Kayness - Joaquin deux
Joaquin-deux

A repaint of a character I painted completely out of a whim some years back. I did this for a book submission. I tried to create this somewhat sinister expression on his face, and heh, tried really hard to give his skin this abalaster translucence that hints that he might be well, more than just some pale, slightly creepy looking guy ;). After all, he's meant to be a vampire!

Also, I'm quite aware of how bright my screen is...I actually kind of like it that way, but it also kind of means that my painting tends to appear really dark. I appreciate feedback on how this picture appears on your screen.

MasterStryke how old are you?

Kayness - Ancient Queen
I started painting this perhaps a month - or almost two - back. Prior to that I haven't been doing anything for a while - I was just so insanely busy. This is meant to be a 'warm-up', you know, when you haven't done something in a while you tend to get rusty.....so I wanted to do something relatively 'easy'.

This is very South-East Asian influenced, and also I wanted to do something fusion-y, and also some kind of ancient-queen lady thingie with lots of goldness

I hope I will do something more exciting in terms of concept and composition in my future works, but here it is for now :o

Some parts of the background have texture overlays from stock texture photos (esp on the top centre, top left and left side).

face midway WIP http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/kaahjay/art/ancientqueen_midway_wipA.jpg

face closeup at 60% http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/kaahjay/art/ancientqueenfinCU_60pc.jpg

armilar Your work is simply stunning!
I specially like the way you use colours! I and also like how you are able to draw different styles and subjects!
I hope you don't mind I add you as a friend.
And great top banner

pixmaker yummy..... i live in an asian community so this should be easy to find.

pixmaker what is pocky? can i have some?

Kayness - Vampness - photomanip paintover tutorial
CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO TUTORIAL!

basically it's more like a demonstration of how a photo can be painted over and manipulated to make it look like a ' painting'. Nothing much here just fooling around :p. Took only a few hours. All the steps are explained in the subtitles in the video. Done with Photoshop CS3

original image
http://longstock.deviantart.com/art/red-and-black-gown-15-close-up-35242876

text, for those who cannot read fast enough:
- smudged the skin using round brushes at 20% strength and hair with spackled brush at around 69% strength
-filled the background with a neutral grey colour
-made a new layer, set the layer blending mode to Soft Light and brushed some light blue over the skin and some reddish brown along the hairline and the hair at the back
-painted over the face and neck, removed dark circles and blemishes, and generally smoothed out the skin
-used the Liquify tool to nudge and slim down the face shape, jawline, raise cheekbones, enlarge the eyes and raised the eyebrows.Dodged in and painted over the irises.
-painted over the face and hair. Changed the head shape and used even more of the Liquify tool to slim down the torso area.
- made another layer, fill it with a neutral grey colour and set that layer to Overlay. Used layer mask to erase out the area on the skin and hair
- made another layer and set that layer's blending mode to Colour. Used a medium soft round brush in blue to tone down the orange. Set the layer opacity to about 60%
- made another layer and this time the blending mode is set to Normal. Painted over the shoulder and arms to smooth them out.
- painted in eyelashes, highlighted the nose, lips and face using round brushes set to Normal and Colour Dodge modes
- fill in the background, Done.

egil your new banner is hotness

aniOcean Superb skills :P

Kayness - Maiko
originally painted the traditional maiko makeup on the character's face, though I later decided against it but still want to keep the title anyway...it is yet another attempt to immerse 2D & 3D elements together with lots of Far Eastern, more specifically, Japanese influence


initially started out in PS7 but later worked on it with PS CS3

egil yoyo
I heard your voice on PB. haha, you sound cool enough ;)

Maryl You got a really nice gallery so far, can't wait to see more of your work over here.