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Happy Halloween 2012

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Advertising my friend's Halloween pictures - for some love and sweets!



Hello folks, so I heard it's Halloween again - because sadly here in Germany it's still not celebrated in the way it deserves. Humm, however I didn't want to break with my "Draw a Halloween Picture each year" tradition, even if university is - as feared - a time-eating monster XD So here you go, some Aranea for Halloween :dummy:

I'm quite happy about how this turned out coloring-wise. As always I had a lot of fun doing the shading, though this time my computer actually slowed down dramatically considering the original file size and the amount of layers I believe. So during the last days I had a rather rough time with the highlights and the burn tool, as my computer tend to either take its take to load the zoom correctly or the tools worked with a time delay, which is... not so cool. Most annoying was saving however (I'm paranoid when it comes to saving), because a snail could have probably beaten the saving bar in a race with ease xD Still *pats computer* thank you buddy, for getting through this with me, you're still amazing.
For anyone wondering... the file size is 687 MB now as it finished, when I started shading it already hat around 200 MB, so... I'm actually quite amazed of what my little netbook is capable o O;;

Ahem, gotta make things short because I have to get ready for university soon (and I still have to hand in my evil Math homework of this week!). After having finished this I was quite... amused, because while keeping up my Halloween picture tradition I broke another one. During the past three years I always drew Haloween pictures containing my character Raven, now - after three years - you can't spot her anywhere in this picture, unless she transformed in a cute black kitten (I'm pretty sure Raven is magical enough to do something like this.). I simply couldn't resist using Aranea for this year's Halloween picture, even if I'm aware that my other characters deserve more credit at this time. However, a spider for Halloween? Fits. A kid? So you can do something "cute" this year. Yeah... something cute I said :dummy: I wanted to do something else in the first place, my very first idea - which came up into my mind when drawing Xeno's and Ashe's references earlier this year, was to draw a big Pokémon picture containing the characters of my friends - but then I got too less time left. Thought two... will not be mentioned here, because I might start it in the near future as a birthday gift and I don't want to give that person spoilers yet :evillaugh:
Why am I telling you all this by the way? I'm not so sure either, maybe just because I'm typing what comes up my mind right now... *shurgs*

And now a lineup of my last 3 year's halloween pictures, so people can see what I was typing about earlier:


Last but not least a quick talk about the picture itself. I stated that I'm happy with it, coloring-wise, color-wise, effect-wise (I just love how everything that glows came out), but I'm not so sure if many will notice that I tried out to make some use of perspective... =lunatic-neko and ~Anira-the-Fox already told me that it kind of looks like Aranea is sitting on the ground or kneeling, but not standing. Yeah... guess they're right, that evil dress really makes it look like that. But other than that I'm quite happy that it wasn't a full failure (as I feared when I finished the sketch), but came out nicely - not perfect, and there's a lot of room for improvement, but all in all it looks nicely. And for sure it was a great practise for everything, from doing "special" highlights (how I call the neon green highlights on Aranea) to effects and some perspective... It was fun :3 And I noticed how much I missed drawing during the past three weeks at university...
One more thing about the picture I'm certainly proud of: no textures or special brushes were used in the making of this picture and background! I'm always happy if I can say that about a picture of mine... guess it's a personal achievement after all. What I mean by this: I'm always happy if I can create a picture like I imagined it (or at least close to that) without depending on too much resources. Can't even tell why, because it's not evil to use brushes after all... but still, I feel kind of proud... personal achievement, bleh :XD:

Also I want to apologize for my inactivity and the messages that are still unanswered in my inbox. I didn't die, but something close to that sucked away all my free time (university). To make it worse, October was the "Omg you preordered games" month of the year with Pokémon Black & White 2 (which I beat a while ago, but I still play it on my way to university) and followed by Assassin's Creed III today (which will arrive in some hours, but guess I won't play it before tommorrow as my boyfriend comes over to my place to watch HOTD and some horror movies with me and to be honest, my room needs to be cleaned badly...). Ahem... about university and my lack of activeness around here: Well, but now that I can access the free WiFi at university I probably will spent the gaps between my lectures in replying notes and comments, and if possible even comment on pictures more often. Beware of the auto-correct of my smart phone, which my boyfriend shutted off as good as possible - but it still strikes back every now and then -trolling me like a boss!!!

Oh, one last thing: the ghost's name is "Wobbly". Maybe he's friendly.

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xpha's avatar
I remember when you drew this xDDD i watched ur ivestream when u did this X3