KalaaLog Articles Get Into Arts & Stuff 12-July Edition

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• Illustrate a Genie Lamp

  November 16, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector

  Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
  Level: Intermediate
  Subject: Genie Lamp

  By the end of this tutorial, you would be able to create a vector artwork of a Genie Lamp. You should be familiar with the tools of Inkscape or any of the other vector editor you use (like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw).
  Base Shape

  Use the ellipse drawing tool [...]

• Draw a Horse Head

  November 13, 2008 in Tutorials

  Level: Intermediate
  Subject: Horse Head in profile

  This tutorial should get you going on drawing horses - the head specifically.
  You should be able to reproduce the results either digitally or using pencil, pen, paper and a good eraser. If you would like to study the results, you can download it at the end of this tutorial.
  Basic Shape

  First, [...]

• Painting - Too Old For Halloween - Part 1

  November 9, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting

  I wanted to do a colored version of the illustration, Too Old For Halloween.
  I grossly under-estimated the amount of effort this would take.
   

  With the amount of detail, and my choice of color palette - added to that the two sources of light, takes up quite a bit of effort to paint.
  As you can see, I [...]

• Too Old For Halloween?

  November 6, 2008 in Artwork

  Too late for Halloween, perhaps. But I really enjoyed working on this illustration.
  After doodling with GIMP’s new inking tool, I had this urge to try it out. After some seasonal inspiration, and several concepts, roughs and sketches, I felt pretty confident to do a illustration over them. This was created completely using the Inking Tool [...]

• GIMP 2.6 - Features for Digital Painters

  November 2, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tools

  I am quite in a great mood test driving GIMP 2.6 release.
  It was released quite some time back, and had installed it on my Windows boot. But I had been lazy to install it on my Ubuntu boot where I usually work. The Ubuntu 8.04 did not have a backport of the latest GIMP 2.6 [...]