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Illustrating Chain Links

June 22, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector | 4 comments

Illustrating Chain Links

  • Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Subject: Chain Links

Illustrating vector art of chain and chain links is quite fun once you get the hang of it. The most important thing is to get the basic shape right.

Basic Shape

Illustrating Chain Links - Basic Shapes

Getting the basic shape right is very important. Draw as many grid lines to assist you as required. There are basically two shapes you need to draw. One that is parallel to the canvas and one that is perpedicular. The parallel one is composed by subtracting shape 1B from 1A. (In Inkscape use Path > Difference from the menu). See to it that both the shapes are of same height and also that the perpedicular one fits into the hole of the parallel link.

Illustrating Chain Links - Basic Shapes Verify
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Path Tool Of GIMP

June 12, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials, Video | 3 comments

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.

Painting Homer Simpson

May 22, 2008 in Tutorials, Video | 1 comment

Painting Homer Simpson

  • Software: GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop)
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Subject: Homer Simpson

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 Simpsons is 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. :)

Here is the final image:
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Illustrating Tomato

May 4, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector | 18 comments

Illustrating Tomato

  • Software: Inkscape
  • Level: Beginner to Intermediate
  • Subject: Tomatoes

The other tutorial on painting a tomato has become quite popular and I have got quite a handful of request on how the approach would be for illustrating tomatoes. In this post, we will be looking at how to illustrate a tomatoes (or more than one) using a sketching program and Inkscape (or any other vector editors like Adobe Illustrator or Corel DRAW).

Sketch

Illustrating Tomato - Sketch

Draw a sketch of the tomatoes and get it as a image file. You can either sketch it on paper and scan it in, or sketch it using a software. I used GIMP.

Basic Shape

Import the sketch into Inkscape.

Illustrating Tomato - Basic Shape - 1

Use the pen tool to mark out the rough shape of the different parts. Take care to correctly order the different shapes one above the other. This depends on how and from which angle have you sketched the different parts. Some of the parts may need to be split into more than one shapes when the interleave between other shapes.

Illustrating Tomato - Basic Shape - 2

After you have gotten them in proper order, you can then shape all the paths and then give them the basic flat color.

Illustrating Tomato - Basic Shape - 3

Details

Illustrating Tomato - Details - 1
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