ちょっと早いと分かってるけど、お誕生日おめでとうニノちゃん！

[eggchan]

I know this is kind of early but I had an urge to draw a realistic picture on my computer and I was trying to figure out who to draw and I realized that it's kind of close to Nino's birthday and so I did a picture of Nino

It's been an extremely long time since I've looked off a picture to draw something, and doing a realistic picture on the computer is actually a first for me Which is why I had so much trouble while making it -- I had some trouble spots and also his eyes bothered me a lot. I couldn't get them like they were in the picture because he is looking into the camera in the original and in mine he looks like he is looking slightly down But as many times as I tried I couldn't fix it. But I am pretty satisfied with the way it came out

Anyway, I used a photo of him from the Strangers on a Train pamphlet, and it was actually really fun! I like the original picture a lot.

And I recorded my process, which is also a first for me and I uploaded it to YouTube

PREVIEW:



I fixed his crazy eye on the left that was bothering me ;

And here's the original image that I was going off of:


Yaaaaaaay! 8D

Comments

[zelflame.livejournal.com]

So.

I am no art critic.

But this is fanTAStic. I mean like. WOOOOOO~~~

I really loved watching the process, too. It was mesmerizing ♥

You, my friend, are a winner.

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! It was really fun and I hope to do another one at some point :DD And actually, the more I look at this picture the less I like it XDD *bricked* ahhh... anyway.. I hope I can find another awesome picture to do a portrait from 8D

[zonbiushi.livejournal.com]

Waauuuuu~

That's way neato, pepito! I especially enjoyed the process video, it was super fun to watch :)

Out of curiosity, how many layers did you use when you did this?

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

lololol XD I used 2 layers. *snort* (well I guess four if you count the bg color and the underlying sketch) that is like the least amount of layers I have ever used in my LIFE.

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

oh I should probably mention: one layer was his face/body, and the other was his hair cuz I thought I was gonna screw it up royally lol

[zonbiushi.livejournal.com]

Ehehe, I know how you feel, I am layering crackwhore XD

I always hear about how people use fewer layers when they work in a realistic style -- I'ma have to try that sometime :)

[yukichan-tb.livejournal.com]

:O
Whoa... this is simply great!!!
Your work is really nice, and I loved the video too :3

By the way... why don't you post the original photo? I don't know what photo it is but I'd like to see it if possible :)

Thank you very much for sharing!! ^o^

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

ah.. good idea ^^ I'll edit the post with the original.

[yukichan-tb.livejournal.com]

Sugoi!! :D
Now that I look at it.. it looks even greater! :3
Thanks for following my suggestion ^^

[eternal-candle.livejournal.com]

Beautiful T_T. You're very skilled!

[demiofpolerex.livejournal.com]

Sugoi!!!!!!!!!so realistic!

[mumblerm.livejournal.com]

Wow 0.0
You're fricken amazing. Is there anything you can't do?
Don't answer that, it'll probably just make me bitter:P Lol.
I wonder why Oh-chan hasn't drawn the members for their birthdays too.
You know, instead of muscle men with no relation.
But, yeah. This is super awesome. Kudos.

[missmomoko.livejournal.com]

ah whoa! the hair is amazingly realistic! I can't draw with a tablet/mouse to save my life. This is great.

[whoompah.livejournal.com]

SO PRETTY!!! I love how you did his hair and his eyes! good job! <333 C:

[atrandum.livejournal.com]

omg you're so gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood *crazy jealous*!!!!! I wish I could draw half as well as you do!!!!

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

holy CRAP!!! i am so jealous >< me + digital painting = a mess XDD what program did you use to record? (last program i tried wouldn't allow me to use the spacebar and i can't do anything without that when painting XD) and also what kind of brush did you use?

i am insanely jealous..everything is spot on...although his lips look a tad like Matsujuns (or is that just me?)

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

I used Bulent's Screen recorder. It was the first time I've used it and it worked out pretty well :)

I then sped it up and did the little editing required in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Thanks! :) And I think that Jun and Nino have similar lips. They both go up in spots that normally go down on other's noses ^^;;

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

okay ill try that out and maybe do something for ninos b-day too XDD

yeah they do XD

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

haha and obviously this proves just how tired I am.. I meant to say their lips go up in spots that most people's normally go down on their faces.. not noses. XD;

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

that's okay, i knew what you meant ^^

[5um1r3.livejournal.com]

it's very beautiful.. you did a great job on his eyes, it's actually the first thing that caught my attention.. :)

[adlizto.livejournal.com]

that is REALLY good, especially since u've never drawn realistically on the computer...that's always a weird transition at first.

i LOVE the hair and eyes, they came out amazingly realistic XD

what's funny tho, is if you really look at it, you can see parts of all the other members haha kinda cool

[popstar-gummi.livejournal.com]

Super cool! :D

Did you say that you've written a letter to Arashi in the past? If not, you should...I'm totally thinking about writing a letter to someone sometime.

[soritt.livejournal.com]

It's so great. ♥ I love it when you're drawing the hair... Colors is perfect...

You use a tablet or mouse ?

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

i used a tablet. I don't think I would ever be able to do something like this with a mouse XDD

[yuji.livejournal.com]

I think you should send this to him if possible. It's really good.

[mayey87.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE WAY TOO AMAZING!!! I love your drawing and I enjoyed watching the video so much. I wish I had your skills. :D

[mystical-mayhem.livejournal.com]

The hair is so fluffy! It looks really great! My friend makes animation videos like this and I think it's so interesting how different artists start and go about making their drawings. I can't do realism to save my life so this is very impressive to me~!

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

how did you get it to record exactly what i see? when i did it and played back everything is inverted (as in my skin color is blue and where my layers are is orange....) i've done everything i can think of but i just can't fix it O_O

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

I used a program called Bulent's Screen Recorder or something like that, and then sped it up in Adobe Premier. What did you use?

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

i am using the same program but once i save and watch it everything is inverted....

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

the only thing I can think of is that it's a codec problem and so you need to update your codecs maybe?

[musosuru.livejournal.com]

ahh okay i'll try that then ^^;;;

[berry-arashi.livejournal.com]

You are creative !!
I like ur work C8 !!
Even though u did it quickly actually it seemed perfect !!
Go ahead & Gampattee :D

[alee5a.livejournal.com]

Wow! This is awesome! How I wish I'm as talented as you are~