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Kate Essex
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Bad Influence Masquerading as a Good Idea
Female
22 years old
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Registered: September 29th, 2008, 2:20 PM EDT
Papers: 4094
Donated: $10

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Joy! by $kokun  6 months 3 days  ago

Joy! by $kokun 6 months 3 days ago

Recent Scan

Lucia Vector by $kokun  1 week 1 day  ago

Lucia Vector by $kokun 1 week 1 day ago

Recent Favorite

Escape by *personalepitaph  1 day 10 hours  ago

Escape by *personalepitaph 1 day 10 hours ago

Journal

One Itty-Bitty Step Forward...
5 days 16 hours ago
And one massive step backward...

I started working on this scan sometime over the summer. I always have a bunch of different things going on at once, because after a while--no matter how much I like the scan--I start to get bored. I know I'm not the only one. Anyway, I got the lines vectored and was starting to work on laying down some colors, and everything was fine. After about 16-20 layers, I started working on the soap suds in the tub. I got the base color down and then couldn't decide how I wanted to do the shading because the edges are soft, but a vector would render sharp, crisp edges. Decisions, decisions. Should I just vector it anyway so it matches the rest of the wall? Should I try and paint it a bit even though my mouse spazzes out all the time because my cats shed everywhere and it's all over my desk [which means there's cat hair in the way of the laser, which means the laser thinks it's being moved around when it's not or in different directions from where I really move it]?

I figured what the hell and started painting. It's oddly soothing, more so than vectoring. And, best of all, the soap suds looked awesome. Unfortunately they also looked really out of place with the rest of the wall. So in what might be the dumbest move I've made in Photoshop since my first walls several years ago, I chucked all the other layers that I had shaded before with vectoring. I know in the end it'll really be worth it because my wall will look great, so I just need to keep telling myself that and hopefully it won't take forever. I think I'm going to stick to vectoring chibi for the scan gallery, though, because that is much easier, hehe.

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About Me

Anime: Gunslinger Girl, Hell Girl, Serial Experiments Lain, Red Garden
Band: Say Anything
Book: Abhorsen Trilogy
Browser: FF3
Image Editor: Photoshop CS
MP3 Player: Insignia NS-DV2GC
Manga: Uzumaki, Aqua/Aria, GOTH, Hot Gimmick, xxxHolic
Operating System: Windows XP
TV Show: Robot Chicken, SuperJail, Metalocalypse, Futurama, Dead Like Me

Comments

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°kunogi09midori
Community Waller
Ocha no Neechan!
2 weeks 6 days ago
CLAMP's artworks discouraged me to vector but I suddenly decided challenge it. Actually the outlining the frills is one of my favorite part.

I'm finished with the outlines and now adding the shadings... I got too excited. It's nice that you got motivated again and good luck in your ccs wallpaper too.

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°kunogi09midori
Community Waller
Ocha no Neechan!
3 weeks 18 hours ago
User posted image
I actually thought that the original scan's colors are too far from each other so I changed the colors. And thanks for noticing about my sig... I'm actually a notorious misspeller and typo. I will be careful next time. (>_<)

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~Nathressa
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3 weeks 2 days ago
Hi there,
first of all thank you so much for the nice comment on my wall^^


kokun
I don't think anything is missing from the bottom. It looks like a table, and tables don't need to be fancy, but if you're looking for something, try a texture that will compliment the one in the background without distracting the viewer from the rest of the wall.


I have removed the cirkels^^ thanks for the advice. And i have used the same texture, linke i did in the background. I just changed the perspective tho let the floor look a bit livelier (does sound strange somehow)

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`yuukine
Senior Member
Former VampirePrincessYuuki
1 month 1 week ago
XD

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`yuukine
Senior Member
Former VampirePrincessYuuki
1 month 1 week ago
Hi there ^^
just wanna say i will soon change my username to yuukine
so dont freak out when you dont see vampireprincessyuuki on your stalk list.
lol.....XD

lol copy/paste ftw sometimes

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~megori
Member
Overly Obsessive Yaoi Fangirl
1 month 2 weeks ago
Hey kate! It's been a while. Lol. I haven't seen or heard from you in a long while. Gosh, it's great to find you here. Though, I guess my account had been lying around inactive for years...

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~Karaina
Member
Not Likely to Get Any Work Done~
1 month 3 weeks ago
Thank you for commenting on my Tsubasa wallpaper (:
I didn't have a larger resolution of this wall, so I tried to make a larger one similar to it. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and offer an opinion or suggestions on how to make it better!
You can find my wallpaper here: Link
Much thanks again,
-Karaina

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°Tina18
Community Waller
Weirdalicious
1 month 3 weeks ago
Edit: woo what a cute vector. Thou the lines aren't fluent and very neat, you do know you can bend the pentool lines how you want right?

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°Tina18
Community Waller
Weirdalicious
1 month 3 weeks ago
Thanks you for passing by Kate. Glad you like the wallpaper =D

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~redrouge
Member
za procrastinator!
2 months 9 hours ago
Wow, good luck...

im working on 4 walls in total. 3 are for AP and one is for my friend. I'll be uploading a screenshot of them or something on my journal...

I also have a fanart that I've been working on for 2 month that i should finish soon... plus school.
this is so not gonna be finished

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~redrouge
Member
za procrastinator!
2 months 6 days ago
So how's that wall coming?

im having difficulty with the wall im working on right now... tears

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~ikaika2884
Member

3 months 5 hours ago
Thank you for the comment and Fav ^__^

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~May50
Member

3 months 2 weeks ago
Thanks for commenting on my wall Zero. I've decided to stop working on it to start on another wallpaper.

Thanks!

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`sakuraneko
Senior Member
KEYBOARD CAT!!!!!.....play their a$$ off
3 months 2 weeks ago
*Gives cookies to you :3 *It's late but thanks are still in order for your comment and fav on my lost june memories wallpaper :3, oooh and thanks for the watch also :3...take care

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Bantam
Developer
◕ ◡ ◕ < I like butter now )
3 months 2 weeks ago
Worship my icon, for it is your master!