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ConstructionI'm in traffic.
Before I start, know this has no end. This story. It's just a chunk of my life, split free without clean edges. Where exactly it ends, I haven't figured out yet. It'll conclude, this chunk, at the end of some paragraph, but really it won't all be over until I'm dead and underground, grass growing like chest hair from my buried body.
It starts somewhere, some day when I started working sites as a prologue man, the first guy on the scene. It was called a promotion, and I thought it was at first. I was the one who got to tear the house to pieces with a sledgehammer. I was the one who would knock down walls to be rebuilt, trash

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I always like to see the steps of a picture, and so figured I would post up the steps of what 300 looked like throughout its progress.

Day 1: Started with a rough sketch of everything to get the placement right, then experimented with Opacity and stunned myself with how awesome I got the king's face to look. Was then equally stunned as I worked out the arm, cape, and pendant thing. Had trouble getting to sleep that night.

Day 2: Came back with a fury and did the king's chest. After finding out that the realistic look I was getting with this Opacity shading was no fluke, I redid the face and almost had a heartattack as I looked upon something I knew I would never have been able to draw in a million years.

Day 3: Pondered how to come at the shield, and ended up just tapping dots onto my Wacom for a couple hours after the other brush settings came up short in my opinion. My patience was tested, along with my sanity as I dotted the crap out of the shield in a multitude of colors. After I got it looking good enough, I started to work on the Spartan troops.

Day 4: Finished the Spartan troops, got lazy and wanted to quit for the day but pushed myself to do the Arcadians too.

Day 5/Finished: The most frustrating and mind-numbing part - making the rain look like rain. As stated earlier, I couldn't get any special brushes to look quite right, and so resorted to guerilla tactics, tapping my Wacom with a fury, streaking parts and blurring others. Finally finished after much longer than expected.




Here's hoping someone thinks this is cool. :]
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~DemonCherTeddyBear Aug 13, 2007
this is blasted amazing.


I loved this movie to pieces.

+fave.
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~thaddeous Aug 13, 2007
Blasted amazing?! Only now do I see how lame my own lingo is :)

Thank you very much for the fav.
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~thaddeous Mar 24, 2007
Why thank you very much!
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~RockAByeBaby89 Mar 24, 2007
You are lucky to have this talent. I wouldn't know how to even START going about this...
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