Anyways if ever you see a photo with a cool effect or you see a fun effect on somewhere like the GFX battle just come here, post a picture of the effect and I(or anyone else who wants to) can help you out to show you how to do the effect! Now I do work with photoshop so yeah my answers are for photoshop! If I don't personally know how to do the effect I'll try and supply you with a link to somewhere that does. And please everyone stay polite, if someone asks a really simple question it doesn't mean you get to tease at their "newbiness", you were all like that once! So, let the party begin! If any.. ;D
Well, finding colours is a matter of your methods and preferences in the first place...but if you're not happy with your colours you can always alter them afterwards. Don't know how in flash but in Photoshop type applications it's dead easy to adjust the colour of everything or even just one particular colour.
Since I have no idea what colour I am picking...and I usually just use the 5th tab on the colour thing of GIMP...where it has just bars of the colours...I am using Hexadecimal codes to get my colours!
For example...I need a skin colour...so I found This!! I can just Sample it or copy out the hexadecimal code!
I usually just look around a little. Even with characters with a defined hair/eye/skin colour, I usually just look through the colours, and finds the one I find best. If you have a problem, well, there is alway the possibility of you laying down the base colour, and see if it fits, and then change those that does not. In photoshop, it is not very hard.
The question I really want to know is about... color choosing. I have a really hard time picking the right color (in digital applications, that is... mostly Flash and Photoshop). And, on top of that, I'm usually not that happy about the color in the end.
It's all a matter of taste~ You could look up some information about colour theory, perhaps. Or just play around until you learn. My advice on colour picking is to not use high saturation on main colours. Real colours are most often more diluted, at least in nature.
It's all a matter of taste~ You could look up some information about colour theory, perhaps. Or just play around until you learn. My advice on colour picking is to not use high saturation on main colours. Real colours are most often more diluted, at least in nature.
Good one, that was one of the problems I had quite often. Thanks! As for the other replies (thank you very much for replying, btw!) I know it's quite easy to alter in photoshop. I just feel somewhat... amateur when I do that. I somehow have the idea stuck in my head that 'real' artists don't do that... even though I know the opposite is true
Oh shi- thoad... That's friggin difficult. I still haven't mastered that even halfwa... Okay, barely halfway. And I've been drawing dragons (with batlike wings) since I was a little kid.
I'd really like a folded bat wing tutorial, please post the link on my profile page.
I can find tutorials on bat wings in general but not folded. Now, when you say folded, do you mean folded around their body? Or perhaps folded back say, like on a dragon. If you can give me an example or a link to an image that has something similar to what you want I might be able to make you a tutorial myself.
You know I was working on a flash vid today and realized I may need to learn how to effectively draw blood. Any of you happen to have any tutorials on how to make realistic, or at least decent blood effects in either Photoshop or flash?
I'll see what I can do with the feathers and the blood.
As far as photoshop goes, with both feathers and blood you can likely find some brushes for each. To make them more realistic, go over them with another layer to add highlight and shadow.
well I realize that you can get premade brushes,but that does not allow for custom blood flow for certain conditions. Feathers on the other hand, depending on what you are trying to do with them...well those would be simpler to customize to the effect you want using brush dynamics...I would think.
In lack of tutorials, I'd like to mention that string at stuff for undefined amounts of time can be a good way to figure out how it looks. As redundant as that may sound, many actually forget to look at what they're drawing irl... Thus getting more toony or mangaish looks.
Reference pics are win. (And I oughta use them more often...)
That is a really nice tutorial for trees, Zophia. I really liked it until the 2nd last step where you added the light green bubbles for leaves. Then the leaves looked like a blob of phlegm. >.<
