no ears?? LOL it seems you did alot on this wall!! i hope you win again tama-neko!! =D you've got my suport!!
great bg!! i'm faving!!
Artist Comment
my entry for W.A.R
Individual round One: theme Infatuation: versus Tama-Neko
the title:
The Adolescent Love Of Smoking
the story:
We were seventeen. We were the rebels of our time... fond of our music, our ideas of conquering the world, our desires
and loves. Not allowed to smoke in public we had to hide in the grey, dark streets to do it... We just have found the
short-lived passion of smoking... soon to be a life-time addiction.
the intent:
I hope the wall can send you back in time with me and how I felt when I was a teenager, full of dreams, always in love,
passionate about music, phylosophy and all forbidden.
the scans:
1. http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/77252/
2. http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/89145/
3. http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/76911/
the technique:
1. vectoring the scans with few changes of my own (no ears for example) - round brush size 3;
2. coloring with bold colors - I am color blind...
3. adding texture/grain/clumped: contrast@50% intensity@16-66% - just to the coloring layers
4. building the bg without a true sense of perspective or size scale - trying to stay away from the scenic feel, going
for the feel of a strong but distant memory. The guitar is huge for example: I wanted to show how impotant for me was my
music back then.
5. adding texture to the whole thing - very suttle one: some sandstone and grain, but just a little bit.
6. at this point i wasn't satisfied with the colors, they didn't give the feel of something that's in the
past... so i tried monotone version, but I still wasn't satisfied. Then thanks to saki's feedback I came up
with the final version using saturation addjustment to kill the color boldness.
sidenote: they are supposed to be around and on a bench, the girl in the middle is laying down on it.. something like
that.. as I said it is not supposed to be looking real.
the preaching:
Don't EVER start smoking! It is BAD for you!
the thanks:
Thanks to everyone that gave me an honest feedback and helped me. Thanks to Tama-Neko in advance for beating me up
again. Thanks to flyindreams and Rebel for organizing W.A.R.
enjoy and reflect and don't smoke!
... and visit www.NuclearSeasons.com - soon with a
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Comments
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sukie Sep 11, 2005
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evasion Sep 11, 2005
haha - this is a very well done wall :D. Heehee, i love the contemporary look - not many walls have that these days ^_^. Excellent job! +fav+ I hope you win!!!
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meteorcloud Sep 11, 2005
hm....nice wall here, a full vectored one. nice job with the vectoring, mayB it would be cool if you got different line thickness, but I think you want to keep the wall abit non realistic. those colors gives me that idea. also adding texture to the brick and the road could be an option too. everything is fine, no bullshit not missing things from my opinion. nice job dc and good luck~!
ps. hmm...mayB making a ghetto background instead of a road, the road still looks too public for the forbidden stuff.
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smilebit Sep 11, 2005
as i commented before. i love the colors. they are a little more muted now, but i still love them. the added smoke brings a suble depth the the whole thing. really dig this one. it brings me back alright, but to a different era. fav.
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Holt Sep 11, 2005
Yeah maybe a dark alleyway would be more like hidden.
Great vector style. Effective and simple.
The guitar's missing frets XP
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drell Sep 12, 2005
All the people in w.a.r end up with the same scans XD, I used this one too. Really cartoonish looking wall, textures are nice. Pretty detailed description there, well it gives everything about the wall.
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flyindreams Sep 13, 2005
Nice, DC >_< Lovely vectors. I really like your conception... a sort of pop style and background... I love the guitar XD I'm actually not too sure about the textures... wondering what it'd look like if it was texture-free. Especially over the girls, it just seems a little strange. Nonetheless, a really great w.a.r. submission *nya* and I can really feel your nostalgia for the "good old days"... *pokes*
Oh yah, good luck against Tama too... <33
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OracleAngel Retired Moderator Sep 14, 2005
Lol Dernier i thought you would change the theme but you actually went for it XD ANywya the weird tecture posterized look on the wall is sickly beautiful and nicely done.
i smoke very ocasionally but its not an addiction... dont want to spend too much money on that crap! XD
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marito55 Mute Member Apr 26, 2010
nana is a very good series. thanks for sharing ^ ^
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