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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:43 pm


note i cannot use any downloadable program to do this...i have ms paint and i kinda suck with it...i can animate with spritesheets though...

GUYS I MADE THIS...I AM ZETSUXKONANFLOWER...
I CALL MY CHARACTER SHU!

this is one of my creations...i suck at most drawing i think...

Kyoushu Abunai


but seriously...i think i suck at drawing...gimme some tips?

(oh btw im gonna make my character complete when i get about 358,500 gold)
PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:08 pm


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What do you mean by outlining? Anyway, if you want to do anything in MSPaint with something you drew by hand, you need much cleaner lineart. Like, all you need is the lines. It looks like you did some hatching on that. That's unnecessary.

Once you get some clean lineart, open it in MSPaint, choose base colors, and paint it in. You'll want to save often, since the program isn't very forgiving. After you have it painted in, you can shade. I do this by double clicking my base color on the part where you click colors. When you do, a new menu should pop up with a rainbow with a vertical bar next to it. Ignore the rainbow and go to the bar. There should be some darker colors to choose. Pick one, determine your light source - I can't teach you this. In a nutshell, choose one side and made everything on that side darker. - and paint in with the darker color.

Also, there are good free programs that are more advanced than MSPaint, like Open Canvas and Nekopaint:
http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/
http://npaint.sakura.ne.jp/en/

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:16 pm


thanks...oh and what do you think of the drawing? i know the head seems tilted forward a bit but it should balance out after shading...
PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:05 pm


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From your gallery, it doesn't look like you draw much, so that considered, it's good, but you could use a lot of practice. The head and arms could be a lot better.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:57 am


the only decent thing i do well is the hands...which arent shown...so yeah...most of it isnt great... xp sweatdrop burning_eyes
PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:31 pm


i remeber when i was at this level. What i did to get better was just copy a LOT of stuff and just learn the dos and donts of drawing.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:54 pm


Tenko72
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What do you mean by outlining? Anyway, if you want to do anything in MSPaint with something you drew by hand, you need much cleaner lineart. Like, all you need is the lines. It looks like you did some hatching on that. That's unnecessary.

Once you get some clean lineart, open it in MSPaint, choose base colors, and paint it in. You'll want to save often, since the program isn't very forgiving. After you have it painted in, you can shade. I do this by double clicking my base color on the part where you click colors. When you do, a new menu should pop up with a rainbow with a vertical bar next to it. Ignore the rainbow and go to the bar. There should be some darker colors to choose. Pick one, determine your light source - I can't teach you this. In a nutshell, choose one side and made everything on that side darker. - and paint in with the darker color.

Also, there are good free programs that are more advanced than MSPaint, like Open Canvas and Nekopaint:
http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/
http://npaint.sakura.ne.jp/en/

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how do you color on open canvas.
I got it just now (because of you XD)
and i dont get how to add color
PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:01 pm


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Sorry about the late reply, Grimm. I can't screencap, so I'm going to crib one off of a tutorial: http://cherryorange.deviantart.com/art/How-I-Color-109394918

Press Download on that page if you can't see it. Anyway, on the toolbar, you should be able to choose from brushes, pencils, or pens and the color window should have colors you can choose from.

I think that's it.

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