Raku Dragon Tooth Ocarina
Hey guys. So back to another drawing. 🙂
Yes I do plan to finish Terra, don’t worry; I just wanted to draw this picture to enter in a competition to win one of the above-drawn ocarina’s from SongbirdOcarina.com. The contest is to post a piece of “original ocarina-inspired visual art” to their facebook wall, and Mr Songbird’s favourite gets the grand prize. Everyone who enters also gets a 15% discount voucher for the shop, which I quite possibly will end up using if I don’t win. 😉
I’m not quite 100% happy with this picture yet though… It’s missing something. I think it needs some sort of highlights, something that really looks like light gleaming off a shiny surface. But I’ll experiment with that some other night and upload the results if they’re good.
[EDIT] Alrighty, here’s the final piece. What do you think? 🙂 There are some minor tweaks to colouring, but more importantly I added some texturing and highlights to the surface to make it pop out more. The animated fire is just for fun. 🙂
[EDIT2] Okay so Tony made a few more suggestions, mainly to do with making the holes less flat, and the background less solid. Looks so mint now. 😀
And since some people may have missed the video, here it is again. 😉
See previous post for details.
Try duplicating the ocarina layer and changing its mode. Colour Burn, Colour Dodge or Hard Light will probably get an effect close to what you’re looking for (but do play around, it’s great fun), then trim away any excess with a nice soft airbrush and adjust opacity accordingly. 😀
Good luck on the contest!!!
preeeettyyyyy 😀
Lol. That ocarina is more like 12 layers. xD I did make a compressed copy and use it in some manner like you suggested though. Actually twice..or even three times; a couple before you suggested it. I think I ended up using hard light for one of them at least. 🙂 Dunno what you mean about trimming with an airbrush though.. o.o
Heheh thanks. 🙂 I think it looks pretty cool. I also happen to think that some of the other entries are nicer… more friendly and peaceful and stuff. But I’m still happy with how mine turned out. The colours really look nice now. 😀
Now thats just showing off.
Yeeeeeah boi! 😀
Wait did you see the LATEST one (with the faded background and stuff) or the one before it (with pure black)?
how long did it take you to do that??? so coool! mine is smaller than yours i think (round instead of long) but anyway love the sound of ocarina ;))
How long for what? The video was an afternoon of messing around (plus learning the song beforehand and stuff which I guess took a while spread out over a week or two).
The picture was roughly two evenings’ pretty solid work; which is now I’m behind on my assignments and revision. xD