I forgot to \'showcase\' this here...

http://users.starpower.net/hollowzero/hp/Zer3966.jpg

I\'m not gonna do the img tags, it\'s a very slow to load picture unfortunately.

Anyways..it\'s a watercolor painting of Zero, celebrating my 3,966th pageview at Devart. It\'s a thank you of sorts, to people who viewed and will view my page, you see.

I only used 6 base colors for the picture, that\'s why his black armor parts are in reality a dark purple..I had no black. Boo. I also used cheap brushes and they kept losing their bristles all over the paper..

Yes you can comment and crit as always, and it will be appreciated as always. =)

ED: I forgot there was no O in Zero, for the URL. Doh.

[Edited on 26-5-2004 by HollowTorment]

nice to see pictures in a different medium. The water colours work great, no smudging eather, I always make a mess with that stuff

One thing I noticed though, wast that he bends his feet. the suit he waars can\'t do that, only in his X8 armor (according to what I\'ve seen), but lets not make a huge descussion about that...

Also, the white plates on the legs are a bit pointy, in the picture they look more like spikes. Last, the entire figure looks a bit... well... Flat. But thease things are minor flaws, nothing big. Critisizm gives one experiance. Keep em\' comming

Rocksome, tis nice to see things done in other mediums.
Favorate part, the shading, like I say almost everytime I comment on somthing made by you.. oh yeah and his arms are shiney.

cool picture,i like Zero;D

No Sage! I have to be different. My next pageview picture will be 4,666, whoever hits it gets something drawn for em. I should put that on the Devart site before I forget..

Well Snakeman, I thought his feet bent in the sprites..so I drew them like that. Infact he stands on his tippy toes in X4, before he beams out..so that is a slight bend. Maybe not as much as I made it bend though.

And the white plates/knee armor..I went by official art for them, but I think I was supposed to make the base wider..hmm.

Flat eh? Flat how? o.o Did the shading not show up enough? My scanner didn\'t do a good job this time..

And yes, criticism is good, makes me see the flaws I couldn\'t see on my own.

Thank you very much Sage, Snakeman, Victor, Doc, and Kagome. (Good idea about the frame, Doc. I need to buy a cheap one. )

The painting is all quite nice, I think. I do enjoy the look of watercolors. My major gripe that hasn\'t already been listed is his left shoulder. It\'s outta perspective.

Well Sage, keep refreshing until you get hit 4666. :rofl:

Oh..the left shoulder.. On AIM you just said shoulder, didn\'t specify the side. But..did it need to be moved back a little more? Yeah..the umm, squarish part should be the only thing in view, right? o.o

Thank you, Necroleon.

Nice work Holly, it\'s excellent. Watercolours is an interesting medium to work with.

Thank you, Rinoman. I love watercolors, personally..it\'s just that I can\'t get them to work correctly for me.

I used to used them well, but now I find it slightly difficult trying to get the paint to blend in and go right. I think it\'s just one of those things you need practice with and improve your skill as try out different techniques. The thing with water-colours is, that you have to work in layers which, in a way can be difficult if you make a mistake but can be used for stuff like transparency.

thats sound really cool

I personally thing it looks better as a dark purple than black. The reson being that it implies that it is black but shows light shinging of it better than black would. Meh! *shrugs*

Point, Airman.. And it does add more color to the picture, I just wish I could\'ve gotten the purple to be darker.

i like it alot Hollow its great but why is zero holding numbers?

Because, it\'s a thank you to the people who have visited my site.

In Japanese it\'s supposedly called a \'kiriban\'. Usually a japanese artist will draw a \"random number here hits!\" picture..once they hit that number of hits.

So lets say..they got a thousand hits. They\'ll draw a picture with the text \"Thank you for 1000 hits!\" somewhere on it.

At Deviant, it\'s done abit different. The artist chooses a number (I like being odd, so I choose odd numbers) and whoever gets that pageview, gets something drawn for them.

Loppi over at Devart got my 3966th pageview..and she asked for Zero. So..I drew Zero, and put 3966 somewhere on the picture.

I think that explains it enough.

Whoa, that\'s really well done Hollow. I\'ve used the water color method of painting before. It can be extremely hard to do or it can be simple but you make it look like nothing!

Zero looks perfect and the background is nice and clean.

No doubt, that\'s a 10/10. Way to go! :cool:

Thank you very much, Arkane! *bows*

And well, I personally think I\'m better with acrylics..