Well, as some may have seen, I recently drew some sort of dragonish creature, well, its head at least..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I scanned it, and make lineart out it it.

 

 

 

Your task, is to colour this head as realistic as possible.

 

 

 

Change the black, give it some colour, give it some texture, give it some life ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And heres the original drawing, so you have a reference when shading ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will pay out the 2 best that I see amongst them with the following prizes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st place: 200k and a set of Rune (Plate, legs, large, kite)

 

 

 

2nd place: 150k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know its not alot, and big sig comps make more cash, but this is also a nice practice.. And its something different for a change ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will post pointers and such to the entries that are made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, lets get going people. :D

Change the black

By that do you mean we should like continue the drawing ? like deleting the big shadow on the left and add stuff or? btw im in.

u want us to do a bg aswell?

Change the black

By that do you mean we should like continue the drawing ? like deleting the big shadow on the left and add stuff or? btw im in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not really, I was referring to the black as in the black lines used everywhere. I should have stated that mroe clearly I guess. I also ment, chance the hair staff, the huge black area to another colour,make it like fur, or whatever you want.. Its not a rule, but more of a tip ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White, no, no backgrounds, thats not needed ;)

I'm gonna do this becouse of very nice idea, i like that picture, and for fun of course. ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, how do you get those outlines in such a nice condition. When I scanned my sketch and tryed to play a bit with levels, it still had some annoying grey pixels. Thanks!

I just made a new layer, and started drawing over the most important lines with a 1 pix pencil tool.. When that was done I deleted the first layer witht he original drawing on it, and started refining the lines..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good to see there are people entering :D

Very nice drawing, starting coloring now :P , I love this kinda thing :lol: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm done :?

How the hell did you get it that gd?

wow i like how u coloured that

wow i like how u coloured that

 

 

 

i think i know how he did it too........nice job really nice

Its good to see a first try already :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like what you've done, but as I've got some pointers :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try to get some more depth in it. the drop shadows, arent really working. Try to think where the dark areas would be, in example, under his jaw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it would be better to change the black lines which are ment to point out some shadowing, to something a bit darker green as your base colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I should have posted the original drawing up there too, to show you how I had intended it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The horn which starts at his eye, and leads backwards, doesnt really look like a horn with your colouring. Perhaps you saw it the wrong way, perhaps I wasnt too clear about it. Try giving it another colour as green, as its a horn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its pretty good for a first try though, and Im really glad people are trying this :D

Oh it was a horn?!? :D:D I see..I guess i'll continue some more then :o

this is it soo far tell me what u think of it so far

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks good so far, here are the pointers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try to define the deapth a bit more by getting the contrast up a bit. Try to define the muscles in his neck some more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, clean up the lines on his tongue a bit. The edges look too rough.

 

 

 

Fix up the stray white pixels in his ear.

 

 

 

And perhaps give his fur/hair some dark red highlights, I think it would look nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its a great start :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A note to everyone: Try not to leave the black lines and portions of black in his face and neck stay. Make them a darker tint of your base colour. This will make them look more like shadows in your work.

progress so far.....may or may not finish it.......depends how i feel. the black will end up being hair like the rest :shock: that iwll take a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There it goes, my first coloured picture. I had really fun with it, and I'm 100% sure I'm going to do these things again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There it goes, my first coloured picture. I had really fun with it, and I'm 100% sure I'm going to do these things again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

awesome job!!!! :shocked: that purple color fits perfectly with the 50 eyes that it has :lol: and it looks to me like you go the texture and muscles to look just right. great great job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DONE! :D 100% MS paint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first one i ever done

 

 

 

that was fun

Woohoo, more entries :D Im liking what I see ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here come the pointers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jab:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The texture work you've done there looks really neat, although I think you should make it flow in some other directions too. For example, the ear, I dont think the hair would go in that west direction, I think it would either grow up the ear, in the same direction, or down the ear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second think I want to adress in your colouration, is the fact that it lacks actual depth. I can see you've tried, but it didnt come out right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good texturing so far ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kaveli:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks really nice, you really got the depth in there, nicely done.

 

 

 

I got no real crits here, but perhaps try to give it some hairy texture, or scubby, perhaps that would look nice.

 

 

 

You could also try to use a bit of colour variation. Perhaps the beast's ears are another colour on the inside, perhaps he has a line of different coloured fur going over his head to his neck.. Not needed, only a suggestion ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dark_Ice:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the colours you've used are a bit too dark. The details it had, are too dark to see.

 

 

 

Lighten it up a bit, it would work wonders.

 

 

 

I like the fact that you have shadowed the area under the jaw, and its nicely done. Although after doing that, you should also get some depth into the jaw itself.

 

 

 

Dont only shade where the black area's are, try to make some forms out of it, get some life into it ;)

 

 

 

Perhaps look at the original drawing, and see where the shadows are highlights are..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bmagic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good work, you've got the idea of depth in there, and its nicely done.

 

 

 

Im liking the colours you chose, but same as I said to Kaveli, try to get some colour variation in, perhaps a line of fur going from his nose-part to his neck or something ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Im glad that alot people liked to do this kind of work, so I guess I can scan in some more images soon ;)

cool ill try that

every colouring comptetition needs one of those flurecent ones that some 5 year old with a highlighter did, here we go:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

note, this is NOT a serious entry, just a little bit of fun

every colouring comptetition needs one of those flurecent ones that some 5 year old with a highlighter did, here we go:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

note, this is NOT a serious entry, just a little bit of fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my EYES. *has epileptic fit*

 

every colouring comptetition needs one of those flurecent ones that some 5 year old with a highlighter did, here we go:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

note, this is NOT a serious entry, just a little bit of fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my EYES. *has epileptic fit*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weeeeeee have a winnerrrr! :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

;)