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Usagisama — Youth in Trouble
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Published: 2012-11-15 05:30:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1922; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 0
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So I've had this song by the Presets, Youth in Trouble, set to repeat for pretty much the last few weeks (actually, not only that track, but the whole new album of theirs called Pacifica). Anyway, that track specifically inspired this image... not sure why it popped into my head, but it did... and so I drew it
I'm not totally happy with the colors though... I think I liked the B&W line work better. If you want to see the linework only version I posted it in my scraps here --> [link] . Still, it was fun to draw something
Hope you all enjoy it
Wacom Cintiq 12WX, Photoshop CS5
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The spacey neon effect around the patrol cars gives them added glammer, like they are shouting... it works well. The vanishing point connection of the background lines ties them thematically to her speed... very creative way to shape the buildings... it reminds me of the Bay Bridge, in fact. Shiny chop car light reflections off the fender... bringing you closer. The clarity of foreground freezes your reference point with her expression/emotion, a stilled instant in time... next move is gets and she could go any where with it.
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Next move is hers, I meant
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This is beautiful!
After half a year of saving I bought a Cintiq 12wx last week, after seeing this I'm so excited about the future possibilities, though I've got years of practice ahead of me if I'm ever gonna be this good!
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Heck yeah!! Congrats on picking up the Cintiq 12wx 
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I know, it was a monster price tag, definitely plan to get my money's worth out of it! I had to go for a Cintiq because I have dyspraxia, meaning my co-ordination is bad, I just can't work with regular tablets where gou have to look up at the computer. You're very welcome, and thank you very much for the encouragement, I'll do my best!
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my first guess was 'Miata' on this, or since it's Japan, 'Roadster'. Either way, this is cool!
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Thank you!
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If you'd just shade the B&W piece a little it would get this old fashioned criminal feeling xDD That would be more suitable I think ^^
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That could be cool, I might have to try and do an alternate version with a more flat/ old school color style
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You know like those old crime movies in black and white xD
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Oh, gotcha! Like black and white but shaded with grays?
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Yeah like that - like those Al Capone movies
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S2000?
Nice mate. Regards lines vs. colours... I think the colours make for a much more atmospheric piece, particularly with, as ~cddmanful noted, the dripping eyeliner. Of course the dark night and red around the police cars makes it much more intense and, I personally think, helps tell a story much better.
That said, the lines are probably the more dynamic picture with the lighter, sketchier feel. Perhaps a way to handle it would be to keep the linework, or even darken the background linework and then colour under it? Sort of Marvel Comics style?
Either way: love it.
Speaking of The Presets: digging "Ghosts" right now personally.
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Which, on second look: is sort of what you've done, it's just above the police cars the sketchiness is gone. Again though maybe; keep the lines in and colour in behind if you felt it looked better with those lines in, and then just pull some definition out of the flashes around the lights.
I dunno, it's been a long day
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Good eye sir!
I'm glad you liked the colors though, it does add more punch. Its always tricky trying to find the right balance of outline emphasis and color/shade emphasis. I've noticed in your own work you've really shifted away from hard lines which is really cool. I think for my own stuff I'm still somewhere in the middle
Also, Ghosts is an awesome track too... I relate to the lyrics of talking about foolish youthfulness and then becoming old an nostalgic hahaha. Feels like my life already
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Partly the roll hoops, partly the lockbox between the seats... and quite a lot that I know what you drive and am well aware how tempting it is to put your own car in this sort of picture
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Hahahaha, well said sir
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Thanks!
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...well... I hope it was a long chase
(...female drivers in action scenes are my greates passion 
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I don't know how this would have worked (for me) if you didn't color it! The color of her dripping eye-liner, the color of her hair, clothes, and car, the lights of the night and the chase....even the shininess mentioned below makes this work as an emotional scene that works....
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I'll post it up so you can see the line work by itself, I actually had to strip out a lot of sketchy lines for the coloring process, so I think thats where it makes it hard to imagine. That being said, I'm really glad to hear you like the coloring because it makes me feel like I made the right choice in doing it then
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You're welcome.....I can't wait to see what makes it work, as a lineart, too!
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Here ya go mi amigo
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Oh no indeed!
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I actually likes this allot, your use of color, shine and way the line strokes are added to make this dramatic view is just awesome!
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Thank you!
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