FullMetal*Panic!

Alright, this is the first in (I hope) a series, depending on feedback.

This first one features... Tessa!

For VIEWING:
Tessa 1024*768 JPG
Tessa 1600*1200 JPG

For DOWNLOADING:
Tessa 1024*768 BMP
Tessa 1600*1200 BMP

Special thanks goes out to Jae for scanning this in for me.

Nice work.

Wow, simple and nice.

Very nice.

TEEEEEESSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! MYYYYYYY GOODDDDDDEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!

:drools: and whole other things children under the age of 20 shouldn't see

MORE EIDOLON!!!












Regards

worked out nice ... have to get used to the gainy bit ..

Aw Tau - it's just a texture. (looks fabric-like - I like the texture.)

I think it looks great, Eidolon!

Thanks for the comments guys!

Corrected a small mistake/oversight on the wallpapers and changed the links to the new pics... Special prize to the first person that figures out what the change was.

Once I decide on the best material for the next wallpaper, I'll start a poll for which character to do.

I like!!! My suggestions: Consider adjusting the lineart contrast to make the black areas black, instead of dark grey. It will make your colors pop if the black has good definition. Also, the edges of Tessa have some white background showing through, which on the blue background rather stands out.

I'm not sure how you pieced together this picture (and if you're doing it this way, my apologies), but an easy way to do the above might be this - adjust your original scan's contrast so that white areas are white (or nearly so) and black areas are black - use that scan as one layer in Photoshop and change that layer's property from "normal" to "multiply". Multiply effectively renders white areas invisible, so you can color underneath your sketch, and you don't have to try and erase around the edge of the drawing to get all the white out of the lines.

This site is the site I learned from, and what you're doing is exactly the same, only with the refined sketch already provided from the manga.

It's so nice to see others doing high resolution backgrounds!! Yay!! I thought about doing some backgrounds in a similar method, but decided I was too lazy to color them in. It's really nice to see someone else doing it

Since i prolly am the only one who made a Gauron Wallpaper i'm my early photoshop days .... so .. i request a Gauron one... <g>

@Av .. didn't say it was bad .. it's just gettn used to ..
@W2xx nice site .. tnxie

Haha, that's pretty much what I'm doing (with a few subtle differences, and the fact I'm using PSP5).

The spot I learned from can be found here.

As for multiply on the lineart layer, no, I hadn't thought to try that before. I usually just create the mask from the source image (source luminance/invert mask data) and then go to colouring.

I just tried it your way, and although I'm not too keen on the result (too dark imho), I'll definately keep it in mind for future inking projects. Here are the results:
Tessa 1024c
Tessa 1600c

Speaking of future inking projects, maybe we should team up? Your cleaned-up high-rez scans and my inking, could prove to be interesting...

Eidolon wrote:Speaking of future inking projects, maybe we should team up? Your cleaned-up high-rez scans and my inking, could prove to be interesting...

Hmmm.... Sounds fascinating What do you propose? Any particular page you want to have me scan to test? I will say I know absolutely nothing about using PSP5 except that it's a good program. I'd probably just have to send you pictures as jpegs, and I _really_ have no idea if there is a similar function in PSP for "multiply" (a brief google search lends me to thinking there is, but since I don't have the program installed...)

Yes, PSP5 has many of the same... modes? as photoshop for layers.
(normal, darken, lighten, hue, saturation, colour, luminance, multiply, screen, dissolve, overlay, hard light, soft light, difference, dodge, burn, exclusion)

I also have PSP8, but it's unnecessarily complicated for what it is, so I stick with 5.

As for material, I'll take a look through Vol.1-5 when I get back from work.