I’m having trouble visualizing this. So say you want to cut out a square. Where do you make the slits? And is this single cut for one side of the square?
Cool, I’ll keep at it.
Do you think its weird or “cheap” to trace your own drawing that you made on the computer? I drew smething that came out pretty good in MS Paint and I put a sheet of paper over the screen and traced it. Usually you should be good enough to just do it over again without tracing. Is that considered cheap by most people? Im not an art student, I dont know what the “code” is.
not really. artists trace over their work all the time, usually when transferring the lines to different or bigger paper. some people just redraw the whole thing. you’re pretty much doing the same thing so it’s up to you. i’m guessing you don’t have a printer tho if you have to trace on the screen ^^;
Im doing something for the Alternate Costume SRK Community contest. So I dont think its messed up to use the same base and draw different clothes, just as long as you dont do it too much in your main artwork.
Lol, dude. There is no code. You should do stuff the way it works best for you.
Thinking you should be able to redraw a drawing from scratch is just giving yourself an unnecessary handicap, leading to a lot of frustration and self-doubt.
It’s very rare that I can draw a perfect drawing in one go, so if I’ve got a sketch that looks like it could be good, I put a new piece of paper on top, refine the stuff that’s too vague, keep the stuff that works and change what doesn’t work. If I think it could still be better, I just do it again, until I’m happy with the drawing.
Does anyone know of a video (preferably youtube) of some one creating something like this? (source)
Like, the pseudo-3/2.5D pixar-esque-looking stuff? I’ve seen his T.Hawk tutorial but that’s a slideshow, was hoping for a video. I’ve seen similar styles like here and here and here and here etc so I feel like it’s not uncommon.
I want to paint with the Okami-style on actual paper or fabric (not in a digital media.) I’m interested in the cool ink splashes. I just can’t figure out how they do it.
Here are some examples from Okami and Street Fighter 4:
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http://www.blogcdn.com/nintendo.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/okami020608.jpg (Okami) … Look at background
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http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hakan_SSFiv.jpg (SF4) … How can I recreate those splashes on paper? Maybe cover a part of the drawing, and splash the ink on the exposed areas
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http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Makoto-Ink.jpg
http://cdn1.gamepro.com/screens/138421/76281-2-screenshot.jpg … Lovely Inks Splashes in both these pics
I would love to get this art form down. If anyone has any ideas or hunches let me know
I keep finding pictures of fighters already in a cage.
For school we have to make a movie poster. I want to put a person I know inside a fighters cage. Each photo I see to use as the Cage Background, already has a lot of fence in the foreground. So its hard to put somebody in there.
Is it possible to get some fence pictures: copy + paste, tilt, and distort it to create a fighting cage from scratch?
What is the use of “masking” your art in photoshop?
There’s quite a few uses for masks, though overall it can be somewhat time consuming. I’ll just use an example of a female character with several accessories like jewelery:
- Masking off the jewelery will allow you to color it without colors bleeding off onto the rest of the picture. This is handy if you want to use a large brush or any effects brushes like blur or smudge or anything that might have colors bleeding outside of where you want them to. The advantage of using a mask as apposed to a layer is you only have to clean it up once, if you ever adjust it again you’d have to clean the layer again but the mask will always stay there.
- Masking off all the jewelery would allow you to use adjustment layers or blending options without effecting anything but what you intend to adjust. This also includes things like adding gradient overlays or generally anything that you want only to effect the mask.
- You can modify the mask itself to add/subtract space, the advantage of it being done in masks instead of layers is the mask is always adjustable this way, but you may not have an undo point for the layer you’re working on. This includes if you save the project for another day and open the file again, the mask can still be adjusted whereas you’ve lost your undo points.
- You can create temporary masks (usually referred to as a quickmask) to work on just certain parts of the artwork at a time, a lot of comic book artists use quickmasks regularly in order to “spray” color onto the area with a large soft brush, but then the color only appears in the selected masked area (I think this is sometimes called cut-and-grad style).
There are some disadvantages to using masks as well, but generally speaking you can work around them rather easily. When creating a mask I think it’s infinitely wiser to try and automate the process as much as possible, and also to paint in what you do want rather than trying to erase what you don’t want.
It isn’t entirely necessary to use masks though, but then you also don’t “need” to use layers either, but they do give you a certain amount of freedom to do things in different ways. For me, I tend to use a brush that is effected by the colors that are already on the canvas (like a wet brush that absorbs color, or smears/pushes existing color around) and so masking is nice in this regard, because it’s effected by the existing colors under the mask. For example if I had red visible, and blue was masked off, I could still paint around the edge of the mask and some of the blue will seep in because even though it’s not visible it’s still there under the mask and gets effected by the brush.
The main reason I ever use masks is so that I can go hogwild on a particular area and have only that area effected by what I do, which is particularly handy when the surrounding areas are a completely different color.
Actually, I’m sure there’s probably a number of other uses for masks that I’m forgetting to mention at the moment. But I think the important thing to remember is that it works like in traditional tools, using tape to create masks or stencils, except that with digital tools you have a lot more freedom and options.
When I first learned about masks I was like OMGwtf amazors…but now I find I use them a lot less for paintings. There is a more organic feel about raw application of color on fewer layers. They are definitely useful though in the right places and can increase the efficiency of your work flow, especially when you need to provide multiple versions of one painting.
I agree. I pretty much only use quickmask tool these days, if at all. Though my only beef with masks is that it’s time consuming, if I could automatically make a mask in a couple of seconds then I’d probably use them more. It’s probably easier in photoshop, come to think of it, I’m sure there’s some little tricks you can use to make dynamic selections and then convert that over to a mask.
Any tips on crafting dynamic poses for characters? It seems I draw too many characters that just stand there looking at you lol
Use lines of action to find the general movement of the body. I find that dynamic posing makes great use of the 3 main twist axis in your body…the head, shoulders, and hips. Twist and manipulate them using basic rules of counter action (ie. left hip forward - right shoulder forward during a stride, or bending your spine back the other way when you’re off balance) and try to get a hang of a body naturally posing (ie.contrapposto). Act out the pose and make note of where your body is stretching, flexing, twisting, dangling, where your fat folds, etc. What muscles are supporting the primary action? Where’s the leverage your body needs to allow that support? Your body is your best learning material here.
I think dynamic poses have to do with flow and perspective. Having a fluid construct (base structure), and looking at the object (person) in terms of three dimensions from different angles. Relevant link THE ART CENTER
What are some of the art practices you guys have on your free time? \
is it possible to add 3d effects to sprites in after affects?
how do you usually prepare your lineart for coloring digitally?
I’m in the process of coloring a character right now… Once I have the lineart done nice an clean on paper, I scan it, and redraw the lines on photoshop. I do this because my scanner doesn’t work the way I like it to… After that all the color layers go underneath the linework.
what is a good method to apply textures to your art work? it could be for PhotoShop, Painter, etc.