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This is process of painting this painting: [link]Done with Gimp 2.7 +GPS
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Btw did you do it with mouse or with Grafik Tablet? And if yes with which one?
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I used my Wacom bamboo tablet.
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Is it nice? Im thinking about to buy this one from Wacom too
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Yes, it's very useful. And I think they are perfect choice for beginning in digital arts.
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It's a wonderful piece of art and knowledge! I love how you rendered folds in the tissue. I'll file this one into my tutorials folder.
When it comes to eyes, I also use the rounded fuzzy brush and set it the size of the iris. Later on I darken (half-tones) the outline, which acts upon an almost completely faded colour over white. Same technique for the pupil.
I suppose you've used the darken/lighten tool for hairs here, as we once discussed? Did you start from a photograph?
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Thank you.
About the iris, yes, good point because I didn't do it in such a simple and elegant way, how silly of me, I used selection tool 
For the hair I used a bit of darken/lighten tool but then I started using ctrl button (color picker). And that's how I finished it. I did use fuzzy brush this time, but 2.7 has different (more advanced) brush dynamics controls and I played with them.
I don't like starting from photo it feels like cheating. So I didn't. I started painting this one twice. For the first one I didn't measure face proportions and something was missing so I started the other one but this time I measured it with Gimp's measure tool. I used three layers, one for measurements (on top), one completely black for background and the one on which I painted (middle layer).
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I should have said Β«the model was a photographΒ» instead. Sorry for misleading you.
Don't worry, you did it well with the eyes -- everyone has her technique 
I'm still with Gimp 2.6! Wow, you're one step forward 
I'm looking forward to using 2.8.
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Yes I know it is not stable, but I didn't have any crashes and I'm using it almost a month. Version 2.8 will probably be out around December 2010, that's what I read. To loooong to wait, so I decided to try out 2.7.
Are there any rotate canvas plugins in gimp? I think even PS CS4 has that feature now.
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Hehe
Rotate canvas? Do you mean Image/Layer > Transform > Rotate? You can also rotate a selection with the Β«RotateΒ» (Shift+R) tool in the toolbox.
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No, I know that, I want to rotate canvas, not image. Rotating image takes too long and you have to expand canvas so that image wouldn't be cropped and if you save it in such position that is how it is going to look like unless you rotate it back and save it again. Rotate canvas just rotate workspace and it doesn't saves it as rotated image.
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I'm not sure I understand: by canvas do you mean a layer? Do you also mean by a user-defined angle? The transform/rotation applies to images and layers as well but they're limited to 90 degrees steps. BTW rotating an image is like instantaneous unless you have a fairly big image. [Or you want a custom angle rotation.] What is rotating a canvas used for?
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Uh, I'm so not good with explaining.
It should just rotate workspace without any consequences and it's purpose is to make it easy to draw under different angles. For example when drawing on paper I can rotate paper so it is more comfortable for drawing under different angles.
When I was searching for such a plug-in I found this: [link]
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May I make a suggestion? You should try and use the program MyPaint. It's also from Linux and has this exact feature
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Thanks for making suggestion. I did use MyPaint before, but I couldn't install it for a while in Ubuntu until recently. I'm definitely planing to use it more. If you didn't know already the creator of MyPaint have DA account: [link]
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oh i didn't know! Thx
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Oooooooh, I see now. I've just talked with a colleague who's planning to buy a Wacom Cintiq ( [link] ) -- it has an embedded display so WYSIWYG (S stands for "stroke", of course 
More affordable, touchscreens are about 200β¬ (here in Belgium at least). And since you're running Ubuntu, I think you might be ahead of the technology hence you might be one of the very few who could use such screens with Gimp. I'm sure there are plugins or maybe drivers are enough.
One of these days rotate plugins will belong to the past...
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I've been drooling for Cintiq since I first saw it. I'm saving money to buy it, I'm skipping Intuos4 and heading straight for Cintiq.
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It's a nice birthday/wedding present BTW... (I've said nothing, huh! did I?
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Ah, just saw your other submission and the link to the photo.
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