Hey, things have slowed down on this thread. Thank god!! I can’t keep up with five updates every day 
You may be interested (or horrified) to know that I do my drawings and paintings at 300dpi at a size of about a metre square. Helps me get lots of detail and looks great when shrunk!
hhmmm:shrug: the compression on the jpegs really turned out ugly…oh well…i’ll try to post better ones later
whoa this is some crazy mech stuff! but here’s the question? can your robot defeat the t-1000? great job on the concept and colors.
:annoyed: why can’t my stuff come out this good?:annoyed:
This is awesome! I’m definitely envious of your skills 
I have two questions for you:
How did you manage to make your rust texture?
How did you to your lighting? I saw the picture where you laid out the general colors, but how did you blend it and clean it up?
Fabulous work!!!
:applause:
I don’t know about sys404, but for myself I often blend various colours and shades in a lyer set to colour burn to get rest, works realy simple and fast.
Great work, I hope I can get mine done at all.
questions!!
Mechis: to answer your questions,
i do everything with the paint brush… I color where i want and I often change the layer blending mode, i use color dodge a lot:)… some of the detail on this piece is given by the original pencil work which i multiply on top and then i select all the color shapes and delete the pencil lines that go out the color shapes, thus cleaning the edges:eek: …for this piece i’m not using any reference textures, i’m trying to come up with everything by hand :eek: :eek: it pushes my skills, i think:hmm:
As for the lighting:hmm: i don’t understand the question that much, but what i do know is that for the lights i used a purple color for shadows(so it looks more interesting)and i put it on top as a multiply layer and i play with its opacity. i then clean it up the same way i cleaned up the pencil lines over the color shapes…hope that was helpful:thumbsup:
oops forgot something i mentioned for lighting how i did shadows but not light…for the light that hits the character i used a color dark yellow light that goes on top as a dodge layer and i then play(again) with the opacity… i think thats it:shrug: let me know if it helps you or not
Great advice thanks. Now heres a question, Do you always use purple and yelow for shadow and light or is that just for this immage. just cause looking at colour theory lately, for this image those two colours willadd to the scene, but on a different picture tose colours may not works as well. (I know that when using colour dodge and such the colour changes anyways, but you guaranteed that new colour matches with your two current coours so it still works with colour theory.)
hhmm!!! good question! I don’t always use this colors. I used these colors so that they would enhance the picture, it gives it a better mood than if i would have just used black and white. Mood is key to me, it makes an image stand out from the mundane.
As far as if it would work with other images…well it depends. i guess if you’re going for outdoor scene other colors would seem more apropriate…i don’t always use these colors i guess it all depends on the color, mood and setting. Always experiment with color and don’t forget about contrasting, arbitrary and complimentary colors.
Good somments, and one thing I would like to point out to anyone else reading this thread, is that in both 2D and 3D you should avoid any, and I mean any black and white shadows and light. (unless your doing a black and white picture:shrug: )
Thanks for your help I will remember these tricks for some of my stuff. as for my 2D entry, Unfortunately don’t expect anthing, though I may get something done its not likely. Martin’s tiger has sure kept me busy when I’m not at school. (come to think of it I need to update that thread) arrrrgh no sleep no SLEEEEEEEP.:wip:
:drool: well I had to go back to the original just to make sure you had actually drawn that and weren’t cheating using 3D. That piece is amazing, tralin has some beautiful depth, lighting and shadows. Great work. No use bothering now, I’ll lose to you anyhow.
Thanks a lot for answering my questions. What you said seems to make sense. I think I need to go play with Photoshop…
thanks guys for you’re replies:bounce: i will hopefully post something by tomorrow if not it problaby won’t be till friday:shrug: