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Started by CrazyFoxMachine, 16 May, 2012, 09:10:28 AM

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flip-r mk2

All these fooking shortcuts, I thought computer colouring was supposed to be easy :) Once again I'm truly grateful to the board(for all I know about computer lettering and colouring) as trial and error teaches me very little.I take it that these shortcuts are for PS, I've been using MS5 for colouring the Erasmus strip.
CFM, as I am always trying to beat my deadlines with the
two panels a week I'm drawing l basically flat in the main colours I'm using and add some darker tones on top. When I took over the strip I decided that I would do it in colour but only use  flat muted colours. The dark tones on the console were created using the burn and dodge tools.

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flip-r mk2

PS Any more hints and tips are always gratefully received.

filip
It's all right, that's in every contract.
That's what they call a sanity clause.
You can't fool me, there ain't no sanity clause.

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CrazyFoxMachine

As I'm jobless I've been this week giving my "spare time work" full priority - colouring a manga book called "Smitten" and some other bits and bobs. Not enough to live on but summat to get a bit of the rent paid anyway.


Jon

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 August, 2013, 08:19:38 AM


IT IS?! Well I feel stupid. I just normally made one of the clickers a rubber, which in the hours since getting the Intuos which (for various reasons) doesn't have clickers on it's pen - I've found that it must have been my "ideal method" because pressing E or using the (still awesome) digi rubber seem much slower to me.

It occurs to me I might still have the side button somewhere. If I do I'll send it on to you, though you'll still need to find a new sheath to accommodate it (the last one basically disintegrated).

Quote from: radiator on 06 August, 2013, 08:47:23 AM
Just read your post back and realised you're talking about the side buttons on the pen.

I always have these - and the touch panels on the tablet - permanently disabled as I just found that I constantly pressed them accidentally and they were more trouble than they're worth. But then that's probably more down to the weird, clawlike grip I hold the pen in!

It's not just you, I do this too (especially annoying are the sudden and unexpected zooms from leaning on the sliders on an Intuous 3). This is why I just took the side button off in the end.

I recently took the plunge on a Cintiq and the "pro-pens" or whatever they call 'em to justify the price, don't seem to allow you to remove the side buttons, so I've been educating myself to actually use them. Getting there slowly, but Jesus, it's not natural, is it?

The Cintiq 13HD by the way, for whatever it's worth, I whole-heartedly endorse. It's even nicely portable. And much, much easier to stay within the lines. :)

radiator

QuoteI recently took the plunge on a Cintiq and the "pro-pens" or whatever they call 'em to justify the price, don't seem to allow you to remove the side buttons, so I've been educating myself to actually use them. Getting there slowly, but Jesus, it's not natural, is it?

Really? You can't disable the buttons through Preferences?

I think the side buttons and touch panels and things are for people doing very limited types of work - I find with my workflow that I use far too many shortcuts to be able to map them all, so just stick to the keyboard for everything.

Jon

Quote from: radiator on 14 August, 2013, 01:29:22 PM

Really? You can't disable the buttons through Preferences?


Oh yeah, sorry, that was a little misleading, you can disable them of course. I meant I always preferred to physically remove them on an Intuous partly to use the stylus more like a pencil and partly because of corrupting preference files or frequently changing work machines.

My ex art director swore by the side buttons as he used his Wacom in place of a mouse. I fully agree about the keyboard shortcuts though, not sure I could work any other way.

radiator

QuoteMy ex art director swore by the side buttons as he used his Wacom in place of a mouse.

So do I - I don't even have a mouse on my main work computer - using a tablet right now writing this post. Don't know how it is on PC, but on a Mac I can do everything I need to using Cntrl click. Way faster and more accurate for me than using a mouse.

Professor Bear

Got to love the tablet buttons.  Well... I have to, anyway.
I used to use the keyboard shortcuts exclusively - especially the space bar as a move tool - until I developed RSI despite having a pretty ergonomic work area, which my physio blamed largely on having an arm half-outstretched all the time while the other arm is bent in towards the body (holding the pen).  After that palaver (although three years later treatment continues), I had to re-examine how I work if I wanted to continue doing so, and the first thing that I did was accept that there's a big difference between what is easiest/more efficient and what I am simply too lazy and/or truculent to change in my workflow.  Even now I find myself reaching for hotkeys mapped to the tablet buttons, which just goes to show what a terrible habit it is to break - there's buttons literally right there beside my fingertips and I'm stretching all the way over there instead.  Further proof that I don't work particularly sensibly is that I still don't just use the bloody toolbars so I can forgo using the keyboard/tablet buttons entirely...

On the plus side, there's a lot less clumsy opening of filters or whatnot when I hit the wrong key accidentally, as used to happen all the time, though it would be nice to be able to remap the zoom to the touchstrips in Manga Studio (EX4).

CrazyFoxMachine

Here's a webcomic I was colouring last year finally up and running:

http://newhavencomics.com/comic.php?c=3&p=1



Smitten - a manga webcomic. Not happy with all my colouring on this - some of it is atrociously muddy and I probably wouldn't do it the way I did then now if you get my drift. A few months can change everything!

Hawkmumbler

Looks good to me CFM! What program you use btw?

IAMTHESYSTEM

http://youtu.be/9kQllLy_X4I


Good colouring advice here for anyone [ like me] finds colour choices difficult.
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CrazyFoxMachine

Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 January, 2014, 07:08:30 PM
Looks good to me CFM! What program you use btw?

Old version of Photoshop I got when I was a student and could afford it! I think I'm long overdue investigating MangaStudio though apparently there are great flatting tools on there.

Nice vid IATS - ! I tend to use this awesome colour wheel http://colorschemedesigner.com/

CrazyFoxMachine

Bit of Sunday afternoon colouring practice on the amazing art of Bern Campbell - this is HELLBERN


Darren Stephens

Awesome CFM and Bern. You should definitely pick up MS5 when you're a bit more flush, Owen. I haven't touched Painter (my previous software of choice) since! ;)
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sypher

#134
Not posted on here for quite a while!

Some recent colour work I did for a new comic (Good Guys), that me and a friend released at the recent Cardiff Comic Con!

Issue 1 cover


Issue 2 cover


As for the finished articles, here was a pic of our booth :)


Also happy to help with any advice on colouring etc. Just ask!