Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:57 am
must have used a tablet instead of a mouse, no way you could have that much control with a mouse.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:48 pm
lol....awesome..
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:54 pm
Heh, for all the "steady hands" / "can't do that with a mouse" tribe .... let me dig out some of my old issues of ST Format for you, with the "Readers Art" section near the back ... it'll blow your socks off. Not only done exclusively with a mouse, but with no scanning facilities commonly available, generally using programs written around 1986 to 1990, and in a 320x200 screen with a 16 colour limitation. This is just a (VAST) extension of such. Here's one secret that I don't know if he let slip in the tutorial (not looked yet) - the guy probably used the Magnify tool. A LOT. It was pretty handy back in the day when mousing it yourself was about the only way of making computer art (even for loading screens and backgrounds), it's even more so with modern screens that are (in my personal case) about 20x the pixel area. Hell, been using it myself only yesterday to tidy up a floor plan for a project when stuck with a hellish basic choice of image editing software (choice between XP paint, or PSP v3.3 running under win95... decisions decisions).
Mind you, jaded as I am, that's still mega impressive. Guy must have spent easily upwards of a year, unemployed, to do that, unless he's VERY handy with the ol' digital art. The rendition of Gandalf, the anglerfish, and the incredibly accurately made pseudo-gradient fills (requiring a hell of a lot of pallette alterations - still, at least he wasn't having to hand-dither it between a mere two or three shades) are particular faves. Not to mention the text - mousing a custom font is a total paint, esp without copy & paste, but sometimes neccessary (sig pics..)
Bloody nice work
Ever seen those "Biroart" pictures, by the way? There's a very similar kind of thing to this called Heaven To Hell.... indeed it might even be the same artist. One man, several sheets of A4, some sellotape, a big box of Bic ballpoints and a very, very boring day (night shift?) job.
only one thing i'd whisper to 'em to do differently - if your copy of paint can save JPG, it can likely as not also save in PNG, which would have been SO much better for this kind of picture... smaller size and less distortion. oh well
edit: *views tutorial* YES! He DOES do it the fully oldskool way. Rock and roll.
and did go utterly barking whilst doing so: http://www.swmoore.com/insanepaint.html
other impressive(ish) paintmash links from there: http://www.swmoore.com/kdpaint.html
http://www.swmoore.com/images/kthx/msp1.jpg
Mind you, jaded as I am, that's still mega impressive. Guy must have spent easily upwards of a year, unemployed, to do that, unless he's VERY handy with the ol' digital art. The rendition of Gandalf, the anglerfish, and the incredibly accurately made pseudo-gradient fills (requiring a hell of a lot of pallette alterations - still, at least he wasn't having to hand-dither it between a mere two or three shades) are particular faves. Not to mention the text - mousing a custom font is a total paint, esp without copy & paste, but sometimes neccessary (sig pics..)
Bloody nice work
Ever seen those "Biroart" pictures, by the way? There's a very similar kind of thing to this called Heaven To Hell.... indeed it might even be the same artist. One man, several sheets of A4, some sellotape, a big box of Bic ballpoints and a very, very boring day (night shift?) job.
only one thing i'd whisper to 'em to do differently - if your copy of paint can save JPG, it can likely as not also save in PNG, which would have been SO much better for this kind of picture... smaller size and less distortion. oh well
edit: *views tutorial* YES! He DOES do it the fully oldskool way. Rock and roll.
and did go utterly barking whilst doing so: http://www.swmoore.com/insanepaint.html
other impressive(ish) paintmash links from there: http://www.swmoore.com/kdpaint.html
http://www.swmoore.com/images/kthx/msp1.jpg