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Earlier, using the thumbnails of the silhouette two characters, Slug and Slice were created. Here is the progress on the third one.
The silhouette is scaled up to 25% of A4 landscape at 300 dpi (the target size) and distorted a bit to get the perspective and rough composition.
I detailed the head a bit so that I get a better grasp at the character as I start putting in brush strokes that define the concept.
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.
With all the setup done in Part 1 and Part 2, this one was quite straight forward and easy.
As with the skin, I complete the painting for the rest of the parts. To do this, I use the flat colors layer to select the appropriate areas and then paint on the ‘Painting’ layer without worrying about painting over the other things.
This does result in it having rather jagged and sharp edges.
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This week has been busy and I have not been able to give much time to any of my art projects. But this Demon Trio project is turning out to be quite exciting and I try to steal in some time for this. I have been learning new techniques and also getting more familiar with the software.
The rough line art I had done earlier in GIMP was saved as a common format – PNG and imported into Photoshop. It is not a necessary step – I wanted to get acquainted with it a bit more. Choose a software (or more than one), which ever is suitable and appropriate for you.
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