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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 1543582" data-attributes="member: 7280">Hmm, when I'm inking I usually use a watercolor brush and my finest technical pen for hatching. Using a brush takes some playing with, but it gives a cleaner and quicker line if you can get the hang of it (which I admit I'm fairly hit or miss on, why I paint in oils ;-) ) I don't know how well GIMP does color pickups because I've only played with it enough to know I don't like it, but in PS one of my most common 'tricks' is to us a few color cheat sheets I've found over the years. I use the one for skin tones the most often, because it's so easy to get those wrong but I think SOMEWHERE I've got my hair sheet and I think I even recall seeing someone's 'metal' sheet once or twice. If I had any advice for you though, it might be in using a softer brush. All of your gradients will come out smoother, and you'd have an easier time adding in those soft faded blues to metals that seem to somehow come out in anything besides bronze. If you're afraid of all that nasty fuzziness creeping over your crisp lines I'd use masks and layers probably to give you some edges to bump into. Don't be afraid to use an airbrush for the gradients in a digital image and then go back with a hard edged eraser to clean it up either. If you're not afraid that you're going to pick up some bad habit for your pen and paint works, there's all sorts of interesting things you could never do IRL. Oh yeah, and the number one advice for any prospective computer artist out there: Even if it's the smallest one you can afford, buying a tablet and stylus is gold. Personally I'd recommend that people wait until you can do it with a mouse first, but after that bit of exercise in precision a stylus makes everything mo' bettah. And a lot of time it has a PS version or Painter bundled into it, which makes it even nicer.</blockquote>

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