How, just how, can you color something digitally and still make it look like traditional art? That's the only thing keeping me from doing digital art, because I don't like how flat digital usually looks.
How, just how, can you color something digitally and still make it look like traditional art? That's
A scanner that picks up paper texture helps. It's not something everyone desires (especially if you're making prints onto an already textured surface), but I like the texture it adds. Other than that I usually color with a layer set to multiply. Using a soft brush to do a little extra shading usually works nice. If I need a little more control I pull out my blendy square square brush. Also having a bit of shading or some surface details helps it looks less flat when coloring digitally.
I've only used it a few times, but I found a brush that works and looks lot like actual water colors near the bottom of this page https://www.kylebrush.com/ and if you like it he has a set of watercolor brushes you can buy, though I haven't done so yet.
Last thing, if you're a fan of texture you can get that through purely digital means with the right brushes as well as strategically overlaying different textures on your digital work depending on what you're going for.
A scanner that picks up paper texture helps. It's not something everyone desires (especially if you'
Since I don't have a graphical tablet, I don't plan on going full digital for now. Plus, I like how traditional art looks. However, I have ram onto some problems, specially about my blue pencil, which is very overly used. I have to buy new pencils from time to time. I am going as far as avoiding to sharpen them. It's inconvenient due to my low income. If I could use just normal pencil, eraser, sharpener and paper, then do the rest of the stuff digitally, it would be really affordable.
Thanks for the tips! Do those work on Gimp or do I have to buy Photoshop or Sai?
Since I don't have a graphical tablet, I don't plan on going full digital for now. Plus, I like how
mhm, digital art without a tablet seems like more trouble than it's worth to me. As I recall gimp can load photoshop brushes, but it probably won't work right since it uses some features specific to photoshop's brush engine. Never liked gimp for art though, but it'd probably do fine for coloring. If I had to recommend a free program I'd go with Krita, but gimp may be more useful overall since you don't have a tablet.
mhm, digital art without a tablet seems like more trouble than it's worth to me. As I recall gimp ca
bob266 now digitally colorized.
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