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Published: 2007-06-05 23:37:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 37660; Favourites: 266; Downloads: 627
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I spent a couple more hours on it last night, so now I'm up to a total of about 8 hours. I figured a few things out: the gradient tool, and a few keyboard shortcuts that made things start to go faster.However, I'm considering turning this into a digital painting, and leaving the line art out of it. Opinions? Please share your thoughts on the matter. Maybe I should upload the same piece without the line art showing so people can get an idea.
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This is why I love jungle girl kidnapping scenes, I love the way they are carried away to their doom by the natives.
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I've heard it called "The Tribal Carry," and I love it, too. 
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Well, you can always do very detailed line art and still color it, but the lines here are very minimal - a painting might be best, it just means paying VERY close attention to detailing edges and such with the color. Still, by the time you get further along in coloring this, you may find that the linees work well as being just basic outlines that the color completes and compliments....
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Yup, I'm going to have to redo this picture, which is always an extremely painful thing for me to do (I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I've done it in my entire life). Oh well. "Live and Learn," the saying goes. 
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I'll say that the lineart is rather helpful in giving the picture structure. However, if you want the lineart on the background to draw not draw too much attention away from the figures (Which I assume are the main focus,
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Working on this suggestion, too. The picture will have to be redone, at least from about halfway through the ink drawing stage.
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Thanks! The classics are a great place to start!
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I think the line art is necessary to give the picture a structure, especially since the colours dont varies too much and are all in the green and brown range.
Maybe its a bit to dark and the lines are too broadly drawn but that can be corrected easily: The darkness can be corrected by reducing the amout of overlay or by changing the overlay mode. If the line art is on a sepparate layer you can select it with the magic wand and with Modify/Expand or Contract make the selection smaller and cut one or two pixels linewidth away. A Blur filter can smoothe the jaged lines afterwards.
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I just messed up doing this, and it took my next drawing to figure out how. So, I'll go back in and re-do most of this. And when I do, I'll probably drop the Mesopotamian elements in the Mayan-styled temple in the background...
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I don't know what will suit it best honestly. I think it works well this way but it could work well without the line art too.
It kinda looks like something out of that comic, the Phantom or whatever it's called.
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Ah, yeah. I remember "The Phantom." A sci-fi techno-meets-jungle kind of thing.
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I like the comic art style of this, so by all means, keep the line art.
I don't have Photoshop, so I can't help you yet, but from reading tutorials, I know there is an easy way of colouring using the line art and some magic Photoshop selection tools.
As is, your colouring layers seem to have moved relative to the linework layer.
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I screwed up doing it, but I know how. So, I'll go in and redo it, faster and better. Thanks!
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I like the up date on this. It's fuller. Re-favs.
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Thanks! I hope the next incarnation of it is even better.
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You don't seem to comfortable with it as it is. It looks like you are having a heck of time filling area inside the lines. Have you tried the paint bucket and the select tools?
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Yes, that's how I did almost all of it, actually. The problem is that the lines were no longer visible in black when I was finished--something was screwed up with the channel, I guess. So, I had to go back in and copy all the line art and paste it over the top. It is the best I can do at this point... I'm still a fish out of water.
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I get the same problem, I either make the line really thick or do the lines over again after doing the paint fill (which isnβt a bad effect for line work)
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I think the line art is an essential part of it. What you could try is to set the line art layer to MULTIPLY. That will basically make that layer translucent, and then you actually do your coloring on several layers "below" the line art.
You can also use the magic want tool to pick an aera in the line art layer, switch to another layer and then fill it with color, without actually touching your lineart itself.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I figured out what I was doing wrong--quite a few things, actually.
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Uh, we've had an argument about how-red-is-this-redhead before, but... to me, Damsel#2 (a.k.a. Red Bikini) looks like a brunette. *Especially*with a limited color palette like this, I think you need to draw her as a blonde, then tint the clear space orange or umber. And when #1 and #2 are side-by-side, make the blonde's skin dark and the redhead's pale (and the locals' skins darkest of all).
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Thanks for the refresher, and I do remember the conversation. Check out the next one and see if I'm doing it "right by you."
Thanks!
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Oh, & excuse me... FIRST COMMENT!! WOO-HOO!!
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