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Fievel's street-smart Sicilian-American friend Tony!Related content
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A critique? OK, here goes. The art sketch that makes up Tony's framework is good for the most part. A good recognizable fan art image of Tony, complete with street-wise backpack. The only nit I can pick about the basic sketch is IMHO the feet are a little big for the proportion if the rest, especially the right one.
Colors are good and well chosen. The colors of the outline are not blah black, and that's good. I tend to get lazy and stick to black most of the time, but it's good to see different colors as outline. Shoot - it works for ponies! But when I compare this image to Miss Favasham, another of your images, There's something wrong with the way the colors contact the outlines. I don't know if it's your software or the picture is picking up bad pixilation somewhere in the reproduction process. It makes the image look rough and fuzzy.
I have fought this same problem in my digital process. It's maddening! This is what I do, you might try it and see if it works. I use a WACOM tablet, BTW. I pencil sketch the image, and scan it into my laptop. This gives me a rough sketch to work with. Then I draw the digital image, erasing the pencil lines that show. I do a lot of erasing.
For my digital sketch I ink the lines in black using my pen tool on a thin setting. Then i color it, then go back over the thin lines with a wider outline of what ever color I want. The wider line tends to cover up the roughness of the point where the color contacts the outline.
I hope this helps. You have a good feel for the cartoon type of animation. Just a few technicalities to clean up. Practice, practice, Practice!
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This is good.
Though I would point out that the best way to use a digital sketch would be to adjust the opacity of the sketch layer to a little less opaque, oh and of course put your digital sketch on it's own unique layer Always (Unless your style demands of it being on a layer with something else)
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Yeh, I'm still learning how to use layers, that's why it takes me so long to produce a finished pic. I keep losing track of my layers, especially when I habitually do the background last (on top). I tend to do everything on one layer, like I used to do traditional art. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks!
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Yeah layers can be a bit tricky depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
I personally am still learning digital myself.
I started out on traditional so digital was actually a recent thing.
I've just found that the sketch layer trick often works well for tracing linework.
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I can see how that would save erasure time. Put the sketch on a layer, then just delete the layer. Hmmmmm. Practice, practice, practice!
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Hey Lipster, this pic has now been updated, tell me what you think, or if you want, you can give another critique!
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Aww, thanks, I really appreciate it. The reason it looked kind of fuzzy and messy before was because my scanner was not working so I had to take a pic with my webcam and then color it in and clean it up with an original image of very poor quality.
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I suspected something like that. Much, much better! I like Tony. What a bud!
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Well the character design holds faithful to the original as far as I can see
I'm surprised someone actually still remembers those films.
May I ask what software you're using for the digital coloring?
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