Dvirus

DVirus (28/05/2009):

MY VERY FIRST DIGITAL PAINTING PIECE!

Ajis, my younger brother, requested that I tuned his picture. He also specifically asked for this certain style. This is the full version. I made a cropped version cause I know he'll wanna use this as his facebook primary pic :)

"They shootin'... awh made you look!"

Ever since I started vectoring, I've never re-visited digital painting. Well lemme tell you something, it's a lot of hard work! Anyway, the only vectors in this piece would be the floor and shadow. For the splatter textures, I used a preset font. And yes, the splatter was used because the coloring was getting pretty tedious... (so I cheated muahahahaha).

Anyway digital painting seems pretty fun, and I've never had a piece like this before. I might just take it up and step it up a notch! I'll need good stock photos though, any volunteers?

Pockets

Pockets (26/05/09):

Since I got my hands on After Effects and Premiere Pro I haven't had much enthusiasm to go on Photoshop, til yesterday when I saw a cool katana somewhere. And viola!

I've got something in my front pocket... for you.

Credits to Apeng for teaching me how to utilize vignettes. I haven't completely figured it out but I'm sure experimenting will fix that.

Soul Higher Crew - 09 Trailer

First Kiss

First Kiss (17/05/09):

Re-reading DBZ for the hundredth time. This section is always so intense. Is it me or is #18 always so hot?

"...Bye..."

Sunny

Sunny (13/05/2009):

Ikha is just so bubbly and bouncy! Anyway I was looking for a stock picture of aviators, low and behold it was a msn message away! Thanks to Ikha for allowing her picture to be used as stock :)

A breeze of joy and laughter in my hair

Rhokumaru 09 Shirt

Rhokumaru 09 Shirt (12/05/2009):

I'd buy that. Oh yea for sure, without a doubt. I'd order mine today and would wear it the same day I got it! I'd definitely get it! :D

Go Green

Go Green (10/05/2009):

A request. I wasn't quite sure what to do with it so I just played around.

It's a mutual gain... mother earth and I

It's pretty jagged since I wasn't too keen on squinting at every pixelated detail on the small stock photo.

A Nice Shirt

A Nice Shirt (09/05/2009):

Lynn told me I had a nice shirt on, so I took a picture and did this. Of course, the shirt had nothing to do with it :)

Less is more

Banner #2

Banner #2 (16/4/2009):

Highlighting my new hair, and grown sideburns whooptee dee!

Here To Collect

Here To Collect (06/05/2009):

Okay this totally didn't turn out into what I was trying to do. Honestly, I was going to work on a gangster-ala-mafia piece, then somehow it ended up like this hahaha oh well ~ and thanks to Ryan for allowing his picture to be used!

I own your soul for... oh lets say, eternity?

So I was applying the layer properties for the skin, the color part automatically goes to red for color overlay right, and viola, it looked okay. So there.

Tic Toc

Tic Toc (07/05/2009):

I've been doing full body shots lately, and wanted to do something close up. I wanted to emphasize the eyes and hair. I'm going to get back at this and add more detail later. And thank you Ieka for letting me use her photo as stock :)

While I'm gone, just be a fly on the wall

Rhokumaru 09

Rhokumaru 09 (06/05/2009):

I just redid the original piece from 2007. Only when compared can I see how much my technique has changed and improved!

And for each promise broken, we grant thee wings.

This was a lot of hard work, approximately half a day if you stack the hours. However I wanted to do my best so I could really see how far I've come since I started mingling with photoshop. All and all, I had super fun doing this! :D

Ajis

Ajis (05/05/2009):

The better the pose, the more fun I have working on it.

Foundation like talent on a rhock!

.e

.e (05/05/2009):

This was a request, which I finally found time to do.

Live life colorful

I think I put more emphasis on the decorations rather than the person lol

Support

Support (04/05/2009):

I was playing through one of my favorite games (now in my 70th hour) and was inspired to do this. Plus that retro pop art is a joy to do haha

"...and you were not made to stand alone..."

I used 5-6 stock images and retraced them. Brushes for splatter and star effects.