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A Nature Photography Contest for Macro Photographers Start date : December 1st 2008 12:01 am EST
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Macro in Nature 2008
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Submitted: April 27
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Submitted: April 27
File Size: 60.9 KB
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Comments: 374
Favourites & Collections: 1,974 [who?]
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Today: 2
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Anime cliches, I can't stand them. But this, I never expected! Cowboy Bebop is fantastic. It breaks away from the stereotypical anime, and is... just fantastic. Although hardly original (bounty hunters, trying to make money... and failing) Cowboy Bebop is a joy to watch. The characters are so imperfect, you love them for just that. The whole 'Space' element is hardly there, it's just a means of transport. It's just like an animated detective story [sic].
One thing that always stands out though, everyone will say it, is the music. A deadly fight scene will be accompanied with a light hearted jazz soundtrack, taking off the serious edge and making it so enjoyable! You don't have to like jazz to appreciate how it's used.
Enough praising of Cowboy Bebop, this here is Spike Spiegel, one of the main characters from the series. He's quite often seen with a bent out of shape cigarette hanging out his mouth, and for me that just summarises him. Bah, as much as I hate smoking, he makes it look cool.
On a technical note, I've employed a slightly different colouring technique this time around - probably visually no different, but it's much quicker for me. Huzzah! Glad to get more pictures out too.
Anime cliches, I can't stand them. But this, I never expected! Cowboy Bebop is fantastic. It breaks away from the stereotypical anime, and is... just fantastic. Although hardly original (bounty hunters, trying to make money... and failing) Cowboy Bebop is a joy to watch. The characters are so imperfect, you love them for just that. The whole 'Space' element is hardly there, it's just a means of transport. It's just like an animated detective story [sic].
One thing that always stands out though, everyone will say it, is the music. A deadly fight scene will be accompanied with a light hearted jazz soundtrack, taking off the serious edge and making it so enjoyable! You don't have to like jazz to appreciate how it's used.
Enough praising of Cowboy Bebop, this here is Spike Spiegel, one of the main characters from the series. He's quite often seen with a bent out of shape cigarette hanging out his mouth, and for me that just summarises him. Bah, as much as I hate smoking, he makes it look cool.
On a technical note, I've employed a slightly different colouring technique this time around - probably visually no different, but it's much quicker for me. Huzzah! Glad to get more pictures out too.
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Crayola wolves!? Whatever next!
Couldn't agree more.
Awesome job, man!
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Take off every 'SIG'!! You know what you doing.
The portrait rendtion of Spike matches excellently against the orginal Anime form, keeping the charm and carisma within the design. This life like rendition has also shown to us how you have mastered realism of characters as you feel more connected to him rather than him sticking out in his original cartoon appeal.
Colour wise you've done a surperb job with the amount of detail in the form of light variations, creasing and general layering of tones on his skin. The gentle over lay of hues to show the contrast in well explored and makes him feel lively and mysterious, this is helped by teh faint line art used as well. The colour is a tad dark within area, but the additions of light supplement this nicely and not making him merge with the background used. It shows great improvements in your style and how you have obtained a better understanding of the working digitally.
What also makes him feel like good old Spike is the addition of the cigarette and marvellous use of faint smoke that raises from the ash. Along with the hair strands this shows excellent display of the finer qualities of your work.
Keep it up.
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