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:icondash-x:
Tools: Painter IX, Intuos 3, Sanford Uni-Ball micro (for the sketch)

Done from a sketch (which you can find in my scrapbook). I'm kinda surprised at how this turned out (considering that the last time I tried painting/coloring something it wound up like THIS: [link]). I think I'm slowly beginning to understand this color nonsense... So I guess I'm learning (All right! Small victory! Yay!)!

Funny thing is that I was about to leave it in sketch form...

Bah. I won't bore you with the details...
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:iconcaptain-awsm:
~Captain-AWSM Apr 5, 2012
Really cool form, especially with the anatomy. A stand-out from typical lycan deviations on dA. Love the face! :D
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:iconneonbloo25:
~neonbloo25 Mar 18, 2012  Student Digital Artist
A FIGURE EMERGER FROM THE MYST, WHY IT APPEARS TO BE A YOUNG WOLF SWORDSMAN, WHAT WILL YOU DO:
[R]Recruit
[E]Engage
[Q]Query
{ESC}Leave
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I naturally choose [R]
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:iconmujahid27:
~Mujahid27 May 20, 2009
Cool. I like the feather.
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:iconivanmijatov:
*IvanMijatov Jun 30, 2006  Professional Artist
Love how you've done the fur. ^__^ It certainly gives a sense of ultimate softness, and that's very effective for this character. As for your advanced critique, your rendering is great thus far, I think you could push details more. At the moment, it seems like you've laid out the base details and color, and although it looks very nice at the current state, I know that you're capable of pushing details further ^-~
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:icondarockman:
~DaRockman Jun 27, 2006
Yeah I think really all you need is to push the highlights a little bit more to sort of give it that metalic shine. I think once you do that i'll be more toward what you were going for. I'm loving that fur though, how'd you do that out of curiousity?
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:icondash-x:
=Dash-X Jun 28, 2006  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks.

The fur was pretty simple. I started off with a block of the darkest color, added a midtone and higlight (though I think it needs a bit more of a highlight...). So, it started out looking like a geometric shape.Then, I pushed the bleed on the brush all the way to 100%, knocked the resat down to 0% and played with the opacity (keeping it between 10-20%) and just went nuts.
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:iconrow:
~row Jun 27, 2006  Hobbyist General Artist
This reminds me of Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits game I played, unless that IS from the game XD been a while since I played, lol.
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:iconshakken:
~shakken Jun 26, 2006
That's what we like to see :)

Good stuff dude. I'm finding the earlier you light stuff the easier it is to decide what stuff is supposed to look like later on. It may seem a lot differant to the olde "color first, light later" (lineart>basecolor>shadow&highlights) methodology but I think it gives you a bit more control over the dynamics of an image.
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:icondash-x:
=Dash-X Jun 27, 2006  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.
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:iconfenrysk-art:
*fenrysk-art Jun 26, 2006  Professional Digital Artist
the original sketch felt more powerful.
the color job is not bad, but some points of contrast could be sharper, and could use some more defining values.
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