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Post by cloudmonet on Dec 1, 2005 22:47:02 GMT -5
Oh, okay, Mux, it is a jpeg, but a pretty high quality one, and I can't see any focus difference between this and the photoshop original, but my eyes admittedly aren't as good as they used to be. There's a slightly bigger version of this at my deviant art site. www.deviantart.com/deviation/25856164/ |
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Post by cloudmonet on Dec 2, 2005 23:59:01 GMT -5
A Christmas kiss, post "So the Drama" style:  |
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Post by wattsta on Dec 3, 2005 1:40:14 GMT -5
Do i detect the Ron Man slipping a bit of tongue  Great work! |
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Post by Nightspade on Dec 3, 2005 18:22:05 GMT -5
I envy your mad art skills so much.
Envy leads to Anger,
Anger leads to Hatred,
Hatred leads to Power!
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Post by drakkenfan on Dec 3, 2005 22:41:37 GMT -5
Awesome! I wonder what Kim's dad would think if he walked in the room and saw Kim and Ron french kissing like that? heheh (Ron begs for mercy as the deep space probe launches him into a black hole)...
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Post by cloudmonet on Dec 3, 2005 23:33:01 GMT -5
He'd probably politely wait till they were through before approaching.
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Post by ultimatenacotoppin on Dec 4, 2005 10:18:05 GMT -5
He'd probably politely wait till they were through before approaching. Hope he has something to read. May take awhile... |
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Post by Levelord on Dec 4, 2005 10:31:18 GMT -5
wattsta,
I'm mesemerised by your avatar and signature. I know, it's off topic, but I can't keep my eyes off them! it looks fun! XD
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Post by wattsta on Dec 5, 2005 1:06:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words levelord, they were frustratingly fun to make. But lets get back to topic on hand, which is to praise cloud for his rockin' skills. |
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Post by Levelord on Dec 5, 2005 6:06:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words levelord, they were frustratingly fun to make. But lets get back to topic on hand, which is to praise cloud for his rockin' skills. Wooooo! Right oooon!  Mr.Cloud's art. Actually I was trying to figure out how he manages to crop the pics and put them together seamlessly. IT amazes me so...  |
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Post by Forlong on Dec 5, 2005 9:43:32 GMT -5
He'd probably politely wait till they were through before approaching. Hope he has something to read. May take awhile... They have to come up for air eventually... |
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Post by cloudmonet on Dec 5, 2005 13:34:25 GMT -5
Ya really want to know? Okay, here's the original frame I worked with:  It's taken from a home recorded DVD of the clickit to pickit showing of "Christmas" last spring. And here's the finished product: I used Photoshop Elements 1.0, but just about any version or flavor of photoshop will work the same. I made multiple layers of Kim and Ron, separated their heads, bodies, etc., positioned everything so it looked about right. Ron's gotten taller relative to Kim since "Christmas" (another clue for not putting this ep in junior year, folks! Look how much taller Kim is in the original! At the end of season 2 she's level with Ron, and in season 3, he's taller.) Then, on a new layer, I redrew and recolored everything. Notice how my lines are relatively thinner than the original (especially with Kim and Ron enlarged). The background's from "So the Drama," the scene where Kim's trying to talk to Dad about boys and dating. I added the Christmas lights. The other drawing, "Ron's Dorm Room," combined a background I made in photoshop with an original pencil drawing digitally redrawn. Trace Kim and Ron enough times, and really, drawing them becomes easy. The secret to any of this is command +, which enlarges the view of the picture I'm working on. At 400%, it's easy to have total control of the paintbrush tool or eraser tool. Even without redrawing, it's not too hard to create a perfect edge! Here's one of the first modifications I ever did, first the original:  Then the alteration:  Again, I made duplicate layers, carefully erased Kim from one, Ron from the other, slid them together, and foreshortened Kim's left forearm to put her hand on Ron's knee. You can see a bit of fringe around Ron's face overlapping Kim's hair, but it looks a lot like the broadcast compression artifacts around the other lines, so I left it like that. Note the season 2 outlines, a heavier line with varying thicks and thins. In season 3, the outlines are much thinner, the inner lines in Kim's hair are more likely to be parallel than fanning out as they do here, and overall her hair is less poofed out, at least in closeups. Even when I start with a pencil drawing, you can tell this way if the picture I was studying was a season 2 or 3 Kim! |
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Post by aliciamartin on Dec 5, 2005 15:12:18 GMT -5
i love that picture  |
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Post by kimandronfan on Dec 5, 2005 17:11:09 GMT -5
Oh my god cloudmonet  I'm not even gonna say what I've said it to many times |
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Post by cloudmonet on Dec 6, 2005 12:37:17 GMT -5
Here's a new picture, inspired by goofmore's "night sky," from about a year and a half ago (see his deviantart site). I had a slightly different take on the same general idea of Kim and Ron looking up at the stars. We can imagine my version happening summer vacation, between "So the Drama" and season 4. "Starry Night"  |
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Post by Blink on Dec 6, 2005 12:41:46 GMT -5
Aww. All of Ron's worries are absent when he's with Kim... just look at how he's laying uncomfortably on that rock and not complaining... he looks so zen. Excellent job. This pic warms me up from the bitter cold weather Chicago is having right now. I miss summer.  |
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Post by Forlong on Dec 6, 2005 16:29:03 GMT -5
Something's up with Ron's head, but I don't know what.
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Post by Blink on Dec 6, 2005 16:30:46 GMT -5
Something's up with Ron's head, but I don't know what. ... maybe he's about to kiss Kimula?  |
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Post by molonuk on Dec 6, 2005 18:07:41 GMT -5
Love the new picture!
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Post by Nightspade on Dec 6, 2005 19:56:46 GMT -5
I envy you so much, Cloud, even though you are a stinkin' hippie!
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Mr.Cloud's art. Actually I was trying to figure out how he manages to crop the pics and put them together seamlessly. IT amazes me so... 
I'm not even gonna say what I've said it to many times
