Re: New Tetsuko pic – Track the progress

The only diet pops that I can tolerate are those which taste like their non-diet counterparts (7-Up, Vernors, Dr. Pepper).

You should definitely give Coke Zero a try, then. It does taste like regular Coke.

Day 8:

Holy crud, I've been at this pic a week already?? Oy.

Today was another long workday (as they all will be for about another week – the Easter tourist season, don'cha know), so I only got a tiny bit of work done.

Look she's becoming 3 dimensional!

That's the best bit!

I'm jumping the gun a bit here Dave….but how do you get the girls onto the background?. Do you have to carefully "cut" around their outline  and then paste  or is there an easier way?

Back to your pic… I'm not familiar with the process of the shading like you did with Sonia.  Is there a way you could explain it to non-talented Paintshop folks like myself on what you did if it's not too much trouble.    :-

Thanks,
Z

Check out this tutorial that I posted to my site some years ago; it's pretty much the same technique I still use. If you still have questions. let me know and I'll try to answer them.

I'm jumping the gun a bit here Dave….but how do you get the girls onto the background?. Do you have to carefully "cut" around their outline  and then paste  or is there an easier way?

At the moment, the line art, figure colors and beach background exist on three separate layers. The line art and figure color layers are turned on, the beach layer off. The blending mode for the color layer is "multiply", so that the line art on the layer underneath is visible. When the time comes to combine the figures with the beach setting (I can't call it the "background" layer because the line art layer, being the bottommost, is called "Background" in Photoshop), I'll reset the blending mode to "Normal" on the figure color layer, then (making sure the figure layer is on top of the setting layer) merge the two layers so that there's one layer that holds all the color, and one that holds the line art. I'll set the blending mode on the color layer to "multiply" once again, so that the line art shows through. It's easier than I've made it sound, really.

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The days, they've passed in a blur. (Holiday tourist seasons tend to have that effect on me.) I've done bits of work here and there, on lunch breaks and the like, the past few days, but have always felt too lethargic once I got home to post the results. But here they are, the basic "three-dimensionality" of Tetsuko completed, waiting now for the addition of highlights and the gleam of suntan oil.

But now that I've got two days off, I should be able to make substantial progress, if not finish it outright. (That will be a relief!)

Hey Dave, whats that offical stats on Tetsuko anyway?