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David, this is shaping up to be one of your best drawings, ever. Can't wait for the highlights…
Thank you! …and you won't have long to wait:
#2, especially now that one of the forum members has graciously offered to assist in the choreography of the big fight between Tetsuko and Slade OH WHAT A GIVEAWAY!!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,
ZCheck 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!)
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.
Could the software and a tablet make this artistic dunce produce work even 1/2 as good as yours, David? 'Cos if it can, I want them! ;D ::)
That's a good question. I'm inclined to believe that one would have to start with basic drawing skills, and that the software simply makes mistakes easier to correct, and special effects easier to accomplish.
(BTW, Wacom tablets do come bundled with Photoshop Elements and Painter Essentials, which are "lite" versions of their namesakes.)
Day 7:
I was able to devote most of today to the drawing, so there's quite a bit to show off. Sonya is, more or less, finished:
doing yardwork! 😮 ) But I might post more later, if I get more done before beddy-bye.*Ever since my doctor "advised" me to switch to diet sodas, I've found that Pepsi generally makes the better-tasting diet drinks: Diet Pepsi, Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi, and Diet Mountain Dew are my favorites. Although Coke Zero and Coke Cherry Zero are very good… they taste like their sugar-sweetened counterparts.
I posted to my site several years ago.
