MapleRose
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Proposing Highlights
See something in the gallery that you think deserves recognition, especially one that doesn't have many comments/faves? Please PM me with a link to the work, and give me a valid reason as to why you think it deserves to be highlighted (because it is by your friend is not a good reason!). All self-plugs will be ignored.
Tutorial Corner
All of these tutorial are for Jasc PaintShop Pro 8, which has both vector and raster functions; I think it's better than Photoshop.
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VECTORING
- Vectoring Tutorial: Working with layers and shapes
- Vectoring with outlines and masks: One technique for outlined vectors, by using masks (PSP8)
- Vectoring with outlines V2: Another way to vector with dynamic outlines, without masks
- The Ultimate Pen Tool Tutorial: All you'll ever need to know about vectoring and pen tool in PSP8
- Pen tool extraction: How to extract scans with the pen tool
- NEW! Texturing: How to add texture to your work
- Soft airbrush colouring tutorial: Soft CGing with airbrush and magic wand
- How to paint wavey water: Painting water, like in "Windy Sunrise"
- Walkthrough for "View from Above"
- Painting moonlight rays for "So She Dances"
- Painting in ArtRage: Using the marker tool in ArtRage
- Painting city lights: Paint cityscape at night, like in "City Nightlife"
PAINTING
But, in case you are using Photoshop or or Photoshop CS, I've found a really nice
tutorial at deviantART to get you started into the basics of vectoring and using the pen
tool: Lemontea's Definitive Vector
Guide
Once you get to the devART page, click the "download" button on the left (don't
worry, you don't need to be a member of devART) to get the zip file.
Awards
From contests and stuff
- Staff choice from Vectory's contest for "Tiger tiger"
- Most colourful from GSA's Celebration contest for "Let's Celebrate"
- Best portrayal of theme from GSA's Celebration contest for "Let's Celebrate"
- Best Unique Character Design for RomeoxJuliet's banner contest
- 2nd Place in Celestial Luminesse's Purokon for A Girl Like Me
Communities and Sites
Other places I haunt
- deviantART - place for all my art, both anime fanart and original art and photography
- fanfiction.net - to let out the inner fangirl by writing fanfiction
- Captain and Commander - shrine for Mwu and Murrue of Gundam SEED, because I'm an obsessed fangirl. Includes fanart and wallpapers
- Dreaming of a Stream - personal site, original art and photography, newly revamped
- LiveJournal - random ramblings of a fangirl
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Glad you like :3
It feels so much better to finish it.
Thank you, Maple!
lol. This is another one that I plan to make copies of and sell, so don't worry. The original's not going through the mail for me.
If you're using Photoshop, you can place the pattern in a separate layer, place it over the place you're going to wrap the pattern on then press ctrl+T (or transform). Right click, then choose 'Warp' while on it's transform mode. After doing that, you can 'wrap' the pattern on the place you want to put it in ^-^
Thanks.
Mm, it's not very long. The second volume is the last one. Yes, it's like extras, points-of-view from other characters that have had some sort of relationship with Athrun (since The Edge itself is GSD from Athrun's POV), at different points in the series' timeline. The first volume contained those of Shinn, Meer, Cagalli and Rey.
The second volume appears to be more concerned with the portrayal of how the Minerva trio met, and their days in the Academy (middle portion, consisting of three chapters). There is also one chapter with Kira, as well as Dearka & Yzak at the beginning; the volume ends with a chapter on Rey's childhood. It just adds a lot of background to stuff you wouldn't otherwise know, and can be rather...enriching.
...And I think I've blabbered enough.
Hi, MapleRose-sama,thanx for comment, i removed texture, i hope it looks better now...
i'm in love with your works, they all look great, so i would like to ask you if you dont mind to put you into watchlist....oh and you have extremly great tallent for drawing...
Hi MapleRose


well Im here to tell you that you are our shining Artist of the month of April
so congratulations
take care & have a nice day
Hi!
Great job on the latest Maigetsu issue.
You're so cruel to pOpuLaR-cHan >:3
I was wondering, could we nominate users to be featured in the monthly Maigetsu?
Oh my... laverinne got another highlight! ^_^
Where was I? Yeah... keep up the great job with the Maigetsu, and never retire
Thank you so much!
Sure! I see you're going on vacation though, maybe already left... so I'll post this in the mod forum in case someone wants to add it in. Hope you have a blast!
Thanks a lot for your nice comment and the fav MapleRose.
See that, sho!? That's some sugar from Maple right thurr...
Anyways, don't be comparin' yourself to sho'... he's clearly misguided about anything outside the US border... more specifically up top.
And I'd know he'd see it because for reasons unknown, we be online all the time.
Hey, wow, thank you so much for faving "Faded Memories", I'm glad you like it, and the 'grudgy' effect... gotta love photoshop texturing for that! XP