August Entry: Compass Rose

[ravells]

Thanks Koor. This is the standing figure. Jeez, took me 6 hours to do, but I was learning lots of software stuff, so hopefully the next one will be better / faster.

I'm not going to describe this long and painful process, but basically it involved tracing around the reference picture using Serif and colouring it. It looks pretty awful, I know, but hopefully the next one will be a bit better. It'll be scaled down a lot in the full picture which will hopefully hide a multitude of sins!

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[ravells]

Here is the latest work in progress. I'm glad I did this challenge, I'm learning so much more about the software and how to draw, the second figure took only about 3 hours to draw...although granted there's a long way yet to go before I give Da Vinci any competition! Now all I have to do is finish the banner and er...do the compass rose.

The 'thing' at the bottom is meant to be a chest, but it's not looking like one. I will change it to something else...maybe a dragon, curled up around the standard...it's fantasy, gotta have a dragon, although it may overtax my feeble drawing skills beyond their limits.

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[pyrandon]

Ravs--Much like Koor, I loved seeing the in-between shots, mainly because (also like Koor) I never thought of doing it that way. (PS: I love the shot of you in the bathrobe! Hahahaha, what a great idea!)

I would not do the dragon; IMHO, this would be too "busy", and the image already has enough interest with the two figures.

Nice going!

[ravells]

Thanks Don. I'm not happy with the colours, but those can easily be changed. I think I'll put it to one side for a bit, work on something else and come back fresh to it.

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[ravells]

Here is the final version. Good learning process for me.

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[RobA]

basically it involved tracing around the reference picture using Serif and colouring it.

Quick question...does Serif support bitmap tracing? (or "vectorization")?

-Rob A>

[ravells]

It has an 'autotrace' function, like illustrator, but it can be more trouble than it's worth. To be honest, after getting poor results from it when I tried it out on earlier stuff I didn't even consider it for these drawings. Then again, with my horrendous drawing skills, perhaps I should have! lol!

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