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FionaCreates ā Secrets of Tooling - Part 2
Published: 2012-12-01 00:35:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 2887; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 50
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This is the point where the tutorial follows more of my personal methods with some ideas and tips thrown in there.Part 1 - [link]
Part 3 - [link]
Designing Dolls - [link]
The base is by the wonderful ~MalevolentMask
The inspirational pictures are
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Check them out
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For those of us who have never done anything like this, this tutorial makes the process far less intimidating. Showing us how to use stock to create the sketch of the body is very helpful. I also appreciate that you took the time to explain to those of us who never know where to put the highlights and shadows exactly where they should be.
I could wish that you showed the process you used for creating your own palette since you mentioned that it's best to create your own. By that I mean showing new artists how to best determine how to choose the lighter and darker shades of the main base color, and then how to choose those shades in between. That is an area where I get overwhelmed and flustered every time. I just can never figure out how to choose those colors. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/f/fā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
The only other thing lacking would be screenshots of your tools as you went, but you have inspired me to try, and that's something in and of itself. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
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Oh man this is an old tutorial! but if you found it useful still in 2018 that's great
If I was to make such a tutorial type thing now I'd just video it!
Tbh... choosing colours isn't something you can really teach. You just... learn... in that most aweful way by picking the wrong ones and going "don't do that again!"
You can also start to catalogue colours in art you like. When I was newer at working with colour I would open the art I liked into my graphics program and use the eyedropper to select all the main colours they used, and build a pallette to the side and look at it and see what they did. Then I can go "oh so I want to make a blue dress, remember that art by so and so where they accented it with yellow? lets try that!"
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Great tip. Thank you so much! It really does help.
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Yeh it helps isolate the colours, and you can learn things like that skintone you think is peach is actually pale blue, but colour illusion makes you see it as peach etc. But the eyedropper gave you the exact colour so it must be blue!
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Pyrochan I got to say thank you for this, I've always enjoyed tool shading over pixel shading (the dotting is confusing me) and this has already helped me do a new doll, one in fact that is for a contest over at the group you and blue run
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Everyone has a preference, and this is more a Secrets of How Pyro's Mind works than Tooling in the end but I'm trying to keep it informative XD
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well I enjoyed the brief tour of your mind
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;___; I really am gonna have to try tooled dolling someday <3 thank you for making it easypossible ;-;
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As I said in part one, every tooling tutorial I found was out of date. I don't personally know any tooler still using select and smudge for example.
Yet somehow we toolers don't make tutorials so new toolers are left to figure it out alone. No wonder more people pixel lol.
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I opened up gimp for the first time in a year just the other day and tried in vain to tool but I really had no idea what I was doing. this is soo awesome and exactly what I needed.
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Part 3 will arrive when I make more of the doll lol.
In my favs is a DD from the other day which is an intro to gimp for digipainting, it was jam packed full of info.
I think a lot of people underestimate gimp for digital art and it's the artist not the program that makes good work.
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I say the same thing about MS paint
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The only thing wrong with Paint is I can't paint with it XD. But if you've got the desire and imagination anything is possible.
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I dug up matts tablet and am now going to try and see waht I can do with it. I can already tell its going to take some figuring out.
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The best piece of advice I can give is don't expect anything, just play about just "ooo what happens if I click this" or "what happens if I use this setting" it's the best way to go because then everything you make is awesome because you didn't expect it, and you don't have a finished idea in your head. ATM I have no idea what this doll will finish up like, I just know as I go along what looks good and what doesn't.
In a way pixelling is 'easy' because there's dotting, and like a glossary of ways to dot. But with tooling you're opening a giant can of worms when it comes to brush settings and tablets and even down to your own personal hand movement on the tablet. You might have a lighter touch than me or a heavier one, so we can use exactly the same brand of tablet, brush settings and program and still have 2 different strokes. I suppose that's what I like about it XD
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Im liking how easy the sketch phase goes. in paint its always jagged and rather gross looking where as with the tablet/gimp it looks smooth and lovely. except that working tiny ear details doesnt seem to want to work with me.
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There's a reason I zoom in an out a lot, it's because sometimes if it looks fine zoomed out the you don't need 'details'. If you want them do a big ass digital painting, not beyond reach either.
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Im not getting this layer thing. I added a new one but how to I make it so Im adding colour on top and can see my sketch, etc and I cant find that lock button even though you showed in your tutorial
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Do you have teh MSNz? Or Skype or some form of IM? Because I can talk you through it via that much easier
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Ohhh, this makes me want to do some dolling now *goes off to find a base*. Good tut though
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woo.
There should be more tooling tutorials. It seems we toolers are very secretive with our methods XD
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