Trial 5 deals with the steps in computer cg. Part one deals with flat colours.

I took the original art piece and used my own steps to make it colourable, those being to make a new layer from the background, which is set to multiply, and then colour on layers underneathe that.


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After 30 minutes, you can see that I have gotten a good third of the flats in place. Using a 5 pixel brush, I zoom in to about 300-500% for accuracy, and I am very careful to name each layer specifically. I also have a separate layer with my swatches, so that I can get an idea of which colours I might want to use for each main piece.


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After one hour, you can see that I'm about halfway to 2/3 of the way done. Why am I slowing down? Well, mostly because a lot of thought, as well as trial and error, is going into making sure the flat colours do not clash with one another.


(You guessed it. Notice a pattern here?)

I honestly did not expect to get through an entire extra 30 minutes, but since I did, heres my update. I took a night between the last one and this one, and I think that gave me some fresh insight as to where I should put some of the colours I had picked for the kitty sith. All in all, good times.


(Still clikie!)

Alright, heres the finished part one. I hid the swatches layer and put in a plain background to watch for stray pixels. C/c, anyone?

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Part two of trial 5 deals with simple compositions. This part will take a much longer time, I suspect, so updates will be as I finish major steps and/or sections of work.


Finished flats. This took a lot less time, since I have a pretty good idea already about which colours to use.


Ah, hm. Simple cel shading, with a lightsource to the left of her head... I think (and hope) I did this part right?


Ok, now is where I could REAAAALLLY use some c/c... >_< I dont know what to do as a bg, or how to show where the highlights that arent pink come from!

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