Mwhaha, I'm learning photoshop

[DragonBlaze]

I needed to draw a animated flying dragon for a cutscene I wanted to make in rmxp. I drew the outline in paint, then I thought "there is no way in hell that I'm gonna color this thing.

So I thought I'd try out coloring it with photoshop, which I hardly used, and it turned out to be really easy.

Although I still have to practice a lot to get better, I'm pretty happy with what turned out.

The outline is all blocky because I drew that in paint...

I also have to animate it...

[GhostClown]

Heh.. It's pretty good.

[VahnGrave]

Damn... If that was your first, you will go FAR.

[PyroAlchemist]

Nice. I don't have photoshop.

[DragonBlaze]

Thanks guys, I gave my shot at animated it, and it was a lot easier than I thought. Its not perfect, but it'll work for the moment

Edit: Huh, I guess selecting a transparent color wasn't such a smart idea... I'll leave it white from now on. Too bad I can't go back and change the upload, but I don't feel like double posting for it.

[PyroAlchemist]

Nice. The white spots would work if it just came out of the water.

[coasterkrazy]

Nice. I wonder if there's any chance Gimp can do that. I think it can do at least the coloring, but I don't know exactly how. The only coloring I can do is with one color. A simple click of the "colirify" button.

Nice pic, Blaze. How did you do it? Maybe there's a chance I can find something similar in Gimp.

[GhostClown]

A tad jerky, but it's good, it's good.

EDIT: Gimp is the best free alternative to PhotoShop, but I dunno, I've never used it.

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah I could make another two frames to make it smooth it out a bit, I may add them later, but I'm kinda anxious to put this to use in my game now.

I used to have gimp when my ms paint wouldn't work, I think you do something like this in there, but it would probably be a lot harder.

Anyway, I made this by simply adding a pattern or two, then putting colloring on it, then I shaded it, it wasn't all that hard.

Since I'm posting, I might as well upload the version without the transparent background.. I hope i pick the right file.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Looks awesome!

[InsaneJP]

hey that looks great the shading is very good i think

[oooog]

That settles it, I gotta get photoshop.

Beautiful work man.

[DragonBlaze]

Hmm, I just wipped this together, its the other character I'll need for the intro, although I have to make a lot more poses for this dude, but thats all a piece of cake.

I took this guy off of a 5 year old drawing, I really like the head, the rest is kinda meh.

Cries, I love photoshop, these two characters would have taken me at least a week to draw and shade in paint, but I got it done in a few hours.

Edit: sorry bout the bad color, I had to convert the images to jpeg before I could import them into my gif maker. When I did that it kinda killed it. I'll be using .pngs in my game, so it'll look better when it matters.

[MegaTailzChao]

dang, your good! I likee teh dragonz! You could go a long way...

[DragonBlaze]

 

dang, your good! I likee teh dragonz! You could go a long way...

Thanks, only problem is, dragons are about all I'm good at. When it comes to people I can never get the hair down right, and I usually have a hard time with the cloathing.

I may start working on terrian and mapping next with photoshop. Since I don't use the standard size characters, I can't use rtp sized tilesets, so I'm pretty limited unless I learn how to draw terrians or tilesets. It really doesn't look that hard, except for the trees, and the water, and furniture, and.. OMG I'm screwed...