In an effort to help demonstrate how to use the Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop, and particularly how to use this tool to select images, I have written a (so far) 3 page comprehensive guide and made my second ever YouTube video!
In celebration of Valentines Day, DeviantArt (my favorite forum for arts and crafts) is hosting a contest!
In a blown up 11px by 11px box, draw yourself. They've created the tool and minimal skill is required. Just create a rendition of yourself in these huge pixels (example to the right) and submit to enter. You can enter as many times as you'd like and 100 winners will be selected to recieve DeviantArt specific emoticon stress balls.
As you can see, due to the nature of their contest much drawing skill is not required, so I hope everyone enters! Good luck! Oh, and if you enter, feel free to link to the drawing in our comments so we can all take a look!
Thursday, you saw the linework for a drawing I was working on. Below is the finished version.
Extra thanks to Sayjinlink for his help! He even took a copy of the almost-finished version and circled any area that needed work and added notes on how to improve it! He is my critique hero!
P.S. In case you are interested, this drawing is based off the following two reference images (plus, my cats!)
The woman is me, the drawing is Kirt of X-Men Evolution (what I happened to be watching during the many hours while drawing and shading this). Kirt was in the basic pose that I wanted, so I used this as a reference that I feminized and detailed to create the look that I wanted.
The last week or so has been a little chaotic. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to spend much time drawing (so please forgive the lack of pretties found here)....Fortunately, I have been spending my time elsewhere in the site.
Adobe CS4 - an offshoot of Adobe Photoshop Versions, discussing Photoshop CS4
Adobe CS3 - you guessed it; another offshoot, this time discussing Photoshop CS3
Pyrography Tools - an extension to the pyrography (woodburning) section of this site. This page discusses the various tools of the trade and their differences
The next few weeks are going to be spent mostly expanding on these two areas of the site, but I'll try and make sure to include some new graphics as well. ^.^
As always, let me know if you have any comments on these pages or if you'd like to see something specific!
Buzz it!
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