Monday, July 27, 2009

New Method Test...


Quick test of my new method. Line work is hand inked, scanned to GIMP where it's cleaned up, traced and colour filled in InkScape, and finished in Xara. InkScape does a much better job of the vector conversion than Xara can (as well as filling in the colours), but for editing, Xara wins hands down. Tomorrow I'll post the (hopefully) finished version, which will be shaded...


...and here it is!

2 comments:

Cathy said...

Fun stuff here, Hypervox!

Though I've found one of the most important skills doing digital work is to know when it's quicker and easier to produce stuff using traditional media ...!

Hypervox said...

Yup - funnily enough, I found that out this weekend - updates to follow!