Heh - I tried that once - posted up some characters n stuff and got slammed down by a few certain ... ingrates =/Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny Rosalind
Much frownage. But G'luck with it :)
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Heh - I tried that once - posted up some characters n stuff and got slammed down by a few certain ... ingrates =/Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny Rosalind
Much frownage. But G'luck with it :)
please do, Sunny! I'd love to see more about how you get your inspirations.
And the neocron comic idea sounds superb. Been racking my brains for a few simple scripts for comics, but none that even approaches the old "Spud and Felix" comics. *sigh* Now these were classics.
ahh now that sir is taste :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Heavyporker
=[ whish my scannere worked my 80's rocker in a leather jacket and long permed hair with stubble i did as a charkhole drawing would realy suit the topic, especialy since he had a guitar in one hand a a uzi in the other
heavyporker, i made my perception of a monk in about a minute :)
hardest part is finding a nice picture that suits youre basic idea, the monkpicture i found of an old shaolinmonk infront of he's monastery was ideal !
then all i did was load it in photoshop ... Image/Mode > Grayscale ... and ... Filter/Artistic > Cutout ... Tadaa !!
computers make artists out of people who arent ! like me !
i also like mintfear's drawings, he's style really reflects he's thinkingpatern and place on the evolutionary timeline ... he forgot to paint the zoneline tough ...
sunny if you make a tutorial ill certainly have a go (Having a go being the important words their I cant draw for shite!) hehehe. But they look good peeps, certainly a different take on the nc world!
Although, someone had to do the ms paint :P
Delphi
Heh, I was gonna say that.Quote:
Originally Posted by james_finn
I'm right in the middle of drawing my interpretation of what the leader (or high-ranking member) of Black Dragon would look like...so I'll put it up here when I'm done :)
http://artpad.art.com/?iielmy1dcv7g
apu vs ppu :p
Anti buff, the killer of all.
*note, this is how bad they teach 8th year art at school :D :D*
http://artpad.art.com/?iieuh81e7rh4
lol that one is brilliant :p
Hi :)
It's more of a step-by-step commentary of a recent doodle than a tutorial... But hopefully if you're interested you'll learn a few things from it :)
I hope I'm not including too many pictures!! :(
1) Scan in the doodle
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial1.jpg
I scanned mine in at 500 DPI, so I can get nice and close to the action :) If you'll notice, it's really sketchy, but drawn in relatively dark. Don't remove the background, or do anything directly to that layer. We'll discuss why later :)
2) Duplicate the Layer
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial2.jpg
The reason for this is because the doodle is currently set as the background - we want it to be the layer on top.
3) Set the new layer's render mode to Multiply
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial3.jpg
This makes the white in the duplicated layer turn invisible - Basically removing the background for us without too much of a fuss :)
4) Make two layers (one for shadows, the other for the highlights) below the duplicated layer
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial4.jpg
I prefer to have everything on seperate layers... :) It's just how I am! One layer will be used for the shadows on the clothing, the other will be used for the light on the clothing. I also deleted the original layer (the one that we duplicated) because we won't be needing it anymore, you can keep it if you want though :)
5) Get a nice brush to begin shading/highlighting with
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial5.jpg
The size of the brush depends on the size of the picture, but it should be a fuzzy brush like the one I have highlighted so everything blends together more :) I also have the opacity of the brush set to 10%, that way the shadows won't be just one color, which is nice :)
6) Begin shading!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial6.jpg
It's time to start shading :) There's no set rule for shading, because the light source will always be changing... But the easiest thing to do is just to shade along the edges of the clothing, like I did above! Make sure that when you just start shading that you do everything in one go - or else the shadow will get darker (because the opacity is at 10%)... You'll see what I mean in the next step!
7) Continue shading!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial7.jpg
Parts of the shadow is darker in this picture, because I went over the shading we did in part 6 again :) When you have two transparent things and you put them on top of each other, it'll appear slightly more opaque... remember that!
8) Keep on going... :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial8.jpg
This is the third pass of the shading :) Each time I go over the shading, I go slightly further back until I don't have any more space to shade. All of the shading so far has been on the same layer!
9) More shading!!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../tutorial9.jpg
Do the entire picture's shading the same way we did before :) Because we used a fuzzy, gentle brush, the shading sort of blends together. You can sort of see where you applied the brush, but we'll go back and fix that up later.
10) Finish shading
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial10.jpg
Hurrah, we finished shading :) Now, underneath all of the layers we have so far, we're going to add a gray layer, of 175R 175G 175B. This will help us see what we're doing with the highlights :)
11) Begin and finish highlighting!
Argh I forgot to take a screenshot of this while I was doing this... It's pretty much the same thing as shading, but the general rule is: highlight wherever there's not a shadow. That means the further away from a shadow you'll get, the whiter the picture will be. The gray background will help you see everything :) For me, highlighting takes much less time than shading does!
12) Begin coloring!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial11.jpg
To color things (I started with the shrit), I make a new layer with the article of clothing's name on it, and outline the area to be colored with the polygonal lasso tool. It's alright if you end up filling up too much like me, we can go back later and edit that out :)
[/B]13) Finish coloring![/B]
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial12.jpg
Do the same thing for all of the other articles of clothing :) I made a different layer for each color, basically. If you notice that you didn't do such a good job shading in an area, you can go back to the shadow or highlight layer and fix up the mistake :)
[/B]14) Begin editing out some mistakes.[/B]
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial13.jpg
To edit out mistakes, we'll be using the clone stamp tool :) It's a very handy thing! To use it properly, make sure that you have the duplicated layer selected (it should be the very top layer, called background copy by default), hold alt (you'll get a targeting recticle thing), select an area of clean paper, and let go of alt. When you left click, it will replace the area that you just left clicked with the area that you alt-clicked before, with the targeting recticle! You should make sure that the brush for the clone tool is fuzzy like the brush we used for shading and highlighting. That will make everything blend together again :)
15) Continue editing out mistakes.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial14.jpg
I decided that I didn't like that weird face-tattoo thing, so I used the clone stamp tool to remove it :) If you have a drawing tablet, it might be easier and look better if you retrace the background layer, so it doesn't look like it was made out of crayons like mine :)
16) Finishing editing out mistakes.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial15.jpg
I finished editing most of the minor things that I didn't like in this step. The final steps that we'll do will make everything look a little bit cleaner, so don't bother trying to make it look perfect right now :)
17) Change the contrast.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial16.jpg
To do this the easy way, just go into Image > Mode > Auto Levels. It'll turn the grey graphite into black. You might see a couple of new lines that you didn't see before. If you want to, you can edit them out :)
18) Forgot to fix the hair, whoops.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial17.jpg
I do the hair with a special brush pack made specifically for hair :) I can't remember the URL for this specific set off the top of my head but I'm sure if you google 'photoshop hair brushes' you'll find something similar to this! I don't use the paintbrush tool for the hair - instead, I use the dodge/burn tools. In the above picture, I'm using the dodge tool on the hair layer to make things a little bit lighter.
19) Finished the hair.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial18.jpg
I finished the hair now. Using the dodge tool with that kind of brush made it seem as if every strand of hair was done individually, which is nice because the hair's not just one solid color anymore.
20) The cool glowy effect
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial19.jpg
The glowy effect hides most of the smaller mistakes that you did, it's really cool :) To do it, select everything, then copy merged (like in the picture). Paste it onto a new layer, above the background copy (it's the layer that we duplicated, remember? :))
21) Set the new layer's rendering mode to Overlay
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial20.jpg
Overlay, according to photoshop, "Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the base color. Patterns or colors overlay the existing pixels while preserving the highlights and shadows of the base color", and also gives it this really funky glow.
22) Begin to apply a Gaussian Blur to the new layer
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial21.jpg
Making the overlay'd layer blurry will make it look even more glowy, and will totally rock your socks :)
23) Apply it
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial22.jpg
Here are the settings that I used for my picture, but depending on the size of the picture, the radius size of the blur will change.
24) Think of a background for the picture
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial23.jpg
Make a new layer, and put it below every other layer :) You can go ingame and take a screenshot by pressing F12, then open it up in photoshop. It should be in the neocron2/shots folder, I think. You could also use another image or a solid color... :) The only reason I prefer to use NC2 shots as backgrounds is because if I didn't, my doodles would hardly be related to NC :P
25) Do the whole duplicate/overlay/gaussian blur thing to the background picture
This way it matches the foreground :)
26) You're finished, congrats!
All done! :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...rialfinish.jpg
I hope you learn something from this tutorial! :)
ohhh nice tutorial
(pitty the ppl on the board have to beable to draw to use it )
who said that :p :D
Whooray! my computer is working! Brilliant coloring tutorial! :D
PEace out
problem #1: i cant draw for shit.
problem #2: i dont have a scanner.
:p
damn good tutorial though
Well, Im too tired from work to draw a new clive tombstone, so I took an older pic, and used your method of coloring, THIS is honestly my first time doing photoshop to color a picture (I usually have my friend do it for my,the few times that he did). So anywho, thanks for the new method, ill start drawing a new tombstone, and or at least his current build (HC PE DRIVER)
Oh thats right I gotta photoshop my old armor designs and vehicles too :D
ANYWHO heres the pic, its crap and 20 mins of work (im gonna get a soda)
PEace out
[IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/crap.jpg[/IMG]