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Avatar - Tsu'Tey and Jake | WiP

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About the image: After seeing some of the Tsu'Tey art that are posted on this site I got the urge to do one myself. I started by doing a rough line art of the Na’vi based on a couple of screen caps that I had thanks to Lifeis_caps (a LiveJournal community with hi-res quality screen caps). Originally I had a different base image for Jake but my sister didn’t like the composition and in the end I agreed with her and changed it to the one you can see above.

I have a lot left to do. The scene is suppose to be Jake circling Tsu'Tey and Tsu'Tey – the arrogant little bastard that he is ::I say that affectionately:: - is not intimidated at all.

Now let’s talk about Layers. How many do I have? Not as many as you’d think and definitely not as many as I used to have when doing DA.

The background is all painted (and will be) on one layer. I keep the hair of the two guys, the body, the highlights on the eyes and the necklace all on separate layers. This will make it a total of….five I guess. If I am unsure of something that I want to do I do that on a separate layer so that I can either delete it, if I don’t like it, or merge it to the “main layer” of whatever I’m working on.

As you can deduce from the scene above, with the lack of the chief necklace Tsu'Tey has later on in the movie, he is yet the chief of the clan Omatikaya, but Jake has already become a warrior and is going to fight against his own kind – see shaved head. Kind of weird really since that isn’t the turn of events that happens in the movie. Let’s pretend this is an AU of that.

Mediums used:
Photoshop 7 (why upgrade when the old works good enough *lol* )
Wacom Intous Pen-tablet

Working size: 4500x2246px, 300DPI

Time Elapsed: A couple of hours each day for the last 4 days. I tend to work on several different files so as not to get bored with one particular piece. This has a tendency to make any piece take longer than it should to be completed.
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Beautiful detail. It's just, very impressive :clap: