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The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Redimus » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:33 pm

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Windracer wrote:Great stuff, everyone. : D

Too bad my Wacom broke, or I'd be drawing up some of my characters right now... :C



Have you tried the alternative to the Wacom? Pencil and paper? :grin:


What is this strange technology of which you speak? Is it USB2 compatible?
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Windracer » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:07 pm

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Yeaaaah, no. I used to do the pencil and paper bit but I'm really bad with pencilling and inking. That's why I adore sketching / lineart-ing in Photoshop. IRL there's no undo button. D:
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Absolute Zero » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:42 pm

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Windracer wrote:Yeaaaah, no. I used to do the pencil and paper bit but I'm really bad with pencilling and inking. That's why I adore sketching / lineart-ing in Photoshop. IRL there's no undo button. D:


Mars plastic erasers worked good for me. When I could draw. Scanning pencils and then darkening them makes them looked inked. Need to have a decient scanner or the background wont be white, and you might pick up smudges from your hand.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Raphael Prime » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:01 pm

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Windracer wrote:Yeaaaah, no. I used to do the pencil and paper bit but I'm really bad with pencilling and inking. That's why I adore sketching / lineart-ing in Photoshop. IRL there's no undo button. D:


Mars plastic erasers worked good for me. When I could draw. Scanning pencils and then darkening them makes them looked inked. Need to have a decient scanner or the background wont be white, and you might pick up smudges from your hand.



That's when you use the tool erase or paint brush, select white and start getting rid of the smudges and any off-white color, carefully. then go back and darken it all for the 'inking'. What i did on two of my turtles, and came out alright.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Dr. Caelus » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:22 pm

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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Psychomud » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:03 am

As a comic book artist, i recommend usinga blue lead pencil so you can mess up all you want. When you finish sketching rough with the blue lead, go over it with a regular pencil. This way when you scan the miage, you scan as greyscale (or bitmap if inked) and the blue never gets picked up. See below for one of my recent examples:

First sketching rough in bluepenciling, fixing as a go - no erasing.
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When when you find what lines you want and use pencils, it will scan and look like this:
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Keep in mind the blue lines are still there in image 2, but that was scanned greyscale while the top was scanned in color. In the 2nd image you can see a faint grey lines that were the actual blue ones - this is cause i adjusted the contrast to force it to get picked up even when scanned greyscale. If I scanned in only black/white (bitmap) - there would be no chance of ever picking up the blues.

I'm almost done with this pinup sketch as you can see, just showing you the difference how how a 0.35cent blue pencil on $4.50 bristol board, scanned with a $250 scanner is more cost effective than a couple thousand dollar wacom. Sure I love wacom, but it's more useful for coloring and inking. Penciling - thats a different story. Just my opinion from years of experience.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Jeep? » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:13 am

I was actually going to chime in about blue lead pencils, I live with an architecture student who swears they're the best thing ever. Then again, he said that about Deee-Lite.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Absolute Zero » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:52 am

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Blue pencils are awesome. I think you can use yellow ones too, since I've seen artist do the pin up art in yellow pencil too. But the blue is more well known/popular. And matches the color of the boarder on the boards for drawing.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Rebirth Megatron » Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:45 pm

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A Purple and Red Soundwave recolour?

RIP OFF!!! I CALL SHENANIGANS!!!

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Sorry LG..had to. Cool though...very cool. Though the head is still blue.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Absolute Zero » Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:38 am

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Maybe it's a recolor of Universe Blaster and not Cybertron Soundwave? :-?
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Redimus » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:42 am

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Why would anybody wanna do that?
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Burn » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:00 am

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Fearless Echoes wrote:Why would anybody wanna do that?


Well speaking from a financial kitbashing perspective, Universe Blaster will more than likely not sell very well and will most likely end up on clearance racks whereas Cybertron Soundwave was hard to find.

Even on E-Bay, mothers will be looking to offload their kids Universe Blasters with most Cybertron Soundwave's already being in collector's hands.

But from a personal perspective .... the mold is a piece of **** and could be used in a kitbash if petrol (gasoline for you americans) and matches are involved.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Absolute Zero » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:44 am

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Burn wrote: petrol


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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Burn » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:57 am

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Stone the crows AZ! You're acting like a dingo has stolen your baby! It's just lingo mate! Strewth! You're more stirred up than a swarm of mozzies after the rain season!
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Absolute Zero » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:04 am

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Burn wrote:Stone the crows AZ! You're acting like a dingo has stolen your baby! It's just lingo mate! Strewth! You're more stirred up than a swarm of mozzies after the rain season!


The dingo stole ma cah. Kobolds ate ma baby.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Dr. Caelus » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:20 pm

So... is the blue head intentional or not? If so, I think there needs to be a bit more blue elsewhere to make it concrete.



Burn wrote:the mold is a piece of **** and could be used in a kitbash if petrol (gasoline for you americans) and matches are involved.


It's not that bad. It's not the best mold ever, but it's still worthwhile, and clearly a 5 or 6 on any 10 point scale anchored appropriately by Armada Sideswipe at 0.

Also, the altmode looks good as a set piece in a WH40K battle.


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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Lord Gothika » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:03 am

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It is Cybertron Soundwave, and the blue wasn't intentional, but I think I'll keep it blue as it sets the whole thing off quite nicely with the blue on the cockpit shield
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Venomous Prime » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:21 pm

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a dingo took your baby away? lucky, the wolfman came and stole my baby, yeah the wolfman came and stole her away. well he took her and thats what she gets, and now nothing can save her now except for silver bullets

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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Edgecrusher » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:18 pm

Original Sin wrote:FRANKENSTEIN DRAG QUEENS!!!!!

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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Venomous Prime » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:38 pm

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You and Phaze are still the only two allowed to call me that :lol:
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Redimus » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:05 am

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Only becuase I prefere to call you Orignal Sindy.
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Lord Gothika » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:12 pm

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Fearless Echoes wrote:Orignal Sindy.


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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Redimus » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:04 pm

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Lord Gothika wrote:
Fearless Echoes wrote:Orignal Sindy.


Doll coming to stores near you soon!

Accesories sold seperately


Ahh... yeah, I see where you went wrong.

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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Lord Gothika » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:24 am

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Ooops my bad, sorry, should have known that, loved Dark Angel
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Re: The All New (yet again) HMW Character Pic Thread

Postby Burn » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:05 pm

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Alright, time for you guys to throw your thoughts out there.

Thanks to lack of time, this has been a painfully slow 'bash, which it shouldn't have been considering the VERY basic colour scheme of black and white.

But of course I don't do things simple do I? No. Not content to leave the Blaster mold with a busted eject button, I decided to modify the chest ... see pic.

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Now before anyone says anything, yes, it looks very dirty, because it's still a work in progress.

But i'm stuck on that damn head, i'm not quite sure on what to do with it. Perhaps paint the whole "helmet" black leaving a white face and yellow eyes? I'm not sure so i'm asking for feedback from you guys.

Oh and for the record, this is Resonance. Who really doesn't transform into a jet. :P

And in case people were wondering, i'll be using Steeljaw. Why? Because Steeljaw superior, Ravage inferior. There! I said it! Bring it on you Soundwave and Ravage fans! :P

(Could have also used Eject as well if i'd gone the whole hog and modded the chest to accommodate a second cassette. But this has taken long enough as it is!)
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