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clicky clicky
Here comes
the fun part. Colouring. I love this part with a passion.
Make a new layer, call it Lighthouse Colour and put
it behind your outline. Now with the magic wand selection
tool [and anti-alias turned off!] select the parts that make
up the light house, holding SHIFT to make more than one selection.
When the whole
thing is selected fill it with a light grey colour. Every
colour that you place will be the lightest that it will appear
in the picture, so don't be afraid to use a light colour [also,
since this is on a computer everything is VERY easy to change
so you shouldn't be afraid anyway]. |
that's one coloured in telescope!
Now do the
same for the other objects. Make a new layer called Trees
and select the tree tops and fill them with a colour, then
do the same with the trunks. Another new layer called Ground,
fill in the grass, and then the cliff face. I also changed
the white backround to a sky blue and renamed the layer
Sky.
Now just
give it a once over and hunt for some stray pixels that
didn't get coloured. There are a few in the trees and one
at the top of the telescope. Just select the right layer
and by pressing ALT when in pencil mode will give you the
eye dropper tool, so just select the colour and fill it
in, no worries!
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So here is where I am so far. Simple
stuff.
Now is the time for adding
different colours. So select your telescope layer and fill
in objects that you don't want to be flat grey. If you set
the USE ALL LAYERS box, you can keep the colour layer selected
and still have your selections limited to the outline. I don't
know if that explains it but try it out and see. |
| So here
we go, I added a lense and a purple rim on the top telescope,
then I coloured in the boards that hold the telescope to the
base along with adding yellow lights into the windows. There's
also a moon in there, I put it on it's own layer also called
Moon. I just used a sizeable circle brush with the
pencil tool and then drew some craters on it...
not too much changed here.
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| STOP!
Think for a second. Are
you having fun? Is what you are doing a pleasing act?
If no, then stop. Stop
working on the backround and go do something else. Write some
more story, script, play a game, GO OUTSIDE. Just stop and
get your mind off of it. If you are having a bad time,continuing
on will just make you angry and the art will come out like
crap.
If you're happy and enjoying
your work than continue on... |
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