This should be so much further, but I've barely touched it in a few days...I just spent a few minutes making some choices about a few things. I didn't like the way the girl's body and legs weren't straddling the beast properly. His feet weren't very convincing, or masculine. I tried a few different female figures and beefed up the feet. Not sure I'll keep the daisy dukes.
I'm kind of treating this one like a painting where I work and step
back, work and step back. This is somewhat rare, I usually go right at
it, a lot faster. Not sure what philosophy is best. Probably the other one.
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Please lose the helmet. other than that looking great.!!
LOL, you know it costs a lot to give me directions, right? And don't try none of that reverse psychology either, y'hear? I'm onto you, Fitzzz.
Wouldn't try any of that R.P. on you Derek
I mean the helmet realllly looks neat...
Reverse osmosis.
What application are you creating this in? Photoshop?
Illustrator. Always AI, some PS afterward, if I need overall color adjustments or something like that.
Does that mean all of your work is vector based?
If it isn't pencil or paint, yes.
This is what the dragon's face looks like.
http://abnormalbrain.bizland.com/Vector_dragon.jpg
In older versions of AI, we used to have to work in this Outline mode.
I do a fair amount of work in Inkscape (which is another vector based program). When I do, I use the different shape objects, or the bezier tool to draw the items I want (with a mouse) and then modify the object paths using the handles.
Do you work this way, or do you use a tablet and the pencil/pen tool to draw the picture and then make any adjustment to the handles afterwards?
The fact that you do these pictures in a vector based program is simply astounding (to me).
All of the above. And I design brushes to apply the strokes. I'm familiar with Inkscape, tried it a few years ago. It's a little more stripped down, if I remember. Thanks!
Why do you use Illustrator over Photoshop? Wouldn't it be easier to just straight out draw this piece? (I'm not criticizing, just curious.)
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