First, u’ll have to cut the sugar paper into the shape of a lens hood.Make it slightly bigger than your lens to make sure it fits your lens easily.

Next, cut the shape u preferred (to appear as ur shaped bokeh, for e.g; heart,star,plane and etc.) at middle of the “fake lens” u did just now.
I don’t have the accurate diameter of the shape cut out but it will definitely give u different results in ur bokeh later. In my earliest experiment, my shape cut out were too big and the outcome was not so pretty so i made some new shape and make em’ slightly smaller. I preferred to do the shape cut out manually by hand but u can also use decorative punch to save time So once it’s done, this is how your “fake lens” gonna look like .

Last but not least, u can now have ur very own cool bokeh shoot. And oh, remember to set your camera to it’s lowest aperture value. Below are some of my shaped bokeh photos. Happy trying! ^^

It’ll be in our next tutorial. Stay tuned

1. Balancing Heads & Bodies* The upside down triangle as shown above is the basic base to get the proportion of  a bishoujo (female character).  But, it is depends on us on how we want to appeal each character. ^^

2. Bending Bodies

* The center line of the body is a straight line.  But if your character appear to be in bending pose, the straight line should be bend into the letter S. It same goes to any other pose. The center line and the horizontal line will help u to get the position (of spine & body) of your character.

3. Drawing Breast

* Drawing breast is important especially for the bishoujo. However, there are variety of sizes and shapes for breast and it depends on the individual preferences, but the base is still the same. 

* Take note that there’s a differences in drawing an adult and child. If we don’t want our child character to be too voluptuous, then reduce the flesh on the bust and buttock. Same goes to an adult character, to make it even realistic and look more womanly , we can add the volume  of the bust and the buttock line.

4. Examples

*  This is some example of male character. Even if u draw a character with clothes on, you still need to start it from the basic base.

* See how the center lines helps us to get a better proportion of our character.* Just like the previous bishoujo examples, if you’re drawing a bishounen (male character), and would like them to look muscular, all you have to do is to add some volume to their flesh and body part.

5. Example II: YUKARI! ^^

Ok, this is just an example. Always remember that each character,or object start with a rough sketch! It does not have to be perfect but as long we follow the flow and basic base, we can surely make a nice manga character ( of course, through lots of practices too) ! ^^

* My drawing is not  good and even quite messy, but peeps, i’m glad to share this! ^^ Kudos to Hikari Hayashi for providing a lot of drawing skills in her books which has been my best friend since im 16 ^^

Last but not least, enjoice!

1.Center Lines

The basic of drawing faces is to first draw the center lines.The center lines acts as a guideline when drawing the position of nose, eyes, ears and etc. We can either start drawing faces with a circle and draw a + cross inside it and start shaping face. The vertical line could be an alignment of the chin with the bottom of the nose.

Why is the center lines important?

- It balance the position of eyes, nose & etc

-It balance the the mood of a character (vertical & horizontal center line)

*The position of lips, eyes, or nose itself could resembles different moods of our character. For example, the position of lips at the center of vertical line would give the illusion of soft and normal mood. When we try switching the lips to the the right, the normal mood would change to  a smirking face.

2.Jawbones

The image above shows the step to draw jawbones.

Image 1: Basically known as a jawline.

Notice the differences between image 2 & 3? The key to draw a nice jaw is to draw the neckline inside of the jaw. When we draw the neck outside of the jaw, the neck will look rather thick.

3.Chinline

Do not mistake the chin line with jawline as it might look slightly the same. The chin line is a connection of throat and neck, while the jawline is a line which connected to the ears.

4.Eyes

There are many ways to draw manga style eyes.  Even the manga’s pros said that they’d spend time on researching how to make an appealing eyes. This is one of the way how we can draw manga style eyes.

Thus, eyes expression play an important role as to express the emotion of a character.

5.Eyelids

The differences of eyelids type would shows the differences between characters. These are the two types of eyelids:

6. Shutting Eyes

When we draw the process of shutting eyes, we can see the changing eyes wrinkles  before it shut completely. It depends on the eyelids anyway, if the character has a single eyelids, then the upper eyes wrinkle might not be needed like the image above. But if the character has a double eyelids, then the example as shown as image above is how the shutting eyes process goes.

So it’s the end of part 1. Please be noted that I’m referring to my all time fav book, How To Draw Manga when i do this tutorial. Till then, I’ll see you very soon for the Part 2 tutorial. Have a good day

PART 1

Drawing Faces

Jawbones

How to Draw Eyes

PART 2

Balancing Head and Bodies

Waist

Bodylines

High & Low angles

Ever since a kid, i spent most of my time drawing. Sometimes it turns out ok, and sometime it turns out sucks. I am the kind of student whose being punished by my teacher since my primary 3 for the crime of sketching my exercise book, here and there :p
Now let my share with you that hobby of mine. I love animes, and i read japanese manga since the age of 8. I remember the first comic that i hold in my hand was Dragon Ball. There’s a few more names that has become my favourite and i still keep it till today. One of my favourite anime today, is Maid-Sama, and i would like to share some sketches of that anime.

Our manga drawing would’ve been much nicer if we use the specified Tachikawa Manga pen after the sketching which the nib is capable of drawing lines  precisely on pressure applied.

Guess what, i am going to share you how to draw manga/anime in the next tutorial. Starting from the faces, until body structures. So stay tune

After over 6GB of original and post-processed photos, almost 20 hours of batch post-processing and related works including try and error, I have finally managed to come out with an enhanced version of my first time lapse experiment.

The steps to make this time lapse were
1. 720 frames with 3 seconds interval
2. PS-CS3 batch processing to generate additional +/-2eV ‘bracketed’ exposures from a single JPEG which took me less than an hour.
3. Photomatix Pro batch processing to generate HDR from 2160 files into 720 pseudo-HDR images which took me about 14 hours to complete.
4. PS-CS3 batch processing to enhance and resize pseudo-HDR images which took me less than an hour.
5. Movie clip was done using QuickTime Pro at 12fps.

I’m planning to correct some parts of this time lapse when I have some free time. Phewwww…

This is the original.

We are looking into it at the moment and will apply fixes along the way.

If you found any issues with our site, please email us at rawrepublic.at.gmail.com (please replace .at. with @).

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

OK! Let’s start with a little details about this chirpy little gal. She is a Design Technology graduate majoring in Animation. Motion Animation is something that she likes apart from 3D Modeling and Line Animation. Even though she spent most hours in MAYA Lab (yes, we know how much she loves MAYA! ), she was also exposed to graphic design, industrial and fashion design.

So, without further ado, RAW REPUBLIC would like to welcome Ms Farah Othman into our family. *clap clap clap*

Ms Farah Othman will be also sharing info, tips and tutorials mainly on graphic design and animation. We hope with our new addition, it will be beneficial to the community.

You can find Ms Farah Othman at her flickr and her blog.

In between that, I got myself a couple of handphones; LG KS360 and Nokia E72 to name a few. LG was fine but it has nothing to offer. Nokia on the other hand seems like an endless potential. But it turned out as one of my biggest mistakes. Even on Symbian S60 3rd Gen, it is just not as stable as I wished for. Frequent self-reset, system seized working and slow GPS sat-lock were my biggest gripe.

When I had the opportunity to get a unit of iPhone 4 without contract from Maxis (no offense Maxis but I still think you are expensive for the level of services that you offered), I immediately grab one.

Well, what can I say, it was like a little kid found a jar of candies. It was great. The strong point of an iPhone is the Apps Store. There are plenty of apps to choose from. Apps that could optimize the use of an iPhone.

Why iPhone, not Android?

I read somewhere, someone said iPhone owners are somewhat dumb while Android owners are genius because Android offers total flexibility. It allows you to tweak, program and many more. The irony of this statement is that, most Android users that I know still depend on ready-made apps. Not much of self-customization programming. So, next point please.

Anyway, what I really want to share with you is something that related to photography. I “surrended” all my photography gears after I got married in 2009 not just because reception needs a lot of money but also I don’t have much free time. So, having an iPhone 4 is like the next best thing after DSLR.

There are few photography related apps that I would like to recommend.
1. Instagram
2. Camera+
3. TiltShiftGen

These are the Top 3 apps that I use the most to take and enhance photos using my iPhone. Below are some samples from my iPhone, purely taken and enhanced using iPhone and apps. These are not great but they are good enough.

So, if you want to ask me if an iPhone is a good buy, I would say it is a must buy.

Updates!

bestappever.com just announced 2010 Winners! It is good to know that Instagram and Camera+ won some awards. Yay! You can check the list of winners here.