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begger4mcgregor — Bleach 87 - Life
Published: 2006-09-14 10:42:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 11438; Favourites: 375; Downloads: 25
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#87 - Life. Even more of a stretch than "Insides" prompt wise. My problem is that I draw a picture and then try to fit it to a prompt, which kind of defeats the purpose I suppose... oh well
I settled on "Life" because he's walking around in the living world, in the middle of a city full of life. I then made up even more deep sappy reasons why the prompt would work, but I won't burden you with them.I made this because I was playing around with some tutorials by (AMAZING artist btw) on how to make a real photo into a manga like background, and it sounded like fun. I put this in digital art because most of it was done on PS (like the toning). But this was inked by hand. And yes, I know it's kind of balanced oddly, but I like it for some reason.
Drawn in pencil, inked with Sakura micron pens, toning in Adobe PS 7
A bit of manga used as ref. The background photo I found somewhere on Google image search.
Edit: Sorry all, had to fix something that was driving me crazy.
Edit the 2nd: Oh man I am so honored, did a tribute to this picture with Rukia. It's awesome, go check it out! [link]
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I like the flavor of this picture!
The realistic background is unique to me. It let's Hitsugaya seem more realistic.
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You know, I like the way Hitsugaya looks here better than I do in the manga/anime. 
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Your line art is stunning, I need to start lining in traditional again
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By far my favorite Hitsugaya pic yet! I love his clothes and they remind me alot of my brother's when he was in Sweden XDD
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Thank you, I think it's my favorite too actually 
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XDD Same here. Well, I don't think I'd be bold enough to wear them, but eh..
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *drools* i am hitsugaya-kun's fiance' ut ive never seen any pictures like this before! AUTOMATIC FAV!
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Damn Hitsugaya always looks angry lolz BAD ASS XD
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My, isn't he looking grumpy.
... Wait, he's always looking grumpy.
So anyway, awesome pic!
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Very awesome lineart and shading!!
I love all of your prompts done so far! (I'm just too tired to fav them all in one night x.x)
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Thank you
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hey i love this pic so much im going to make a remake of it with rukia in it...you dont mind do you?
I've had rukia pics in lying in my comp and i had no idea what i should do with them and then I saw "Life," and also the fact that you were just so nice i had to tribute a picture to you!
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I don't mind at all 
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i think its great that you tell people how you do your artwork...this is a community to learn and i hate it when people are snotty lol
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Thanks. I agree, I hate it when people get snobby and possessive about a technique or something. It's stupid. I'm still learning from others to help me experiment with my own art, and I'm happy to help others
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Nah, i think you explain it very clearly! All i think what makes you think that you dont is that the terms you use might not be familiar to people who are just starting out...it happens all the time...i understand your explainations just fine!
basically those shortcut photoshop books i found at the library were semi-god haha
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You can press the "P" to get pen tool?!?! See I can explain how I do my pictures, but I don't know all these nifty shortcuts like the hotkeys and whatnot. I need to get a hold of one of those books....
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haha yeah they save you lots of time rather than to look to the screen to press an icon
ill give you the most useful ones i use.....
"H" is for the Hand tool so that you can move your pics around flawlessly...or you can just hold "spacebar" down
"B" is brush/pencil
"E" is eraser
"V" is the move tool (the dark arrow to move the actual pics in the canvas not the hand to move the canvas around the screen)
"M" is the marquee tool (crop tool selection)
"L" is the lasso....so helpful when you are using the wand...("W")
and i think "X" is to change the colors between the foreground color and the background color
those are just the simple ones...theres an official 4 page listing of all the shortcuts here in this site...just click on the name and select "Open" or "Save"
[link]
oooo! "ctrl E" is merge layers!
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haha nice nice! i used his tutorial for my webcomic once..xD
and btw..how do you make your lines look soft..? or your coloring...?
they just look so soft D:! and i wanan learn ;___;
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The lines were done using Sakura mircon inking pens (mostly 0.05 if I remember correctly). I scanned in the line art, and then using Adobe Photoshop 7 I copied the line art and pasted it on a new canvas so I had a layer under it for color. So now I have a "background" layer and "layer 1" with line art. I then copied the line art again and pasted it on top of "layer 1". This new line art layer is now "layer 2". I selected "layer 2" and went to layer properties and changed it to "multiply". Change "layer 1" to multiply as well. Select "layer 2" and go to the top menus and select Filter>Blur>Gausen blur. Blur "layer 2" about 1-3 pixels. Double click on "layer 2" and change the opacity to your liking. When you are done you should have your original line art and a layer of line art over it making the edges softer. To color I used patterns that I found on the internet (I don't remember where, I'm sorry). When you find a picture you think would make a good pattern, open it and go to Edit>Define Pattern (I think, I don't have PS on this computer so I'm telling you from memory 
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nevermind i got it :3
thanks!
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i kinda get it..yet im still confused...
i need to try this on my own when i get to scan a nice inked drawing...
but my scanners brokenn..so ill test it out later...
and im really glad you taught me this, no one does a thorough explanation on how to do these kind of things...thanks for being really kind :3
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omg amazing definate fave!
utr sooo ultra awsome
~ICY!~
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Thank you
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This is really well done.
I don't know what it is, but the Shinigami characters from "Bleach" just look so cool in normal human clothes.
I really like the mixture with the photo. It's a nice blend.
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Thank you
I agree. Kubo Tite always draws the Shinigami looking so badass and hot in normal clothes. That man is truly a genius
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Sweet, I love how bitter and resentful he looks while in the real world! haha! to this I say it is SWEEET!!!
It must be quite hard to make the blend between Anime and a real life photograph! Cool combination though.
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It was all thanks to the tutorial. Good times were had by all, except maybe Hitsu, who looks quite grouchy at the whole affair. This is randomly my favorite picture in my gallery methinks
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pero que bonito hitsugayaaaaaaaaaa *------*
nicee nice niceee
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Gracias
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Thank you. This is one of the first times I'm actually happy with my inking
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