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Tuesday, 19 May 2009
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About Flimsy
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
About Me
- Rachael Smith
- Comics and illustration! Creator of Flimsy the Kitten, House Party, The Rabbit, Artificial Flowers, and Bess. Draws comics for Doctor Who.
Buy Todays Flimsy
Most of the original black and white Flimsy pencil drawings can be yours for £10.00 + postage.
Email: rachael@rachaelsmith.org to see if your favourite is still available ^_^
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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