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penguin-commando — Comparative Ninja Studies 3B
Published: 2010-09-02 03:51:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1837; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 81
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I was talking to the other day about the path tools in photoshop, and I thought I'd give them a try. So I drew Miyuki entirely with the pen/path tools using my mouse. It gives a vector look to things (they're not real vectors, though, the curves remain invisible and the colors form a rastered shape that follows them). The gradient, of course, is just a gradient.In the end it's a really inefficient way to do things, it's a poor man's Adobe Illustrator hidden in photoshop. It looks neat, but there are faster, easier ways to get the same results.
Anyway, there you go. Blue background version.
Enjoy,
~D
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Now thats different. I did see someone's tutorial on doing lines using the path tool. They used stoke pressure and things to make it look like it was inked. I have used it a few times for long curved lines, but never a whole image.
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It's a little inefficient for the whole image, although I suppose you'd get quick if you did it all the time. If you used stroke pressure (and have a good tablet) I expect you'd get some pretty nice calligraphic lines; you can fake a similar result without stroke pressure by using a custom elliptical brush to stroke the paths (before tablets had good pressure sensitivity, that was the only way).
I did this one with the mouse, but the vectors fill with the foreground color rather than stroke with the paintbrush, which is why there aren't any lines.
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I see.
I know kind of how it is done but I don't think I would like to do it all the time. It does seem slow.
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Very fun, I'm glad something good came out of my shitty Rio drawing!
I think I'll give this style another go now, inspired by you, it's like those Escher drawings of hands drawings hands that are drawing the first set of hands.... or something, I lost my narrative.
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I gave it a go just using the brushes as normal - [link] It's like a hand drawing a hand drawing a hand, or that one episode of Star Trek where Data and Picard open a door and see themselves on the other side, having the conversation they just finished.
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Yeah, me too. Red seemed more thematic, but the blue one looks better with her color scheme.
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