quote:Originally posted by Frog Kid: Some of you can help me: how can you make a nice starfield?
Very, very nice drawings David. Especially like the Triad one and the fact that all three girls have quite different physiques suited to their characters. And Brainy is fabulous too.
As for the starfield, I presume you did it the way that i did it the first time I drew characters with starfield costumes (Mon and Troia) which is to sort of paint the ink around where you want the stars to go so leaving them white. If so you'll know it's hideously time consuming and doesn't always leave the best results. Now however I have a really secret trick. Shhh, don't tel anyone.... white ink. Simple as that. Didn't occur to me for ages until Steve Sadowski (I think, might have been Phil Jimenez) mentioned it. Basically ink the whole area of the starfield completely black and then when it's dry use a small brush and white ink to add the stars. Suddenly it gets so much easier and you can more stars in without it looking bitty. You can also do what Jinenez often does with Troia's costume which is include things like shooting stars which add a feeling of movement to the costume as well.
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From: Manchester, UK | Registered: Jul 2003
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For my starfield, I used ink and later painted the star with "gouache", but I found the gouache not clean enough. I never thought of white ink!
From: Berlin | Registered: Nov 2003
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I do all my inking digitally in a vector-based drawing program, so it's easy for me to create a fill pattern in Coreldraw by manipulating the values.
I had to figure this out for when the time comes do render Star Boy and the Infinite Man.
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Very good! I think thats the best fan pic of Tellus I've seen
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quote:Originally posted by Harbinger: Very good! I think thats the best fan pic of Tellus I've seen
Thanks, Harbinger. I think I will have to make small change to his chest and back(maybe enlarge it). I'm still not sure. And I know that Quislet will appear on the final image(he was drawn on a different page).
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Wow, what a great Tellus! Can't wait to see the final version!
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I finally inked the Tellus Sketch. Sorry for the poor quality of the scan. Keep in mind I'm still learning the use of brush for the inking, so everything is not as clean as I'd like.
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