When I was working on the Demon Trio - Slice project, I had shifted from working in GIMP to Photoshop along the workflow at the time when I wanted to create flat color layer. That was because, I could not find a Polygon Select tool in GIMP. After some poking around at some GIMP forums, mailing lists, and the program itself, I found that we can do a polygon select in GIMP.
Here is a video that walks through the process of using Path tool in GIMP to have a similar approach as you would do with a Polygon select tool in Adobe Photoshop.
Few days back, Billie had asked, how would one paint Homer Simpson. He is a cartoon character of the Simpsons animated series, and the subject is more apt for a cut-edge shading.
The Simpsonsis an animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for Fox Broadcasting Company. Homer Simpson is the man of the Simpsons family. He is fat, clumsy and a little dim on wit.
The video is showing the process. I have given narration, explaining things as I am doing. I found that it is actually a bit hard to speak and draw/paint at the same time - so you have to pardon me when I drag some words.
Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator or Corel DRAW)
Level: Advanced
Subject: Lady Justitia
I got inspired to do this work when Rizky asked how would one do vector art of Lady Justitia.
Lady Justice is a personification of the legal system. She is often depicted as a blindfolded goddess holding a sword and a scale.
Here is a walk-through of my attempt using Inkscape - consisting of a set of images and the screen capture video. You should be able reproduce similar results using other vector editors too.
Concepts
Doing thumbnails and sketches has almost become a regular in my work-flow.
After a pretty rough doodling in GIMP, I do a clean sketch in GIMP itself.
Flats
Having a solid base color for each of the parts becomes quite easy later on while adding details. Thus, I take time to create shapes and order them properly in Inkscape. (I import the sketch as a guide for shape construction).
The video is quite long - it is actually a play list of a few of them. You will see how I keep shuffling the order of the sketch, using it as a guide, to create the different shapes.
For the past few days, my day job has been eating a lot of my time. But that does not mean I need to stop doing what I like - and any time is a good time for some practice.
This was a digital painting study I did, which took only about six or seven minutes. The painting was done using GIMP and Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet.
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