i used an A4 scanner at 300DPI (dots per inch)

This is going to sound like amateur hour, but it's probably the best place to ask:

 

I know I'll never find exactly matching paints... but what's the best way to use the Testors Paint pens that they sell at Wal-mart? I picked up a black/gold/silver set...

 

Also, in relation to above: How does one go about painting force chips so they don't look shoddy, while not having the details filled with pooling ink?

This is going to sound like amateur hour, but it's probably the best place to ask:

 

I know I'll never find exactly matching paints... but what's the best way to use the Testors Paint pens that they sell at Wal-mart? I picked up a black/gold/silver set...

 

Also, in relation to above: How does one go about painting force chips so they don't look shoddy, while not having the details filled with pooling ink?

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idd say ask the guys im customs and kitbashes

Heyo, shading question.

 

I've just laid the flats down, and I'm going to be shading (in Photoshop 7.0).  I have a basic idea of HOW to shade, but I've never handled a Transformer before.  So what I'm basicly asking is in what manner would be best?  It's not simply a manner of making the shadow match the contour when it's not organic.

good idea for a thread

 

i know that for comic sequential pages artists typically use 11"x17" sheets of heavy, high-quality art paper called Bristol board. Bristol board comes in two "tooths" (surface texture), Plate (which is smoother) and Vellum (which is rougher)

 

You can buy that at art stores or order them online [you can buy them pre-ruled online]

 

i'd think that for single character stuff they might use paper around that size, that way they can get some good detailing, although i'm sure it varies. Maybe i'll ask Don and see what he says

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For supplies like this, I go to Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning (I've taken some classes from these guys) or Art Media, a store in Portland, Oregon I shop at. These stores rock!

i use thise i just select the parts i want and copy them over

 

i do have an autobot G1 logo but its a PSD file

 

oh and i got them all off google

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Here, I have a question if anyone can help (thanks in advance). Well, basically I was just wondering if anyone has problems with a slightly grainy image coming out from scanning. I use the Gimp to color my work, and even though I go over my original pencil with ink and then scan it in with the contrast elevated to remove any grays, when I go to fill an area with color in the Gimp, it fills it but not without an annoying white speckle around the lines in particular. It may just be the program I'm using, but I'm not entirely sure. Also, how do you get that sunlight effect on your colored product (like in Blitz's sig)? Thanks again.

well i use photoshop and ive never been near gimp (but i hear its pritty close)

 

to stop that grain i make a 2nd layer and place it under the line art. then i select the line art layer and go into its propertys and select multiply. then i aply my colours to the layer under the line art layer. but im not sure how you would do that in gimp but i dont think thier that different.

 

as for my lighting style it realy depends some peeps do it one way others another i just make 2 layers on top of all the others and then add some oringe to the serfaces in the light and then on the 2nd i add some blue then i play with the layer settings till it works

Thanks!! :thumb I'll try that. I'm working on a new (more detailed) avatar and sig, so I'll put that advice to good use.

Serious picture question....

 

I just got a 2.1 MegaPixel Camera tonight, and it takes great pics, but the flash is just so overpowering, and if you don't use it, the light in the room isn't nearly enough, so everything turns red.

 

That alone presents a problem, here's another....

 

I want to be able to do picfics, and take pictures of my collection and I know that Macro is generally used for items 2-6' away. It says the lens is a macro lens (and there's no way to adjust it).

 

Anyone got any tips I can use on taking these pictures? I've heard of using lightboxes (or rigging up your own) and I'm not against making one, just don't have the stuff required, right now.

 

So....the lightbox I'm guessing is a good thing, any ideas?

 

As you can see:

 

1st.) Lamp light, no flash.

2nd.) Turned off all lights in the room, and just used the flash.

 

Any tips, tricks, or ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.