Request to Aubrey

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Alkaliho
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Request to Aubrey

Post by Alkaliho » Sat May 02, 2009 3:04 pm

Hello all!

I have a question for the good sir Aubrey Serr, creator of many a fiiiine piece of art for this called Overgrowth game.
Here goes.

How do you generaly make them pretty pictures? I've been in the proces of painting and drawing with photohop for some time now and would like to know how he creates very fast and seemingly without much effort those pretty smooth shadings on his drawings. Especially in some of his DW art.
So Aubrey if your reading this, I'd like some hints on the know-how to make that beautifull shading style you seem to deploy so easely (spending 10 minutes on 1 gradient with a hard edges brush and banging the Alt key ain't fun!). I saw you using the smudge tool, but in what way and with what reasoning. Those beautifull lighted spots on the trees in the Ruinhead.jpg picture. Brushes or other deviously gorgeous means?

If it ain't too much trouble, thanks in advance!


Alkaliho

PS: some examples of me in muckin around photoshop.
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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Lotus Wolf » Sat May 02, 2009 6:37 pm

Aubrey has been doing this for years, practice has made him perfect.

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by invertin » Sun May 03, 2009 7:24 am

I do remember him or someone saying that he said that when he worked for other companies there was no undo tool, so I learned to be perfect every time.

Which is just awesome.

Practice makes perfect I suppose. I can't draw at all. The best I've done is this weird tentacle monster thing.

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Alkaliho » Sun May 03, 2009 4:38 pm

I know he's been doin it for a looong time, but the shading style he used was the exact kind of thing I was looking for.
Thus the request for info :)

And tentacle monsters can be cool!!


If your japanese.....

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Ninjas » Sun May 03, 2009 4:58 pm

You art is looking pretty awesome! I think the main thing to ask is if you are using a mouse of a tablet? Painting with the mouse took me 8-10 times longer for the same basic results.

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Lotus Wolf » Sun May 03, 2009 8:07 pm

Aubrey, is that your first post outside of the SPF? Or just in Randomness?

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Glabbit » Mon May 04, 2009 5:14 am

Lotus Wolf wrote:Aubrey, is that your first post outside of the SPF? Or just in Randomness?
If either or those to, it's randomness.
He has posted in both the Wolfire and Lugaru forums previously, I believe.

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Alkaliho » Mon May 04, 2009 9:50 am

O my, I'm flattered. first post and I get an exclusive!

Also, all my questions are answered rather satisfyingly via the IRC channel :D
You guys are awesome!!!

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Re: Request to Aubrey

Post by Count Roland » Tue May 05, 2009 9:25 pm

didn't you mention it to him in the irc though? and he was like I no checkie random, I do that now!

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