Since attending that Wacom mini seminar about their pen tablets and editing programs last Toycon, I had this burning desire to actually learn how to color stuff using Photoshop. Add learning advanced photo editing skills. Plus photo manipulation.
Inspiration No. 1

A quick draw challenge for that artist guy at the seminar. This is me wearing my Chii cotume. He did this in around 10 minutes.
And I just noticed this on the Wacom Philippines website:
Inspiration No. 2
The work of Wacom’s featured artist of the month: Yue Liang! (Taken here) I wish I could make somthing like this. (Dear Mr. Yue Liang, I’m a fan now).
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Playing with Photoshop
I’ve been using photoshop for quite a while now, and so far, this is my fave “work”:

Sketch look
I c&p a shot from my last lolita shoot and edited it with the help of some tutorial online.
Wait, I started talking about COLORING right?
I’ve been reading Sailormoon for the past twoo weeks. Scans are good, high res! So I desided to go ahead and try to color a page using photoshop and came out with this:
Orig:
Okay, so there’s a bit of cheating on this one since the original image has shading. I know its just like coloring a book like a toddler, but its not easy fumbling through color shades (which I’m not really good at) and using a shaky mouse. Anyway, I’m proud of what I made.
This makes me want to get a tablet in the future. in the future.
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