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verticalfish — TOW-3 Drawing Chains and Metallics
Published: 2012-06-20 23:07:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 43271; Favourites: 2134; Downloads: 855
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This week's tutorial is on something I took a long time to get right (or at least good enough that I was satisfied with it) - how to draw chains & metallic surfaces! I learned this just from reading and absorbing the techniques of different illustrators, as there aren't that many tutorials about esoteric topics like this around.Sorry I missed last week's TOW. I was overworked! I'll make it up though - I'll do another TOW this week to catch up.
Be sure to check out my other tutorials:
[link] Background Perspective
[link] Digital Editing of traditional media
[link] Webcomic Process for Tablet
[link] SFX in PSCS 1: Quick Motion BGs
[link] TOW-1: Photoshop Motion Lines Tutorial
[link] TOW-2: Lightning Tutorial
[link] TOW-3: Chains & Metallics
[link] TOW-4: Shading Faces
...and while you're at it, check out my comics!
The Sixth Bar - [link]
Lindbergh -[link]
Glyphmaster - [link]
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Comments: 73
Finally a tutorial on how to draw chains! Thank you, this is going to be very helpful!
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Really helpful. I always had trouble with linked metals. Thanks!
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Btw, I checked out your Background tutorial vid. It made me think about getting 3D rendering software since I like to nitpick on detail. lol
Anyhow, I just have one question. I noticed that you construct your panels on SAI. Do you do it manually by drawing individual lines per page or do you have a tool that places panels there? I can think of a few other ways you could've done it but I just want to be sure since you seem to be pretty fast when making these.
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I draw individual lines per page. I start of with a blank document that has a rectangular black border about 100 pixels wide, then I use the shift key with the brush tool to draw straight lines for panel divisions with a brush of about 20 px. diameter.
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wow all of your tutorials helped me understand better through those simple steps you've demonstrated! Thanks for all of your tutorials.
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Glad you like!
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No problem, glad you like it!
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So helpful! I have been looking for a way to draw metal effectively for a long time. Thank you for this tutorial
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Your tutorials have helped me so much with my comic! Thank you!
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thank you so fucking much for this awesome beautiful tutorial my life is now so much simpler
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XD I like making people's lives simpler!
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Thank you so much! ♡
I was looking for chain tutorials. This helped me so much! ^^
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All your tutorials are fantastic. What I really love is how you include examples in work at the bottom. I guess they just really help it click for me. Thank you!
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No problem! Keep an eye out for more!
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No problem! Happy to help! Check out my other tutorials if you like - I do one every week!
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No problem. Be sure to check up on me; a new tutorial comes out every week!
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That's exciting, I'll look forward to more.
I like your style btw
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Thanks! I'll keep the tutorials coming!
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wow, this is so amazing! thank you for sharing!!!
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No problem, I'm happy to do so.
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nice, thanks a bunch! this is really useful as i have a character with a chain dog collar but stopped drawing it as i couldnt get it right...
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I hope this facilitates further drawing then!
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hell yeah, i'll never stop...though my lack of scanner is preventing uploading...>.<
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Ouch! I used to do traditional > scan > and edit with photoshop, and my scanner would always break, so I just got a tablet and it made my art like 1000x better. I wasn't sure how it would go, but in retrospect, it was totally worth it.
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yeah i used to do that, i did buy a tablet but it was a cheap one and rather S~#t! i'm hoping to get a top line one or a touch screen monitor
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Hi this is *Mr-EmOo form #flartograph
Your beautiful artwork was submit in our Journal weekly feature 
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Greetings
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