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Digital tools

 

 

1. My cute MOUSE .

 

Though I prefer the use of technical pens hands on as it is a lot easier . But I don't have the

pens , tough !

 

So I thought of the digital pencil tool .I was trying to imagine if it can achieve the fine strokes

I wanted same as the technical pens ... by manually operating it through

the mouse .

 

2. Digital pencil .

 

I used with the lowest size brush 1 ,did adjustments of the mode and opacity by trial and error until I achieved the desired very thin strokes.

 

3. Gradient adjustments.

 

4 . Burn and dodge tools

 

5.The sky textures were achieved using the above tools mentioned .I did adjust the levels and the curves did a few random scribbles of lines over the sky area for textures and apply a slight shadow from burn tool .

 

 

Can even used shots of tree trunks ,old rough tiles ,paper or wood etc for collection of textures .

 

 

Basically using the fine simple strokes with the mouse ,together with combination and adjustments of the above tools , the job is done for this picture .

 

To do the impression of grass ,I I did countless repeatitive zigzag motions with the mouse to get the textures or did fine circular motions for plants . I altered the scenery a little bit by adding additional palm trees using the same fine zigzag movements (brush size 1) and adding a little bigger house in the background and repositioning the hut on the left hand side of this pic .

 

This is my first picture of digital pencil strokes using the mouse .

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Uploaded on April 1, 2010
Taken on May 27, 2009