I Have Paint.net, How Much Do I Fail?

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So yeah, I downloaded Paint.net yesterday and tried my hand at it. And...it's not my best work. There's no shading, the darker colors didn't come through very well, and I think Pinkie Pie's color scheme is a bit off. But I will be putting more artwork up here once I finish coloring them.

 

Any tips or tricks about people who use paint. net (or GIMP, I have that too), would be awesome! So I can use this sucker properly...

 

The original lineart is done (once again) by Joey Darkmeat, who has a long-standing disclaimer for people to color/ink/steal his artwork. If you go look up his tumblr, be warned, some if it isn't very SFW. Some of his stuff is funny and brilliant, others are just weird, but all are beautifully drawn. Anyway, your honest opinion on my coloring would be vastly appreciated!

 

Edited April 16, 2013 by Earl Grey

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I´d say you don´t fail at all. Awesome work, colors are just as good as possible.

I´m starting with digital art (incl. painting) myself, having a hard time, but if you get the shading thingie done it´s perfect.

[Crispy 5,565]

This looks great for just being flat colored.  Pinkie's body color might be a shade or two off instead of her usual blinding pink, but still.

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This looks great for just being flat colored.  Pinkie's body color might be a shade or two off instead of her usual blinding pink, but still.

 

Yeah. I basically grabbed a screenshot of her from "Too Many Pinkie Pies", cut it down to seventy five percent opacity (so I could still see what the heck I was doing), and upped the color exposure after I was finished. It did take away most of Pinkie Pie's tang, but again, I haven't quite figured out how to use this program yet. <3

 

As for shading, I was planning on adding some streetlamp shading around her, like it was in the middle of the night, but I got tired at the very end and just decided against it.

 

 

I´d say you don´t fail at all. Awesome work, colors are just as good as possible.

I´m starting with digital art (incl. painting) myself, having a hard time, but if you get the shading thingie done it´s perfect.

 

XD Thanks. The shading is definitely the hardest, especially since I'm the laziest artist known to mankind. But really, I only shade if I'm really comfortable with the program. I shade in Photoshop or GIMP, but in Paint.net I'm still figuring out how everything works. It's not too different, but all of my buttons are in different places! Waah!

 

I'd love to see some of your digital art, by the way. <3

 

 

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It looks pretty good for a color-in, the only thing I would nitpick about is the saturation. It's just a little flat, and could stand to be deeper.

 

But the style of the drawing matches the actual coloring, so that's just my 2 cents.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Tex

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It looks pretty good for a color-in, the only thing I would nitpick about is the saturation. It's just a little flat, and could stand to be deeper.

 

But the style of the drawing matches the actual coloring, so that's just my 2 cents.

 

Try this. Any better? All I did was adjust the saturation levels in a photo editor. Seems to have worked okay, but let me know what you think.

 

[Crispy 5,565]

Try this. Any better?

 

That does look better.  More pop to her than before.

 

If this is what you do with flats, I bet it gets nuts when you put serious touches on things.

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That does look better.  More pop to her than before.

 

If this is what you do with flats, I bet it gets nuts when you put serious touches on things.

 

Goody. I'll replace it on the front page then. ^^

 

It takes forever if I seriously put my mind to something, because once I start shading and inking and playing with exposure levels, then I become some sort of crazy perfectionist. But recolors are good practice for me when I don't particularly care how it turns out, and I just want to get acquainted with something. (Or kill three hours. xD)

Edited April 16, 2013 by Earl Grey

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 I like it. As for ticks and trips, generally looking for color-correction plug-ins for Paint.NET is a must because going back and doing it manually is a real pain with Paint.NET.

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Not your best work? I mean, it's not jaw dropping amazing, but still, it certainly doesn't suck! I guess I'd have to see some of your other work to compare, because to me, this looks pretty good... Although I'm also not an artist, so I don't delve deep into shading a lighting and anatomy and all that jazz.