Crappy old drawing Options

[Ambberfox]

Some lousy drawing I did of a dark-elf-dude several months ago. It's nothing more than a very simple sketch done in painterClassic and openCanvas - I love those programs! I already thought about doing a digital painting in Photoshop with this sketch as a reference but school is currently too time-consuming...

[img]http://www.boomspeed.com/cyanarao/darkelf.jpg[/img]

[Ambberfox]

[quote=niceguy]Whoa, awesome work Ambberfox[/quote]

thanks a lot!

[quote=Fuzzy Knights]What Photoshop do u use - I have 7.0 and if I can learn to colour like that then help me![/quote]

I'm using version 7.0, too. I don't know what Photoshop CS2 is like because always buying a new version is simply too expensive

some advices if you want to start digital painting on the computer:

- Buy a pen tablet! It doesn't need too be the most expensive type of tablet at first (the one I have now is about medium-priced: Graphire3)
Don't try to paint things with the mouse, that's much too difficult

- read through a lot of tutorials for digital painting, there are some pretty good sites out there which offer a lot of help

- don't only focus on working on the computer and keep on practicing drawing with pencils.

- look at what other people do

- and don't give up!

I can not really say much about how I actually color things because finding your own style is a very important part of the process of practicing