Coloring sketches in the GIMP

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-20 03:40pm

Found a nice tutorial on it on gimp.org, and figured I'd give it a try.

So this is the first thing I came up with:

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2004-07-20 07:37pm

What was the origional medium for the sketch? No offense or anything, but it looks sort of like crayon to me. Pardon my artistic ignorance if the answer is something obvious.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-20 07:45pm

Mutant Headcrab wrote:What was the origional medium for the sketch? No offense or anything, but it looks sort of like crayon to me. Pardon my artistic ignorance if the answer is something obvious.

Paper and pencil.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-07-21 12:40am

Heh. I still prefer Photoshop. You might want to give Open Canvas a try.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-21 12:56am

hey, it was my first try... most people aren't excellent the first time around

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-21 03:23am

Well, here's my third shot. This time it's another thing I drew... in pencil, way back in 1998.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-21 03:51am

That's...uh...nice?...yeah nice.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-21 03:56am

I have this weird feeling that I understand Crayz a bit more now......actually no I don't