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~Bastlynn 6 days 16 hours agoParaphrased from my journal: Ok. I am officially confused and frustrated.
I recently picked up a copy of Painter X to play with. I've got a Wacom. And I'm not 'dumb' just 'unpracticed with it.
Ideally I'd like to achieve some of the same effects and style of pictures as I have faved... (Yes - that's why I fav folks btw. It's not just that I like what you do - it's that something in what you do is what *I* want to do. So I fav so I can look back at it later and study.)
So: [link]
And even more so: [link]
How in a guardinals fuzzy buttocks do these guys pull this off? I suspect it is something direly stupid simple as a first step that I'm missing. A particular brush choice that gets you on the right path, or layers of work that I don't *see* in the final.
Any ideas?
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Bastlynn raises an excelent question: however I personaly don't use Painter X, so I don't know the answer, but somewhere out there, I'm sure one of you does.
1) For such detailed paintings and quick paintings as I linked to before - It is a matter of literally stepping back from the screen and squinting - only the final picture does the stepping for you.
Start with a high dpi and a "OMG are you insane" high resolution. Easily double the size of your final expected image - or as high as you can manage and still run your computer.
That allows you to work with a wider range of brush sizes for smaller details and squiggles which - when you save the version of the picture at it's actual preferred size - suddenly become delightful details - without you squinting to artfully place a single tiny pixel to get what you want. It makes working from broad strokes to detail much easier.
(Further suggestions will come as I revise Carceri #2 - as well as 'standard' size and dpi suggestions reflecting regular real-life projects like posters etc.)
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