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Published: 2014-11-25 01:47:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 35097; Favourites: 1457; Downloads: 742
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Here's an animated process of "Griffins of a Feather" that shows some of the major steps. I get a lot of questions about what I do with lineart so I'll try to explain here:
I use the lineart as a rough guide when I'm laying down the initial color (which I paint under the lineart layer). I bring the render detail to a rough draftish point then I merge the lineart and color layer together. You'll notice that at one point the lines almost disappear but not quite. The reason this happens is because I use a clipping layer above the lineart layer and I paint the lines themselves in order to bring their color closer to the local color that they neighbor. I leave them slightly darker (but not black) in most places because they will become the deepest shadow areas for me to color select from as I detail. In areas where they are on a highlight edge, I will erase them completely to prevent a dark border on an area that should be in light.
Hope this helps!
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Created with Adobe Photoshop.
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This is amazing! Btw, how did you animate it to do smooth stuff. I mean I can animate in after effects, but Photoshop is still somewhat awkward for me to use in terms of animation.
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Thank you so much ^^ I actually used Flash to animate
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Cool! Thanks for letting me know, I'll probably look into flash if I ever want to animate any of my WIPs.
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Ah I was wondering how you made your line art fade into the subjects so smoothly, thanks for explaining!
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Hahaha you're my inspiration seriously your work is so amazing, inspiring, unique and beautiful!
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OMG That is so fascinating how you create that, (I couldn't even get an unwiggly line)! The image at the end is sooo beautiful! Also it is really cool that you are showing us the process!
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Birds!! I ADORE that cockatiel (Although I wish it was Latino, mainly because my actual tiel is that color XD) The sun conure is cute too, I wish my actual sun conure was as cute as that XD Simply beautiful
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neat! this is actually kind of the same method i use sometimes, although of course my art is not as good.. cx
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Thanks! Yeah I find this method works well for me
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omg I love the little Zebra Finch griffins so much quq
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*_* I love your coloring. How do you draw such clean and smooth lineart? My hand is always shaky (and thus my lines) haha
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Thank you so much! For lineart I try to draw moving from my elbow to make smoother movements
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This is absolutely awesome! As a beginner on Photoshop, i'm amazed on the masterpieces you can create!
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This is so awesome and cool to watch!
And thank you for explaining the bit about the lineart!
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