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Published: 2011-11-18 17:44:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1145; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 25
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Description A sketch of Princess Jasmine I made a work while I was doodling, and then figured it might be good enough to color. It was supposed to be an exercise in how fast I could be, but then I spent like an hour tweaking minor details... I guess that's just how I roll...

I made her kind of darker skinned than I see in a lot of pics. I figured she should be darker skinned than she is, but Disney has a way of whitening things up... I thought of adjusting it to make her look more like the official Disney art in that regard, but I like the way this looks, plus if she's standing outside at sunset everything should look darker, because of the low level of lighting.

Well, anyway, for being a sketch I probably put way to much time into it, but let me know what you think, especially if you have any feedback that might help me improve.
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Comments: 9

nevs89 [2011-11-21 23:41:22 +0000 UTC]

This is so ace! Brilliant work! Bravo!

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FrankieAlton In reply to nevs89 [2011-11-22 00:53:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2011-11-19 13:03:37 +0000 UTC]

Beatfuil one of Jasmine here

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FrankieAlton In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2011-11-19 15:41:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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MudgetMakes [2011-11-19 05:19:21 +0000 UTC]

Dude! Like WHOA This is really cool - I really like the background. I know it's not super detailed but it's effective and doesn't detract from the picture. Oh man, I'm feeling totally insecure about my skillz now. Can you teach me how you did the background? And how did you do the colour blending so it's like cel shading but looks gradiated? Was this using the pen tool? I don't get how you use it so simply. I suck at using it!

And I agree, she would be darker skinned. And your reasoning makes perfect sense

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FrankieAlton In reply to MudgetMakes [2011-11-19 16:06:03 +0000 UTC]

The background was pretty simple. I used a blue to pink gradient for the background layer. Then on a layer over that I made a strip of yellow-y orange at the horizon and used the Motion Blur tool to blend it up to give the illusion of the sun fading. Then on a layer over that I used some cloud brushes with a pink color. I'm pretty sure these are the cloud brushes I used: [link] You just need to download them, then move them to the appropriate folder on your computer and they should work just fine.

I did do the shading with the pen tool. Then after I had the shadows where I wanted them to be I used a combo of Motion Blur and Gaussian Blur to soften them to how I wanted it to look. Also I think I used the brush and smudge tools on smaller areas like the jewelry and eyes and lips.

Anyway, hope that helps.

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chesney [2011-11-18 22:39:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh ho HO! Look at you, getting into doing actual backgrounds! This is a great start, buddy! And I agree, she does look better darker, for both the reason of "that's how she would be!" and the fact that yes, things look like that at sunset. It's a nice combination and works really well! Keep doing the Disneh!

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FrankieAlton In reply to chesney [2011-11-19 02:03:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comments, dude! A few days before I started coloring this I had been reading a tutorial that said that you should make your background first, that way you can make sure that the colors you pick for the character look good against the background. I realized that has been my problem all along. I color the character first then when I try to add in a background I can't make it look right. So I started coloring this way I normally do, adding in base colors to Jasmine, then I remembered those words of wisdom so I stopped and made the background. I'm glad I did too, cause the color I was originally gonna use for her skin would have looked awful! D: Also I guess getting the background out of the way first, is kinda like eating your vegetables first. Get the boring part out of the way so you can move on to the good stuff!

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chesney In reply to FrankieAlton [2011-11-19 16:30:41 +0000 UTC]

That's an interesting idea and it looked like it worked here. I'll keep that in mind myself! I agree, it IS like eating your vegetables first... if you had 4 bowls of vegetables, that is. Backgrounds take for-EVER to do, it feels like, so the vegetables seem enless.

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