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Dreaming of Revelry

Once again, many thanks to Advanced Photoshop UK magazine for providing me with the amazing opportunity to create a vexel tutorial for them.

The tutorial can be found in issue 55. :)

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Help with digital painting?

Journal Entry: Tue Oct 6, 2009, 12:17 AM
Hiiiiiii.

Okay, so I'm really getting into the whole digital painting thing, and I know that there are a thousand different ways till Sunday to do the process, but I'm still eager for some help, particularly in the techniques.

Basically, I use lots of layers, and I do a lot of merging and smudging. I don't really like smudging, but whenever I try anything else it just looks ... Horrid.

I'd be really interested in hearing any ideas or methods that you may have to suggest, or even some links to some worthwhile tutorials.

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My name is Sarah, but I also go by Sewwy. I'm twenty-one years old, Australian by birth and am currently studying Biology in Auckland, New Zealand.

I've been drawing since as long as I can remember, and have been on the digital art scene since around 2003. I've been fairly active in several communities, including the Vexel community, and now the Twilight community. Say what you want, I've heard it all before. ;)

I've got a million and one plans in terms for my art but very little time to complete it. When I do get a chance to sit down and unleash my creativity demons upon the world, chances are, the result will be Twilight related or reflecting something of enjoyment to me personally.

I own several websites, including my personal website [link] and a Twilight RPG site [link]. I've got several other haunts around the net, I'm sure you'll find me if you try hard enough.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Auckland, New Zealand
  • Interests: Science, Biology, Photography, Digital art, Computers, Reading, Art
  • Favourite band or musician: Something Corporate
  • Favourite genre of music: Indie
  • Favourite poet or writer: W.B Yeats
  • Favourite photographer: Max Dupain
  • Favourite style of art: Drawing
  • Operating System: Mac OS X Leopard
  • MP3 player of choice: 80gb Ipod Classic
  • Personal Quote: Corrupting your minds since 1988.
  • Tools of the Trade: Photoshop CS3, Nikon D40x

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~pwnfuse Nov 11, 2009, 4:46:15 PM
Hey Sewwy. I was wondering how you got so good at creating the different shades in your vectors. Do you think that using the smart blur> posterize> color layer technique is a bad thing to do so as to see the shapes of your reference?
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*Sewwy Nov 11, 2009, 8:36:34 PM
Hi there :)

I can't really tell you how I got good at that because it was more a process of practice, practice, practice over a period of over five years. What I can say is that it takes a while to get used to the different contours of the face and body, and working out where shadows should be.

The best thing you can try and do is pick colours from the area you're about to fill using the dropper tool to select colour from the original (non posterised) image, or you can use "transitional layers" which involve lowered-opacity layers between specific layers to create a more gradual approach.

As for posterising, when you're learning, it's a good method to learn the contours, but I personally don't use it, nor rely on it. :)

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Sewwylulz <3

*Vexel Art = Raster art that takes after the style of vector*

CT: A Twilight RPG
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Mood: Joy ~pwnfuse Nov 12, 2009, 6:09:11 AM
THanks Sewwy

How do you keep yourself motivated when you vexel? How long are the breaks you have?
How long is your average vexel?
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*Sewwy Nov 12, 2009, 12:12:01 PM
Haha, It's been a rather long time since I've done any vexels for personal interest - my last personal-interest vexel was my Angelina Jolie one, which I did on and off for a week or so. I would vexel for an hour, and then put it away, opening it up the next day.

Compared to this, my In The Zone vexels were created for my final Visual Arts grade in highschool, so the motivation there was for a good mark. My Dreaming of Revelry vexel was for Advanced Photoshop UK magazine, so the motivation there was the feature and, not going to lie, the money.

My average vexels vary in time depending on their complexity. Some take maybe 8 or 9 hours all up, others can take hundreds (my In The Zone vexels were a hundred or so hours each, whilst my Dreaming of Revelry vexel was about two weeks of constant work.)

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Sewwylulz <3

*Vexel Art = Raster art that takes after the style of vector*

CT: A Twilight RPG
SCorg
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*Sewwy Oct 30, 2009, 12:13:37 PM
Hello :)

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Sewwylulz <3

*Vexel Art = Raster art that takes after the style of vector*

CT: A Twilight RPG
SCorg
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~pwnfuse Oct 30, 2009, 5:07:22 PM
Just wanted to say that I really like your works. Hoping to get aqquainted with you:) I added you on MSN. nuttyjam@live.com:)
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*Sewwy Oct 30, 2009, 7:13:15 PM
Hey :) I use a different MSN now than the one I've got listed on dA, mainly for privacy issues. I'm a little iffy talking to just anyone on MSN, so if you would like to get to know me, its probably easier to do it through dA Notes =)

Thank you, though =)

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Sewwylulz <3

*Vexel Art = Raster art that takes after the style of vector*

CT: A Twilight RPG
SCorg
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~pwnfuse Oct 31, 2009, 3:33:36 PM
No problem. Hey, could you probably take a look at my vector/vexel art please? I want to get better and I believe you can give me good advice:)
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