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wobblerlorriI'm finding that I prefer to draw preliminary sketches on paper, then scan it into the computer machine and go digital from there. How special am I...
Anyway, because I'm an inveterate fangirl, I'm working on a Snape original character (OC in the fanart parlance), and here is the lineart for my newest endeavor. I drew it in 2B charcoal on some of my nice drawing paper:
This is (who else?) Sevvywevvysmoochiewoochiekins standing at his lectern, telling his First Years that there will be "no foolish wand waving" in Potions. This image is what I drew and then scanned into the 'puter.
Now this is what I ended up with after I created a new layer and traced over my original in GIMP to make a working image I could manipulate and color:
One cool thing about digitally finishing a hand drawn piece -- if you have a habit of doing stuff like making heads too big, it's a snap to copy the head to a new image, shrink it a bit, erase the original head, and paste the new and improved one back on. That's what I did here, because I have a habit of losing my proportions. I think it's because of the wobbler thing and the oscillopsia -- I don't think I did it that much before I became wobblerified.
I'm working on cleaning it up and coloring it right now, redid the hands a bit and changed his nose some. I'm having entirely too much fun getting my skin tones and blending just right -- I'm even starting to look at Corel Painter because I'm finding I just can't get GIMP to do exactly what I want it to do. Oh, it's doing well with smudging etc. but my earlier training is flooding back, and photo manip programs don't do well as actual painting/pastel programs -- when you want a painterly line, a wash, a scrub, programs like GIMP or PhotoShop just don't understand what you want.
Of course, justifying a $200 program just for fun is sort of hard, so I'm investigating... ah... alternative sources. BTW, if anyone has a copy of Corel Painter languishing around their house, I'd be more than happy to give it a brief vacation, if you get my drift...
When I get Sir finished, I'll post him too so you can see how he went from a charcoal drawing to a pretty digital image. Aren't you just thrilled beyond the bounds of human credulity? I know I am...
Anyway, because I'm an inveterate fangirl, I'm working on a Snape original character (OC in the fanart parlance), and here is the lineart for my newest endeavor. I drew it in 2B charcoal on some of my nice drawing paper:
This is (who else?) Sevvywevvysmoochiewoochiekins standing at his lectern, telling his First Years that there will be "no foolish wand waving" in Potions. This image is what I drew and then scanned into the 'puter.
Now this is what I ended up with after I created a new layer and traced over my original in GIMP to make a working image I could manipulate and color:
One cool thing about digitally finishing a hand drawn piece -- if you have a habit of doing stuff like making heads too big, it's a snap to copy the head to a new image, shrink it a bit, erase the original head, and paste the new and improved one back on. That's what I did here, because I have a habit of losing my proportions. I think it's because of the wobbler thing and the oscillopsia -- I don't think I did it that much before I became wobblerified.
I'm working on cleaning it up and coloring it right now, redid the hands a bit and changed his nose some. I'm having entirely too much fun getting my skin tones and blending just right -- I'm even starting to look at Corel Painter because I'm finding I just can't get GIMP to do exactly what I want it to do. Oh, it's doing well with smudging etc. but my earlier training is flooding back, and photo manip programs don't do well as actual painting/pastel programs -- when you want a painterly line, a wash, a scrub, programs like GIMP or PhotoShop just don't understand what you want.
Of course, justifying a $200 program just for fun is sort of hard, so I'm investigating... ah... alternative sources. BTW, if anyone has a copy of Corel Painter languishing around their house, I'd be more than happy to give it a brief vacation, if you get my drift...
When I get Sir finished, I'll post him too so you can see how he went from a charcoal drawing to a pretty digital image. Aren't you just thrilled beyond the bounds of human credulity? I know I am...
