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Character Generation Help

Intro:
One thing I've noticed with my stories is I seem to have a lot of characters that look like they've been "recycled" from previous characters. I keep repeating myself. This "character generator" simply serves as a list of examples for character traits and appearance to help get your creative juices flowing. It's not supposed to serve as an automatic random character generator, but you can pick from the lists at random to get a rough idea for a more unique and interesting character.

I've tried to cover lots of different genres (fantasy, sci-fi, etc) in this, and made it so you can apply the generator to your own made-up race (so it's n

Tutorial.Okay, here it is! My Video Tutorial. It's not too long, around 30 minutes of time lapse with me chatting / trying to give advice / effing rambling! Hopefully I don't sound like too much of an idiot >_> The time lapse is of the painting that I continued to work on (through livestream). It's in HD so the quality is quite nice. The tutorial doesn't go through to the end of the painting. It just covers the way I paint, if you want to watch more of it, the rest of the painting is available to watch on demand through my Livestream channel. I'm not sure how helpful my attempt at a tutorial is, but hopefully it'll answer some of the questions I get!

p.s. I'm sorry I called you a dick Camtasia! I MEANT Cam Studio >___>
Any more questions? Formspring me !
Thanks for watching my LS too guys, I'll be doing more in the future.
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Neytiri Walkthroughby ~Raishuu

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So, I hope this works. I have no idea how to work with flash and dA (actually, I have no idea how to work with flash at all) so bear with me if it doesn't. Finger's crossed!

Anyways, here's a walkthrough of my Neytiri painting. (The original painting is here: [link] ) It's not very detailed since I didn't take that many screenshots (these are all I have) but I hope it helps someone nontheless.

Some basic things:
Try to see the shapes you want to draw/paint. Compare the fifth image to the later ones and see how the shapes I thought I saw differed from the ones that were actually there. I actually rotated the canvas and flipped it upside down so I wouldn't be distracted but what I thought I was seeing.

I'm used to that from my traditional work, but colour is something new for me. With this painting, I just put down the colour I thought would fit and then adjusted the brightness, hue and saturation to what I saw in the reference. I'm not 100% happy (the right part of the face is too dark for example) but that's okay. I'm still learning.

Don't be afraid to paint over stuff you've already done. When it doesn't look right, change it

Now to the hair...
I started with painting the whole area almost black, the darkest shade there was in the hair. Then I put down the basic shapes with a midtone. I set the Opacity on Pen Pressure (like almost all the time) so I could also paint some very faint shapes in the background. Then I went over the whole thing again with a smaller brush size and lighter colour, adding details and single strands of hair.
It takes a lot of time but it was actually fun since the hair was really messy and I could just scribble around in some places and it still looked good

If there's anything else you want to know, please ask, I'm always happy to answer questions

I hope this is helpful to someone out there

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=AuroraWienhold Apr 26, 2010 Professional General Artist

Wie hast du's eingestellt, dass nicht dieses automatische Video startet? Ich kämpfe gerade ein bisschen mit dem Programm und er startet immer beim ersten Bild mit einer Slideshow, die ich nicht komplett ausgestellt bekomme. Hab im Moment nur die Testversion, aber wenn nötig würde ich das Programm auch kaufen, damit es ohne Slideshow läuft (also nur zum Blättern so wie bei dir

).

Lieber Gruß
Charlie~

~Raishuu Aug 23, 2010

Tut mir Leid, dass weiß ich nicht mehr. Ich hab aber nichts gekauft, es sollte also irgendwie auch so gehen.
Ich hoffe einfach mal, dass du in der Zwischenzeit eine Lösung gefunden hast

=AuroraWienhold Sep 27, 2010 Professional General Artist

Macht ja nix, habe es leider nicht so eingestellt bekommen.
Aber ich versuche es jetzt direkt mit Flash.

~pumpernichol Feb 21, 2010

where can i find spatter brish 39 or a brush that will create a similar effect/texture?

~Raishuu Feb 21, 2010

It's one of Photoshop's regular brushes. Any brush that looks like the mark a real brush leaves when tipped on a surface should work

~pumpernichol Feb 20, 2010

how have you put that grid on top of the image with the measurements aroudn the edge. It'd be a great help as im a bit of a noob to PS

~Raishuu Feb 20, 2010

I have the grid saved in a seperate file and put it on all my references, whether I work digital or traditional.
There are thre ways to get guidelines. This one was custom made. I made a new document the size one of the squares of the grid should be. Then I drew a line along the right side of the square and one a long the bottom. Then I chose Edit -> Define Pattern... and named it Grid or something. Then I created a new document in A4, chose the Paintbucket, selected Pattern instead of Foreground and filled the canvas with the pattern. I saved that in a seperate file and just copy paste it whenever I neeed it.
Another way, which doesn't work with traditional stuff because it doesn't print, is to use View -> Show -> Grid. It's best when you're new to working with a grid because the grid size is really small.
Or you can select View -> Rulers and drag a Guide from the rulers onto your canvas. You can hide/unhide those by selecting View -> Show -> Guides. This is very helpful if you need just a little guideline and I would only recommend it for really difficult areas, not the whole image, since it can take a while to cover the whole canvas with guides