Well i believe they use Tablets.Though they cost quiet a lot of mullah.
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I personally draw everything in pencil, and ink/color digitally. I use Photoshop and a Wacom Graphire tablet for the digital portion. You can get a tablet for under $100 (for a small one...but it's better to start small and make sure you like it before investing a lot into it)
Photoshop? More expensive. GIMP is freeware that does many of the same things, AFAIK...I've never used it so I can't tell you for certain.
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I guess I'm wondering more about what technique people use. Do they use a filter or paint. I'd love to get a tablet. It's on my wishlist.
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I guess I'm wondering more about what technique people use. Do they use a filter or paint. I'd love to get a tablet. It's on my wishlist.
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If I had to do dust and smoke? I'd probably outline the area, and then fill with a 50% (give or take) opacity of the color of choice, and then apply second layers of the same opacity with the paintbrush to create depth in the cloud.
(Although, let's be honest, I'm lazy as hell so I'd probably avoid doing a piece -with- dust or smoke to begin with, but that's what I'd do if I went crazy and made one)
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GIMP is freeware that does many of the same things, AFAIK...I've never used it so I can't tell you for certain.
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All the digital stuff in my gallery is GIMP and mousework. Best I can tell, it's the poor man's photoshop without so much clutter. *shrug*
For super undefined stuff I like to create a new layer, and just kinda slap on some color, get the basic shape of light and shadow in the smoke or whatever. Then I smudge the hell out of it in a circular motion. Seems to work pretty well.
Mmm. Smudge tool. I <3 the smudge tool....almost as much as I love the blur tool...
smudge works great for smoke. Just do it on a new layer, and play with the opacity to make it obscure the figure underneath more or less. Flames work the same way.
Of course if you REALLY want to get fancy, you can start messing around with volumetric shapes in Bryce. version 5 has some really fun textures that you can apply to ellipses or cylinders to make smoke columns or clouds. Bring the 2D image in as a background reference, build up the volumetric effects, hide the reference pic, export your work as an image, then bring it back into Gimp as a layer you can play with.
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In this pic, I drew dust/smoke...
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44967968
What I did was:
1. Create a new layer.
2. Select paintbrush (set width to something relatively small...I believe I used 5pt). Then draw random swirls over and over again (better if the swirls are as round as possible).
3. Then, I goto Filter and select Guassian Blur. Blur it to the point that I find that it's "soft" enough.
4. Edit the transparency of the layer if necessary (by changing the opacity).
5. Duplicate the layer a few times, transform (scale, rotate, skew, etc), and change the levels of it a bit to create more textures.
But yeah, there ya have it! Hope that helps! =)
Thanks for the help everyone. Always wondered how people did smoke in Bryce. Don't have it so that idea's not going to work.... Like the last idea. I think I may give that a shot.
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I guess I'm wondering more about what technique people use. Do they use a filter or paint. I'd love to get a tablet. It's on my wishlist.
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If I had to do dust and smoke? I'd probably outline the area, and then fill with a 50% (give or take) opacity of the color of choice, and then apply second layers of the same opacity with the paintbrush to create depth in the cloud.
(Although, let's be honest, I'm lazy as hell so I'd probably avoid doing a piece -with- dust or smoke to begin with, but that's what I'd do if I went crazy and made one)
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GIMP is freeware that does many of the same things, AFAIK...I've never used it so I can't tell you for certain.
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All the digital stuff in my gallery is GIMP and mousework. Best I can tell, it's the poor man's photoshop without so much clutter. *shrug*
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Not to hijack the thread, but that latest pic you did (Goju Mariko) is astonishing. For me, you've surpassed even the cool simplicity that was Pandora Xavier. Excellent job!
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Thanks! I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and would've put it up here...but well...it's not a hero 
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dust and smoke? The only thing I've managed to do is mess up my image.