Thank you again Merrak. Yes, when I was a kid I didn't care if it had a leak or what, just to be up in the tree was fun. lol

I think the leaves of the tree look a bit much like sploches and it doesn't look at believably real as it could. The chain doesn't look attached to the tire anymore and the child looks like she's floating in the air! o.o

I'm thinking either make the shading softer or make the background "harder" to make it all look as one, if that's in fact what you want. - A bit more definition in the grass would be good too, imo.

Still nice work! :>

I never got to build a treehouse when I was a kid, because we had no trees in our yard that were tall enough. There's a huge tree behind my garage that would be perfect for a treehouse. My wife said she'd help me build one. Of course, I'm sure the track team will come running by my house, and my students would wonder why their teacher is building a treehouse. I'd have to explain how some people never grow up, they just grow older.

You shouldn't have to grow up. We are all still kids at heart, no matter how old we get.

Wow, thanks Moko...looks like I really have my work cut out for me. This digital painting is a lot tougher than watercolors and oils.

Np! :>

I personally find painting by hand harder than digital, but I have noticed that similar brushes in MyPaint that I use is the stuff I use when I draw with traditional media. xD

My opinion isn't what you should do, just what I think would make it look better in my own opinion. :>

@Merrak: I wanted a tree house but my dad never finished it and then the tree got cut down years later. :\

I do agree, I find it is very hard to paint leaves on a tree and still not hiding the little branches and letting some of the sky shine through. I think this is why mine ended up so much like a patch quilt. grass and leaves are the hardest for me.
I fixed it some more but I probably won't post it but at least there are more leaves and I fixed the chain link that I hit with the eraser before when I was getting rid of the girl shadow.

Leaves are the worst for me too don't feel bad, there is "Leaves" brush in the "Experimental" section of the brush menu but you have to do one leaf at a time and it's skinny on default, but maybe playing with the settings of that until you find what you like might help.

I usually use "particules-3" as a base for leaves. It's a nice brush, since there's quite a bit of control given over it through the input pressure. If I want to take my time, I can draw a few individual leaves in choice places, or use GIMP and clone tool to add some texture.

1 minute example:


I went through and added all the old 08 brushes back into MyPaint.

looks like a good brush. How do I get that. I have never added brushes to MyPaint before.

Everything you need - the files, and instructions, can be found here:

http://wiki.mypaint.info/Brush_Packages


I installed the 08 package. I see a few sets I don't remember from the last time I visited that page. I think it's time to go shopping.

Thank you merrak, I will see if I am able to install them.

Merrak, I installed the 08-brush package and went to all and I can't find that particules-3 brush. More than half them aren't named so I tried out a bunch and can't seem to find it.

Oops, I thought it was in the 08 pack, but it looks like I was mistaken. Since I moved it to "favorites", I had to track down where it originally came from. Is it not in your "Experimental" brush folder?

I have version 1.0 installed. I suppose it could always have been removed, or put somewhere else.

Just in case you can't find it, here is an attachment.

I found it. thank you. I was looking in the 08 pack. thanks. I have 4 nice ones that I downloaded too if you want me to post them. Do I just take them and zip them or do I have to do something else.

I thought that's all you needed to do, but I got an error when I tried to import them. I guess the attachment I posted won't work, either.

I guess the problem is the ones I sent were .gih files and they don't work in MyPaint. They should be .myb files. How do you change them from .gih to .myb? or can you?

I'm not sure how, and the brushes seem to always have two files. The zip file needs an additional file called order.conf, which lists the brushes.

I wish the import feature would allow you to import a single brush - but since they have multiple files, I can see why that's not an option.