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From the left: Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel.

This is the first time I post something with Uriel, so it's normal that those of you who've been watching me for a while don't recognize him First of alll, if I post any nonsense in here, keep in mind it's almost 2am where I am, and I'm seriously sleep deprived! (can't help it, really, but I'll try to stay on topic)

I think I've been on a Revolt Against GOD frenzy cuz that's just about all I post in the finished art category Can't be a bad thing though, can it? So I tried to give each character a bit of color from his element. Green, yellow, red, blue; you see the pattern. I dunno if it's just me, but the faces feel a bit different from my usual style. It must've come from the Naruto overdose even if it looks nothing like Masashi Kishimoto's style Ok, moving on.

EDIT: I forgot to say that I was originally trying to give them arabic looking outfits, but it turned out kinda asian Bleeeh. [I've probably used the emote like 7 times in this comment... so obnoxious.]

Since many people who responded to my inquiry on artist descriptions, and mentionned that they liked hearing about how a pic came to be, I wanted to post the details behind this pic!

Technical aspects and origin:

-The idea for this pic came while I was practicing how to draw flowers. Since... I'm just bad at drawing flowers. A big portion of my page was empty and I decided to fill it with people, and so yayayayya!

-Because my page was reused paper (back side was filled), I had to ink the sketch digitally with the Pen tool, which took FOREVER AND A DAY! Cuz I'm not used to it. But. The. Pen. Tool. Is. LOVE-R-LY~~! People, you gotta try it The 'Simulate Pressure' option is godly and OMG CLEANNESS!

-On the coloration side, I used a mix of cel-shade and soft-shade. Although naturally, the cel-shading is more apparent. You can see the different shades in the darker colors. Gaussian Blur and the Gradient tool were also employed.

Oh yeah, 91 layers on the original file! I felt the need to say it cuz it's so close to 100 and there's 20 more than the last thing I counted Yup, I got nuts with layers and then the file takes a couple of minutes to save. It's not particularly reassuring when Winamp starts to skip your songs 2-3 times in a row!

For those who are going to comment, I have a request. I know a lot of people are accustommed to writing short fragments like 'cool' or 'thats nice', but I really would like to hear your opinion on what you think is cool or nice Also, what do you think I should continue doing? What did you like about the image or what did you dislike? [Psssst, who's the best looking one? Haha, just kidding!] So anyway, thanks in advance to those who hear me out!

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Approximate time: 20 hours
Medium: Photoshop CS2 (mech pencil 0.5 for the sketch)
Tools: Pen, Brush, Polygonal Lasso, Gradient, Stamp, Marquee, Gaussian Blur filter, Levels
Music: HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR - Ichirin no Hana

Characters ©=ikeda

DO NOT USE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Thank you

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Enjoy! Thanks for looking!