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Published: 2007-10-31 20:27:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 196; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 2
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I have no freaking clue if I filed this in the right section or not.But yay for finally being completed! This feels like it took so long to cg. And its also my first tablet colored peice! Tablets make everything so much easier! The lines are still kinda shaky cause Im not used to things yet.
The background is an edited landscape I found off a google image search. I resized, edited, blurred, contrast/brightness changed, and reblurred the thing. I can upload and link out the original if anyone wants. I found it off a broken page that just happened to still have it on its server, which is why there is no sense to really link it. The background doesnt fully match, but having nothing but white back there looked goofy.
I chose not to put the girls in their costumes in efforts to get an actual picture of them done. Its easier to stress on -just-them than it is to stress on them and outfit detail correctness. I kinda went away from Aurora's fashion preferences and put her in a mid-drift top, but I wanted something fun for her.
Done in Photoshop.
Time including sketch= 6-10hours
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wow you have gotten a lot better <3 really cute pose here C:
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Thanks. I just wish that most my current arts didnt look so much like Bratz dolls.. but I guess im figuring out my own style without realizing it.. *shrug*
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xD yeah definatly .. some people have said my work reminded them of bratz.. that pissed me off :/
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Tip to making lines look smoother.
Have your original image at 72 dpi. Before you do the line art with the computer over your sketch, blow it up to 400 dpi. Do the lineart and shrink it back to 72 dpi. :3
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How do I change all that?
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Image -- Image Size.
At the bottom of the popup box, there should be a little text box with the number "72" in it. Change it to 400 (the image will get insanely huge, just a warning). Do your lineart with, say, a 5 or 9 px hard, round brush. Then go to Image -- Image size and change it back to 72 (your original size).
:3
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Do you think I should resize my scans to make them smaller before changing the dpi for the linearts? As it is, I use a 4px brush for the lines.. and then just resize the images down for posting.
Like, this one.. the scan was 2250x3060 but when I was done coloring it and everything I resized it down to 749x900 and that didnt help the lines too much.. but made the image smaller. I mainly wonder cause with the ones I do, I dont resize all the layers after Im done coloring them.. (probably should) so the files are freaking huge and I save them all.. I just wonder if this system you recommend would be handier.
Also, when doing this.. I do my hair lineart in a seperate layer, will the dpi changes effect both layers? Will I have to merge them?
*hugs* Cindy is the smart.
Sorry to pester you.. but I wanna color that Kairi sketch I did.. but if I can make my lines look smoother, I want to. *nod*
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Well, this is what I do... feel free to try my method and see if you find your lines smoother.
Scan your sketch and size it to the size you want it to be as a finished product. (Or of you're drawing on the computer, sketch it so that it's approximately the size you want it to be.) Photoshop's default is 72 dpi, but if you scanned the image, the dpi you start out with might be different. If you scan your images at 250 or 300 dpi (or any other number) just multiply it by 3.
While it's all big and huge, do your lineart on another layer. (it helps to make the sketch 50% with a white layer underneath that.) You can get an estimate of how your lineart will look by zooming out at about 50% or 25%. When it's finished to your liking, shrink the image back to your original dpi (72) and the lineart should look much smoother. I prefer coloring after I shrink the image back instead of while the image is huge because it's easier on my wrist.
If you do your hair lineart on another layer, it shouldn't have a huge effect. After you finish the hair lineart, you might want to merge the two linearts just to make things easier to identify. (I don't think it matters if you merge them before or after you shrink the image back)
I like using a hard 5 px brush, but I do use 9 px sometimes too.
Good luck. :3
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Kay, another question, what color do you think it best for lineart? And do you ever reduce transparency on your lineart once its done? I did that for the sisters one just to see how it looked..
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Normally I stick with black. And rarely I'll change the transparency of the lineart. (For softer coloring like the Yue picture and Obito-sensei, the lineart is at about 80%)
If I'm sticking to a white background, I stay with black. If I'm going to used a background or a colored abstract background, I might change the color of the lineart a bit to go with the atmosphere.
Sometimes I'll just recolor the lineart so that there's no black at all. For example, blonde hair will have brown or dark yellow lineart, the skin will have brown lines, the clothes a darker version of what they'll actually be, etc. (see the spiffy Greek pic of your avatar)
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Oh, and to color the lineart, where the layers are, click "lock transparency" on it and color over the lines with a larger brush. That way *only* the lines will be colored.
I do that when I'm shading, too. Lock the layers so you only color the hair and not the skin. :T
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Ah. Coolbeans.. Ill have to try it. My images are already insanely huge when I do them.. but I never shrink them down after scanning.. so they scan in at like 2K-3K pixels and I shrink them to 800h before submitting them and adding my mark.
Thanks sweetie
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