SPEEDPAINTING CHALLENGE nr. 19

[Michael]

This week's ( and a half ) Challenge theme will be colouring lineart.

In last Challenge we voted for Xtreme's great line-art piece. There was quite a bit mix with it - almost everyone either didn't post what work he's voting on, or voted for different one... so with two votes won this character, that you can see below.

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/4176/3b0tu.jpg

The main idea for this challenge will be colouring, but also ... as you can see - the image is not cleaned, so also your task will be to clean it up - look in our own 3dtotal.com tutorials, there's one or two covering that. If not - I can post a small tut here.

Be creative, post your works forconstructive critics, remember to post time of making the work. Have fun.

GO!

[Xtreme™]

hi michael...maybe paint a new character *any new character what we want to make and paint them, could be intresting and can make our creativity more up and up than before (just a suggestion)....

ok friends good luck with the challenge!...

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[CHK]

hi michael...maybe paint a new character *any new character what we want to make and paint them, could be intresting and can make our creativity more up and up than before (just a suggestion)....

ok friends good luck with the challenge!...

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Congrat's X'treme!lol
I don't know if my style would fit into your style! But that's an idea!

[Xtreme™]

Congrat's X'treme!lol
I don't know if my style would fit into your style! But that's an idea!

thanks mate, hey congratulation to you too...
hehe... well if we not try, we dont know the result... good luck with the challenge mate :D...

michael, i want to ask something here... is it allowed if i make a new character for it *of course i'll paint them?...
and actually there's some idea that i want to show, but i still kinda busy here...dont have a time to make sample for it. *tommorow is the deadline, got some exhibition around campus :roll: really stress up *hit my head to the wall :wall:

heyaaa friends, where are you???... come on make the challenge alive and more challenges + fun!...

[Michael]

Well, my idea for this challenge is to go creative with colouring ONE lineart by many challenge participants. It was very frequent and very popular on other forums, like eatpoo... and it's really challenging to colour the character differently than other participants.

But if you want to make a new character - you can do that. :hmm: ;) But make it like we did - first the lineart, then colouring.

[Androgs]

Congrats ,Xtreme.:) I think this 19th challenge is really fun. hope I can make my contribute;). good luck all!!

[NeonLeopard]

Wow! Nice lineart. I think i'll get my ass in gear and have a go 3at this one this week :D

[Luna]

This week I will join you guys! Congratulations Xtreme! It will be fun to see so many variations of one character...

[Xtreme™]

got it michael :D...

:dance: thanks everyone :D, lets we paint the character guys.... good luck!...

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[Xtreme™]

yeaa :dance:... at last i've got a time to work with my 2d's ....
ok let's see what i can do with digi paintings :roll:, i'm really stuck with these digi paint :xx:, ok guys once again i want to say "good luck with the challenge, and have fun!"...

michael post the tut's here...

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[Michael]

OK, about cleaning the lineart : here (http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/photoshop/levels_tutorial/levels.asp)

The next step in the djusting the lineat would be to select the white are with magic wand, right click/similiar, then right click/select inverse, layer via cut.... and you have nice and clean lineart that is separated from the white background and you can easily paint beneath it.


Any problems - just write.

[Xtreme™]

ok heres my first entry, careful he's hot an hot aura come out from the body! :crazy: ...
any suggestion, advice and c&c are really appreciated. well hope you like it :roll:...

michael, thanks for the tut's :D

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software : photoshop 7
cleaning up + paint : 2 - 3 hour

[Michael]

Looking good :) almost like Torch from Fantastic Four... or whatever his name was ;), it was a looong time ago.

Why there are so FEW entries? Don't be affraid of colour, guys!!!! :D

[kenkuru]

i'll join you later on this weeks challenge. Just bought myself a wacom, as i said i would, and need the practice for it :)
nice Xtreme ;)

cheers ppl and let's do some colors shall we :D

[CHK]

Wow! X'trem..ly hot!! OUaahahahah!! Just jokking!!
Here is my contribution! Feel his power!!!!!!lol

[Xtreme™]

thanks michael & kenkuru :D,
kenkuru, cant wait to see yours mate:D

hehehe...hot damn that's awsome chk! *no kidding... your paint make i want to paint it again...

ok people keep them coming, yihaawww...let see what else i can do
good luck with the colours guys....

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[3dmonkey]

one quick and easy way i've learned to get my lineart ready to color is to just copy the layer and put it above the color as a multiply layer in photoshop. you still might have to play with the contrast a bit, but this gets you the nice clean black outline over the color.

[David Ciprian]

I love this: Limit for this filetype is 100.0 KB. Your file is 103.0 KB.

Anyway, here's my contribution. At some point i becamed really tired and bored so there are details that look like crap, sorry. About 2 h worktime

[CHK]

Nice entry David Ciprian! It looks like you have put some kind of texture on him, at least at some part! It looks really nice!lol (why didn't I thought about that!....:~)

[David Ciprian]

10x
I dunno what seems textured at him. Only default tools used and motion blur.

[Xtreme™]

wow...that's totally awsome david :D... i like it so much... :D
well here's another from me. it took me about 3h...

cheers everyone :D...

[David Ciprian]

Whoa...that looks great!

..and 10x

[Xtreme™]

ok friends here another one from me....

cheers, and good luck :D....

[CHK]

Wow! Fantastic X'treme lol! Like the Icy one!!!

[Michael]

Great entries, guys!

More! There's still time for more! Come on, EVERYONE! :D

[Xtreme™]

hi michael happy easter days...

friends happy easter day :dance:....thank's chk, i like yours too mate :D...

[Androgs]

Happy easter to all of you:). here's my contribution, though its a bit unusual..but here's a lineart with painting style...hehe :drool: .done about one hour. All of you have a nice entries here;).

http://photobucket.com/albums/v143/Androgs/line_art.jpg

[Nappa]

Whole moe :D this is you guys are great i didnt know what the time limit was :hmm: so i took 20 mins with it but now i see 2-4hrs work :lurve: im going back home to go nuts lol hope you like it

[mimi01]

Nice entries guys!

Here's mine:

3 hours painting in Photoshop 5.5

[Michael]

Happy Earster, friends! Late, but honest :p :D

Good entries, all! One more day!... or should I say - 12 more hours... about. who's late - post it up!

[Nappa]

anyone clean there line art a different way other than the tutorail presented on the 3dtotals site? the way i did it i just grayscale it inverted and leveled it then invert back and convert it :smug:

[LittleFish]

Well, here's to a delayed entry... still got it in. This thing was suprisingly hard to color, you know? :roll: So yeah...

edit: took about 1.5 hr

[Xtreme™]

man! you all amazing!... wow! tottallyy fantastic with so many different style i never thinking before... now this is what i call creative... awsome entry friends :D.... *thumbs up

last entry from me hope it's not late....

done in 2 hour

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[mimi01]

Fantastic entries, guys! So many different stiles and ideas!

[Michael]

OK, guys, the deadline is upon us... so POST YOUR VOTES! :)


Thanks for participations all.

[Androgs]

First Turn:D!!
my vote :)
1. Littlefish
2. Extreme, I vote for the 3rd one;).
3. David Ciprian
happy voting;)!

[David Ciprian]

1.Extreme
2.Littlefish
3.Nappa

next...

[Xtreme™]

hi guys going to make some thumbnails again now.... i'll vote later after finish the thumbnails :D...

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edit, ok friends here are the thumbnail, remember to check them again of your submission/entry are inside the thumbnails!...

http://img221.exs.cx/img221/2444/thumbnails0yr.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

it's really hard to judge with amazing work like you guys, believe me...
hmmm...well i vote :

1. david ciprian:D
2. little fish:D
3. androgs :D

and... chk, mimi01, and nappa :D

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[mimi01]

Thanks a lot for the thumbnails, Xtreme...

My votes:

1. Nappa
2. CHK
3. Little Fish

Only because I have to choose 3 of them. 'Cause I think all variations look fantastic!

[LittleFish]

1. Xtreme - the blue one - good sense of outward motion, kinda helps visually explain the cloth flying off... biggest crit I can say is, choose a light source!

2. Androgs - bright colors, and ummm... oh whatever - the only "sketchy" one actually (not important), but I just liked the colors and lighting.

3. Mimi - nice work of the smudge tool. Although I'm not too fond of the color scheme, each part of the image came out really nice, and together, they're still pretty good. Looking again, that is nice! You redefined some of his image (for the better)!

CHK - I liked how you gave him more skin and less bandages, and how you were able to pull that off. The colors are pretty good. Also of importance is that you separated it into foreground and middleground (and of course the background is not really in the distance on any of these).

David Ciprian - nice colors and painting. I especially liked the rubble, with its shading and whatnot, it even has those little highlights at the edges. I'm just not too fond of the background - the circles tend to draw the eye, and almost take away from the motion of the background.

Nappa - welcome to the challenges. The two main things that detract from the overall quality of the image both relate to noise - the motion blurred noise background, and the noise in the foreground on the rubble. The shading of the character is good, but not contrasting enough (you'd be suprised what deep shadows and little specualr highlights can do, too), and also because much of the character is gray, it doesn't "pop out" well enough from its gray background. Also the rubble seems a little incongrous from the rest of the image, as it's not connected with the appearance of motion, or as shown well in CHK's, the colors just cover up the rubble and it doesn't even have a "life" of its own. Oh, and the red bricks... we probably almost all started out with red bricks, but by the third color blocking, I figured that it would detract too much from the final image. Good entry though.

Xtreme - to comment on the rest of your images... The fire and ice ones were nice, but with the fire one, it seemed to not have enough contrast. Everything was monochromatic, but it seemed odd not to have shadows when you have so many light sources (I know, I know, it wouldn't, but oh well).

On the third one (bloodied bandages), the motion blur effect on the rubble looks really nice - the lines in the background may be a little bit skinny though. The lighting (specular especially) came out well, but there's still no clear light source.

On your last painting, it looks a bit foggy (a bit gray, and reduced contrast from the high amount of blur). Also, I had debated over whether to blur the lineart too, but decided against it, in order to keep the image clear... This image has a really nice effect, but the shapes have to be picked out, they are not readily apparent. And everything else is cool. Oh, and on all of your paintings the wispy smoke/fire/whatever came out really nice.

[CHK]

Thanks for the Thumbnail X'treme! This thumnail thing is a great initiative in the Speed Painting challenge!lol. Here is my vote:

1-David Ciprian: Pleasing to look at and subtile details that we have to guess from the dark areas. As Little fish mentioned, the light balls in the background could have been less prominent ;).

2-Androgs: As usual, Nice lighting and nice color scheme,...How do you do that?

3-Little fish: Nice color scheme also. Maybe more variant in the color of the hero would have given more interest!?. Something is missing and thus doesn't give enough energy coming out from the hero (or vilain). Maybe he is at the end of his battle?!...Lol

Nappa: Excellent choice for the atmosphere, the rainy day! However maybe the light on the hero is too bright compared to your given daylight!;)
Mimi: Nice variant for the background but I don't feel comfortable with the green color mixing with red. Maybe matter of taste!?
X'treme: Very hard worker! So many entries!!lol. I prefer the ****** bandage one because it has more color variants. The Third one kind of spoils the line art but I understand that you wanted to give a strong effect feeling!

Anyway, all good job!!

[Nappa]

well as i said i took like 20 mins on it i didnt know if he was evil or good i dont know who made the picture plus i thing the red hair and bricks pull you attention to the center of the page and rain makes mist when it hits something hard that why the blur is there. anyway

1.David Ciprian i like the lighting the shadows seem to be swallowing everything gave off evil feeling to me.

2. Xtreme™ just found out you made that pic what i really like is the ones you did in mono coloring fav is the hot looking one

3.Nappa because he did it in 20min thats fastser then what most people post and it is a speed comp :D

[Androgs]

Nice lighting and nice color scheme,...How do you do that?


Thanks, CHK.:)you meant the technique? I define the light source from bottom and paint rim light on hand, leg, body, head..etc. In the end, I adjust the level to gain contrast.;)

[Xtreme™]

hi everyone, i'm happy to help with thumbnail... hope everyone get easly to judge it :D

thanks little fish for the crits, yep you know my biggest weakness "light source :crazy: "...well i still learning around with the shade again... thanks mate,

thanks for the c&c chk and nappa :D, next time i'll try make it better :D...

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[Nappa]

Xtreme™ love the thumbnails but everytime i click on it i go to imageshack any reason for that?

[Xtreme™]

yes, it's image storage site... because in forum only can handle 100Kb for maximum capacity -image/pic. i can't attach them from forum, that's why i use imageshack for the thumbnails :D...

[spidermax]

Am i late????This is my work after 1 hour... ;P

[Michael]

Congratulations to the winnerS :D

1.Xtreme, David Ciprian - 10 points DRAW
2.LlittleFish - 7 points
3.Androgs - 5 points


Nappa - 4 points - we don't vote for ourselves :p
Chk - 2 points
Mimi - 1 point

continue to the next challenge. :D

spidermax - yes, you are late unfortunatelly :( But you are most welcome to participate in our next challenge :)

[LittleFish]

woohoo :dance:

congrats to Xtreme and David - power and motion respectively! :cool:

(And on the page of irrelevancy, I should have 9 points...)

[David Ciprian]

Draw?! lol..sorry xtreme for getting in your way to victory

Congrats everyone!...and thanks ;)

[Nappa]

Nappa - 4 points - we don't vote for ourselves :p


i know but you be suprised how may people lose by one vote :smug:

[Xtreme™]

wow...man i don't have any words how to say my happy is, even with visual i can't draw it how happy i'm :dance:! especially with you guys, somehow my stress gone!....

hope this is ok, only this what i can do for your friends, you all the best!....

david ciprian hehe... i took yer pic for this image mate :D...

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edit the pic

[David Ciprian]

Nice "Max Payne" style used there ;) no problem with using my pic, mate

but I do belive u wanted to write "challenges", not "challenge's" :p

[Xtreme™]

haha yeah...sorry my bad english :D...
erghh... :wall: i should take an english course too!

[Androgs]

congrats for the first place, Xtreme:).congrats for everyone! let us move to the next one ;)!!

[Xtreme™]

hey thanks androgs :D,...man your painting technique are totally amazing *include your 3d's skills!...

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[Androgs]

The same as you, Xtreme:). maju artis2 indo..hehe:D!!