Thursday, February 5, 2009

Phase 4: Oh Crap...



In working on this drawing, I made one big error: not finding out more from the one who ordered it. When we last left off, I had thought this drawing was in the can and done. Then I find that I've made a big error: the chateau is supposed to be a ruin, not a nice looking building.

Parts of the second floor needed to be collapsed. Luckily, GIMP was there to rescue me and I didn't have to resort to anything drastic. Still, I thnk it turned out well.

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  1. Technical questions -

    Are you working completely on the computer? I had thought this was hand-penciled and hand-inked. Did you scan it in at some point so you could work on it in GIMP?

    Did you retain the base drawing and just do a layer to cause the ruined effect?

    What kind of tablet, if any, do you use for GIMP?

    Thanks in advance for answering my questions.

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  2. It's kind of cool to see both. Shows the glory of the chateau back in the day!

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  3. Whoever commissioned that excellent piece must be one demanding tyrant. Sheesh. You should insert some easter egg like a tiny rubber ducky in the fountain that won't be seen until further scrutinization. The nerve!





    Looks great, btw. I'm sure James will be as impressed as I am with this one. ;-)

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  4. Yeah, let us know what kind of tablet you use. I've been doing it the old school way, and wanted to get a tablet for my Mac. I just wasn't sure if you could get that level of detail on it or not.

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  5. Thanks for the nice comments: James M was very happy with the drawing, even before I had to fix it.

    Chgowiz & Atom Kid: No tablet involved in this. I really can't draw on a computer very well, so I am forced to do things the old fashioned way with pencil and tech pens.

    I did scan this drawing in stages, and at one point did have the fountain isolated so I could have a layer that the building was in. At the time, however, I could not figure out some features on the Gimp and so ended up putting in the building on the physical drawing.

    I scanned in the final and then did the alterations via Gimp with the mouse. It blended with the pen work pretty well, I thought.

    Good idea with the ducky, Sham. I'll have to stick one in my current project. ;)

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  6. @Steve - your drawing is fantastic, and I hope to get that good as I go along.

    Having tried to struggle with a mouse in drawing on the computer, I really like my tablet. I'm trying to learn pencil/paper and tablet/computer as I go along, so I can "learn" on both.

    I really hope you share more of these, helps me to learn how you did it.

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  7. Good idea with the ducky, Sham. I'll have to stick one in my current project.

    Just don't warn the poor sap ahead of time. :-)

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  8. Cool, so you draw with paper and pencil too, that's wat you're supposed to do with those things.

    I sometimes get tired of the clean up you have to do with scanned images. You know, pencil marks that just won't go away. I was just wondering how well the tablets work.

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  9. AtomKid, for my money, a tablet is extremely worth it. My abilities on digital drawing and touchup have been enhanced hugely by my tablet. I paid $45 used for mine, it's an old school wacom serial tablet, but it's great. Wouldn't go back to mouse unless I had to.

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