frankwyte81 In reply to Dipuc4Life [2018-06-26 19:40:35 +0000 UTC]

I appreciate it.

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frankwyte81 In reply to ladycosmo2004 [2017-03-04 07:00:41 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry! I got a baby in the house and I don't have much free time to make videos. If and when the opportunity comes, I will create more content on YouTube.

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frankwyte81 In reply to chaoticmind [2016-11-27 18:12:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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frankwyte81 In reply to stargateatl [2016-05-25 08:40:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks bud!

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frankwyte81 In reply to Dipuc4Life [2016-05-25 08:41:22 +0000 UTC]

I appreciate, my birthday was pretty underwhelming this year, lol. Thanks for the wishes though.

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Dipuc4Life In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-26 04:41:27 +0000 UTC]

What ... no one threw you a stripper party!? I just think it's awesome that you are here.

PS - Here have one  

... I'll do better next year and actually send you a stripper 

... Mileage may vary

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frankwyte81 In reply to Dipuc4Life [2016-05-28 03:49:03 +0000 UTC]

Well, I appreciate the balloons and the stripper for next year in advance, lol (can't wait)!!!

I'm glad to be here and be back as well, I'm trying to get back in my groove. I'm plan on having some work posted next, that's the plan for now!

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-25 08:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-25 18:44:47 +0000 UTC]

So how was it spent Sifu Frank--with Friends and Family or All Alone?

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-25 20:51:42 +0000 UTC]

I was sick, so I was in the bed on my birthday and two days after, lol. But the family made it up to me, so it eventually turned out great!

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-25 20:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Damn that's horrible. Nothing worse than being sick when it's warm AND on your Birthday. Talk about a Double Whammy!!!!!!

But at least your Family made it up to you so it's Alllllllllllll To The Good Baby Bubba! :icogrin--plz:

By the way, you still making Video Tuts on Gradient Mesh Vectors? I can't even find your old blog that had Tutorials on this.

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-25 21:59:22 +0000 UTC]

I haven't done a video tut in years. We had a baby two years ago and my free time disappeared and the video tuts got pushed to the side. My artwork kinda fell to side as well, I worked on a few pieces, but I never posted them here. So between work and hobby art, I really didn't have time. I'll try to get back to making tuts one of these days, but I'll start posting artwork sometime next week, that's the plan. As for my old blog, I think one of those tuts is in my scraps section.

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-26 06:35:25 +0000 UTC]

Ahhhh Fatherhood slowed things down. I overstand even though I don't have kids. Congrats on the Son/Daughter.

I do have a question about the Hair--you don't Gradient Mesh that do you? I tried before and it came out pretty horrible.

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-28 06:35:51 +0000 UTC]

I appreciate it and it's a girl.

Creating hair can be easy or one the hardest parts of your mesh. On a normal basis, I don't mesh the hair, it depends though. If the hair is basic (pulled back in a ponytail, something simple), mesh it. But it's normally never that simple, lol.

For the harder hairstyles, I use the pen tool to trace the shape of the hair and fill that shape with darkest color hair on the head, this will be your base layer for your hair. From there, I add brush strokes to fill in the highlight hairs where needed. I get my hair brushes off of Deviantart too. Go to vector resources and type in "hair brush." I use a Wacom tablet and this helps me control the neatness of the hair strokes. I hope this helps you. Good luck Dwayne, I'm here if you need me.

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-28 20:17:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the Vote of Confidence on that. I've gotten better with how to control the Pen tool in regards to adjusting the Stroke. Last time I worked on it I finally figured that out so now my edges of the Penstroke don't look sloppy anymore, they come to a sharp point. I was assuming to just use Penstrokes on the Hair but if you say that Brushes work best I'll probably try that out, I've always wondered what they were good for.

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-28 20:36:13 +0000 UTC]

One more thing, when you use the brushes, adjust the opacity. Go between 70% for darker strokes and 30% for lighter strokes, switch between the two opacities. Put your darker hair strokes on one layer and your lighter strokes on the layer above the darker strokes, just an idea.

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-29 18:57:49 +0000 UTC]

Ahhhhh, sounds like the Adjustment combos I use when I do Vexels on Ps. Righteous!

Are these Brushes for Ps or Ai, the Hair Brushes?

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-05-29 19:11:53 +0000 UTC]

The brushes are for Ai.

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-06-06 22:15:34 +0000 UTC]

I assume I can find them here in dA right? As many Brushes as there are on here...........

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-06-06 22:35:22 +0000 UTC]

I use most of these, download them and add them in illustrator (google, how to add brushes in illustrator if you don't know)...
three here: www.deviantart.com/art/Hair-St…
one here: www.deviantart.com/art/Blonde-…

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boot-cheese-3000 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-06-07 20:09:58 +0000 UTC]

Man I almost forgot about Jessica! Her work is the ULTIMATE!!!!!

Also forgot about Sharon! I LOVE their work and have been in their Galleries numerous times, I should've known already about their Brushes! Thanks for the links.

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frankwyte81 In reply to boot-cheese-3000 [2016-06-07 20:34:24 +0000 UTC]

No problem.

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frankwyte81 In reply to whendt [2016-05-23 08:34:11 +0000 UTC]

Working on some stuff now Kelley. What you been up to?

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whendt In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-07-07 18:50:30 +0000 UTC]

I'm doing a Gaming Chanel on YOUTUBE now 
www.youtube.com/channel/UC5SKQ…

And I'm working on some new kinds of art. I was thinking on doing
some more gradiant mesh drawing here soon.

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frankwyte81 In reply to whendt [2016-07-12 23:01:53 +0000 UTC]

Ok, that's cool. I'll check out your channel as well. Can't wait to see your mesh work too, stay in touch.

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whendt In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-07-13 17:45:16 +0000 UTC]

I will and thanks!

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frankwyte81 In reply to BelRhaza4017 [2016-05-25 08:41:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I appreciate it

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BelRhaza4017 In reply to frankwyte81 [2016-05-25 16:01:50 +0000 UTC]

U r welcome

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frankwyte81 In reply to seba6priest [2016-05-25 08:47:51 +0000 UTC]

You did some good work there. Work on your blending and smoothing out the skin, it will take your work to the next level. Keep practicing in those areas, but good work though.

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