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McGibs' Painting Tutorial!
McGibs
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I didn't feel much like working at work, so I made this! Listen to over twelve minutes of my sensuous voice as I doodle a little... lizard... dinosaur... thing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlEduMhraU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlEduMhraU
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I feel honored to be view number 7.
I need to try this masking stuff
and the flow control
Like the tip regarding how you use masking
I mean, I do work fast, but thats not why I said it.
Glad you peeps find it informative!
envious!
I had no idea what flow even did.
There, I said it.
~Jeremy Clarkson
To put it simply, opacity is the transparency of the ink/paint coming out of your brush, and flow is how fast it comes out.
Did you reduce the spacing? It defaults to 15%, set it to 1% and it should smooth.
Nice video Gibs!
I had a look at it and then tried it myself a few hours later. Couldn't remember how to use the masks, which ended up messing with the colour and texture added later, but other than that everything was easy enough to remember. Considering about three weeks ago my shading was basically limited to this:
and tonight I rather quickly sketched out this:
I'm pretty pleased. Bad though it may be, it's nowhere near as horrible as what I used to end up with, and I can't thank you enough, you gleaming legend.
edit: Aw shucks, TOTP
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Duplicating your active image in another window was a great little tip - I didn't know that one!
I initially found it a little strange that you paint the background in a layer above the rest of the layers but after giving it a go, I see that carving back into your line art gives the whole thing a much sharper edge -- interestingly, it's the same way a few of my friends do spray-paint/mural work.
Anyway, great work sir.
Though one problem: I tried just selecting the layer and painting over it to change color and add shadow, and I got some really nasty jagged edges. So instead I made another layer and used ctrl-shift-g so it would treat any transparency of the masking layer as a mask, which lets it keep it's anti-aliased edges.
I don't know if those words in those sentences made much sense arranged like that.
i'm a little confused on what gets masked where. did you duplicate the color layer and change the duplicated one to the reddish? then mask that layer?
You don't actually have to select the layer and get those jagglies OR make another layer: you can just lock the layer transparency (by clicking the little transparency box in the layers window) and paint over it and it'll retain any opacity, gentle transitions, etc..
Thanks.
At least with my way you can uhhh... toggle and stack effects on different layers?
Hurrr...
Not amazing, but it showed me the potential in working this way, so it excites me. Thanks Gibs
Wow, there it is. I had to google it. I'm always in that panel, but I never saw that option. I thought it was just the title of all the other options or something. BLEEEEEEEEEH okay, my lines in photoshop look a lot nicer now. Haha.
make a PS document with only one layer- transparent
draw a square/rentangle that is entirely opaque
open the brushes menu
click on "shape dynamics"
under "angle jitter", click on the drop down menu and choose "direction"
click the edit menu and choose "define brush preset"
viola
Also nice slimeball you got there Zerg, his little bubble looks like a nubby johnson.
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I had PS7 not too long ago and I'm pretty sure it's got all essential stuff gibs used in the video
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