LadyJudgement

Hot stuff Alex... I think you should turn Ruby into an actual "bust" with some sculpty...

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That would be A LOT of quatloons... O_o

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Thirty Thousand maybe?

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Quiet Doug! You know we can't talk amounts...

again make sure you go in game and press your print screen button... you can also go into your options menu in the game and change the screen capture to be any other button if you prefer...

IF you have photoshop or some other photo editing software, you can press Print Screen, open up a NEW file and paste in your image from your pc's "drawing board" or image memory.

BUT that only works once, if you take a new screenshot, the old one will be gone. Your Print Screen only remembers one image at a time, however, if none of this works, try making a new folder in your COH folder called Screenshots, and see what happens after you're in game and pressing Print Screen.

Good luck.

That would be A LOT of quatloons... O_o

I am running Vista 64, and my program files are in the C: Dirve, under a folder called Program Files (x86), the COH folder is in there, along with the Screenshot folder.

In my normal Programs Folder, there is NO COH folder at all.

Hope that helps...

DONE!

I love easy costumes...

LJ

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We do not know who you are, but your offering suffices the Art gods and shall be accepted; you may stay... for now.

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This would be Douglas Shuler, Art God - artist of many a CLASSIC MOTG card... bow down and worship him! Or at least give him props...

Nice one Doug, been watch a bit of Will & Grace have you?

Inks

More to follow, I'm sort of revisiting my past here, the first time I drew MM was in August 2006...

Welcome back... I forgot how much I liked your toon's look... here's something I'm working on tonight, after getting inspired to draw you... more to follow! Just have to color it now.

actual size head

The shadows are based on a Chris Reeve photo, since you always remind me of Supes.

LJ

Ah have they fixed the epic fail of that? I played after pre-launch, and really enjoyed it, but there WERE many bugs.

very nice... have you tried using transparencies for glow effects? i've seen it done here by another artist, but have yet to try it. i keep meaning too... welcome to the forum!

I'm jealous, the dude is amazing, congrats... is he gonna color it?

It may be just me, being a NY ex-patriot, but I'm old fashioned. I like to use the Mafia to collect all my debts. They have a way with the client that is irresistible. Thankfully I've never had to call them, I've been lucky...

It's very nice, got a great graphic novel look to it... Well done!

Check out Dane Rot on DA or Brian Denhelm, he inks professionally and mastefully in my opinion. I owe my Illustrator Inking all to him, and the wife who made me use Illustrator for the first time 3 years ago.

Little did she know I would ink with it!!! Heck I draw completely in Illustrator, it saves me a step and no messy erasing.

Okay here's the tutorial... LJ's Inking Tute

As for using layers, to make new ones, click the rectangle icon for New Layer next to the Trash Can icon, at the bottom of the Layers box.

OR Click LAYER/NEW LAYER at the top bar in Illustrator.

It works like this, anything on top, covers what's on the bottom. So if you have one layer with all your black lines over your "pencils", you can SEE those black lines. If you put another layer over your Inking layer for say "WHITE" correction lines, the white covers the black, and acts like an instant eraser.

Same goes for any color if you use colors. And I have explained how to create a Template layer in the tutorial.

Good luck, hope it helps.

LJ

EDIT: Also there are dozens of things I did not cover... for lack of time and well there's just 10 different ways to do the same thing, so I leave it to you to find other tutorials...

Books on Inking will help you a great deal, a thing to look for is line weight, a combination of thick and thin lines, which you can make by drawing the shape of the line, rather than drawing over and over in the same spot. For that you would need certain brushes, and your Bamboo won't be able to register them because it only has 512 lvls of pressure.

Suffice to say, if you want a thicker line, draw with a thick brush, the stroke box can change your line from .25 to something huge that could cover the artbox in one line. Play around, and DON'T FORGET to use White, on a new layer... I sometimes work with white at the same time, but it's not a good idea cause if you mess up, it takes forever to fix if you've gone too far...

You can also find custom brushes online, ones that are thin to begin with or that are pointy on one end, do a search on DA.

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Tartyrsauce: what program are you using to color with? If I knew that, I could possibly figure out a way for you to "ink" with it, thereby preserving your pencils.


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photoshop.. flash.. and I JUST got Illustrator (*wrinkles nose at illustrator screen*)

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Do you have a drawing tablet or just a mouse? I will write up an Illustrator tutorial to show you my method, but it really works best with a tablet pen, a mouse might drive you crazy... but like Toxic said it can be done, it just takes A LOT longer.

Angel Red: I have 2 tutes as well for Photoshop Elements,
Photoshop's cheaper, easier, slutty cousin... here and here.

Tartyrsauce: what program are you using to color with? If I knew that, I could possibly figure out a way for you to "ink" with it, thereby preserving your pencils.

The only other way would be to xerox/copy your pencils, place tracing paper, taped and folded over at the top of the page so as to not move while you trace your pencils with a brush marker and finepoint.

The reason you trace over a copy is so you don't make indents in your original sketch, which is just as bad as erasing them, or inking them permanently. Also with a xerox, you can try over and over as your inking gets better.

Hope that helps.

Crap Alex, I was hoping you were gonna make this easy... I will have to summons up my coloring courage... now where did I leave that whiskey?

Palette as in color palette, the choices he wants for the coloring. It makes things a lot easier if I don't have to guess. A screenshot will do, unless Alex wanted certain things changed... He could also say, she's this this and this color, but you can go nuts here here and here.

Not that I'm gonna color her, I just wanted to know what HE thought she might look like... to see if I wanted to color something this complex... you know my hatred for metal!

Damn Alex, that's scary... do you have a palette?

NICE!

WB T!

Btw TA, you guys made the City Scoop... scroll up I mean... thanks to En Vee, who will receive some art from me for her kind efforts...

LJ

Alex = Whimsical... ftw!