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Dec. 11th, 2007 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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elicia8 wank:
I knew that she was a huge fake all along. I mean, I gave her the benefit of the doubt...but I just had that sinking feeling, you know? I haven't been commenting to her journal lately becausemy workplace is trying to kill me I was really starting to feel manipulated, and I didn't like it.
I don't know why other people didn't notice it, too...it was really obvious that she was just Photoshopping screencaps.
For example:
The charcoal portrait of House is clearly a fake.
To prove it, I'll do the same thing.
Here's a screencap from the pilot episode:
And here's the same cap, put through Photoshop's "chalk and charcoal" filter. Note that the realism here is because I spent several minutes adjusting the sliders to get the maximum amount of detail:
...See how easy that is? I'm sure I could do an even better job with a program more advanced than Photoshop.
Also, the "scribblism" portraits?
TOTALLY a Photoshop filter. I'll post my examples of how that can be done just as soon as I figure out which filter it is.
IN CONCLUSION, 'tis a puzzlement how people don't think things through these days. I say they didn't get enough Sesame Street as kids.
On that note, have some Sesame Street!
elicia8 wank:I knew that she was a huge fake all along. I mean, I gave her the benefit of the doubt...but I just had that sinking feeling, you know? I haven't been commenting to her journal lately because
I don't know why other people didn't notice it, too...it was really obvious that she was just Photoshopping screencaps.
For example:
The charcoal portrait of House is clearly a fake.
To prove it, I'll do the same thing.
Here's a screencap from the pilot episode:
And here's the same cap, put through Photoshop's "chalk and charcoal" filter. Note that the realism here is because I spent several minutes adjusting the sliders to get the maximum amount of detail:
...See how easy that is? I'm sure I could do an even better job with a program more advanced than Photoshop.
Also, the "scribblism" portraits?
TOTALLY a Photoshop filter. I'll post my examples of how that can be done just as soon as I figure out which filter it is.
IN CONCLUSION, 'tis a puzzlement how people don't think things through these days. I say they didn't get enough Sesame Street as kids.
On that note, have some Sesame Street!
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Date: 2007-12-12 11:25 am (UTC)OOH YAY YOU COMMENTED! I wasn't actually expecting you to see this, but I'm thrilled that you did. Because I've never met ANYONE else with your talent for Photoshop; so if you say it can't be done, then that's it. It can't be done. Seriously, thank you for that.
As for the rest...
1) I agree that tracing IS hard. I know because I stink at it. I always seem to connect the wrong lines in the wrong places or something. I'd almost rather draw, and I absolutely can't draw.
2) She has, in fact, referred to tracing on multiple occasions. She wrote a tutorial once in which she said it was perfectly fine to trace, especially the first few times you draw someone in order to get to know their faces. She's also recommended to other artists who are having trouble getting what they want to try "tracing landmarks" and see if that helps them learn the proportions of the people they're trying to draw.
I'm not sure if she's ever actually said that her drawings are totally freehand. I think this could be a miscommunication/misunderstanding on the parts of the wankers.
3) I'm pretty sure the drawing you linked is the one she did after she BADLY injured her hand, and it was still healing. She was terribly upset over it. :P
It's still a million times better than anything I could come up with.
4) Kickass work, btw. I honestly don't think I knew that you draw.
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:44 pm (UTC)Re #4) LOL are you kidding me? Art is my life. :O "Real" drawing is a bit passé for me at this time because most of the crap I have to do (the stuff I get paid for) is mostly technical crap that I sketch up on paper and then translate to the computer. I do love to traditionally draw, though, so I always keep a sketchbook handy. The above drawing of Wolverine was done years ago when the first movie came out and when I couldn't think of any other way to make some quick cash (I'd no knowledge of any free freelancing places online...had I know that contests existed or whatever, I would've started back then D:).
My art teacher in high school called me the human photocopy machine, because I can basically just translate whatever into a drawing...but I'm not the greatest. I know that. Personally, I believe that I suck some major donkey at perspective, so I would suck at designing buildings and crap... XD! But I'm really good at portraiture/organic items. Oh, and I suck major ass at oil painting, too. I have no patience for it. But give me some colored pencils...mmm. Next up I would love to learn how to use gradient meshes expertly so that I can make photorealistic vector drawings like the crazy modern masters (Yukio Miyamoto, Takashi Morisaki, Bert Monroy) I've seen.
I do plan on illustrating up a children's book sometime soon. I have so many projects going on at once and some new debt to cover (Poot's medical bills/the loan Chelle took out) that I can't find the time to relax and just do it. But yes...drawing has always been my life.
As for the wankers, ZOMG SOMEONE TRACED WILSON??!! NO WAI. :O