Quote from: LivingInfinite on August 11, 2009, 09:22:42 PM


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Here ya go. I must say I've been enjoying your picks so far. Hope you like it!

I'm also glad you're doing the FF6 story. Definitely one of my favorite games.

That's seriously great, thanks! I'm always amazed at how fast you meet requests. It makes my slowness look bad...

Livinginfinite! I finished a thing more quickly than I thought I would. I based it off of r3's story (hope you don't mind r3!).

I'm just going to attach files from now on so Photobucket doesn't go all rules restrictions on me.

  I'm so pleased you've decided to illustrate r3's story. And it looks like the little girl didn't wet herself...or at least that's what I choose to believe.

You've done a great job with this so far...I think it's my favorite of yours at the moment.

I've done a really quick paintover...I hope you don't mind.

I added a screen layer to brighten the entire image slightly, and get rid of the darkest parts. It seems like brushing with black eats up any color you add on top...

Then I overlayed the entire thing with what I think will be the most prominent color in the piece...in this case probably the light blue zero suit. It feels logical to me to do that, since light bounces around all over the place, and there's probably going to be hints of blue in everything in the picture. That's also going to help keep everything unified. I only add a bit of warmth to the face to help it stand out from the rest of the picture; usually the face is the center of interest, so you can do stuff like that to really make an impact.

I've also gone over the background with the soft brush; you had a lot of hard egdes in the background, which is generally going to attract more attention than the background should be getting.

Anyways, maybe some of that stuff will be useful to you...it's obviously far from finished color wise, I haven't even touched the little girl, but that's how I would start.

r3: Thanks, I'm glad you like it...I think it's more that I'm just kind of impatient with art...probably not a good habit.

I really like the face on the Lisa Hayes pic, LI; the expression, style, and blush are perfect.

Quote from: LivingInfinite on August 12, 2009, 11:52:17 AM
I'm so pleased you've decided to illustrate r3's story. And it looks like the little girl didn't wet herself...or at least that's what I choose to believe.

You've done a great job with this so far...I think it's my favorite of yours at the moment.

I've done a really quick paintover...I hope you don't mind.

I added a screen layer to brighten the entire image slightly, and get rid of the darkest parts. It seems like brushing with black eats up any color you add on top...

Then I overlayed the entire thing with what I think will be the most prominent color in the piece...in this case probably the light blue zero suit. It feels logical to me to do that, since light bounces around all over the place, and there's probably going to be hints of blue in everything in the picture. That's also going to help keep everything unified. I only add a bit of warmth to the face to help it stand out from the rest of the picture; usually the face is the center of interest, so you can do stuff like that to really make an impact.

I've also gone over the background with the soft brush; you had a lot of hard egdes in the background, which is generally going to attract more attention than the background should be getting.

Anyways, maybe some of that stuff will be useful to you...it's obviously far from finished color wise, I haven't even touched the little girl, but that's how I would start.

r3: Thanks, I'm glad you like it...I think it's more that I'm just kind of impatient with art...probably not a good habit.

Wow, you've done it again!

I'm consistently amazed by your (and, of course, hwchem's) art, it's superb.

r3: haha I can't take any credit for that one, that's definitely mostly hwchem's work. I'm certainly tempted to draw it myself though...I won't soon forget that scene.

Fred: Thanks Fred, I'd have to say at least a third of the time on that painting was on the face, so I'm glad you like it.

Thanks for the advice LI, I'll be working on that piece over the next few days. Do you just paint in the colors in Color mode and make other adjustments with the Normal mode brush?

I use the color layer if I'm happy with what I've already done in grayscale and don't want to alter the values. I use the overlay layer to color if I want to also want to brighten or darken something for whatever reason. For that paintover I think I used overlay layers...I tried to post the .psd but it was too big to attach. You might as well try both and see which one works best for you.

But yeah, once the colors are laid in I'll finish up with a normal layer while picking colors straight off the canvas (and throwing in some new ones if I feel it's necessary).

Thanks again!

I still wasn't entirely clear on how you used certain layers, but I did end up putting an Overlay layer, blending it with the sketch, and then applying colors directly to that single layer with a brush on Color mode and Normal mode.

I didn't do too good a job of planning out the lighting (I wanted to put a bright light coming from the direction of the viewer with a dark background, but I thought it'd be interesting to keep the figures highlighted around their edges and put a big swash of light around the middle/bottom of the drawing), but I think it turned out ok anyway.

That's nicely done. Man I love this scene :D

One thing though is that highlights around the edges of a figure implies that a light is coming from behind it...that's usually going to darken the entire figure relative to a bright background, like if you hold you hand up directly in front of a lamp. Interestingly, I think you can get away with not caring too much about lighting with more of a line based style.

LivingInfinite, I've finished your new request. I hope it's OK, it may be a little too "unusual" for you but it's something I found a challenge to write.

It's set around about the time just before you encounter Celes in-game, detailing her arrest and imprisonment - the sort of trauma I imagined would cause her to lose her cool. Has a more than fair amount of desperation and a little bondage too.

Dude, that was amazing. You've gotta be one of the best authors I've come across in all the internets. Your writing is awesome, and your stories have demonstrated a great understanding of the source material and the fetish. Honestly, I could go on about the events in this that really do it for me.

Anyways, I'd consider myself lucky to be able to do more exchanges with you...let me know if you're interested.

@LivingInfinite,

I'm off on a break for the next week, but when I get back I'd certainly consider another exchange, it's great fun to do them.

In the meantime, I'll probably do one more idea from a bunch I have knocking around - would you, or the people in this thread, like to help make the choice?

1) Male desperation (!) fic based on the part in Turn-A Gundam where the protagonist, Loran, is disguised as a girl to seduce/spy on Harry Ord.
2) Original character-based story about a shy girl on a long journey.
3) Fairly standard female desperation fic with some giantess elements, probably based on SDF Macross characters (Minmay and Milia, most likely.)

Hey! That was a great fic, r3. The capture and abuse of Celes has always been one of those popularly pervy events in gaming. Your stories seem to stick to a really nice length, too; just long enough to get a reasonable amount of exposition, but not so long that they start to become tedious treks to the pay-off or repetitive, uneventful affairs.

As for your ideas: male desperation ain't my thing, but don't let that stop you. It'd be great to see what you can do with an original concept; however, what makes fanfics pretty accessible (and probably easier to write?) in particular is the fact that we get to see an established character with her personality already more-or-less entrenched in our minds. Original stories that I've seen often end up in a mire of generic-girl-wets-herself-and-is-embarrassed.

I might try throwing a pic together sometime next week, hopefully. I might even try my hand at putting together a short fic! It's been a while since I've had to do creative writing of any kind, and that sounds pretty fun to me right now.

Ha! You thought I was just lying when I said I'd put something up soon, but you were wrong!

Partly inspired by r3's story, it is just a pic of a fearful Celes sometime in between her capture and her meeting with the party.

Kinda sloppy and possibly still overly reliant on dodge/color balance/level balancing, but I think the lighting works a lot better in this than in my previous images.