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Published: 2007-03-03 21:23:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 619; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 29
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Okat, drew a sketch, and I've been trying to flat color it for him. ...and for practice. I don't know the easy way to do good lineart in GIMP yet, so I used a 3x3 black paintbrush for the lines. Took forever DX. Anyway, please leave comments, tell me how I did. ^^EDIT: Forgot a few things. This was my second time coloring anything on the comp, and I had to use a mouse for it. DX Which sucked.
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Weeeeeeeell now. Pretty good, actually. A good tip would be to do it at 300 dpi and then shrink it to 72 to post it up here, but I guess that wasn't possible with this.
Anyway, my lineart is predominantly inked with an actual pen because of the pencils I use, but when I ink digitally I do normally use a mouse for large areas, only the tablet for actually drawing new things freehand.
Hold down SHIFT while clicking with the mouse, and it should draw a straight line. I use that to get nice even edges. It's a bit easier if you use a lighter-edged tip, the lines look more even.
For flat coloring, I do everything the same way:
- New layer, set to "Multiply"
- Polygon lasso inside the lineart for each section
- fill area with appropriate color
- repeat for everything needing flats
Note, these are for PShop CS2. I'm not sure if it's the same for GIMP, but considering all those tools have been around since Elements, it's probably in GIMP too. Hope this helps at least a little.
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^^ Thanks.
...I just realized I colored right on the drawing itself. I still have the original though. Should I copy it in as a lyaer and shift it to the bottom?
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Nah. Lineart always stays on the bottom.
Copy the colors onto a new layer, set it on multiply, and just fill over the whitish spots. Multiply = black goes over everything on the layer, so any lineart below it shows through.
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