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Early Attempts with Gimp 2
GeminiGod
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After watching the videos that Gabe made recently showing his 'creative process', I decided to load up Gimp and try my hand at colouring in his Boba Fett image. I think it came out relatively nicely, although the armor may be a little TOO blue, and not enough green. Tried out the bloom effect too, and it looks okay here.
What I'm looking for:
A) A nice dump site filled with simple, inked B&W images similar to the Boba Fett image, so that I might practice colouring in images
A nice tutorial for inking sketched pictures in Gimp2. I have no tablet, so this is entirely mouse/keyboard for me. I need a way to reproduce the LiveTrace system from Illustrator in a somewhat similar means via Gimp2. I want to take inked sketches that I scan in and blacken the lines, and I'm having trouble with it, and for example, this following image.
So...yeah, that's it. All help and advice appreciated. Anything you guys see wrong with the Boba Fett colouring, where I can improve, anything at all, tell me, please.
What I'm looking for:
A) A nice dump site filled with simple, inked B&W images similar to the Boba Fett image, so that I might practice colouring in images
A nice tutorial for inking sketched pictures in Gimp2. I have no tablet, so this is entirely mouse/keyboard for me. I need a way to reproduce the LiveTrace system from Illustrator in a somewhat similar means via Gimp2. I want to take inked sketches that I scan in and blacken the lines, and I'm having trouble with it, and for example, this following image.So...yeah, that's it. All help and advice appreciated. Anything you guys see wrong with the Boba Fett colouring, where I can improve, anything at all, tell me, please.
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And how-come he's only half-coloured in? Is he meant to be off-white in colour across half his body? It needs some variation in the form of shadows etc to show that you've actually coloured those places in. Apart from that, the colours are flat. Looks like you just selected places with the lasso/magic wand/whatever and just used the bucket fill... Like those children's colouring books, where you just fill in colours indicated by the numbers...
As far as the bloom effect goes, it looses it's impact when the colors are so pale. Refrain from using any effects or filters until you understand how to do things without them.
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Don't use live trace; you say you want to learn, but you're letting the computer do things for you.
How long did it take you to come up with that?
Why is Boba's right arm longer than his left, which is nearer to the beholder?
And I'm wondering why there are lot's of "stairs" in the lines, is there no anti-aliasing?
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He didn't....draw that.
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So, again a thread without art-posts
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good job on the initiative though! don't give up because it's going to be very hard. it'll get easier!
also, two related questions:
1, where is this tutorial everyone is referencing that gabe posted?
2, remember when gabe had his first tutorial on how he does the comic, and he showed how he fills in large black areas? it had something to do with outlining the area, and then paintbucket the area inbetween the outline. but i forgot how he got rid of the white area. just went over it in black? i thought he used feathering or something like that?
The lineart for that Bobba Fett pic is there, too.
Dear god I hope I haven't released a monster by posting this link here.
Ah, that explains a lot. Damn you Gabe, Damn you.
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