My cute friend...WIP

Is this one with or without the anti-aliasing on? It's Mileron too!

Do you have any options for adding a brush stroke to your lines? Varying the stroke width a little on the hairs and the linework might give it a nice kick :).

Without - and yup - poor guy is acting as my guinea pig :S

Oh my - the hair is FAR from done...and I just realized I've been doing the hair backwards, and will be redoing it from the start, but because its all separate layers, it will be easy enough.

I do have a paint tool, which is pretty much all I use to touch up, but I'm thinking PSP is different, since I don't think I can set it to vary the pixel widths. I'll have to check that out though.

And if you mean the outlines, by line work, then yea, I wasn't really happy with it all being so fine. I'll see what I can do to adjust that as well.

Thanks so much guys!

I dont understand why you won't try it with the anti on?

LOL - I never said I WON'T try it...hell, I'll try anything.

What I tried to say was I have used anti-alias on artwork before, and when I first started doing vectoring, or what I've been reading was what I thought to be vectoring, I interpretted it to mean it wouldn't work with anti-alias on.

Oooh ok =D Looking forward to seeing the reworked/completed hair =D

you should be able to vary the brush width in PSP, though to be honest it's been a few months since I used it so off the top of my head i don't remember how you do that. (it hasn't migrted to my new puter and vista already scares me enough as it is!!)

looking good - can't wait to see the next phase (or the final, whichever comes first!!)

That's looking good, Shay. I had to get used to working back to front when I started vectoring also. Its natural to do on some things even while painting, like hair, but sometimes you can start wherever on other things. Not with vector; its a stacking process that can occasionally make me mutter and start shifting layers around. I've definitely made more work for myself that way more than once. ;)

Ok - I'm done with this for now, unless anyone has more suggestions. I'm so not happy with the hair, but suck at guys hair anyway, so I didn't expect I'd be happy there. I also went back and redid several pieces with anti-alias on, and while I do see the benefit, I'm not sure it's the look I was going for. However, I did learn a lot with this piece so that's the main thing :)






Thanks Mil - for being such a good sport:hug

aside from the blue rim on the hair i think you did a pretty good job.

far better than i could :x oh how i wish i could draw a stick.

He doesn't have any buttons on his shirt. However, it doesnt take away from the piece at all, so you could just leave it that way.

The shirt that I was wearing in the picture that Shay based this art from had no buttons that high; it was a hawaiian shirt with a pretty low first button.

Almost a cleavage shot, :teehee

It's great Shay. I like it - me - it - the pic - a lot!

Oops! Thought I got all those stray blues :P
Fixed now.

Thanks for the kind words :D

You did a great job Shay!