最終為自己留下這點溫柔，太好了 <– 沒有責任感的作者
所以Vivant在欺負人家之餘，應該好好佩服他一下。跟Vivant有別，他可是咬著牙挑起包袱一步一步走過來的，一件一件的往事不是被遺棄而是悄悄地納入心中，在看不到光芒的路上走了那麽遠還沒被壓垮，還能保持自己的人性，我覺得僅這一點某人就應該好好地反省一番。
Erm…have nothing else to say. This was originally meant to be a Rossaer pic, which then halfway changed to a Vivant pic, and is now a Tyras pic…which…I really don’t know Orz
And I gave up with the colouring halfway Orz
I can’t even be bothered thinking of a title for this one Orz
Lined and coloured in SAI
He looks princely for once (oi)
I guess sometimes even a frown beats the forced smile of appeal he uses.
It’s always a dilemma whether or not to put up an unfinished picture, because it does spoil the magic a little.
This was a scanned A4 picture but retraced and coloured in Paint Tool SAI.
Things I’m LOVING about SAI right now:
1. The colour mixer. So damn useful, and JUST the very thing I never knew I needed. The design may be a little counter-intuitive, but the multiple sliders allow you to go back and pick various degrees of blending and is excellent for sussing out highlights and shadows without relying on automated brush blending options (as in PS).
2. The variables you can adjust for the brushes, all in a concise little toolbox. Being able to tinker with the strength and persistence of colour-blending as well as standard variables like opacity, size and minimum brush size (for touch-sensitive tablets) is SO useful that I am NEVER looking back, PS!!! Also, what I found really annoying about OC is that quite a few brushes (esp oil and watercolour) would not colour at full opacity or would bleed/blend with other colours really unpredictably, but other brushes would not blend at all. SAI makes blending a separate option (3 separate options actually) which affords an amazing range of versatility all with the one tool.
3. The kit is incredibly well-adjusted for CG. The responsiveness and integration with tablet makes for a very pleasant experience. In a way it feels like it took what’s necessary from both OC and PS and made them better-adjusted. Another thing I really liked is that it saves the settings for a tool (e.g. brush or pen), unlike OC which resets the tool to default every time you switched between tools.
4. The ability to turn the canvas at various angles. At first I thought I’d never use this, but given how Wacom is rigidly oriented – and hence completely unintuitive to the way one usually draws – this function turned out to be an ingenious tool to get those awkwardly angled lines just right.
Not as impressive bits:
1. So far I haven’t found (not that I’ve really been looking lol) a quick way to accurately select large areas for filling. In that respect I still prefer PS’s pen tool, which neither OC nor SAI has. However, the quick mask function along with its very responsive touch makes selection quite quick as well.
2. I haven’t found a way to copy all layers in a selection.
3. It doesn’t have the brush range that OC does. On the other hand, the adjustments for the brush tool is much more intuitive than OC and there are a number of basic brush options (e.g. acrylic, crayon) from which you should be able to emulate the most common media. Haven’t found a good alternative to OC’s oil and watercolour…although those two brushes were so frustrating for me in OC I’m sort of glad not to go back to it.
4. Supposedly it has a fairly limited memory allocation (or whatever), so it won’t take large files. This is a surprising restriction, because it means really that at most SAI could only produce web resolution pictures. The current picture is about 1200×1600 and I hope I can finish it using SAI, but I’m fairly sure that doing anything for print would be out of question.
Half pencil-drawn, the other half drawn in SAI
Possibly a most unlikely pairing in most unlikely costume XDDD
Both of them are obviously fond of each other, but it’s not a relationship that would ever progress into romance.
Theirs is a much more stable relationship than…well, any relationship with Hinkan seems fairly stable, even when it comes to someone as unpredictable as Vivant. But it’s probably one of the most reassuring relationships that Rossaer has, one of the rare ones built with mutual kindness and respect and fondness and trust.
And so they are able to have a gentle laugh about this, Rossaer can playfully invite Hinkan to dance without either of them taking it the wrong way.
Wanted to put two non-Caucasian (well, not fully in Rossaer’s case) characters in European type costume. It was all good until I realised how much lace and ruffles existed on noblemen’s clothes…no wonder Vimes was trying to tear them off every time he gets a chance. And is it just me or do corsets, apart from forcing the waist into inhumane proportions, seem to obliterate any assets on the chest?
It’s times like this that I wish I had Photoshop back on my computer. Where quick 10min colourings are concerned, nothing beats PS. This took me a good 3-4 hours over several days DD=
Suishuu chewing on a sleeping Rossaer and Vivant being nice for once………?
I drew in Kamaeh as an afterthought…and then deleted him from the finalised picture as an afterthought LOL
Yes, I bet no one remembers that Giras actually had a last name XDDD
This picture is a bit unusual in that I couldn’t be bothered scanning the original so I took a picture of it with my phone, and then retraced the (really fuzzy) photo in OC. The colouring style is very experimental, no? I’m so used to PS brushes, which tend to be limited to the airbrush effect (which has distinct advantages and disadvantages). The hair here is done with the oil colour brushes, which gives a nice strand-y effect but not very good control over gradients. The clothes are done with a mix of watercolour and oil, which gives it that nice soft feel. I wish OC (or at least my super old edition) had cursors that indicated brush sizes ==; I never know how thick the stroke is going to be.
So this is Giras’ little brother, who is the same age as Vivant.
See, from the character design you’d think he is an intelligent and pleasant guy with an easy sense of humour.
Then again, I could say that about Vivant’s and Rossaer’s designs, which only goes to show that one should never judge by appearances XDDDD
I don’t have too much planned, although I have to admit he was the first new character I had in mind for Isshaten. I hope to make him a likeably normal guy, which would be a nice change considering the existing counterparts.
I think, after the mess that was Talgrith and Averron, it would be nice to return to a land where people are relatively normal. Most of the people Vivant met outside Isshaten – including Vivant himself, in fact – are pretty unusual personalities, and quite a few of them (all excepting Vivant, in fact) are heavily moulded by their environment.
And it would do the two idiots good to see how people their age should act. Not that I think they’d take it to heart ==;
The wonder about layers is that you can dress a character down to the nuddie XD
Even if Rossaer is the last character I’d want to draw in the nuddie ==;;;;;;;;
But everything’s okay when it’s chibi-fied XD
(Click for original size)
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