[Debido-San]

great job DCM, from one Dave to another!

but as JimmyDimples said…

"Nice pic… but… ó_ô

… is it just me, or have her arms shrunk?"

I wonder the same ^_^, off season Tet-chan?

[El_Roy_1999]

It’s amazing! Cool.

[Matthew Lim]

Actually, it’s Corel Painter 8. (I’m a version behind, but I haven’t seen the need to upgrade yet.) I like the pencil and pen tools much in Painter much better than Photoshop’s, although (this is strange but true) I get better results coloring in Photoshop even though Painter touts itself as better at recreating not only the results but the "feel" of using "real world" media and tools. Or maybe because Painter tries so hard to be "authentic", I find Photoshop’s coloring tools to be much more straightforward and easy to use. So… Painter for drawing, and Photoshop for painting… does that make sense?? (Well, it seems to work for me.)

I actually use Painter 8 too. I’d actually like to go a version back, because almost all the digital artists I know prefer Painter 7. Painter 8 overcomplicates itself with a million different brushes. When coloring in Painter I use two techniques that utilize two brushes at most. One is to simply use the "Smeary Round" brush in the Oils section and color as if using paints. All the pictures I colored for Otto was done using this technique as well as the Asuka Extreme pic. The second is to lay down the colors with a custom oil brush and then blend it together with the "Just Add Water" blender tool. It was a technique I got off of a tutorial on deviantART and that was how the Roguernaut picture was colored. So it’s not a matter of how upgraded your software is, rather just how you utilize it. A friend of mine is able to do these awsomely rendered pictures with an old 4×5 Graphire 2 Wacom tablet and Photoshop 7.

[David C. Matthews]

great job DCM, from one Dave to another!

but as JimmyDimples said…

"Nice pic… but… ó_ô

… is it just me, or have her arms shrunk?"

I wonder the same ^_^, off season Tet-chan?

Hmm. I’ll have to take a longer, harder look at the pic. Tetsuko isn’t technically a bodybuilder, so she wouldn’t have an "on-" or "off-season" look, but I do use as much muscular detail – definition, vascualrity, etc. – as I think the pic needs. For this one, I think maybe not so high a degree of detail. Still, maybe I do need to take another look at the size of her arms.

[Anonymous]

Wow! Fantastic already! Thanks, Dave!

[Cowprobe]

The un’inked’ blue line pic compels a reaction from me more than the pre-colored version.

I think it’s because your chracture/portraiture skills shine through as if you’re drawing her from life or at least the vibrant existence she has in your well populated imagination.

It would be interesting if you ever drew one of your characters, perhaps Dr.Gannon seeing as she isn’t saving the world 24/7 😛 , as if they just walked up to your kiosk by the Brown Derby. Not nessicarily ‘realistic’ but as you render the multitudes that stop by for a piece of the magic kingdom on paper.

Though a sketch of Dyna fighting the Giant ‘Chicken Little’ inflatable would be sensually surreal.

[David C. Matthews]

The un’inked’ blue line pic compels a reaction from me more than the pre-colored version.

I know what you mean. I’ve seen (and done) quite a few rough drawings that capture a sense of life and vitality that, sadly, never quite translates to the finished line quite as nicely as I’d like. (For example, I love the mouth in the rough sketch better than the inked version.)

I think it’s because your chracture/portraiture skills shine through as if you’re drawing her from life or at least the vibrant existence she has in your well populated imagination.

Thank you for the compliment!

It would be interesting if you ever drew one of your characters, perhaps Dr.Gannon seeing as she isn’t saving the world 24/7 😛 , as if they just walked up to your kiosk by the Brown Derby. Not nessicarily ‘realistic’ but as you render the multitudes that stop by for a piece of the magic kingdom on paper.

I hadn’t given that much thought; I guess because my "job" art and my "real" art (the stuff I post here and at my site) are so different in purpose and execution. And I like to leave my work at the job (which is why I rarely do caricatures away from the stand). The closest I came to what you describe is several years ago, when I was doing airbrush (still ata the Disney-MGM Studios), and, during an idle moment I executed this portrait of Satin Steele. (I hated the maintenance I had to put into the airbrush equipment, though, so I don’t do airbrush anymore.)

Though a sketch of Dyna fighting the Giant ‘Chicken Little’ inflatable would be sensually surreal.

GAAAK! I’d almost forgotten about that monstrosity; why’d you have to remind me of it??!! They actually took that thing down after a couple of weeks, so it’s been months since it’s been seen. (Although with the premiere of the movie just a few months away, I wouldn’t be surprised if it rears its giant head again…)

➡ For those who have no idea what the hell all this talk about a "giant Chicken Little inflatable" is about

[Axel3.14]

That form is simply stunning. I wonder what Tetsuko did as a hobby. As for the size matter, I assumed that her muscles retracted somewhat when she wasn’t under duress.

[Anonymous]

maybe someone can take the hip section and reverse it ,than post it to her body and make a layer on top of layer with the orginal pic and the switched hip pic and she look like she’s dancing!(^o^)

[David C. Matthews]

That form is simply stunning. I wonder what Tetsuko did as a hobby.

Actually, Tetsuko doesn’t go "clubbing" all that often. (I don’t, so I don’t know anything about it, except that there seem to be some rather unsavory aspects to it that I’d rather not see Tet-chan involved in. She does enjoy dancing, and dressing in hot clothes; she doesn’t drink a lot, maybe one beer or mixed drink a week, and she won’t do drugs.)

As for the size matter, I assumed that her muscles retracted somewhat when she wasn’t under duress.

I keep looking at her arms, and I can’t see a way to give them any more size without making her head look ridiculously small. So I’m going to leave them as they are.

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