Losing
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 by Jalu in
Huff, so here I am lookin up one website, and this website made small little competition, 2D competition about either superhero or supervillain, and either based on character or make-up by your own. Back to last week, I drawn my character, asked a help from friend of mine to scan it, and I put it on Flash, with Flash I could trace the outlines and give the base colors. The next day after, I added the sword behind my character and put more details, for the final one, I did my retouch using adobe photoshop, stuff like adding background, manipulate the colors, and give other effects.
The day, when all the submissions need to be on the page, I saw other submissions, and holycow….they are great, full of details, nice colors combination and interesting theme they showed. My character now feels like a piece of crap.
On the class, 3D class, my teacher, Alex came to me and said “nice drawing”, and I asked what kinda method his friends, who submitted those great images, used to approach this kinda result? He answered, based on real photography, so they took of picture of themselves basically and start trace it using software (photoshop I guess), after that, they gave details, tons of it, so they can get a really cool looking image like that. The red line is, I thought my efforts were good enough but when I knew what they did and sacrificed to make one image for small little competition with no prize, I knew that my efforts was nothing can compared to theirs.
So yeah, that’s mean I need more and more time to learn, everything, photoshop, maya, and others.
(I am still looking at the webpage, starring they got more votes than my one) hiks hiks