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Shadow-X- member
Member # Joined: 29 Oct 1999 Posts: 259 Location: Formerly Ontario,Canada, Now Vancouver, B.C, CANADA, where people hate the Toronto Maple Leafs
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 11:26 am |
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Ok, here's the deal. I am drawing a picture for my friend for her b-day. I have gotten it down to the initial sketch, and I have inked it. Now this is all on paper so far, but here is a scan of what I have.
Now, as my first attempt, I am going to digitally colour it beforehand to see what it might look like in the end when I actually colour it with pencil crayons. I have scanned it in at 300dpi, so it is a humongous picture.
Question #1 Should I keep it at the huge resolution and paint it, or should I scale it down to a size I'd like it at (eg. so it fits on my desktop size) before I start colouring? Keep in mind that whenever I have doodled on my computer, and made an "inking", whenever I have tried to colour, I have always resized the image so that the whole image fits on my monitor.
Question #2 I was in my art class a few weeks ago, and I coloured in my "beta" sketch with my friends PrismaColor pencil crayons. Any words on this brand? I am not looking into buying super high quality pencil crayons, but the prismacolours seemed very easy to blend and fade the colours together compared to the Laurentian pencilcrayons I own.
Question #3 In photoshop, I usually colour right onto the picture itself, no layers and such. I am beginning to stray from the "normal" setting on the paintbrush, and am trying new things. WHen I am using "Multiply" mode, and I try to colour a large area, I sometimes have to let go of the mouse button on my pen. But then when I try to continue colouring, wherever I overlap the colour, it gets darker there. Should I be using layers in this case to colour large areas? I guess that would be the most logical answer huh? I guess I sorta answered my own question.
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roundeye member
Member # Joined: 21 Mar 2001 Posts: 1059 Location: toronto
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 11:50 am |
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1 if you plan on printing it, keep it hi res, if not scale it to whats most comfortable for you to work with.
2 they are the best, ever. anyone tells you different, they are an untrustworthy communist.
3 set the layer to multiply and leave the brush as normal. this will help you avoid the overlap.
[ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: roundeye ] |
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vurx junior member
Member # Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 46 Location: dallas
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 8:32 pm |
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..and, layers are your best friends in photoshop, the more the merrier. |
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Xysryc member
Member # Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Posts: 92
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2002 7:26 am |
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Indeed: PrismaColors are the best!
@vurx: Yep, that's right. But they tend to fill your memory! ^^ |
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Shadow-X- member
Member # Joined: 29 Oct 1999 Posts: 259 Location: Formerly Ontario,Canada, Now Vancouver, B.C, CANADA, where people hate the Toronto Maple Leafs
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2002 9:24 am |
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Thanks!
I returned my 23 dollar pencil crayon set, and got the prismacolors, and got 7 bucks back too! woot. I didn't think I needed that high quality of pencil crayons. Just wanted to make sure what others thought first.
Anyhoo, I finished my piece, on paper, I'll post in the finished gallery.
Thanks again for the help. |
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