kristin kreuk

[Shuriken]

http://www.thewb.com/Faces/CastBio/0,7930,75,00.html

http://www.kkreuk.com/index2.shtml

[Nightworlder]

http://sanctum16.morning-after.net/

[YuheiCarreau]

OK, I'll play:

http://www.kristinkreuk.net/

[sOKaLiBoY]

omg she has the same b-day as me :D except she was born in 82 and i was born in 80. she is too cute. the only reason i watch smallville

[purezero]

I tried. (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9219706/)

Arg. So time consuming. And it doesn't even look right.

How frustrating.

:mad:

[Faithless]

Looks better than I could ever do. Ha!

Question of ignorance: Is that done with an Adobe product?

Could Macromedia Fireworks do that?

[TB4000]

Not too shabby, Ziru....Lana Lang would be proud, I'm sure. Kreuk always has that exact same smile on her face whenever she's in a picture, you notice that? Very creepy....

[purezero]

Looks better than I could ever do. Ha!

Question of ignorance: Is that done with an Adobe product?

Could Macromedia Fireworks do that?
Yeah, it was Photoshop 7.0. I don't know about Macromedia Fireworks... I think ism should know. He knows everything. Hehe.

[achtungbaby]

Yeah, it was Photoshop 7.0. I don't know about Macromedia Fireworks... I think ism should know. He knows everything. Hehe.
Nice work...but can't Photoshop CS do that automatically...?

[purezero]

Nice work...but can't Photoshop CS do that automatically...?
I don't know. I know that Photoshop Elements has an effect that's called "Oil Painting" and does something similar, I think.

[golden_buns]

Yeah, it definetely looks like her, onlly about 30 years older

[ism]

Real vector art is going to require the use of a vector program. Photoshop has some limited vector functionality but it's not going to work for what you're trying to do. Good job with what you have and for your first one. You've got the general idea.

I suggest Freehand. You can use Illustrator but it's a resource hog. I haven't seen Fireworks in action but from what I can determine, you would be better served with a full illustration program. Fireworks seems to be some kind of raster/vector hybrid... like Paint Shop Pro?

Depending on the vector style, it's more about suggesting form rather than directly tracing the shape. If you look at a person, there are various degrees of shadow and an infinite range of color. You're attempting to flatten a picture and reduce the colorspace while retaining form.

For example, in your illustration, you clearly outlined her eyes. By doing so, you're saying "she's wearing eyeliner," when you really want to say "her eyes are almond-shaped." You don't have to create closed shapes. Where a delineation becomes thin, feel free to eliminate the line altogether.

Not drawing is just as important as not drawing. Especially when dealing with women. Think of the traditional ways of describing women -- thin/full lips, button noses, defined eyebrows, etc.. In your picture, she is smiling, but by drawing the entire crease you've aged her. What is the most important part of her smile? It's her dimple. Draw just that. The dimple says "here's a smile, a cute, youthful smile." She has fairly thin lips but her bottom one is fuller than the top one. Don't both outlining the top lip. For the bottom lip, don't outline it completely, it will look too full. Just suggest the general shape by making a stroke at the bottom of her lip. Along these lines, her eyelid can still be suggested even if you shorten it.

People have a general tendency to extrapolate, so use that to your advantage.

[mr. x]

psssh at least you have photoshop 7, unlike my new computer

[purezero]

Real vector art is going to require the use of a vector program. Photoshop has some limited vector functionality but it's not going to work for what you're trying to do. Good job with what you have and for your first one. You've got the general idea.

I suggest Freehand...

People have a general tendency to extrapolate, so use that to your advantage.
Wow. I really don't get how to use Freehand though. Thanks for the tips.

[sinisterpanda]

I don't know how to use freehand either...

[Emperor_Mike]

All Kristin Kreuk does as Lana Lang in Smallville is cry, act scared, act surprised, cry, get into all sorts of strange situations, cry, and...cry.

She's still hot though. And she lives in my city!

[ism]

Vector is hard to grasp at first. I took it up a few times but it wasn't until I committed to learning it that I actually started understanding how it worked. Mentally, before working on something, you think of the shapes, and how they are layered/sit on top of each other. With raster, you're probably thinking about line and tone on the same surface.

The other tough part is working with the pen tool. I have no idea how to explain it without pictures since it's all about pulling the handles to affect the proper curve. The pen is the most important tool. You will learn it and love it.

Once you've got that down, it's about the stroke and fill. Then boolean operations -- subtract/punch and add/combine are most important, and divide comes in handy as well. With those, you can make pretty much any picture easily. The other tools are just for convenience.

I'd love to show anyone that's geographically nearby how to use this wonderful method of illustration. Since you're in a land far far away, you can check out Macromedia's tuturial movies: http://www.macromedia.com/support/freehand/learning.html

Once you get the hang of it, you'll wish you had learned it sooner.

[Faithless]

The only reason that I threw in that question about Fireworks is that I read that it is tightly integrated with Dreamweaver.

It seems attractive to have both Fireworks and Dreamweaver for the integration.

But if a higher end version of Photoshop rules, then the integration issue can be negated.

[Shuriken]

http://www.allstarz.org/~kristinkreuk/images/smallville/smallville6.jpg

Happy Birthday, Kristin Kreuk!

(edit: Thought this was in the Arts & Entertainment section)

[Mr.Lum]

She's ugly IMO.

[hooligan]

She's ugly IMO.
We have a winnar.

[Emperor_Mike]

I saw her walking around on Robson Street in Vancouver once. Pretty girl.

[rice cracker]

I think she's pretty.


(edit: Thought this was in the Arts & Entertainment section)

Me too :)

[deez nuts]

squirrel'ish

[Tao]

it's weird, i know she's hot, but she just doesn't do anything for me

[Faithless]

Kristin Kreuk pic (http://www.allstarz.org/~kristinkreuk/images/smallville/smallville6.jpg)

Happy Birthday, Kristin Kreuk!

(edit: Thought this was in the Arts & Entertainment section)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/chottomatte/smallville6a.jpg

Found this:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111107/
Most of the characters in my fantasy and far-future science fiction books are not white. They're mixed; they're rainbow. In my first big science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, the only person from Earth is a black man, and everybody else in the book is Inuit (or Tibetan) brown. In the two fantasy novels the miniseries is "based on," everybody is brown or copper-red or black, except the Kargish people in the East and their descendants in the Archipelago, who are white, with fair or dark hair. The central character Tenar, a Karg, is a white brunette. Ged, an Archipelagan, is red-brown. His friend, Vetch, is black. In the miniseries, Tenar is played by Smallville's Kristin Kreuk, the only person in the miniseries who looks at all Asian. Ged and Vetch are white.

[kitty]

re: earthsea.

errr, didn't read the rest of the article, but danny glover is in the miniseries, and he's definitely not white.

[SunWuKong]

this thread is so old. and it took 7 months for a second post to appear. guess Kristin Kreuk is not as popular as i'd expect.

[yoMAMA]

She's fine :smile:

[Faithless]

this thread is so old. and it took 7 months for a second post to appear. guess Kristin Kreuk is not as popular as i'd expect.
Well, except for one individual who appears to be smitten. :biggrin:

A comment when even a breath of her is mentioned --

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=4109

http://www.modelminority.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=239&mode=&order=&thold=

http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?t=23364

[TB4000]

She ain't been doing squat except for Earthsea and a cameo in Eurotrip as the hero's ex that falls for Matt Damon. And Smallville. She needs to start branching out or something....if she did some comedy, I think it'd help her out, as she appears to have the most bland personality ever.

[Mr.Lum]

She's beat and she can't act especially well. I'm telling you, that is an ugly woman. She looks like an ugly white lady to me....

[hooligan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/hooliganucla/yellowworld/ywboys.gif

[Mr.Lum]

LOL. I could bag her.

[Fireblade]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/hooliganucla/yellowworld/ywboys.gif

Wrong girl dood. That's Jessica Alba. I *drool* her. :biggrin:

[s1eve]

did someone say jessica...?

[hooligan]

regardless of who it is, i still think my point stands : )

[yoMAMA]

Jessica Alba....

now that's one fine woman.

:)

[Shuriken]

She's beat and she can't act especially well. I'm telling you, that is an ugly woman. She looks like an ugly white lady to me....

I disagree, in terms of both talent and looks. You only have to watch the Smallville episodes where Lana's personality changes or where Kristin Kreuk plays another character (she played Lana's aunt in an episode set in 1961) to get the sense that she's become another person. I'm sure that when Kreuk laughs through her lines — as she often does, suggesting that the character is laughing at something she really doesn't find amusing — I get the feeling that is a trait of Lana the character, not Kristin the actress.

I also think that she's raised the bar for more "Asian-looking" hapas to play white roles. I hope that she'll get to play some Asian parts as well.

Smallville is currently slated to run for only five seasons. It's now on its fourth. I predict that after season five, most of the cast will want to move on. I hope that Kristin Kreuk moves onto bigger things. She has the potential to become a more casual, contemporary, North American version of Audrey Hepburn. I hope that she maximizes her potential.

[Irezumi Kiss]

She has the potential to become a more casual, contemporary, North American version of Audrey Hepburn. I hope that she maximizes her potential.
And I hope she does just that, too...by hook or KREUK!!

(Irezumi ducks the multitude of tomatoes being thrown his way)

:tongue:

[kitty]

well ... the YW hormone bomb drops again.

since there is no meaningful discussion happening here (except Shuriken's post), closing.

[greenbraces01]

She's the Eurasian chick who plays on SmallVille. There was recently an article in some magazine about her talking about how her "exotic" Asian looks help her get roles. And also how she thinks being an "exotic" asian beauty will help hollywood. What do y'all have think about her?

[soulman386]

She's the Eurasian chick who plays on SmallVille. There was recently an article in some magazine about her talking about how her "exotic" Asian looks help her get roles. And also how she thinks being an "exotic" asian beauty will help hollywood. What do y'all have think about her?


She doesn't look asian. She has a latina or maybe even middle eastern look about her.

[Chester]

What do y'all have think about her?Race/ethnicity aside, I think she looks like a 13-year-old girl.

[Faithless]

Kitty, come back and close this thread, too. :frown:

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=2487

Oopsie, there's this thread too:

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=17742

[Fireblade]

who cares about overrated teen drama chicks anyway? do people care outside of the 13-20 age range?

[LaiSteve66]

Sasha Singleton also boasts of her "exotic" looks from being "Amerasian".

[deez nuts]

kreuk is another by product of asian women kowtowing to white cock or the by product of GI boom boom love. halfie kids suck.

[SunWuKong]

i've merged together 3 Kristin Kreuk threads. the first one was started and closed a long time ago. if the discussion about her stays as uninformative as it has been, i'll be closing it soon.

[kimpossible]

halfie kids suck.

Then put a vaporlock on that cock so you don't accidently end up with one when you get one of those white wimmen to show that you're a Chinese guy who has won at life. Knocking us up makes us fat. Bigger titties, sure, but that's not remotely enough to make up for being fat. Don't let that happen to you. Your seed is too precious.

[deez nuts]

Then put a vaporlock on that cock so you don't accidently end up with one when you get one of those white wimmen to show that you're a Chinese guy who has won at life. Knocking us up makes us fat. Bigger titties, sure, but that's not remotely enough to make up for being fat. Don't let that happen to you. Your seed is too precious.

that's what chinese mistresses are for. to carry on my name and keep my bloodline pure!

[Irezumi Kiss]

that's what chinese mistresses are for. to carry on my name and keep my bloodline pure!
But don't you have a Jewish girl fetish? You gonna deny that next generation Joan Rivers out there of the munificence and prestige of yer nuts' bounty?

[Faithless]

i've merged together 3 Kristin Kreuk threads. the first one was started and closed a long time ago. if the discussion about her stays as uninformative as it has been, i'll be closing it soon.
She needs more seasoning.

She kind of reminds me of Lindsay Price.

[deez nuts]

But don't you have a Jewish girl fetish? You gonna deny that next generation Joan Rivers out there of the munificence and prestige of yer nuts' bounty?

yes i have a jewish girl fetish. i will parade her around to show off my awesomeness to my peers. but, my bloodline must stay pure. i will get a chinese mistress to push out some pure blooded chinese babies to carry on my legacy of untainted pure awesomeness.

[SunWuKong]

and... closing!