Okey so I was gonna wait until I finished but then I figured...eh why not post my process again?
So here it is, probably not the most exciting of my pictures but it's been fun to see that the "brushes" I use represent the tools I used in traditional media, like shading with one of the marker brushes then using the pencil brush like I would irl...It's interesting to see how much I'm like myself. xD
Okay so I sketched in MyPaint, somehow sketching with a brush that represent a pencil seems more natural to me, I don't know, it's just much easier that way.
I "inked" also in MyPaint, using the pen brush (the one that looks like an inking pen in the representation picture), but instead of black I'm going for a more color based look this time, so this will be like a combination of cartoonish and my less hardlined type styles to it.
I switched to Gimp, fixed a few missed "inked" spots and used the selection, bucket, and grow, tools to color the big areas, I also got the digbat font heart that I use for all my heart Lp's (like Crystal Love and Love can Shine in the Darkness) and stretched it out then alpha selected it and shrunk by 7 pixels and deleted the middle. I made each part (rose, leave, vine, etc..) on a seperate layer so I could shade in MyPaint using the lock alpha channel making it that I don't go outside the colors, it's kind of like having it selected with the selection tool in GIMP.
As of right now, this is what I'm up to; I started shading the rose and the leaves, using one of the marker brushes for the softer shadows then the pencil brush for the fine details and such.
Update:
Okey, here's some more progress!
I worked shading the vine using once again the marker and pencil brushes, I also tried to add some other colors to shade to make the surrounding colors appear to be casting a shadow...I'm not sure how well I pulled this off but I tried all the same.
I also started on the flowers shading them and also making the rose shading a little deeper as well as trying to make the green of the leaves reflect off, I don't think I like that part, I might change it. There's still much to be done but it's coming along! (all the shading is in MyPaint so far)
Update 2:
I've switched to GIMP, I added texture to everything, lighting, and more shading/shadows, and started on the wooden heart. - I'm not sure if I like the texture on the heart yet or not!
I'm almost done!
Since these are process pictures they're .jpg, once I get to more detailed I might switch to .png since they look better, I'm pretty sure the final image will be a .png.
I hope you enjoy my thread!
Suggestions welcomed I'm always opened to hear, even if I don't use it here I'll keep in a mental files to possibly open later. ;D
~ God Bless ~
~ Moko
) too. looking forward to seeing it finished and as usual it's fun reading how you do it.
