01 september 2012

Classified in : Tutorials

Note : a tutorial wrote in a single picture, made to be published on deviant art ( my Deviant Art account : http://deevad.deviantart.com ). I do a repost here to archive it on my blog/website.

update 2012-09-08 : found an error, and commited new file with an erratum speech bubble at step '7' ; about the line art. This one got a better rendering in 'multiply'. The screenshot was done too early and show 'Normal' witch is an error.

Classified in : Tutorials

blog post by David Revoy

20 comments

1. Nopo

saturday 01 september 2012, 18:02

Merci pour cette trouvaille!

2. FranckB

saturday 01 september 2012, 18:35

David, j'adore ce type de post ! car ça c'est du partage d'expériences.
Faut-il (encore) dire que ton travail est fabuleux... bah oui !!!
Superbe démonstration d'utilisation des softs libres, superbes illustration.
Merci
Franck

3. deburger

saturday 01 september 2012, 19:26

cool! great tree

4. Marcus

sunday 02 september 2012, 04:50

Fantastic! Interesting way to digitize the drawings! Your art is special, I really like your drawings ... Thank you very much for your time to show us how you do your job. Greetings!

5. lewatoto

wednesday 05 september 2012, 03:24

it's that i need it!!! thanks a lot!!!

6. Jose Navas

wednesday 05 september 2012, 23:41

Thanks for sharing David I definitely learned some bits here!

7. lecouin

saturday 08 september 2012, 13:21

Merci David pour ce poste, ton blog me redonne envie de me remettre au papier rien que pour essayer ta méthode

Depuis que j'ai ma Cintiq 21ux2 je passe tout mon temps à lire tes tutos magnifique !

8. David REVOY

saturday 08 september 2012, 13:27

@ All kind post : Thanks ! I'll continue thanks for encouraging me.

@lecouin : Merci! Oh, un utilisateur de Cintiq ? cool ! La Ux2 est surement bien meilleur que la ux 1 que j'ai. Pour l'instant je l'ai mis séparé sur une table branché à mon laptop. Je m'en sers comme table à dessin numérique sous Mypaint. L'époque ou j'utilisais le bras articulé en double écran m'est passé ; ca faisait trop de bazar pour déplier le bras, passer les USB en mode Cintiq, et le bureau devenait inaccessible. Comment gère tu l'ergonomie ( position de travail avec ? ) ?

9. Jens

sunday 09 september 2012, 00:13

Yes, please don't stop posting handy tips and tricks - if you have anything for us trying to kick the Photoshop-habit that would be brilliant.
(I just installed Ubuntu (12.04 Unity I think) and first tried gimp which was kinda depressing - it just don't do "everything" like Photoshop did. But then I found Krita which, I guess in co-op with Gimp and Mypaint, would be perfect)

10. lecouin

sunday 09 september 2012, 05:53

j'avais déjà eu la cintiq 12wx et j'ai vu le problème avec la colorimétrie, la gestion de plusieurs écrans ... bref j'en ai fais cadeau à ma soeurette et elle s'en sers qu'en simple tablette la plupart du temps.

Dès le départ avant d'avoir la 21ux2, j'ai récupéré une vielle table de cours de classe et j'ai investi dans une station d'occasion ( Dell Optiplex 780 ) que j'ai gonflé avec un tiroir pour disque pour changer d'OS facilement et pour tester sous windows, mint, ubuntu, chakra ...
j'y ai dernièrement rajouter un micro-clavier : Keysonic KB-3400U Softskin
http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00061356.html

Donc pour le moment je m'en sers de façon autonome sur une station dédiée et je dois dire que c'est le pied
voilà près de 20 ans que je ne m'étais pas remis au dessin et je progresse assez difficilement vu le retard que j'ai accumulé
J'en suis encore à comprendre les techniques de dessin entièrement numérique, reprendre mes marques et il y a beaucoup de boulot

j'ai fais des photos de l'installation ( ne pas faire attention à la poussière )
http://www.logicreation.com/data/images/perso/p1000227.jpg
http://www.logicreation.com/data/images/perso/p1000226.jpg
http://www.logicreation.com/data/images/perso/p1000225.jpg

Bonne continuation et merci encore pour votre remarquable travail

11. David REVOY

sunday 09 september 2012, 11:01

@lecouin : Hey, oh good idea about a Photoshop habit to 'Floss' tutorial. Sure , Gimp is depressing after knowing photoshop , no doubt about it. Krita is way more friendly. Recently on the mailing list the developper Sven Langkamp started a deep work about performances. He already told a boost of X2 of performance on the brush system. Witch is amazing , and up to x15 for another part of computation ( brush mask creation, if you see in actual Krita, Krita lag a bit when selecting a preset ). I keep the idea. thx!

@Jens : Oh, Super les photos ! C'est aussi exactement le choix que j'ai fait ici depuis le début de l'été. Je pense que je vais aussi posté bientôt un aperçu des changements dans mon bureau en photo. La Cintiq 21Ux2 est bien plus fine ; ca c'est cool. Cool de voir aussi Krita qui tourne sur l'écran ^ ^ Je pense que tu peux mettre ça sur le forum de Krita, ça fera plaisir au développeur de voir Krita tourner sur une autre Cintiq. Merci aussi pour le lien sur le mini clavier. J'avais pas vue ce genre de modèle et ça à l'air bien pratique pour les raccourcis et le gain de place. Merci pour le commentaire ! Bonne continuation aussi

12. CManga

sunday 09 september 2012, 18:59

Wow thanks for sharing. I'll look into these products you mentioned.

13. Smolli

monday 10 september 2012, 11:41

Thank you very much for your detailed workflow tutorial. I like the soft looking stroke you achieve with the plugin, but you are right that for comics it may not work. But for stills it looks great.

I wish I had your equipment, really nice But I'm quite happy with the combination of iPad and Adobe Ideas. It's the first time I have the right feeling when drawing digitally. Best of all, it's all vectors which can be exported as PDF and worked over in whatever app. Have you tried drawing on a tablet?

14. David REVOY

monday 10 september 2012, 12:26

@CManga : Search for them on the internet; they are all free and open source.

@Smolli : Hi, thx! Yes , I tried, but most of the tablet are not precise, don't support pressure stylus...etc... Here I can sketch on mine , a Galaxy Note with pressure. But the softwares under Android for drawing sucks a lot. It's like if the ergonomy was done by monkeys under LSD. I need a click to access colors, a click to close it ...etc... Only poeple with a lot of time in their hand can enjoy this. I prefer here 100x take my real life sketchbook and color pencil and get real fun with sound of papers, color mixings, pressure feeling etc ...
If you found something you like and where you can express your art ; just stick to it that's the most important. But for me Pad stuff still needs technologic advancement :
- Better dpi ; ( my phone is quite ok about this, 1280px in less than 10cm , the pixel doesn't reveal to the eyes even if I make my head near the device ). On Cintiq 21Ux ; the 1200px large for 43cm are horrible... When I make my head near the surfaces, all I see is tetris cubes ... And wacom seams to not consider making more hi res screen... Well most infographic poeple don't know how to draw anyway and so they don't require to have good feedback for their line-art.
- Also Better stylus. Wacom still produce large stylus looking like pear ,claiming it's good for ergonomy. Well, with all the market of pencil and pen traditional being 4 time more fine, it's make hard to really draw precisely with a stylus. Here I had to customise my stylus, removing plastic part to got a thiner one. But maybe large stylus as a marker is related to the precision problem of the dpi.
- Also lag and softwares...
Well, I wait a lot about technologie. But if the technic side is note handle by passionated poeple about art, or pro about drawing, there will be just a swarm of bad device on the market....

15. Smolli

monday 10 september 2012, 18:58

Yes indeed. I could never get used to the Wacom intuos and my Samsung Galaxy Tab was a complete failure. The reason for buying the new iPad were the more professionall drawing apps and the ultra high retina display. I spent some money trying out many of the apps but never felt like I could draw without fighting against the app tools. Maybe you should give Adobe Ideas a try, it's like Zen I had one first crash though and lost half an hour of meditation

Being able to draw everywhere now and being able to finish my doodle without all the lengthy steps I used to do is really cool. With two small children at home, it's difficult to have the calm and time for all the needed steps

Wish I had your talent though, that would help me a lot too ^^

16. David REVOY

monday 10 september 2012, 19:40

@Smolli : Well. I'll not purchase any Adobe product anymore. I already feed them with a Photoshop license at 800€ back in the years , and in return they went wrong with me at many time ; No update for Vista , no possibility of switching langage for education material , etc... I'll not be back to proprietary now, even if the idea is seducing about feature and performances sometime. But I hope I'll feel the great experience you seems to have soon with a tablet running Ubuntu or Gnome3 , and Mypaint installed on it ( or future KritaSketch ). That sound great !

17. Hayley

sunday 16 september 2012, 00:46

c'est trés utile! merci beaucoup

18. Kinrove

sunday 07 october 2012, 08:58

Bonjour Deevad, merci pour cette astuce avec Gmic, j'essaie un max d'utiliser les logiciels open source à présent. Par contre, dans le Gmic que j'ai installé, je ne retrouve pas exactement les mêmes options que toi. J'ai donc fait un léger flou gaussien à la place...

Au passage, félicitations pour toutes ces belles illustrations, j'adore, et ça me donne envie de m'améliorer en dessin !!!!!

19. David REVOY

sunday 07 october 2012, 11:28

@Hayley : Merci

@Kinrove : Hey , je ne sais pas si c'est du à la version, à la plateforme ; mais a tout hazard, aurais-tu bien coché la check-box 'internet' sur G'Mic ? : http://wstaw.org/m/2012/10/07/2012-10-07_screenshot_001.png Merci pour le retour , c'est super que ma passion pour le dessin et l'open-source puisse motiver et donner le gout de plus dessiner.

David Revoy

Pencil to digital painting

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