Maxwell's Realm of Art and Randomness

[MaxwellDemon]

Originally Posted by Shana

It's nothing, you're welcome and I think I've got my new desktop

Well, excuse me, I have to clean my desktop or Kagamin will be drowned

Yeah, I was thinking of making a better wallpaper version of that someday, so I could move Kagami more to the right then she won't be drown by menacing Windows icons and shortcuts.

Anyway, latest update:

Made quite a few signatures. Some of them have avatars to follow them (well, actually, there is only three signatures that have avatars).

About my next vector project, I am going to make a Rozen Maiden one... I just can't seem to decide on whether it should be Suigintou or the Seki twins.

[innominate]

Originally Posted by MaxwellDemon

Oh, I get what a cookie mean, I just didn't get what innominate was trying to say with this part "why are you vectoring afterschool of the 5th year's work... O_O".

The source picture was drawn by afterschool of the 5th year, one of my favourite artists. =)

I find it a little odd to vector fanart, that's all xD

[MaxwellDemon]

Originally Posted by innominate

The source picture was drawn by afterschool of the 5th year, one of my favourite artists. =)

I find it a little odd to vector fanart, that's all xD

Oh, I didn't know that was the artist's name.

And yeah, that's what I thought too when I vectored that art... but it did clear it up for me and I managed to do what I want with it, so I guess it is okay.

Anyway, latest update: made a wallpaper version of the wedding vector... and my apologies for having no sounds about my current project, been overrun by courseworks.

[MaxwellDemon]

Finally got around to start with my project... current status is:



The base picture is this:



Lots of space to leave for my imagination unfortunately. I just hope it turns out alright. x_x;

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by MaxwellDemon

The base picture is this:



Lots of space to leave for my imagination unfortunately. I just hope it turns out alright. x_x;

That sure looks hard. You could always use a second source (something somewhat similar) for the finer details.

Good luck with it.

[Solace]

Yeah it does look pretty tough. How long has it taken so far?

[MaxwellDemon]

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

That sure looks hard. You could always use a second source (something somewhat similar) for the finer details.

Good luck with it.

Thanks!

That's exactly what am I doing to understand how Suigintou's dress go and how should I trace it.

Originally Posted by Solace

Yeah it does look pretty tough. How long has it taken so far?

As of now, it has taken me 2 and a half hours... one hour to create a rough sketch of the base picture, so I know what color go where and where the lines will go... thirty minutes to trace the colors in, another thirty minutes to fix the colors up and make sure they are in the right place... and right now, I am working on the outline.

[jusuchin85]

Nice vectoring on the Kagami x Konata wall! Looks good, mate!

Hope to see more Lucky Star goodness from ya!

*takes wallpaper, sets as background!*

[MaxwellDemon]

Originally Posted by jusuchin85

Nice vectoring on the Kagami x Konata wall! Looks good, mate!

Hope to see more Lucky Star goodness from ya!

*takes wallpaper, sets as background!*

Thanks for the compliment! It seems like that is my most popular work... I guess that speaks for how many root for Konata x Kagami.

Anyway, a break from that Suigintou vector because it is giving me a headache...

Here are three new signatures (one of them is Christmas theme ) plus my first animation avatar.









Also did some editing on my front page. I no longer have a spoiler tag on my signatures and added status and colors indicating those status.

[UltimaWolf]

Originally Posted by MaxwellDemon

Thanks for the compliment! It seems like that is my most popular work... I guess that speaks for how many root for Konata x Kagami.

Anyway, a break from that Suigintou vector because it is giving me a headache...

Here are three new signatures (one of them is Christmas theme ) plus my first animation avatar.









Also did some editing on my front page. I no longer have a spoiler tag on my signatures and added status and colors indicating those status.

Nice, They look good! And congrats on you're first Animated Avie!

[Izayoi]

Do you give vector classes?? Do you!? As for you signature, keep them small, gives a better focus to everything.

[Solace]

I see someones been working overtime! I like all three, especially the first one.

[KasumiGirl]

Ooh, wow. ^^
You're improving aren't you!? Aren't you!!??
I really like the Suigintou sig, im not going to explain why, because I just think it's nice. ^^

Spoiler for X|:

Okay, did I just explain why!? O.O I'm having a blond moment.

:O
Im not even Blond! >.<

[The Chaos]

Good Work on your Sigs ....I loved this one....

[MaxwellDemon]

Thanks for the comments and encouragement. ^_^
Maybe hopefully by time, I'd learn how to apply animation to my signatures as well.

Originally Posted by Setsilya~

Do you give vector classes?? Do you!? As for you signature, keep them small, gives a better focus to everything.

I might work on a tutorial after I am done with my Suigintou vector... but there are better vector artists that had made tutorials. *cough solwyvern cough!*

Thanks for the advice, I might try my hand on smaller signatures... but for now, I am planning to stick with 500 x 120 as my previous signature sizes from previous forums were 500 x 250.

Originally Posted by Solace

I see someones been working overtime! I like all three, especially the first one.

The signatures actually didn't take that long. The only one that gave me some problems was Suigintou's... which I just finally decided to removed the text implemented in her signature and it looked a whole lot better (imagine the 2 hours I could have spent doing other things if I wasn't stubborn. ).

Originally Posted by KasumiGirl

Ooh, wow. ^^
You're improving aren't you!? Aren't you!!??
I really like the Suigintou sig, im not going to explain why, because I just think it's nice. ^^

Spoiler for X|:

Okay, did I just explain why!? O.O I'm having a blond moment.

:O
Im not even Blond! >.<

I think I am slowly getting my touch back since it has been a long time since I had been actively making signatures and vectoring. Don't worry though, I don't think you are having too much of a blond moment!

[Sephi]

Originally Posted by MaxwellDemon

Thanks for the compliment! It seems like that is my most popular work... I guess that speaks for how many root for Konata x Kagami.

Anyway, a break from that Suigintou vector because it is giving me a headache...

Here are three new signatures (one of them is Christmas theme ) plus my first animation avatar.









Also did some editing on my front page. I no longer have a spoiler tag on my signatures and added status and colors indicating those status.

I like the Suigintou sig the most of all 3. The text on the Clannad sig is a bit to much for my taste. As for the Rena sig. I would suggest to flip the snow/star layer horizontal so it compliments your sig more flow wise. And the text could use some work imho.

I can see where the headache comes from with the Suigintou trace.
I wish you the best of luck with the Suigintou trace. Looks crazy to do. I wouldn't dare to attempt such a trace where there is so little detail on the stock to work with. But it's a nice challenge nonetheless. Good luck with it.

[MaxwellDemon]

Originally Posted by Sephi

I like the Suigintou sig the most of all 3. The text on the Clannad sig is a bit to much for my taste. As for the Rena sig. I would suggest to flip the snow/star layer horizontal so it compliments your sig more flow wise. And the text could use some work imho.

I actually have one layer that is made as stars, while another as snow. It ended up being hard to tell which is snow and which one is star.

Texts... I agree, I haven't been able to get a nice grasp on the text for some reason (that is usually my best part, somehow that went away when I took my Photoshop break ).

Originally Posted by Sephi

I can see where the headache comes from with the Suigintou trace.
I wish you the best of luck with the Suigintou trace. Looks crazy to do. I wouldn't dare to attempt such a trace where there is so little detail on the stock to work with. But it's a nice challenge nonetheless. Good luck with it.

Thanks! It is turning out to be very difficult... especially when it came to Gin's face! XD

My latest update on Gin-sama:



I need some really technical advice on Gin's face... no matter how I try, I either cannot pin down Gin's evil look or her smiling evil facial expression.

Some help?

[KasumiGirl]

Hmm,maybe use another Gin-sama pic for her face if you're not doing that already.
I don't vector, so just be sure you know that im not the one you should be really listening to.

Maybe these could help?




I kinda of lost most of my Gin-sama pics. (Or more so, all my RM pics. )

[Terrestrial Dream]

I don't know much about vectoring, but since your creating something that is not in the original picture I think following KasumiGirl's advice is the best. Anyhow all your works are very impressive

I like this one the best out of your recent ones.

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by MaxwellDemon

I need some really technical advice on Gin's face... no matter how I try, I either cannot pin down Gin's evil look or her smiling evil facial expression.

Some help?

I didn't notice this at first, but your vector is actually very different from the source pic. In all honesty, I think you need to redo all of her head again.

If you decide to do that, be very careful about the shape and deepnes of her hair (not everything is on a first plane). Also, if check the position of her face you'll notice that she is actually looking down a bit (as if she is raising her head to look to the front)

"I think" the eyes are a bit visible in the source; If anything, you could use this to get the position of both eyes right.

And using a brush size of 2 px instead of 1 px will improve the smoothness of your outlines greatly.