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Digital art advice
Hello all, my attempt at a Gundam RX-78-2 head.
For the digital artists amongst us, I respectfully seek your advice on learning how to do high quality colour / shading / highlights and/or "special effects" please.
Links to online tutorials and/or principles of digital colouring would be much appreciated. :)
(And yes, I have been searching for them myself...)
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...rk-d7y4gl1.png
http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...cess-480578293
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That's pretty awesome work there. As for advice just experiment. Use the select tools and paths to be precise with the colouring. For the bike I did below I had lots of references and went through photoshop filters just trying things out.
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps987d4e48.jpg
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Plug all that search criteria into YouTube and no doubt that there will be a ton of tutorials.
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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but I think these are pretty good:
Basic to Advanced Color Theory and Illustration Techniques for Photoshop -it's a single page and image heavy obviously! Lots of small quick refs, tutes and process drawings.
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ lots of free video tutes, excellent for beginners too.
Plus a basic masks and layers tutorial for digital colouring.
I wish I had a good light tute, because it seems to me that could help you the most. :o
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Hey guys, thanks for the tutorial links - they are great!
gamblor - can I ask how you did the intricate motorbike parts? Did you use some 3D models, simply drew them in, or used photos? They look very detailed and I can't reproduce that level.
tinyJazz- I've been to ctrlpaint as well, now that I think more about it, I think the problem is more fundamental - I just suck at using the drawing tablet.
In theory it should work similar to the mouse but better, however, I find that I am not used to drawing on the tablet, and then looking up at the monitor to see where the line is actually going to.
I know you can get the large Cintiq ones that allow you to see directly on the tablet too - but I don't want to spend $900+ for a non-pro hobby (yes, I know that even as a non-collector I've probably spent more than $900 on Transformers, but that's different! ;p).
Thus I find that I lack the confidence to do fast / strong lines on the tablet than if I simply drew with a pencil on paper.
It's probably simply a matter of spending another 1,000+ hours of practice...
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I scanned some instructions from a model kit and used that as a template to draw lines in Illustrator. Import those into Photoshop and use them to make paths for selections. Handy for things like symmetrical shapes, concentric circles and logos.
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps6d3b0539.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps3909ed00.jpg
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wow that amazing gamblor!!:eek: you have any transformer digital art works?.... or any other stuff as well...love to see it man
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Gamblor, that bike still breaks my brain. I can see a bunch of bevel filters in the chain detail, but what other techniques did you use?
Sam, I did several pages for Verno's Beast Wars online comics recently where I did digital coloring. I was getting tired of all the 3D I usually do.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...psc706912d.jpg http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...psf300e53b.jpg http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps940c6cd0.jpg http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps5fb0570b.jpg
Flat coloring, then tri-tone shaded, then blurs and blends, then gradient overlays, followed by textures and filters for glows and effects.
Just to emphasize; I only did the coloring, pencils/inks and text were done by others.
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Yeah seriously Gamblor, i've worked with photoshop and illustrator for the last 13 years and couldn't come close to achieving what you've done with that bike!