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I thought that animation was seriously awesome. Just thinking how many drawings you had to do to make that sorta boggles the mind anyway, that was a phenomenal effort, I really hope we get to see the finished product!

Sorry Poli, I was just joking about the fact that any Macross 7 thread in MW tends to degenerate into a flame war... I'm not insulting Macross 7

Good point. I second the motion, Rusty. Show us some more of your stuff

What the hell? Sundown is right, I agree with part with what LordSixx says. Western artists drawing anime/manga always seems to miss something (even my work is like that). But hell, I do want to be an anime/manga artist, I wouldn't even consider drawing in any other style. And I'm gonna keep drawing in manga style until I master it and make it look genuine. You're more than welcome to give constructive criticisms on the artwork here, but if you come in just to insult people you can f*ck off. If you like starting flame wars so much, go make a macross 7 thread or something.

?? I'm not American either. What's the point of this post?

Looks good, has a nice, animation-style thing going for it WDC, you're a truly awesome artist, and you certainly know your stuff when it comes to colouring. I know you have good intentions of trying to encourage the Rusty, but I'm wondering if it's really necessary to sorta order this guy around.

Jeez... I can't believe you've managed to colour your drawings so well with only a mouse Get a tablet dude, it's expensive as heck, but it seriously cuts down the time it takes to digitally colour images.

Thanks for the tips Poli, I'll give your method a shot for my next drawing (I always liked the soft air-brushed look of your drawings). I pretty much follow the same approach as you, but I set my colour layers to darken instead of multiply instead. Also for the create a new layer for each shade and shadow (so I can make changes more easily)

I use photoshop too for my colouring. One of the most important things I learned about photoshop is to use layers for colouring, and set each layer to 'darken'...

I wanna know too!

Awesome! I love it!

I definitely like.

Thanks guys. P.S. link to my website fixed. Thanks Joseph

Hi guys, Some of the oldies might remember this black and white picture of Miriya I submitted eons ago. Now I learned how to properly use photoshop and stuff I'd like to show her off again, this time in colour! I'm pimping my other new pics as well If you'd like to see them check out http://roachhost.com/bake_art/ or my devart page (see my sig)

I've finally learnt how to colour stuff efficiently in photoshop, and it is good anyway, here's a VF-19 girl in full colour.

looking at the lineart, you put the curves in her butt & thighs extremely well I also like my only suggestion is to make the lower calf area longer and add ankles. I agree with Exo that the knees look weird in the coloured image. The knees look pretty good in the lineart, though. Did you colour over the lineart or used the lineart as reference for your colour image? Finally, the colouring's absolutely AWESOME. I love that watershading style. Do you mind sharing how you did it? I myself am still trying to learn how to colour like that.

looking good Poli I must admit I didn't like the colouring on the VF-2 girl, (I'm more of a fan of your cel-shaded style of colouring). Though I must say I absolutely love the way you coloured the VF-11 girl. The lineart for the VF-2 girl looks kickass though.

akt_m, don't be so harsh on yourself man Besides, I'm still waiting on your valkgirl minus armour artwork And isamu5979, your latest artwork's really great! I like the curves you've managed to put on Milia

Very well said and I agree with it 100% just draw your own style isamu5979, and while you can listen to everybody else's comments, you shouldn't really feel pressured to drawing exactly what they want. You can draw, and you can draw well. You can listen if people are telling you that your drawing skills are off (e.g. proportions are crap, etc.) but you should'nt let others dictate what style you have to draw (unless of course, they're paying you ) Oh yeah akt_m, you are a very, very talented artist, but I don't think you should mess with isamu5979's artwork, tho (I myself would be a bit ticked off if someone messes with my artwork without my permission) besides... I know you'd have enough skillz to create some milia artwork that's entirely your own and as jaw dropping as this pic you've done on the valkgirl thread

Guys, let's not hijack Isamu's thread here...

I don't know if you can call his drawing disney styled or not, since disney uses so many artists (some who'd probably worked in WB as well). Also, I thought the drawings of some more recent disney movies is drawn in a more WB-ish style anyways. Who cares what style it is, really? as long as it looks good (which it does.) Oh, and Ed.Coli, I'd have to disagree with you and say that there is such thing as anime-styled drawings. The styles of western artists and japanese/asian artists are distinctly different

Thanks man, it's nice to be missed

Interesting suggestion Vespaeda, tho I'll probably stay away from doing fanservicey pictures like that for a while (I got enough trouble with the 'gerwalk mode' valkgirl pic as well as the 'dental floss swimsuit' Ayane) On to another topic, here's a preview of my latest valkgirl pic. All that is left is for Poli to add his colours and it'll be perfect

Wha??? I thought the drawing's quite excellent. The face has a very western-cartoonish look which I don't like (but that's because I prefer anime-styled look), but if you look at the proportions, colouring, etc. you can't deny that the artist's got pretty good skills. keep 'em coming isamu5979

akt_m, hellohikaru, poli, Awesome drawings you guys! Hey, maybe Shawn should consider adding a "Valkgirls" gallery in the MWorld site...