Comments on: Photoshop Tutorial : Soul Eater Fantasy Digital Painting

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:33:42 +0000

I’am very amazed by your technique - I was alittel bit dissapointed that you have not answered my last question two posts ago, but I come closer the answer myself I think stuyding your tutorials.

P.S. I’ve also “done” graphics on on Delluxe Paint III on Amiga a long time ago, when I was a young boy then :)

By: admin

admin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:37:16 +0000

Hello Chris!

I am really sorry I haven’t answered your comment yet but I have been extremely busy with a crazy deadline (as always…).

I value every comment on my site, in fact, I kept you in mind this past week and meant to give you a personalized and detailed answer.

I usually work at 300DPI resolution. The standard, at least in the comics and magazine/book publishing industry.

Do you scan your drawings on paper at a resolution higher than 300 DPI? Maybe that could be the problem?

From my experience, 300 DPI is enough for most digital/print work.

If I understood your question correctly, you work on files sized at 30×40cm which at 300 DPI should equal to 4724 x 5906 pixels. It’s large, but not that large to require brushes of 300 pixel width to outline elements in the page. In fact, a 300 pixel wide brush stroke would appear fairly large on an image of that size. If you were using a resolution higher than 300 DPI, let’s say 600.. then it could be a problem, but I never had to scale to that resolution so far.

I hope this helps. If not, can you give me more details on the size of your images, in pixels?

Thanks!

Roberto

p.s. Yes… Deluxe Paint III.. the myth! I was 14 when I started using it in 1988.. ahhh… this brings me back to the stone age of comnputer graphics :)

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:01:41 +0000

Thanks :) You’ve helped me a lot - I’ll try to go on with the instructions and try to do it your way.
And yes, I’ve started with different sizes of scans, mostly with 300dpi but also experimented with higher resolutions.

I’ll let you know if your hint was right hehe

P.S. I’ve done simple animations with DP III and later IV - very raw animations, beeing nearle the same age as you’ve been xD
Splitted it into many parts on mayn 1,44 disks, working with 1024kB ram and system crashes on the fly^^
Finished at least a simple kiddy animation of nearly 10 minutes g

By: Lea

Lea — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:48:53 +0000

Awesome tutorial, and fantastic image!
Very grotesque ;)

By: admin

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:09:37 +0000

Lea, thank you for the comment. Yes, grotesque is a very good word to describe this piece. I visited your deviantart page and loved those photos of tarantulas!

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:57:55 +0000

This image is fantastic, you are an inspiration. I myself am just getting into photoshop. I have hundreds of sketches of beasts, and heros and creatures, I have scanned only a few onto the computer because I am a total novice at photoshop, I have about 10 hours of experience on it. I have produced, to the best of my knowledge and efforts my first painting based on a sketch I did, I would be happy to send it to you and read your comments about it.

It is literally a “click and see what that does” image, but I think it looks ok…I hope to hear back from you about this.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:17:20 +0000

James.

Thank you so much for your kind words. I would love to review your work. Please, register in my forum and post this question under the Photoshop Tips thread and we can take it from there :)

Roberto

By: zejugvdoch

zejugvdoch — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:19:51 +0000

Hello! Good Site! Thank you!

By: Roberto Iza

Roberto Iza — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:54:50 +0000

I love it.

By: Murat Eren

Murat Eren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:09:40 +0000

This will be really helpful for me.
I have a pentium 400MHz,192RAM and mouse with PS7,so this tutorial is fits :)

By: kilon

kilon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:24:57 +0000

Your tutorial are extremely helpful. I have just discovered your website and I am thrilled. Thanks For taking the time and effort showing this to us. Are there any of your tutorials or youtube or some kind of video format? Thanks again

By: Aaron Barnes

Aaron Barnes — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:04:04 +0000

This is a great site. You are very talented. I am an illustrator and I ran across this tutorial and was trying it out. Is their a way to send you something I have been working on to get some constructive criticism and suggestions? Thank you.