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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:48 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:49 am
Shush you, you put me to shame with your skills. I'm trying for an ego fluff right now...and we're getting to the magic wand.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:55 am
this last time I just tried a plain old sketch. I can ink my own work and scan it in black and white np because I got all that nifty art tools to do it by hand. but the idea would be to take my sketchbook, do a line art, ink it with a pen, scan it, and then use photoshop to color it and jazz it with special effects if I want.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:55 am
My lack of endurance puts you far ahead, just remember that. And personally, I don't use the magic wand. But if he's just starting out, lineart and all, and he doesn't have a tablet... then magic wand is just easiest for isolating color.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:59 am
My my, look at all the happy faces.
Having an artist talk, I see. Don't let me disturb you.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:05 am
If you want to use your plain old sketch, clean it up as best you can (outside or inside CS3) and then adjust your levels from the Image > Adjustment > Fiddle around. Start with Levels or just Contrast. Try to knock out the unwanted sudges and what not. Then just take the magic wand and make sure the box next to Contiguous isn't checked. Click a piece of line art and it will grab every piece that is the same color. Edit >Copy, then Edit >Paste and it will auto-make a new layer with the lines on it with a transparent background. Keep that layer at the top of the qeue and there ya go, lines always on top. Adjust color and such as needed.
For b&W just go straight to magic wand sans Contiguous, do the copy paste thing and rearrange again.
That's just lineart. Coloring is a whole other story and if you want I can still do something for you on it. I'm doing a piece right now as we type, on my desktop.
And of course we're prodding each other in art...I'm bored. Have to have something to do now that I turned in my projects.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:27 am
so there's no easy way to color things multiple colors/shading/highlights without doing the crap of tracing every little section? I'd almost just not waste teh time and color the whole thing by hand. I could do it 10x faster.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:41 am
No, no no. With your lines on top, you create a new layer and place it underneath and lay down color to your hearts content on the new layer. The aforementioned things just move you lines so they're always on top. It's more of blocking out base colors then switching to your shade/tint colors and laying them down too.
Like mine now:
Layer 1: Lines
Layer 2: Skin High
Layer 3: Skin Low
Layer 4: Base Skin
Think of it as with your lines on top, you're coloring in the lines. If you're not keeping your lines then you have to be more concious of shapes but if your lines are making your borders then you don't have to worry.
Want me to throw some screens together to show you more of what I mean?
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:09 am
that would be nice.
Oh, and Malik just finally snapped in a stressful manner.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:14 am
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:32 am
interestin. I'll give it a go.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:47 am
You really just gotta fiddle around till you find what works for you. Like I do my shading/tinting at 30% opacity to help with that deeper to lighter shadow overlaying then throw on a soft blur. Deviant Art has some great digipainting tutorials too.
You should be highly thankful because I just showed highly unrefined nowhere near done things and it makes me self concious. *hides*
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:50 pm
*Rare pop in*
More often then not, I use Illustrator CS3 with a cell shading. I just hate black lines.
http://lunardawn.deviantart.com/art/Superhero-79756796
Or Open Canvas.
http://lunardawn.deviantart.com/art/Love-a-good-Dino-80056885
Most of my class despises Illustrator and uses photoshop. From what I understand they zoom in as far as the zoom tool will go to do the outlining, and then fill in the colour manually.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:04 pm
If you enjoy cell shading then yes, Illu CS3 is what you want to use. I'll stick to my digipainting though so it's PS for me. And I don't super zoom...that's only good for tiny details. I do my blocking/color lining in a zoom out with very percise eraser and brush control.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:13 pm
I've done it before, working zoomed in hides any would-be-shaky lines.
You can do gradient shading with Illu, but it takes longer. I used to do my solid colours in Illu and shade in PS, not too bad doing it that way. razz
If I'm going to be outlining though, I prefer to use Flash. It creates some very nice lines.
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