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I like these "flimsy vs. real cat" strips.
One thing that always stands out to me, though, is the way you're floodfilling stuff leaves a white fringe around your lines, which makes them all but invisible in lots of places. My way around that problem is to put the color on a separate layer (you are using layers, right?), use the magic wand tool, and then expand the selection a few pixels before floodfilling THAT (and have 'all layers' turned off - if you're not using Photoshop your image editor might have something similar). Then for any spots which get missed I just color them in manually.
It's only slightly slower than a simple floodfill (especially if you bind a shortcut key to "expand selection") and it looks WAY cleaner.
thanks for the advice, fluffy. yeah i use photoshop to colour flimsys in. doing a drawing each day usually means i don't have loads of time to play around with things too much, but i'll give it a try!
Flimsy is a blue kitten. She tries to be a good kitten, but she gets lots of things wrong. Flimsy does a new thing every day, so please follow her adventures and comment to give her advice or to say hello. Flimsy was created by Rachael Smith who is an illustrator: www.rachaelsmith.org
3 comments:
I like these "flimsy vs. real cat" strips.
One thing that always stands out to me, though, is the way you're floodfilling stuff leaves a white fringe around your lines, which makes them all but invisible in lots of places. My way around that problem is to put the color on a separate layer (you are using layers, right?), use the magic wand tool, and then expand the selection a few pixels before floodfilling THAT (and have 'all layers' turned off - if you're not using Photoshop your image editor might have something similar). Then for any spots which get missed I just color them in manually.
It's only slightly slower than a simple floodfill (especially if you bind a shortcut key to "expand selection") and it looks WAY cleaner.
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thanks for the advice, fluffy. yeah i use photoshop to colour flimsys in. doing a drawing each day usually means i don't have loads of time to play around with things too much, but i'll give it a try!
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