My journey to improvement...

[Kirtaro]

[Starting Audio journal entry 001]
[Unknown User]
[Security Alert has been issued]

"I have set enough explosive ordnance around this facility to vaporize it and anything within 20 square miles of here. To anyone receiving this message, leave the area immediately, do not attempt to look for any survivors or salvage. there will be none. All who go searching afterwards will die of radiation poisoning. you have been warned."

[Leeward]

Wicked!

[Kirtaro]

Well here is my attempt at trying to paint and shade it myself. I think the paint went quite well but the shading is kicking my ass.

Well this image is of my sona.
Name: Kirtaro
Species: Lion/sabertooth Hybrid
Time of image: Post Escape from Atlas Tech Labs.
Apparel: Damaged armor and clothing scraped together after the blast.

Edit: i know the apparel doesn't actually look damaged. just know that there is a reason for that and its supposed to be like that.

[Leeward]

Very nice! Would you like me to try my hand at shading it?

[Kirtaro]

If you want to sure.
Personally i'd love to see how you would shade it. then i can compare it with my own and see how badly i screwed up or how close i came to success

[Leeward]

Awesome, just e-mail me the gimp file and I'll have a bash at it in the morning.

[Kirtaro]

ok sure, uhm just a warning, i might have screwed up a little bit with what goes on what layer... haha i have most of it correct. like the details, color and line art are separate.... but i kinda did one or two lines of shading on the line art layer *facepalm*

i used the magic wand tool, its like the lasso but instead of you drawing the lines yourself, it follows the darkest lines to create a border. worked brilliantly with the line art. one click and i have the entire hair selected perfectly but once or twice i forgot the switch back to the shading layer -_-

i dont think there are too many. it might just be the one? left hair shade falling on face. (right hand side from our perspective)

Edit: i can fix it. 1 pixel sized eraser? i've done it a few times . fixing mistakes with the very tiny eraser i mean

should i fix it before i send it to you or will you be ok at fixing it?

Edit 2.0: never mind i fixed it now the layers are all perfect in the content they hold. i'll send the GIMP File

[Kirtaro]

Shading and some fine detail addition by Leeward

[Ivic_Wulfe]

ooooh! That looks epic!