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Cloud Strife by ~amaureahin:iconamaureahin:

Categories Manga/Anime > Digital Media > Fan Art

©2007-2009 ~amaureahin
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I finally finished! *dies* After a week, this picture is at last complete.

This was done mainly for coloring practice, I was trying out painting with a difficult light source/ color. DONT GIVE ME TOO MUCH CREDIT!!! This is what I call a "paint trace", where you paint on a layer directly above the reference picture, so it can be used to take colors off of and as a guidline. Wanna know more about a paint trace, or how to do one? I'm making a tutorial from some screenshots I took whilst making this, and it should be out soon.

Notes:
Heh, there are sooooo many mistakes in this picture!! It's mainly with the color/shading on the face, the lips (and the teeth- at first, I didn't even notice them! Then I had to rush and put them in...) the eyes are a bit off, too....the handle on his sword was a bit rushed, so it looks blotchy...I totally crapped out the tree behind him, so it doesn't look all that great....and his hair! OMG THE HAIR!! It took me allmost THREE HOURS just to get his hair done! It was agony, and it doesn't even look all that great DX There's this particular bit on his neck that I just couldn't get right, the color just wasn't working no matter how many times I tried >__> Gah, his eyebrows were a killer, too. That Cloud is VERY difficult to paint, especially in this lighting....

Technical Stuff

Program: Open Canvas 4.05, and 4.03 (4.05 kept giving me the Error Message of Doom and closing on my, without letting me save, so I had to move to a different computer that had the old OC...)
OC Tools: At first, I started with only using the watercolor tool, but about two thirds of the way through, I realized that it was messing up my colors. I then supplimented with the pencil tool, which worked MUCH better. NOTE- this was done all on one layer! X3
Time taken: 12+ hours, done in shorter periods over a week. (exactly a week, actually! hahahaa!)

[EDIT] I forgot to ask- who should I do next? I'm thinking of doing another one like this, of a FFVIIAC character, but I can't really decide who to do. (at the moment, it's between Vincent, Yazoo, Kadaj, and Sephiroth..X3) Any suggestions?

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~iChesh Mar 24, 2007, 8:47:07 PM
Wow, that's amazing! You have a lot of patience, it would be so hard to work on something for an entire week! Many, many kudos to you. You did a wonderful job! =D
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Mood: Adoration ~Enigma-of-the-Ages Mar 24, 2007, 8:51:53 PM
If I could give this a hundred million favs, you know I would. I know how much work you poured into this, and it turned out fantastic. And personally I think you should make a little flash video of your progress with it, because I think tons of people would like to see how you did it! Speaking from personal experience, it was wonderful to see you take this from a blank page to this gorgeous piece of art.

As always, a masterpiece. Your hard work really shows.

:heart:

*fav*

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"But if the cow's not controlling the ship, who is?" Robin, Teen Titans
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~amaureahin Mar 24, 2007, 8:57:45 PM
Hehe, thanks! :love: I'd make a video, but I didn't really take enough screenshots XD There are a few places where I completley forgot to take any, and so there are like, big huge gaps XD I could probably go back into the event file and take more, now that I think of it.....o_O *completley forgot about event files*

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~amaureahin Mar 24, 2007, 9:00:30 PM
Thanks! Heh, I have no clue how I spent so much time on this; it must have been because I was obsessing over FFVII at the time XD Before I made this, the longest I'd ever spent on a picture was four hours, and that was only once :giggle: I usually can't spend more than an hour or so on something before I get bored with it :XD:

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I :heart: tea.
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~Azumizai Mar 25, 2007, 8:15:42 PM
I suggest Reno. Maybe the scene were he is ticked off at Yazoo calling him a "peon" or maybe when he and Rude are on the bridge.

I hope I could help somehow. ^_^

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~amaureahin Mar 26, 2007, 5:38:46 PM
Hmm, good ideas! Thanks! :hug:

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I :heart: tea.
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=Somethingfake Mar 28, 2007, 3:42:31 PM
"[EDIT] I forgot to ask- who should I do next? I'm thinking of doing another one like this, of a FFVIIAC character, but I can't really decide who to do. (at the moment, it's between Vincent, Yazoo, Kadaj, and Sephiroth..X3) Any suggestions?"

Well, any hot girls from that game you could draw?

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I woke up this morning and I was still alive, so I am pretty cheerful. - Spike Milligan
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~amaureahin Mar 29, 2007, 7:13:29 PM
Eeeh, there are two girls, well, three if you count the kid, but the boys are so much prettier! Why don't I just put bewbs on one of them? :giggle:

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I :heart: tea.
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Mood: Love ~vaoni-adolpha Jun 13, 2007, 3:48:53 AM
*faints*
I LOVE HIM!! and I simply love the work you did on him!! :heart: :heart:

:XD:

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