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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Also, how do you do it?
Can you do a tutorial? >_>
Draw them by hand, using click pencils, A4 cartridge paper and numerous permanent pens. Scan the lines in, then clean them up in Photoshop. Then the cheating begins! I use a program called Inkscape to do a vector trace of the lines. This gets them real crisp and means I can fill colour with no weird gappy bits on the edges. Export the lines as a png to maintain the transparency, then bring back to Photoshop for colouring. I've got a few tricks of the trade in PS that I've made myself, custom brushes and backgrounds. All made in the simplest fashion, just throwing paint and ink about to get a variety of effects then scanning them in. I really go to town with utilising the layer functions in PS as this means you have so much more control over the colouring process and can experiment without the fear of having to start over... Hope that gives you some clues, its all about experimenting...
Is inkscape similar to illustrator? (because vector trace sounds like it could be similar to illustrator's live trace)
kudos to your backgrounds by the way, they're always interesting texturewize
There must be a reason why PS doesn't have it. And it better be a good one lol
Ps: are there any other good freeware art programs you know of? (if you don't mind my asking)