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Cicinimo · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 5:52 pm

Heres the story: Kristen Perry (www.merekatcreations.com) has drawn the line art for a coloring contest on another art forum. Below is the original line art, and then my coloring of it. Obviously, I took some liberties here. Anyways, Im concerned that its too dark on some screens. Tell me if you can see clearly enough the outline of the ominous alian cyborg thats chilling in the background. Other than that, gimmi crits, comments--whatever. Im about to put a few finishing comments before I replace Merekat (Kristen)'s signature and post it for judging.

Original:

My coloring:

Again, Im worried that its too dark and you cant see some of my details. Let me know what it looks like with your screen settings. Is there a way to save it lighter w/ more contrast than Jpg makes it??

KiNgStiNg · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 6:20 pm

how does absolutely frigging STUNNING sound for critique?
that is very very sexy...and so is she
you really brought that to life....awesome stuff

Cicinimo · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 6:25 pm

Ummm *blink* thank you. tell me, can you see that alien/robot thingy back there?

KiNgStiNg · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 6:27 pm

oh yeah for sure i can...she seems to be in shitstreet...he looks mean ass

Cicinimo · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 6:36 pm

haha...good, good. Im glad you can see the scary fellow. Heres a larger version for all those interested: bigger one

-If you feel like looking close and pointing out all my little glitches. Actually, if anyone would do that, it be great.

pixualize · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 6:57 pm

Great pic and good luck with the contest!

Did you paint that on a Mac? Alot of times pictures created on Mac appear dark on PC screens. I viewed this on both and can see the tentacle things coming off the robot guy in the dark area.

I usually punch my jpgs with brighness/contrast and sharpen a bit before uploading now to offset the PC viewing delimma.

Looks good as is!

Cicinimo · Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 7:05 pm

Thankyou...
nope, PC here. I keep my screen pretty light and bright tho. Im sure this sounds like a dumb question (im fairly new to photoshop) but how can I "punch my jpgs with brighness/contrast and sharpen a bit before uploading now to offset the PC viewing delimma"?? This sounds like what I've been trying to do. Thanks bunches

Typhon · junior member Member # Joined: 20 Jul 2000 Posts: 43

Christ Almighty... if you're 15 I fear the day when you become a full-fledged artist.

Fantastic work. Keep it up, by all means.

-Tepox- · Posted: Mon May 21, 2001 5:05 am

It's great! and nice idea for background.
It has same problem like your other pic; clothes looks a little blurry. But not so badly...

William H. Daniels · Posted: Mon May 21, 2001 7:13 am

Great color job. Also, nice used of negative space for the baddie.

I would love to see the rest of the entries in this contest. Which forum is this for?

zero21 · Posted: Mon May 21, 2001 4:40 pm

. . . . . pass over that gun when your finished Lukias.

Cicinimo · Posted: Mon May 21, 2001 11:32 pm

This is from the Megatokyo art forum (www.megatokyo.com). Megatokyo is an online comic, but alot of the fans enjoy art. Its not loaded with pros like this Sijun forum, but still. What kinds of problems do the clothes have?

Freddio · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 2:15 am

looking Great..

im not 100% sure about the background though

the alien is cool..

keep on posting stuff .. its really cool.

Enayla · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 3:04 am

Fifteen?

Fifteen!? Oh sheesh... that's just bloody unfair.

Really sweet work. I mean /really/ sweet. I'd eat my own foot to have been able to colour like this when I was fifteen - I'd be a /genius/ by now!

The shape of her eye is just a wee bit odd looking in the coloured version, but that's only visible if I stare for a good long while looking for mistakes.

Argh.

P'tit Ben · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 7:44 am

Cool you give the link to the forum where you found this original black & white picture to colorize. I would have been interested in participating to this contest with such an image!

smalls · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 12:28 pm

dude.. thats way cool. gj.. (good job..)

but the face.. it looks like she has too much of an indented cheek.. like she is super thin.. her right knee is a bit weird ... like its pointing more towars us than to the direction her leg is going..

well it is really cool. good job again. have some fun doing other pictures..yeah..

jasonN · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 8:56 pm

Sweet! I love the changes you made!

patrick · Posted: Wed May 23, 2001 6:13 am

Thats really kickin, but the only part that bothers me is you saying your taking the original artists signature off. I think you should add yours to it not delete it. And if i had half the talent you have at 15, i'd be frieakin rich by now.... good luck in the contest.

Cicinimo · Posted: Wed May 23, 2001 11:11 pm

"Im about to put a few finishing comments before I replace Merekat (Kristen)'s signature and post it for judging" By replace I mean To "put it back"; re (do over) place (put). Sorry for the confusion there. It was never my intention to steal any credit, or remove her signature. The signature got covered up in my painting, and I was (and at this point have) placed her signature back. Go check out the galler/finished work section to see.