Illustration Friday: Infinite

For as far as the eye sees, there is desperation.
For as far as you reach, there seems to be no hope.
In the vast void where all shadows take shelter...
In the glow of lights that turn day to night...
Such irony must this beauty of nature create,
For in such infinite beauty
Lies infinite desolation

-Eruption, karaiwashi

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For this week's Illustration Friday's topic: Infinite.

It's my first attempt at drawing an erupting volcano.
Adobe Photoshop CS2, Graphire 4, no reference.

Briar Rose

Princess Aurora / Briar Rose
My favorite fairytale princess.

This one's from the Disney version. Although I changed her dress a bit.

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It's my first time to try a fully painted realistic artwork. C&C welcome.

You might notice that it seems unfinished. I used CS4 and it's soooo sloooow even if my laptop's an HP Elitebook Workstation 8530. It was just so hard to paint when your strokes aren't real-time. There's like a 2-second lag for every stroke I make so I decided to stop or I'll be popping lots of ibuprofen soon.

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[pose reference] by *Lisajen-stock

WIP - New Style

I've been wanting to try a painted style for so long and I've been doing it halfway in most of my recent artworks. Now, I finally got the guts to go all the way. :)

I hope I don't disappoint myself. :p

Karaiwashi: Self-portrait

Self portrait for the win! :p
I wish I really looked like that. That would be sooo cool. :p

Commission: DOTA Tournament items part 2

Took a different approach for this batch.
(please do not steal or use without permission. Thank you.)


Heart of Tarasque



Butterfly


Sange and Yasha

Video Walk-through: MKB DOTA

Another Video Walk-through. This one's about 6x faster than its original speed. :)
Done in one sitting. Had to. Didn't have much time for it.
Hope you like it! :) Care to share your thoughts? :)

Commission: DOTA Tournament icons

Icons drawn in high resolution for a DOTA tournament.



Boots of Travel


Monkey King Bar


Magina (Anti-mage) Ultimate Skill



Heart of Tarasque



Iten Slot

1st Video Walkthrough: Stormdancer

I forgot to put this:
Music: "Cloudeater" and "La la la Zoom zoom zoom" both by Incubus

Uh, sorry if the editing is crappy... :p There's like...credits in the middle of the whole thing!! LOLz! don't mind that! :)



It's a 10-minute video of how I did the shading, highlights and details of an artwork I colored. Hey, this Livestream thing's pretty cool! :)

I'll have a better one ready soon. :) Maybe for my 80K pageviews in DA. :p

Thanks for putting up with my nonsense! :)

If you have time, visit my deviantART page. ;p


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Congratulations, Jon and Sherry Zamar!!! You're going to make such wonderful parents!

Red Beats

A birthday gift for someone.
Glad he liked it. :)


And some old work for Jon Zamar's "Minsan"

55,555 Kiriban

Your support is overwhelming! I've reached 50K views in, like, 10 seconds! (Well, that's an exaggeration, but, you get the point.)

And as a thank you for your support, I'm giving out a kiriban prize to whoever catches the 55,555 view of this site! :) Sounds like kidstuff? :) Weell. :)

Send me a screenshot with my page counter set at 55,555. You get a 8.5:"x11", 300dpi colored artwork (of your choice).

No Photoshopped images, please, or I will haunt you in your sleep and eat your eyeballs for dinner!

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Etymology

Japanese キリ番 (kiriban), from 切りのいい番 (kiri no ii ban) - "a number which is a good place to stop", "a round number".

Noun

kiriban (plural kiriban or kiribans)

1. A milestone; an interesting number displayed on a web counter, such as 10000, 22222, etc.; particularly, one selected by the website owner for the purpose of giving a prize to whoever reaches it.
2. A gift or prize given to one who reaches such a milestone.
3. The system of giving gifts to those who reach web count milestones.