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New background colors

Posted on March 5, 2012 by NetRaptor

As it turns out, this character is running around on an alien planet. So I changed the background. Also the girl wears a brown coat now, or she’d vanish into the background. Curse you volcanic rock for being so black! … Continue reading →

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Dusk beach, problems

Posted on May 15, 2011 by NetRaptor

Got a bit more done today, still roughing out the main color masses. The lighting on the dragon is really harsh because I’m still figuring out the shapes of the light and shadow. Not sure I like the color of … Continue reading →

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Dusk beach, blocking in color masses

Posted on May 14, 2011 by NetRaptor

I found a beach sunset on google image search that I liked, and set about painting the background from it. Here’s the sky and the ground. You can see how I just worked on the biggest chunks first. Then I … Continue reading →

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Two gradients

Posted on March 10, 2011 by NetRaptor

James Gurney, on his blog, had a post a while back about the sky’s dual gradations. Everybody knows that the sky is dark blue at the top and gets lighter and lighter down toward the horizon. But it had never … Continue reading →

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The trouble with leaves

Posted on December 4, 2010 by NetRaptor

I made three different attempts on those dang birch leaves. I finally went with creating my own brush, traced from a photo of birch leaves. They’re kind of all over the place, owing to me going, “What does this Jitter … Continue reading →

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Background and details

Posted on July 23, 2010 by NetRaptor

I worked 3 hours on this pic tonight, and this is how far I got. Especially after I realized that the pic was supposed to be 12″ x 18″, and I was working in 12″ x 8″. Oops. Click for … Continue reading →

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Painting Venice/Solenna

Posted on June 17, 2010 by NetRaptor

I sat down to doodle, and this sketch came out. I’m contemplating writing a story adaptation of the Sonic game that was on the xbox 360, since it had a totally rad story, more Final Fantasy than Sonic. The whole … Continue reading →

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