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merrak — Fordham Forest Speedpaint

Published: 2012-05-19 04:42:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 673; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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Description This is my very first speedpaint. I'm not sure how long a "speedpaint" is. I've seen some great work done in 20 minutes and I'm nowhere near that good. This took me 75 minutes.

This is a departure from my usual style in many ways. I used MyPaint for most of the base drawing, then GIMP to add in the lighting, textures, reflection, and additional details. A lot of my digital paintings are somewhat similar to photomanipulations, in that I draw several parts separately, then combine them together. This was drawn in one shot.

I'll likely go back in and add some characters. My wife requested I add some ducks.

The project was born out of following this tutorial:

It's a great tutorial.
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Comments: 13

Doko-Latte [2013-02-02 08:18:39 +0000 UTC]

I love the textures here ;u;

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merrak In reply to Doko-Latte [2013-02-04 03:28:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks MyPaint is good for foliage textures.

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Doko-Latte In reply to merrak [2013-02-04 03:38:37 +0000 UTC]

No prob ;u;

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falcorn0squirrel [2012-08-01 15:23:23 +0000 UTC]

adorable! I love the way you do the tree leaves and the shadows on the path.

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merrak In reply to falcorn0squirrel [2012-08-02 05:41:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks It took me a while to figure out some methods for drawing leaves that looked okay. I just wish I could get a little more variety in there.

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Charlene-Art [2012-06-01 13:29:20 +0000 UTC]

I think this piece has some pretty good aspects like the general structure and texture of the forest. Well done!

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merrak In reply to Charlene-Art [2012-06-01 21:02:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I've found tree textures to be more difficult than I anticipated. Usually I end up with what looks like one giant tree with multiple trunks.

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Charlene-Art In reply to merrak [2012-06-02 10:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Ah well

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Wastelander7 [2012-05-19 19:32:49 +0000 UTC]

LOVE it! I used MyPaint for similar work on a pic the other day. Gotta love how easy it is to do foliage. Especially with some of the old 08 brushes.

Here's mine if you get curious [link] If not, it's cool.

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merrak In reply to Wastelander7 [2012-05-20 03:14:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for sharing! MyPaint has some great foliage brushes. I just recently found all the 08 ones. Hopefully they install into 1.0... the wiki only mentions 0.9.

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Wastelander7 In reply to merrak [2012-05-20 17:57:53 +0000 UTC]

Welcome! And I didn't have any trouble importing the 08 brush pack into 1.0. They seem to work fine. And I've imported them in both Linux and Windows. (haven't tried 1.0 on my ancient iMac yet so I can't attest to it on there) If you have any trouble let me know and I'll see what I can do to help.

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chocolate6277 [2012-05-19 04:44:47 +0000 UTC]

nice textures

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merrak In reply to chocolate6277 [2012-05-19 04:49:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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