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Published: 2010-01-13 15:58:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 27605; Favourites: 231; Downloads: 494
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Whoo, extremely half-assed tutorial for the win.Hope someone gets some use out of it, anyway.
EXAMPLE: [link]
OKAY LEX HAVE YOUR THUMBNAIL
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Your tutorial helped me a lot ! thank you very much
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Looking at this, and other tips and tutorials on how to draw chainmail makes me understand why Red Sonja and other characters only get a bikini-top worth of armor! Time consuming to draw!
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I had no clue how to draw a chainmail. Now I'm pro in it xD
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WOW. This is a very simple method to something I've struggled with. Thank you for sharing such a great tutorial!!
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I was looking for a basic tutorial for pencil. Let's see if this turns out.
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I was actually looking for a tutorial on how to do them with a pencil, but then I found this. Simple, but a good tutorial. I plan on trying digital art soon, so this may come in handy.
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I would say this is a very good tutorital! This will come in useful!
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Very instructional, straight to business. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for the tutorial! I've put it to great use with one of my pics :thumb358654536:
I found a way to make it a bit more time-efficient, as well. If you want a more uniform style, make one really nice dark grey ring, then copy it. You can multiply it several times and arrange them into a multi-layer sheet. Merge those layers and you'll have a one-layer "sheet" of rings, of which you can then select and arrange as you want, then lock the layer and shade/highlight as needed.
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You're very welcome! I'm glad it was useful to you.
Ooh, clever! That would save a lot of time indeed.
Only downside would be that you couldn't make the rings smaller/slanted to indicate curves, but even so, it's a lot more efficient. c:
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I figure for special circumstances (such as curves) you can just leave those spots open and make a new layer to "patch in" the needed rings. I did that with my drawing, by adding in the necessary curves needed to show the chain wrapping around an object (such as an arm). One thing I found that was -very- helpful from your tutorial was that you really can make an effective-looking mesh with just three or four colors. *thumbs up*
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Whoops, forgot that thumb tags don't work here.
[link] for the picture.
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You're very welcome! I hope it was useful to you. c:
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After you're done drawing a chainmail this way, you should be a pro at drawing rings.. x) Thanks for making this, it worked 
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Yeah, I definitely gained some skill in it. XD
I'm glad to hear it was useful to you!
And thanks. c:
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awesome tut, too bad it's like a lot of work lol (tiiiiring), but this helps a lot
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Glad that it could be of help!
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I'll give you an advice. Make a CIRCLE brush instead of hand drawing everything, and then one click one circle.
This isn't convinient if you wnt o be picky and rotate them according to perspective.
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-Shrug-
That'd require me knowing how2brush. Which, well, I don't.
But hey, good tip for other people. C:
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you can easily do it in 2 minutes.
[link]
In Painter you can't start from scratch but you can make a .Jpg of your brush tip then open it in Painter . 6*6 inches 300 dpi make a nice cricle.
First make another cathegory of brushes "Chainmail" or whatever (capture brush cathegory) in the small triangle on brushes , you'll need a picture of for expample real chain mail to repressent that cathegory (make a rectangural selction on it) once you do that open cricle.jpg that is black cricle (make a rectangular selction) and click the same small triangle and go capture dab. nothing seems to happen but you did it. press control+B and try it
the "variants" are sub-brushes
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Don't have Painter. >_>
I use OpenCanvas.
But thanks for your explanation, I'll see if I can apply it to oC. C:
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coolio person at the end-- i like your characters. chain mail looks like like massive amounts of work, but now that i know how to do it i want to try. when time allows... ah, time. i remember you. but i digress. thanks for the tutorial, it's pretty interesting.
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The drawing at the end is actually a commission, so I didn't design the character, but I'm glad you like it. C:
Drawing chainmail isn't really that much work- it's just repetitive. XD
But, um, you're welcome? C:
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