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Started by staticgirl, 10 February, 2010, 02:33:48 PM

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mygrimmbrother

Neil Ford I prostrate myself before thee! Sublime.

How do achieve that fine hatching? Is it Manga Studio?

NeilFord

Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 15 February, 2011, 09:56:44 AM
Neil Ford I prostrate myself before thee! Sublime.

How do achieve that fine hatching? Is it Manga Studio?

Ha ha, thanks man! Yeah, did the sketch in manga studio, about 6000pixels wide, exported into corell painter to apply some lip gloss etc, then shrunk it down to 900pix or so for the web.


Malicious

Hey Neil I litereally JUST got my hands on a copy of Manga Studio to have a play with and I have to say the 'pen' blows my mind for usability! I'm a hardcore PS user so I'm finding the shortcuts and tool placement a bit whack, would you have any advice to make the transition of knowledge a little easier?

BTW mad sketch!
Malicious
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NeilFord

Quote from: Malicious on 15 February, 2011, 11:28:48 AM
...I'm finding the shortcuts and tool placement a bit whack, would you have any advice to make the transition of knowledge a little easier?

BTW mad sketch!

Hi man, I'm just learning the software myself, only had it a few months. I can reccommend Jim Campbells blog though, he has some very useful information on MS and comic production in general. : http://clintflickerlettering.blogspot.com/

PJ has some good articles too: http://www.pauljholden.com/blog

Hoagy

Some great advice on here too. It'll have both the above links, within, too. Make it up to 100 with your comments.

http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,27915.0.html
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mygrimmbrother

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Quote from: NeilFord on 15 February, 2011, 10:22:01 AM
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 15 February, 2011, 09:56:44 AM
Neil Ford I prostrate myself before thee! Sublime.

How do achieve that fine hatching? Is it Manga Studio?

Ha ha, thanks man! Yeah, did the sketch in manga studio, about 6000pixels wide, exported into corell painter to apply some lip gloss etc, then shrunk it down to 900pix or so for the web.

Cheers buddy. I have Manga Studio but have yet to get my head around it at all. Like Malicious, I'm a conditioned PS user! Do you do a physical drawing first or is that drawn digitally from scratch? Also, I don't have Painter, but could I export an image to photoshop to add details like you did with the lip gloss effect? Sorry to bombard you with questions mate! I'll have a proper read of Jim's tutorial later I think.

NeilFord

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No worries matey! I tend not to do layout with pencils, (simply because my scanner was busted for so long, I got out of the habit), if I need a sketch to paint on I usually do some random scribbling or use http://al.chemy.org/ . It's also a lot faster.

No reason why you can't paint/colour in PS,  most do I imagine? It works pretty much the same as painter as far as I can see - layers, blending etc. Similar techniques aswell depending on wehter you are preserving the line work or going for a more realistic rendering.

Quite often use an analogue watercolour wash scanned in as a 'linear burn' or 'soft light' blend to get depth in skintones, then work into that with line tools.
Anyway I appear to have 'cried you a river'... just try stuff out, no rules! :)

Jim's articles are brilliant, such a good site he's building.

chris_askham

I'm completely in awe of that kind of texture work you've got going on there Neil. It really is just beyond me. When it comes to colour, I can do little more than blocking in areas of flat colour and that's about it. Nice striking image too, reminds me of something out of David Lynch's Dune.

NeilFord

Thanks Chris, I think using flat colour effectively is a lot tougher, should suit your style of bonny tight, strong line work though?

More paint from me:



mygrimmbrother

Gah! Too good!! Reminds of Caballistics, like Verse's sister maybe...

Cpt Rhodes

It really is a unique look have have going on there Neil.
Brilliant stuff.

NeilFord

Thanks guys, lifted my spirits to see your kind comments - cheers!

Been doing a spot of B&W again...


Cpt Rhodes

I've done my first bit of B/W in a long time too.
I had a bit of a wake up call with this one, without the luxury of Photoshop to zoom in on the linework, I was struggling with some of the details.
Think I'll be paying the optician a visit very soon.