metamorphosisby *Waterdroplet-s

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I completely changed hair shading method for this one. My previous ones looked like a blob instead of wavy ones. I realized it after I created sign.

It's still soft cell shading, but it took me one night to learn how to use pen tools in Photoshop. I used my favorite main character from my manga (Hisen) since I knew that I wouldn't do a sloppy job if it's that character. I would make sure that he looks good in illustrations

Method I used before:
eraser (soft round brush with different opacity)
soft round brush
smudge

Method I used for this shading:
pen tool
gradient tool
clipping mask
spray paint with hard round brush
smudge

Pen tool took the longest to learn. Other than digital water color on clothes, everything else for coloring was done in Photoshop. I didn't put too much bright colors for this character to match with the vector shapes.

Inspirations:
- Works of other DA deviants who used soft cell shading (made me realize that my past method needed a correction)
- How-to-do-soft-shading-for-dummies-kinda-book
- Hinata Masuda (CG artist) who does cool photomanipulation of models in magazines
- a photo I saw in Tokyo Modern Art Museum I saw yesterday

(a red and black tent)
- pen tool tutorial ([link])

Softwares Used:
Photoshop CS2
Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Corel Painter X

Time it took:
3 nights

p.s.
2/17/09
Edited dots in the background

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