[Gecko]

I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while now, with all the in-progress .JPGs lying on different temp directories at my harddrive.

I worked all night to gather the pics and put some explanative text around them, so don't be surprised if some of it sounds a little sleepy.

Why am I doing this?
Well, I've learned a lot by studying other people's step by step explanations to their paintings, and feel someone here might find a useful thing or two hidden somewhere between the steps...

Anyway, here are the pics that are broken down on my site (click the link below each pic):


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step2.html


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step3.html


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step4.html


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step5.html


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step6.html


http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/step/step7.html


Hope this was worth the trouble :)
Have a good night.

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[[Shizo]]

gecko, i'm speechless.
I kiss you!!! You da man

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[Spydur]

Wow....good stuff.
I really love the foilage in pic 2. SUPERB!

[kardis]

bleh why did i have to stumble on this at 2:52 am est? bleh! just bleh! least i can bookmark it.. i shall return! with masterpieces in my hands..

muahaha,

-kardis

[LordArioch]

Very cool, thanks.

[Jaymo]

Very nice. Gotta get used to saving my snapshots...

[GodChi]

thank you VERY much!!

-GodChi
--> http://www.outshined.de

[Psionic]

Very Very Nice and Very useful, thanks for taking the time to put this lot together!

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[Solitaire]

hey thanx it's always nice having beneffit from other people's experiences - maybe I should start to make step by steps, so people can tell me where I started to fail ...

One question - I think u used a tablet - is there a way to do such brushstrokes with a mouse? I often tried to use the techniques you, Spooge and most of the people here use, but never got smooth results

[OkkE]

THNX!! This is great! If ya were a girl i'd kiss ya.

[Superbug]

Your stuff rocks man. Your style is slick.

Theses tutorials were most cool.
thanks!!

[Hyperi0n]

Awsome job as always Gecko,thx for the tutorials

[Ampa]

Thanks Gecko for taking the time to do this - really fine to see the work behind the final product.

Ampa.

[Hurri-cane]

good, always fun to see how another one paints

good job !


.c4n3m4n (l337 flue)

[Gecko]

thanks everyone, I should have asked for comments about the text in there, but it's a little late now and no one mentioned it so I guess it was useful to some extent.

solitaire:
Haha, I guess that could be a reason for making tutorials ;)
About the tablet thingy, yes I've got one, and mouse really isn't much compared to the cordless pen + pressure sensitivity combination. With pen, the lines really live by varying in width and opacity, while mouse lines are generic and single-colored. I know that making good-looking stuff with mouse is possible, but takes a lot more effort and gets you some strain injury really fast.

Okke: hehe :]

Ah well, no one's gonna visit this anymore so blah, I can babble what ever I want. Bli bla blo, yada yada p�l� p�l�. HEY Look, I made up a palindrome a while ago: "Salla, ota pika-Aki Patoallas." (It's in Finnish, dummy!) ok im done bye

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[sh4de]

I can do palindromes too. tissit, tosi isot tissit.
anywho I really like your pics =)
ainakin that kuva3 pic.

[tzekin]

Thanks a lot, the info you've provided was really useful. Thank

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