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A Little Night Musick detail01 by =ShardGlass:iconShardGlass:


©2008-2009 =ShardGlass
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Artist's Comments

Detail shots were requested. There was more digital trickery involved in this illustration than I ultimately was comfortable with, which is why I kind of hate it now. But here's some (obvious) tips.

Records and CDs? Radial blur is your friend. Just eyeball in your highlights with a few straight strokes, then apply the blur.

Need to stretch a flat design to fit a plane in perspective? Skew Transform it.

Have metal or inorganic shapes you want to keep crisp? Give them their own layer, draw their shape in first in a flat colour, turn on Preserve Transparency, then paint away. Masks are also an option but they're more than you need if you don't require alpha transparency for parts of the layer, I say. That gramophone trumpet could have done with some bloom around the highlights though, it looks too cut out.

The rugs are totally cheap. One day I'll be sued for using oriental rug designs culled from Google.

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:iconankihitah:
Great details O.O

All over how long did this take to do this XD

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Shama Llama Laaaaaa
:iconshardglass:
Mm, thirty or forty hours.
:iconankihitah:
-dies-

X.X

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Shama Llama Laaaaaa
:icontheneongryphon:
You can really see your use of relfections.
:iconvladdyboy:
Ooh! Phonograph!

the description is nice too! pretty much a tutorial in the making!

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ROW! ROW! FIGHT THE POWAH!
:icontravesty-of-life:
I actually liked the "cut-out" gramophone effect... makes it look a tad eldritch, which is pretty much the story anyway.

Somehow extreme close-up makes this level of skill seem a little bit less unattainable (although still out of range of my hopes by a lot), but only in that your frigging patience comes from somewhere in deep space on an undiscovered planet.

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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

--Stephen King
:iconshardglass:
Patience is all it is, man. You don't wanna do anything like this anyway, all overwrought and pointless. Your stuff is fresh and lovely.
:icontravesty-of-life:
Bah. Nothing overwrought and pointless about doing what you love and being that committed to it.

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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

--Stephen King
:icontesana:
I love the title of the record, "Suffity, Stuff, Stuff, Ey." Sounds like the musical based on my life. ;)

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