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I can't draw; seriously. I can't even make a successful stick figure, it comes out looking like a well-drawn xkcd comic every time, even with a ruler. But I consider myself an artistic person, I enjoy photography, graphic design, and print work.

So as a less fortunate male might make up for certain lacks with a big bright shiny sports car, I have decided to make up for my lack of drawing ability with an attempt at creating an original piece of work. Well, slightly original.

First off I'd like to thank the amazing artist Kalel06 from Halobabies.net for the original line work. Which you can see here: Deviant Art Profile.

Now with the urge to make art, I tried to implement my graphic design skills in a unique and probably completely idiotic way in Photoshop to create this piece:

Master Chief "Vector"

It was done with mouse, unfortunately no Wacom tablet here. The selection tool and gradients can do more than I thought! Now if you're one of those type of people that must know how everything is done, you can review my horrible arrangement of layers and disgusting choice of a way to work in this PSD file: .PSD - 12.1MB.

Enjoy, humans.

-akba

  • 04.02.2009 10:36 PM PDT

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I feel that conceptually, it is a great piece. Accuracy, should not always be a factor when doing conceptual work, good stuff man!

  • 04.02.2009 10:41 PM PDT

The proportions look a little unsynced, but other than that, it looks amazing.

  • 04.03.2009 4:44 AM PDT

Maybe it's just the Lightning seeds getting to my head, but I really like it

  • 04.03.2009 10:04 AM PDT

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I feel that conceptually, it is a great piece. Accuracy, should not always be a factor when doing conceptual work, good stuff man!

Agreed.

Nice work!

  • 04.03.2009 11:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: akba
Now with the urge to make art, I tried to implement my graphic design skills in a unique and probably completely idiotic way in Photoshop to create this piece:

Master Chief "Vector"


Nice attempt! It definitely has a comic quality to it and I feel you should continue with the style, given that it seems like you have an eye and some talent for it. Best of luck!

  • 04.03.2009 2:43 PM PDT
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Good Job!

  • 04.03.2009 2:53 PM PDT

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Nice work akba! That looks great. I find myself being the exact opposite of you, I'm fond of drawing, and have drawn some cool pieces, but most everything I touch in photoshop never turns out well.

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Great job!

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  • 04.03.2009 5:06 PM PDT

Wow, that is simply amazing!

  • 04.03.2009 8:14 PM PDT
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Thanks, if any of you know extremely good drawings Halo related off the top of your head please feel free to direct me towards them so I can attempt this again.

Thanks.

-akba

  • 04.05.2009 8:40 PM PDT