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Nothing to do, warm afternoon by `fox-orian:iconfox-orian:

Categories Digital Art > Paintings & Airbrushing > Illustrations > Conceptual

©2009 `fox-orian
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Just a fun little slice of life picture I decided to do on and off for the past day.

I wanted to try a full semi speed-painted scene WITHOUT using shift constraints or a ruler on my Cintiq. So I had at the picture fully freehand. I like the looser look this has compared to the exactness some of my other work has. Maia's just kinda plopped into the picture pretty lazily. I wasn't focusing on her so much, I was more interested in finishing this location hahah.

Hope you enjoy this new kind of picture from me :)

Little fact: this location was inspired by an alley I live near.
[link]
Right there in the middle!

PROCESS SHOTS:
[link] - Initial thumbnail
[link] - Cleaned up thumbnail
[link] - Early color

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=Yoshitomisigns May 11, 2009, 8:10:43 PM
nice 1 , seems like its warm ^^
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~aphaits May 11, 2009, 8:12:29 PM
hey that's an interesting tidbit,
do people actually use real rulers on a cintiq? :P

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Aphaits, with a ph and ts, i included.
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`fox-orian May 11, 2009, 8:13:29 PM
sure you can. Any NON-METAL ruler works great on a cintiq. Transparent graphing rulers work best.
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~Recca-sama May 11, 2009, 8:15:20 PM
Heh, it does look a little like a few back alleys I've seen in Boston. Very nice!
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~aphaits May 11, 2009, 8:18:07 PM
ahaha, never used a cintiq before, just started using my old wacom3 again :P
they're a bit slippery tho, i miss the scratching feeling of paper with pencil.

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Aphaits, with a ph and ts, i included.
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~Doubleagent-Bob May 11, 2009, 8:26:00 PM
That was all free hand? Some of the objects (Smoke stacks, and stairs) seem pretty damn straight!

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Test
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`alexds1 May 11, 2009, 8:26:04 PM
I love this so much. I feel like this scene actually exists somewhere. So you just used an inkpen-y kind of brush and inked it freehand on the cintiq? It gives it a great quality.
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`fox-orian May 11, 2009, 8:26:34 PM
Did you know Wacom sells tips for their pens that are made of a compressed felt?

Those tips increase friction and provide a feeling that you're drawing on paper.

Similarly, you can also tape a piece of paper over your wacom surface and just draw on top of that. I know some people that do that with heavy sketchbook papers so they last longer.
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`fox-orian May 11, 2009, 8:33:50 PM
Thats because I took my time on those details :) The drawing overall was still pretty quick, but I managed to get those lines pretty straight because I made the line THICK to start with, then used the eraser tool to straighten it up and thin it out. Yields a straight line, yet organic with flaws.
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`fox-orian May 11, 2009, 8:41:15 PM
It ALMOST does exist somewhere hahah
I had taken a couple photos of a location near my apartment that looks seriously almost exactly like this. I used them loosely as references for the scenery.
I used the "Variable Pen" brush for almost all of this [from my brush set]
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