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Published: 2006-06-29 05:21:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 590; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 42
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Description Let's clarify some stuff first of all, my entire background drawing ability is evident in the last proper deviation I uploaded, aside from that, I've never done a BG in an image (to my knowledge), so consider this my first real backdrop. As such, can we try to keep the scathing low for now? Helpful, but not TOO soul destroying..please?
And now, reasoning.
This idea effectively began last summer while listening to Incubus', "Wish You Were Here", thus the title, Wish. But there is a bunch of changes since the original conception, but no point bringing them up. This idea would have stayed dead, but a friend mentioned going to the beach a while back, and they got beaches locked in my head for ages, so it brought this idea back into play.
On a related topic, Rewd's earrings, (this could get lengthy, sorry).
Far left is usually his cross, here we have a summer themed version. Just on a whim I mixed it with the sun and got that, I actually really like it.
Second in, I consider a fragment of Bison's horn, complete with the same type if ring he wears in his nose. Bison/Tom is a friend I know online.
Third along..is hard to make out, it's actually a music note (custom design), overlapping a ring, they're two seperate pieces though, the note was to represent LalalaKirby/Steph. A friend I know offline and on, who helped me work out some stuff for this image.
Final earring is (I hope) a wildebeest skull, to represent Allie, or as everyone else was AIM name inspired, SkullsandDolls, her favourite animal being a wildebeest, and I love the look of there skulls, so it was a win-win! Allie is also an online friend.
So why those last three earrings? Well, as corny as it sounds, a major aspect of summer for damn near everyone is hanging with friends, right? So I figured I'd tribute some of mine, those three just happened to be online at the time...(so 3 quarters of my active BL, whoo!)

Let's hear it for corny summer themed images!

Oh, and Rewd now has hair, which will be explained later. It actually began years back, but on one knows...
Made to fit my laptops screen, it needs a wallpaper.
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Comments: 13

IceHedge [2007-08-03 04:18:41 +0000 UTC]

Interfeci nailed it; it looks amazing! The colors of the ocean reflecting against the orange-glazed sky is beautiful. All my favorite colors are in this one actually; black, blue, and orange! So no complaints on color choice at all from me!

Of course my dev-page doesn't say much for my expertese, but otherwise I love it. The clothes seem to blow just as lightly as the waves, and the angle of your character is great too.

Oh btw, I'm a friend of Bison's. It's cool you got to visit him and whatnot!

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Rewd In reply to IceHedge [2007-08-05 11:51:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. This is still one of, if not my favourite piece, that I've done. And given that, aside from that damn Leon pixel art, it seems to have the most comments, I don't think I'm the only one..though granted, it's not hard to beat about 2 comments...
Always nice to get some positive comments, just enough to keep my ego alive..though it does keep me from thinking I'm Godly and can't improve..I guess that's an upside...I'm digressing...
Anyways! Don't know if you're one of the various people I met on GunZ or not, but hey, always nice to meet new folk. And yeah, really enjoyed my trip up there, took long enough, woulda regretted not travelling up after flying over here, glad someone suggested it, just never really occurred to me...
Thanks again, and I'll have to swing by your account soon, repay the visit.

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interfeci [2006-07-01 19:58:35 +0000 UTC]

Looking great.
Keep up the amazing work.

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Rewd In reply to interfeci [2006-07-09 00:00:44 +0000 UTC]

Oh I intend to Inter' my good man, hopefully even setting myself a new standard of amazing in the process.
Cheers for the comment! I feel this thing didn't get enough exposure, shame really, proud of it...

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interfeci In reply to Rewd [2006-07-09 12:10:37 +0000 UTC]

you should be very proud of it!
your work is always amazing.

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Gakidou [2006-07-01 01:19:59 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I'm really impressed with the ocean effects. Great colours, and your shading has really improved just over summer and this year. Overall it looks stunning!

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Rewd In reply to Gakidou [2006-07-09 00:09:18 +0000 UTC]

Aye, I'm hoping to become a photoshop phenom come the start of year 2..but maybe that's setting my sights a little TOO high, I'll settle for just being able to improve for now.
Positive feedback on the ocean, whoo! I was afraid I only liked it because of the crap I'd turned out prior to that version, but it seems it seems to have gone down well for my first ocean, so joy.
Thanks for stopping, viewing, and boosting ego's. Sorry for the reply delay, was putting off messages 'till I submitted something..thought I'd have gotten round to it sooner...

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LalalaKirby [2006-06-29 11:09:33 +0000 UTC]

I figure I probably don't need to say anything, but I'm gonna anyway. This is a DAMN FINE PIECE. So do what I keep making the mistake of doing, and look at the image as a whole, and not concentrate on the little things (I do that too much now...). You've been drawing this for ages, and it shows. Its got LOTs of details and they're really nice. Really liked the hair effect. It confused me, but only because I wasn't expecting hair.

And thanks about the ear-ring-y thing.

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Rewd In reply to LalalaKirby [2006-06-30 11:05:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ya, and the hair does seem fairly random, but it's someone elses fault, and is rather old actually. And I've stopped picking it apart, trying not to even think about what could be done better, just so I don't destroy it for myself, but as I told Bison, on my laptop, (I assume it's to do with the gamma settings or something), this thing looks ten times better..I love it!

Just sorry I couldn't find a stylish way to fit in those surfboards and barbe..barba..BBQ!

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LalalaKirby In reply to Rewd [2006-06-30 12:17:07 +0000 UTC]

Aw, no worries, he looks all better on his lonesome.

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Aramakael [2006-06-29 06:39:01 +0000 UTC]

With the background, well, I'm the last person who can give any crit on that sort of thing but, I do like the way you did the effect of light shimmering on the water. I have an inkling on how that sort of effect might bedone but I'd kinda' like to hear how you did that.

I did notice Rewd's elbows in the WIP, didn't see he had hair on his head though :3 I like how the fabric is blowing in the breeze a bit. Don't really see anything wrong with altho' I bet you could reel off a list of mistakes if I asked

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Rewd In reply to Aramakael [2006-06-29 07:16:10 +0000 UTC]

Could. Wouldn't. Then they'd start glaring at..'everyone'.
Water shimmer is actually one of the shaped brushes near the bottom of Photoshop's list, splattered on various areas, then set the layer to..overlay? Screen? Eh, cycle the list for one that looks good basically, can't check mine right now, on the laptop. Might be a better method, but I could not find a single photoshop 7 ocean tutorial..winged it, and I have about 40 layers of trials to back it up, each more swamp like than the one before it!
I'll explain Rewd's hair another time though.

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Aramakael In reply to Rewd [2006-06-29 07:18:15 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, that reminds me, I need to snatch the extra brushes the version of photoshop you gave me had and put them on my computer And while I suspected you could reel off the mistakes I wasn't really asking you to

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