volatyle
26 Feb 06 - 06.26pm |
The hair on this is the best style I have everrrr seen. |
Azbri
13 Feb 06 - 01.13pm |
the skin is off the hook!!!!
This is just like perfection |
cait
9 Feb 06 - 10.01pm
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wow... i love the eyes, skin, lips, hair, everything. the only thing i'd suggest is to put whispies on the hairline, but it's awesome!! great work |
Soie
6 Feb 06 - 07.05pm |
I'm so in love with this one!!! The skin is perfect... so soft! You say gradients but i really don't get it... if I use gradients it just doesn't look like this - mine look very very strange...
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Thank you. It takes a lot of practice. I use almost all gradients at this point and I'm becoming very confident with it and very happy with my results.
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cutietutifruitie
5 Feb 06 - 02.06pm
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i absolutly love the hair here. |
Sashiera
4 Feb 06 - 06.34am |
Love the shading and detailing of the hair. It really caught my eye. |
Brooklyn
29 Jan 06 - 06.51pm
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Wow... the skin.... thats just amazing. I'm just so jealous of you X) Usually I hate the way people make their vexe;'s nose look like crap but the nose in this picture is purrdy. |
seizuresonfloors
5 Jan 06 - 04.19pm
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How can you be that patient? I would've quit after like 5 strands of hair
The hair line looks a bit too perfect...
But its so smooth and realistic. Great job
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Patient? : x Hmm. I dunno. Once I am halfway done I can't bear to go back most of the time. I had made a basic shape for her hair and shaded it and then started on the stranding ; ) That made it easier. The hairline is supposed to be like that, though. It was delibeate *yay!* : )
Thank you verrryyy much.
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Tone
29 Dec 05 - 09.29am |
very great job. That vexel must have take a lot of time o.O The eyes, lips, hair everything, i love it |
axel
20 Dec 05 - 01.39am
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Very nice one! Have u used gradients on this? is it illustrator or photoshop?
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Thank you. Yes, I used gradients. It's for a styles collaboration and my style was to use soft gradient layers to create a more 'realistic' appearance. It's all photoshop 7.
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Zenith
18 Dec 05 - 03.39am
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Wooow, this is awesome. I love the hair! |
Sharmayne
16 Dec 05 - 11.29am |
Hmm do you know where i can find a tut about airbrushing? >_<
Its awsome! I love everything about it. Christina Ricci is so pretty!
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Thanks ; )
It's not airbrushed, and I've never done an airbrush so : / no I don't really know where to find one. Tried asking in the forums?
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Ilaria
11 Dec 05 - 12.02pm
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Omg I wonder how I could miss this! It looks perfect and it's probably the style I like the most. I love everything about it: the skin, the lips, the eyes..THE HAIR! Adding to my faves.
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How could you miss it? Because you were too busy staring at your Angelina like everyone else! THUNDER STEALER! : )
Thank you so much : )
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lilvdzwan
11 Dec 05 - 11.52am
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Echo, you did a great job and I'm glad you're satisfied with it! I know you worked really hard on this one!
My favourite part is her little nose! I looks lovely! But I also definitely love the eyes and the hair!
It's great you're in this collab too!
Thumbs up girlie!
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Thank you so much, Lilly. I did work really hard on it, probably 20 hours or more of work went into this vexel. I can't wait to see them all put together *ouu* : )
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soul416
11 Dec 05 - 06.17am |
This is freakin' gorgeous. How did you get the skin so smooth?
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Thank you : ) I got the skin smooth with a whole bunch of overlapping gradient layers in photoshop.
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purplereign
10 Dec 05 - 09.15pm
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
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I think that's the first time I've ever gotten that! : )
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Sarah
10 Dec 05 - 08.51pm
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All hail king echooo.
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Hate it? Yeah right. I freaking loathe it. I wish it would die. ;)
<3
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I know you hate it ; )
It's cool.
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You made me laugh : ) very loud. I'm sure the people in the livingroom are wondering why Echo's laughing back there all by herself.
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illogika
10 Dec 05 - 06.12pm
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While the hair is very well done (and I happen to like the contrast of skin and the 'sharper' hairline), my absolute favourite part hast to be the nose and cheek area. She just GLOWS! I can't stop staring at it, my goodness.
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Thank you very much : ) I'm so glad I'm not the only person who LIKES the hairline *jeez*. I think it's the tips and tutorials lately telling people that it's 'wrong' that have so many people commenting on it ; ) Everything doesn't -have- to be photo-realistic!
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kilxover
10 Dec 05 - 05.43pm
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HOLY CRAPPERS!
the hair must have taken you a week! jesus :P
My only criticism is that I think you should hake the hair line a little more smooth because right now its just skin>hair with no stray hairs or anything : )
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Nooo no no no! Ahg, I wish everyone would leave the hairline alone *tear* I knew it would be an issue but I did multiple hairlines and this was the one that I liked, was happy with, and was willing to submit. I know a lot of people do not but I happen to like the hard line look ; )
Thannnk you ; ) The hair only took two days, actually! like 7 or 8 or 10 hours that's all *coughs* : )
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okiexxdokie
10 Dec 05 - 04.57pm
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love this shit. mine now to favor. favorited.
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carolinabarajas
10 Dec 05 - 04.01pm
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Echoia te volaste la barda!!!!!!
This drawing is beautiful, the skin is astonishing, I have always wanted to make this way a drawing. But what I cannot stop to look is the hair, I adore that reddish color, it is fabulous, you really made an excellent work, you should be very proud. I LOVE THE HAIR!!!!!!!!!
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Holy cow, man! Thank you so much! The queen vexeller stopped to look at one of Echo's, I'm so flattered : )
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yellowschwester
10 Dec 05 - 10.26am
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I love it. I told you before that I absolutely adore this style of yours.
I think that some shaded of the nose shouldn't be that smooth, though. ( Of course only if you want it to be really, really realistic. ... But you said you wouldn't mind if it's not. So. ) I absolutely LOVE the hair. It's awesome. It really is - no exaggeration needed. I also really like the lips and the eyes.
But still I have to agree with the others and yourself about the hairline. A more detailed hairline would've been great but I don't think that the hairline you built smashed the whole vexel in a way. It's.... just great and I'm going to put it to my faves. Definitely!
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Thank you ; ) The hairline... I just don't know. I put in a more realistic one but everytime I took it away I was like, 'YES! That's the way it's supposed to look!' and then I'd put it back, and take it away, and redo it, and I just kept coming back to this one because I thought it worked better. In the end it was deleted from the 'Final' PSD forever because I have to be happy with it to post it, and this is the way I was most happy with it.
And I don't know about the nose : x Something about hte nose bothers me but at the same time when I was done with the nose I was DONE with the nose. It's like... the only place I didn't go back and change after the first run on it. There's something I don't like about it but also think it's cute ; )
And yay!! You commented! : ) I woke up and pulled my laptop into my bed and said, 'I hope Berit left a message by now!' ; ) I haven't even read the new messages besides yours yet!
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lovexhate
10 Dec 05 - 09.49am |
omg i love this, its so going on my faves.
awesome job.
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Thank you very much!
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zummi
10 Dec 05 - 09.14am
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I loooove the skin and eyes and lips :)
The hairline (im not sure if thats the right word ^^; heh) looks a little odd, maybe the skin looks too sharp against the hair .. duno if that makes sense >< But its very beautiful overall...I totally love it :)
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Thank you : ) You can see my hairline explanation in my reply to Yellow, but to condense it, this was version (total hair version, not to mention hairline versions) number 5. It was the only one that made me happy ; )
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Andrea
10 Dec 05 - 09.03am
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Echo.. this looks absolutely amazing! xD It's sooo smooth . And I love the red hair.
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Thank you very much : ) It's awesome getting messages from my favorite vexellers. Gosh, I'm going to be so snotty soon *grins*.
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Mattness
10 Dec 05 - 07.53am
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OH. MY. GOD. :| *favs* This is just so awesome! More than cool... :|
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No, no! YOU are more than cool ; )
Danke schon : )
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Photojunkie86
10 Dec 05 - 07.49am |
wow....i love everything about this; the hair, the eyes, the skin, the nose, the mouth....did i miss anything?! lol! great job, echo! ;D
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Thank you ; ) I'm sure you can find something else to compliment, though? Hmm.. come on think Echo... what was missed... ; ) No, really, thank you very much.
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longhairedlv
10 Dec 05 - 05.18am
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This is breathtaking.
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Turp
10 Dec 05 - 04.01am
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Thats the tannest I've ever seen Christina Ricci :) lol, looks great.
Aw I personally love her skin, just my taste totally :b yours turned out beautifully though, it'll contrast so well to everyone else making her so pale :D
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Thank you : )
I have a version of the skin layers that's much lighter but I wanted the thing to be dark. I always think Christina's skin is a little too light for her features or something. I think the same thing of myself, actually! When I vexel me I look way tanner than I am ; )
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Tell_Tale♥
10 Dec 05 - 03.34am
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I think that this is stunning im in love with the hair
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Thannnk you thank you thank you. I was so proud of the hair when I figured out how I was going to do it ; ) It's nice for someone to recognize the hair rather than just focus on that they don't like the style of hairline that I do *eek! I'll just die!* : )
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Cindy
10 Dec 05 - 03.14am |
Wonderful use of gradient work. I really like this style, by the way!
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Thannnnkkk you! I was worried at first that people would go, 'OMG That's not VEXEL!' because it's so gradient...ed... *looks around, doesn't know how to talk* but since it was for styles I figured what the hell, I'll take the bad with the good ; ) I'm glad people like it!
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Manda
10 Dec 05 - 03.13am
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omg its about time XD You're still counting!? lol i think im on my.. 21st. lol GO ECHO!
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oh.. lol i put all my vexels on the site XD
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: P I only number them if they go on Echoia. This is number 26 of the completed vectors that I found satisfactory at the time of completion. 26 I've been happy with in about the last 14 months, uhg! There are about ten between this one and Extraordinary Machine (number 25) that never made it to any gallery because I just am not happy with them or have not finished them.
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Rick
10 Dec 05 - 02.57am
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Where do you find the time, King and vexler.. how do you do it! You put a lot of time here and still you manage to turn out pics. *bows to the king* Christmas will be here soon take a good rest there's a whole new year ahead.
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You're nice : )
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4evagurl
10 Dec 05 - 02.50am
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I abosoutly love the hair! The skin kinda looks blurred, but I know you didn't blur it! I think you should keep the technique, But overall its a marvolous piece! I will favorite this! =D
Edit// I think your sore wrist does an extremely well done job on vexeling this piece, lol and I think this one is your best one so far! And what do you use on it? Photoshop?
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Thank you : ) I'm working really hard to make it more of a gradient-mesh look so it doesn't really look blurred and then I can add highlight layers on top where you can see the gradients 'bump' the edges. I know it looks kind of like I blurred the layers but if and when I write an explanation for it (have to get better, first) people will understand. I'm not sure if I'll write one though because everyone around here seems to have so much freakin' talent and all I have is my sore 'mousing' wrist that works so hard ; P
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Absolutely all photoshop, yes.
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dimepiece
10 Dec 05 - 01.54am |
i love the hair and the eyes :)
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Thank you! I'm not displeased with those parts, either *yay!*
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Stella
10 Dec 05 - 01.32am |
Oh wow, your best yet, definately!
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No kidding. It's nice to feel that I improve with each one I finish (goes to show how many half vexels I do in between, huh?) : ) And thank you.
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Carina
10 Dec 05 - 01.31am
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I love your gradients style! I saw somewhere that you might make a tutorialfor this gradient style, (looking forward to it :D).
I just love the gradients <3. The hair is great, too.
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Thank you, Carina! Hah! I forgot how proud of the hair I was until I read your comment, Jeez. This would've been done soooo much sooner if I hadn't put days into the hair ; )
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TooDarnCool
10 Dec 05 - 01.29am
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Beautiful, Great job on the skin, it looks so shiney but not too shiney...not body building shiney :D Very Awesome.
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She -wishes- she were a body builder ; )
Thank you!
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