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ooh~ found it!


It is originally found here: link at neopets

But since it's on neopets and not somewhere easy to acesss I will post it here.




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OMG Silvermoon made a tutorial! and a paint tutorial at that. Albeit simple, paint pictures can be some of the best out there. I kept this one simple for Tutorial reasons.
First! open paint (durrr XP) Start with a canvas preferably larger than you want the pic, you can always go smaller later, but its hard to enlarge a pic once you have started. I always use paint drawing a pic twice as big as I want it to end up. I also magnify to twice the size. For inking and detailed work, I magnify 6.





Choose a color that is totally differenet than your line art is going to be. I chose red, obviously, because I want to use black and they are easy to tell apart. You can draw guidelines, circles, even use the shape tools to make sure you get strait lines. This is the sketch. (try to stick to one color, I used the blue to show what you cant see so that people who might not understand the pose, "get it" )




Next Draw the ink or outer line art, you can be more creative and detailed now. This is often where my eyes really turn out. I know, I know, there arent layers in MSPaint! Dont worry about it, you can trust me to get you through getting rid of the sketch, just ink it with the color(s) you want to have your lines be. As long as they are a different color than your sketch, you are safe.



*gasp*! This is how you get rid of the sketch, oh so clever. Use the fill tool and fill the larger parts of your pic (but not the inked line art!) to the same color as your sketch. Then fill with white. To pick up smaller spots, just fill with red again and fill to white. I repeated this about three or four times and got a clean slate.





Now we are in business. Go over the line art again and try to vary the width of your lines. HINT: the closer a line is to other lines, the thicker it often is. Also if a line is going to be bordering a generally darker area like the inside of the ears, then it is also thicker. Vice versa is relevant to vice versa wink . Also notice that I thought that the tail width was off so I redrew it. Dont feel a need to fix a ton of stuff, but if you notice something big, fix it before you get really into it.





Next I went through and darkened the border lines, the outer lins of the character. It may seem silly when you do it but it makes a difference especially if you want to shrink the image to make a button or avatar.

Wow amazing tutorial Chia! Thank you!

I think that's the best Paint art I've EVER SEEN! Wow. That is SO cool!