Hopefully, by the end of the week this will have color. By the way, to all Photoshop and Illustrator users, if this was line art would it be fairly simple to add color? And would one program be better than another for this?
If this is your final line art, I would say it will be easier to add colour in Photoshop. I usually use Illustrator when I'm dealing with clean vector lines, but if I'm dealing with something that's more loose, then Photoshop is the way to go!!
Thanks. Right now I'm toiling away coloring this drawing with a free program called inkscape...it's extremely tedious and my computer is not exactly loaded with ram. I really want to get the proper software but am not sure about which...illustrator or photoshop. (BTW, Inkscape is pretty darn good for a free program).
Well Illustrator and Photoshop by Adobe are good programs, but they are REALLY expensive. If you want a good program that's fairly cheap, try Autodesk Sketchbook Pro or Camista Studios, you can get either one on Amazon.com for under a hundred dollars.
there's a free version of Photoshop called Gimp (you can download it here http://www.gimp.org/). I'm not sure how similar it is to Photoshop as I've never used Gimp but I hear good things!
But if you were going to buy something for colouring hand drawn line work I would say Photoshop over Illustrator.
I'm going to throw in my two cents for Corel Painter. If you pick up a Wacom tablet, often times you get a simplified version of Painter included. It's such a fun program. And the tablet will make you feel like your drawing and not "mousing."
Hmm..got a Wacom. Maybe I should read the instructions. And you're right. It does have a lot better feel than "mousing." On my blogspot there is vector art of a steam boat that was done for a silkscreen company...it was before the Wacom...all mouse...I made about 25 cents an hour by the time I was through with the project.
Nice concept/drawing! I'm in agreement with MARgie, I'm an Illustrator junky, but I'd opt for PhotoShop with this one. Hope you post the color version when it's finished.
Thanks,all. Yeah, I kinda get the drift on the photoshop or illustrator... Actually I would probably do a tight ink drawing before importing it in to the program but since I knew I wasn't going to color the original I just went with the pencil sketch. In the program I'm using I can only import the drawing in and just use it as a template and then redraw everything over the top of it with the wacom mouse.
Ditto to all. I use a combonation of Illustrator and PhotoChop.
I agree that a Pixel based program like PhotoShop is the way to go here: the sketchy background would really suck to deal with in a vector program like Illustrator.
Hopefully, by the end of the week this will have color. By the way, to all Photoshop and Illustrator users, if this was line art would it be fairly simple to add color? And would one program be better than another for this?
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hello! cute drawing!
If this is your final line art, I would say it will be easier to add colour in Photoshop. I usually use Illustrator when I'm dealing with clean vector lines, but if I'm dealing with something that's more loose, then Photoshop is the way to go!!
cheers!
Thanks. Right now I'm toiling away coloring this drawing with a free program called inkscape...it's extremely tedious and my computer is not exactly loaded with ram. I really want to get the proper software but am not sure about which...illustrator or photoshop. (BTW, Inkscape is pretty darn good for a free program).
Well Illustrator and Photoshop by Adobe are good programs, but they are REALLY expensive. If you want a good program that's fairly cheap, try Autodesk Sketchbook Pro or Camista Studios, you can get either one on Amazon.com for under a hundred dollars.
there's a free version of Photoshop called Gimp (you can download it here http://www.gimp.org/).
I'm not sure how similar it is to Photoshop as I've never used Gimp but I hear good things!
But if you were going to buy something for colouring hand drawn line work I would say Photoshop over Illustrator.
I'm going to throw in my two cents for Corel Painter. If you pick up a Wacom tablet, often times you get a simplified version of Painter included. It's such a fun program. And the tablet will make you feel like your drawing and not "mousing."
Hmm..got a Wacom. Maybe I should read the instructions. And you're right. It does have a lot better feel than "mousing." On my blogspot there is vector art of a steam boat that was done for a silkscreen company...it was before the Wacom...all mouse...I made about 25 cents an hour by the time I was through with the project.
Nice concept/drawing! I'm in agreement with MARgie, I'm an Illustrator junky, but I'd opt for PhotoShop with this one. Hope you post the color version when it's finished.
Thanks,all. Yeah, I kinda get the drift on the photoshop or illustrator... Actually I would probably do a tight ink drawing before importing it in to the program but since I knew I wasn't going to color the original I just went with the pencil sketch. In the program I'm using I can only import the drawing in and just use it as a template and then redraw everything over the top of it with the wacom mouse.
Ditto to all. I use a combonation of Illustrator and PhotoChop.
I agree that a Pixel based program like PhotoShop is the way to go here: the sketchy background would really suck to deal with in a vector program like Illustrator.
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