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Variable-Edge — Digital Card Sample - Paige
Published: 2010-10-07 03:39:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 571; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 11
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Looking at this one, I have an irresistible urge to redo Amantha's sample card...
Well, here's another sample digital trading card, this time featuring my resident mystic, Paige! As you can see from the WIPs I posted previously, there has been a bit more refinement in the details, better hair, for one, and her fingers don't look too much like sausages anymore. I still need to find a happy medium where the fingers have a good amount of detail without them looking too wrinkled.
Her hair was my major development here. Since my tablet isn't so good with pressure sensitivity (not sure if that's a hardware or software issue), I had to make do with what I have. I got one of the brushes I used for the piece, and used the Shape Dynamics option in Photoshop to Fade the tip from thick to thin. I set up 3 brushes in this manner, one for long hair, medium, and short. I then switch from one to another depending on the length I needed.
Painted on Photoshop CS3 with a Genius G-Pen 450. Textures by CGTextures.com
Variable Edge and all related characters (c) Jon Mallari
Original Art by Jon Mallari
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looking really good,
i'd check the software for pressure sensitivity, my laptop sometimes loses the drivers for my tablet, and it forgets it can do variable pressures, so there maybe a sporadic conflict of software with the drivers (a friend of mine who did video editing at college, once had to install his graphic card drivers and sound cards in a particular order or they'd conflict, his pc had a combination of 7 so it took him ages to get it right. computers can really suck sometimes)
Awesome card though
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Funny thing is, the sensitivity works on the tablet's own test window, but on PSCS3, it's sometimes there and sometimes it's not. So that messes me up in a big way when my lines suddenly become wide as a log when I'm trying to go for a relatively thin stroke. I'm using the latest driver released by Genius, so I'm at a loss as to what to do in that regard.
But if there's one thing I can do pretty well, it's find a way around these things, so using brush settings to get the tapering I need is one way to do that!
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strange things tablets, have you tried fiddling with the scratch memory on photoshop, it might give your computer a chance to work out what drivers it does have rather than expend time allocating and reorganising memory.maybe also try an earlier version of the driver, i had to do that for my wacom, as my laptop was rather dated and the newer drivers weren't recognised properly.
Still, your work looks awesome despite those niggles
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I'll give that a try the next time I have the time to experiment with the settings, thanks!
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