WHOAMG Photoshop!!!!

Started by Chibi Pika December 13th, 2006 3:04 PM
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Alright, I realize that one of the pics I'm gonna post now would actually fit in my other thread, and that it is one thread per person, but there's something I really want to say.

Those of you who have seen my art threads before know that I've always had a certain attitude about digitally enhanced art. Basically, I always secretly thought it was awesome, but went went parading around, exclaiming that all my artwork was unedited in its original pencil glory, as things should be! Alright, so I did a few Paint pics smudged on crap programs, but that's not the point.

So now that I actually know how to Photoshop...

Well, now I like it. :)

Meh first piccy (alright, the lineart is too blocky, but I didn't do it right... ><):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/LucarioSketch2.jpg

And my new Chibi avatar pic thingy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Chibi-1.png

A quick Lugia sketch that I colored.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/LugiaWing2.png

A Bionic Lucario
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/DeltaLucario-1.jpg

The Latis
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Latis-1.jpg

Blaziken, nothing more. =P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Blaziken.png

A really old Moltres drawing that I randomly colored xD
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Moltres.png

Entei
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Entei-1.jpg

Riolu ^^
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Riolu2.jpg




I still a newb at that stuff so I don't really know all the proper techniques and shading and crap, so...for once I do not encourage mauling. ^^;;;;

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um.. wowza! howd you do your outline?
Dragonfree taught me how. ^^ The secret is Illustrator (a program which, up until now, I considered evil xP) You paste the scanned pic into illustrator and go over all the lines with the pen tool (which sounds daunting and time-consuming, but if you hold the pen down, you can make curved lines, which makes things easier.) Then when you're done, you delete the original pic behind it, do a screen capture, and paste it into Photoshop. And coloring is easy, you just use the magic wand to delete all the white areas, duplicate the layer, and fill in all the color on the lower layer (using the magic wand, of course, to only fill in between the lines.)

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Eh hehe... well, the name was because I wanted to call attention to the fact that I'm finally trying Photoshop. ^^;

New one! Da da, dada!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/LugiaWing2.jpg

Fwee. =3

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I think you're colouring is really smooth and you do really well with photoshop, personally, being as I am too a photoshop user, but only for colouring my pics, I think you're better than me. They are really nice.
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Horray for photoshop!! I like yer pics. ^_^
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I like'em. Smooth photoshop coloring is hard ._. *Tried it before*. I advice you on trying the cell coloring. Cell coloring is more fun and it'll give you more chances of being creative. I'd post some examples but i still need to get to 15 and more posts first.
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I've seen you mention it in your threads--what's cell coloring?

New one, fwee!! My best one yet, imo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Latis-1.jpg

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My first image in photoshop wasn't that good, i even used a tablet but yours rocks! By the way, cell shading is a way of shading and like you do on sprites you block colour. so no airbrushing or watercolouring just the pencil tool on photoshop.
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Nice pis, really softly shaded, and well, cell shaded is what you can find alot on officially coloured Anime pics, say like ones you find on BLEACH calenders or whatever, atleast I think that's where you see it.
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All of my pics up to now have been soft-shaded. Which is fine, I guess, but I really wanted to try hard-shading. It is more difficult, but worth it, methinks, because I love the result...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Entei-1.jpg
Fwee!

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Dragonfree taught me how. ^^ The secret is Illustrator (a program which, up until now, I considered evil xP) You paste the scanned pic into illustrator and go over all the lines with the pen tool (which sounds daunting and time-consuming, but if you hold the pen down, you can make curved lines, which makes things easier.) Then when you're done, you delete the original pic behind it, do a screen capture, and paste it into Photoshop. And coloring is easy, you just use the magic wand to delete all the white areas, duplicate the layer, and fill in all the color on the lower layer (using the magic wand, of course, to only fill in between the lines.)

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...That one paragraph just saved me hours of work, the next time I decide to photoshop a scanned image. xD Awesome.

I was wondering how you did the line art as well. Thats a neat idea.

And I love your art! It really does remind me of Sugimori art, but at the same time its original as well.


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Then when you're done, you delete the original pic behind it, do a screen capture, and paste it into Photoshop.
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Wouldn't it be *way* easier to just save it and open it in photoshop? Why a screen capture?

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That moltres is eons beyond the rest of your stuff. Kepp your poses dynamic like that. You really get the feeling that the Moltres is friggin fierce.
Ironically, I drew that Moltres two years ago. xD
...That one paragraph just saved me hours of work, the next time I decide to photoshop a scanned image. xD Awesome.
You're welcome. ^^ And btw, I got one part wrong in the explanation... It's better to just paste the lineart in (creating a new layer, and change that layer's Blending Mode to Multiply, so you don't have to do any deleting of white areas. It makes all the white see-through, so you just fill in the color on the bottom layer.
Wouldn't it be *way* easier to just save it and open it in photoshop? Why a screen capture?
Eh...I think it converts it into a smart object or something weird like that, and it's better to have the lineart pixelated normally, at least in my opinion. Or maybe not, I dunno...it only takes about thirty extra seconds to screen capture and crop anyway.

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Heh, thanks. ^^

New one! Riolu!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/Riolu2.jpg

Oh, and by the way, I redid the Lugia. Seriously, compare them:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/LugiaWing.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ChibiPika/Pics/LugiaWing2.png
The only thing I don't like about the new one is the shading on the backfins. It's really demented. xD

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Oooo, Lugia looks awesome with the shading! And its so well drawn. x3


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