aaah evening

[balaa]

To everyone that has imed me and hasnt gotten a responce in a few days, I'm sorry but I take tuesday and weds off every week to spend with my fiance since they are his days off. Though all we ever seem to do is run errands XD yay.

Anyway mowed the lawn and went to prune the hedges and a spider bit me. Its all swollen, tingly and aches..and with my luck its my drawing hand. I'll probably force myself to work anyway XD.

Heres an update of the cheetah. Humm Im still working on revamping the chests somehow...though this style seems to fit the cheetah nicely. The bg is being worked on but Im thinking of changing the colors and going with morning hues of blue instead of a sunset feel.



Also did a few jag and tiger sketches...just randomly...will try to scan em in tomorrow. Im studying tiger stripes a little more to get a better idea for pattern.

Thanks to everyone that left me a comment in the last entry, I am sorry I could not respond to all..please know that I read and appreciate every comment ^_^!

Comments

[shahila.livejournal.com]

I actually hate to ask this, but lately I've been trying to color in different ways.. and I've always loved the way you do shading/lighting.. would it be too much to ask how do you make the lighting, for example, on the lower part of the forelegs (before the paws)? I'm totally curious.... and I feel like such an idiot asking, but hey.. x.x;

[xxbalaaxx.livejournal.com]

Oh well lesse if I can explain it. Well first I have a seperate layer for the outlines and a seperate for all the colors, save the spots. I duplicate the color and line layers and merge the copies and then lock the transparancy and flood fill with the color I want..in this case a daaark maroon/red. The trick to gradiant shading is really the lasso tool. You unlock the transparancy and using the lasso tool select areas of the shading. Then using a big soft eraser brush set to an opacity of 8-15 percent I erase selectively within the lassoed area until you achive that gradiated look. Really the only way to develop your own way of doing it is to play with it. Feel free to study my pics and if you want I can make a pic of just the shading for you so you see how I do it. OH and for the shaded layer, usually I have it set to about 35 percent opacity. I don't suggest to study anyone elses work..seeing as these days unfortunately people, at least in the tlkish group, seem protective over their individual stylistic flairs. Which I suppose is fine, but like I said..feel free to study mine and kinda start developing your own personal techniques...after all we learn first from observing then doing! Im still refining it and trying new stuff for highlights etc.

Hope that helps some though ^___^