Yuki's blog

[Mirabilis]

Ah. You like to take your time with the paint jobs, and to make sure that you get it just right, right?

[*Jess♥]

Ah. You like to take your time with the paint jobs, and to make sure that you get it just right, right?

I've had a lot of practice so I would say it doesn't take me nearly as long as it used to and i can get a pretty nice job done with a relatively small amount of time.

I don't spend a lot of time on these because i want to consider my client. I don't want to milk the job as i might be tempted to do with somebody i don't particularly like .

I want to do a good job and yet keep the cost reasonable.

also.. if i spend too long on a colour, I get tired of it.

the last one I did of sho and mizuki actually really depressed me towards the end. i spent way too long on that.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Well, that's a good policy. Still, I have a feeling I know who your client is.

[*Jess♥]

heh heh yeah , I think you have an idea

I got back up to the stage where i was. almost.

and i think some parts were slightly improved as well so that's good.

i managed to recover some work, it was quite clever.. i found that somehow.. I dunno how.. a jpeg file was saving the paths data.

so a previous preview file i sent to hte client... helped me to recover teh line art for that panel.

it was a jpeg file saved as an attachment to a pm, so i went in my sent items folder, saved that file and lo and behold, the paths were there!!

[*Kenji Murakami]

When do you think you'll be done?

[*Jess♥]

on the first page? I'm pushing to get it done in a couple of days, provided I can get in the mindset.

I was planning on working solidly on it today, you never know i might finish the first page tonight.

[*Kenji Murakami]

That's good to know. I eagerly await the finished product; I'm sure it'll look great.

[Mirabilis]

Is it something that you've never done before the image I mean, or is something that people ask you to draw quite often?

[*Jess♥]

sorry mirabilis, I'm not sure what you mean.

could you rephrase it please?

[Mirabilis]

Ah, sorry bout that guys.

Is the peice that you are currently working on, something entirely new to you, the image I mean. Or is it something that you've done before, like someone picked off of a menu sort of thing.

[*Jess♥]

it's entirely new. kinda.

I won't say much about it because it is the clients call.

but i can say that i have worked on this project before under different circumstances. i am not really a sketch artist so i am just colouring this time.

I did have to repeat work on this though as somehow i lost my data.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Yeah, I heard about that. I didn't even know it was possible to save files to the Desktop. I just save them in folders, myself.

[*Jess♥]

yeah, i'm saving in folders this time.

do not wanna lose data.

[*Kenji Murakami]

That's good, I don't want you to lose data, either.

[*Jess♥]

I'm glad to have finished work on the first stage of my current project.

I would like to show you guys because i am very proud of the work I did.

I will leave it up to the client though wether or not it can be shown.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Go ahead; I don't mind.

[*Jess♥]

awesome.

thanks kenji.

here ya go guys, this is what i have been working on for my mystery client. (ha ha, like you can't guess who it is)

long while, I started drawing a webcomic of kenji's story "son of mine", but i quickly tired of it since i don't like sketching.

this time, the original sketches are done by another person. I took the sketches to digitally ink and paint it.

my work on this is the lines, which are guided by somebody else original sketchwork. the colours, shading and text placement.

[*Jess♥]

I'm pissed off with paypal.

they took money off me.

they charged me £4 for recieving a payment.

bastards.

i guess that's how they do business.

[Mirabilis]

Yeah i know what you mean man. Sorry to hear that, business's can be very corrupt at times.

Nice work though. It looks amazing!

[Mike123]

Hey Ryuki, that's an awesome piece of webcomic you got there!

How do you make those smooth lines? I have troubles using my program to digitally color or digitally ink

Edited April 16, 2009 by Mike123

[*Jess♥]

Hey Ryuki, that's an awesome piece of webcomic you got there!

How do you make those smooth lines? I have troubles using my program to digitally color or digitally ink

thanks,

to make those smooth lines, i used the pen tool in photoshop.

takes a while, but it's a nice result.

[Mike123]

Yeah, it does take a while. I've been looking for shortcuts for it, but I guess if you want good results, you have to spend time

[*Jess♥]

yeah it takes practice. it has taken a long time to become skilled with the pen tool.

now i can do what i want pretty quickly and efficiently.

[*Jess♥]

I'm not very happy today. I was going to work on something but i found that the person who was preparing it had done what i view as half a job.

now i am concerned that people might not want to visit our site because they might think this place is hostile.

now i have an headache. i think it's because my sleep was disturbed as i have a bit of a cold.

I want to play on resident evil 5 but i dunno if i should as i get frustrated with sheva.

[Guest ChibiDeka]

thanks.