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Old 03-08-2009, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Kain4lyfe View Post
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/100_0519.jpg
I actually shrinked the image and traced it. I didn't do the line art all on my own, I'll admit that. I did color it though and you can obviously see some AA in there. This took me a while so I did it until I was satisfied with it. I used no filters to do this, it was all in MSPaint.
I figured as much.

I have a problem with the colors. This needs higher contrast from the highlights down to the shadows.

Aside from the value, the colors themselves are getting to me a little bit. The color scale is not continuous; from dark to light it splits off into blue purple, red purple, and the lightest color which is more gray than the rest of it (above all else I don't like that gray) Having the pallet split is fine, but the colors are mixed among each other which makes for a strange transition from one block of color to the next. To illustrate what I mean, I took the image into photoshop and cranked the saturation. It shows how the colors do not smoothly switch around.

I tried my hand at making it with higher contrast and smoother transition...and also one with a bit of red light
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