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Published: 2009-01-16 18:43:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1399; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 31
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REFERENCE: [link]Daily Doodle 1) 16.01.09
I have such a hard time choosing categories
I always leave that to the end, and i end up with an error
Why
Because i forget to write the category 
OK, so i went as usual and visited this person here (yeah, i go on a daily basis)
And in her scraps i saw her version of this scarabaeus. (again..b..but this time something attracted me more than usual) I really liked the colours and the stock image, and i decided to give it a try.
I had to reinstall photoshop and redo the settings, brushes, short cuts and all so i made this in the process.
Plus i got used to my new painting style
GO SEE ยขmynti 's VERSION TOO --> [link] <-- IT'S A MUST
I'm not even close to her smoothness and strong strokes , but i can dream, can't i
Hope you like
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ps. I wanted to add a drop shadow but it's complicated...i did all this on one layer, so there was some white paint changing the opacity of the shadow
But it's my first time doing everything on one layer, so i won't punish myself for that
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haha
that's cuzz you're a lazy bum
you could do it, 
if it's you...yeah...but lose the bum part
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I'm only lazy when it comes to art... I get distracted by other things wayyy too easily haha!
So you want me to go assless? How am I gonna sit??
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hahaha 
just love the laziness from it
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I don't like standing all the time!
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iie XD i just said don't loze the ass
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Alright, I'll do my best!
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doodle? They're all awesome! I actually like the texture you got to it, it actually looks like a bug!
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speedy if you don't like the doodle name
hehe 
is it bugging you
well i think you should see the step-by-step
the proportion was totally off
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That's some very good practice though 
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why thank you
i love shiny things
so i'll be making more
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and i hope you can get your daily doodle done
i'll be motivating you to keep them coming
well it's hard not to be addicted to shininess when you're a digital painter...it's so much fun adding those little dots
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And yay, thank you
Why don't you join us too? It's wonderful practice
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you meant the daily doodling
ps. i almost wrote DD witch is daily deviation and not daily doodle
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Don't hope, just keep up
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* sorry...i added and unneccesary plz to it and it became 
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Hey there
Also, building base colors first and then details over it will allow for a faster overall method. here's an animation of another of my bugs.. [link]
Also, working on a few layers is best if you want to add drop shadows.. let the background layer be a solid fill, put the bug on a new layer, and the shadow on a layer under the bug, not on the background. If you put the shadow layer to "multiply", it will darken the area under the bug, no matter what background color you've got.
Mostly keep drawing, it will help most of all
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ooh you read that in the comment too
thank you so much
ooh a hard round one? i usually work with the chalk one
and witn no shape dynamics, just other dynamics
i normally do that
thanks for reminding me though
and will do
lets see how it looks next time
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I work with the hard round brush as well - only changes I make to it (other than opacity set for pen pressure and size too) is to make spacing 1% and the hardness 95% so it's not a harsh line
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you're stalking us i see
well i just finishes my latest
so...do you use shape dynamics too? or only other dynamics; i use both right now
and i experimented with the spacing and hardness, but on the hard brush i let it at 100% hardness cuzz.. the tabled dose that anyways
with the chalk one instead, i give it a 5-25% spacing, +88% opacity and 95%flow
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you think so
and btw...you didn't answer "so...do you use shape dynamics too? or only other dynamics; i use both right now"
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Oh oops
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that's all right dear
ooh?! you don't use other dynamics?!
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as someone who doesn't like bugs and beetles too much 
it's very pretty and shiny~!
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hehe
it's shiny dear
thanks for looking at the reference too
those extra legs were a problem 
my luck was that i sketched a fly some time ago
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Fantastic! I really love the sketchy feel to the brush strokes and your colors are fantastic! Keep up the fine work
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ooh so you call it sketchy..hmm..thanks!
no complains i guess
and will do
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A better word might be "painterly" and it is a compliment. I like it
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painterly..hmm...interesting word choice
would you mind taking a look at another one?
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I like this one
keep up the spirit!
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he could use a lot more smoothing and retouching but i want to go as speedy as possible, on one layer, and without ctrl+z
about the colours...i want to try some new more colourful combinations so you can expect more like this one
thanks!
you bet i will
you too
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oh one layer...i see,then it must've not been easy.Previously i did an "object study" on one layer and the outlines were fuzzy >.< really fuzzy
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i actually didn't notice till i got to the details part
hmm....did you use an airbrushy brush? or perhaps you gave it to many strokes
it happened to me too
here's a good example [link]
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i hardly use the airbrush cause i like a good hard one,but i might have use the smudge tool too much.Also i was quite obsessed with blending in the colors that it became too soft.Before this i also didnt know there was an effective clean up process where u can eyedrop from the background and paint over the edges to make things pop out a bit more
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good for you!
i use the airbrush..brush only when i want to get a glow effect ^^
ooh 
you don't make them pop up by using the background tone
but yeah! if you want to blend them really good eyedrop like mad
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thanks
good to hear from you again
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thanks
you can expect more of these
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Nice work with this!! and woow thanks for that page, you know more pages for stock? oO''
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