(digital artist )anybody know how to rec-create this?

[echy]

(digital artist )anybody know how to rec-create this? navi from zelda

any program 

[Arika]

photoshop.

 

combination of the pen tool, gradient tool (wings) and soft round brushes (body)

[echy]

Just now, Arika S said:

photoshop.

 

combination of the pen tool, gradient tool (wings) and soft round brushes (body)

i tried that and couldn't figure it out

[minibois]

What exactly are you looking to recreate?

The main part of Navi's body is just three circles grsdients layered over each other and the wings are simply drawn and filled in with a different type.of gradient.

[Arika]

5 minutes ago, echy said:

i tried that and couldn't figure it out

which part? the body or the wings?

[echy]

7 hours ago, Arika S said:

which part? the body or the wings?

body 

 

7 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

that looks like a vector drawing though o_o looks doable too

how to u do the body

 

7 hours ago, Minibois said:

What exactly are you looking to recreate?

The main part of Navi's body is just three circles grsdients layered over each other and the wings are simply drawn and filled in with a different type.of gradient.

just the body, idk which gradients to use

[Salv8 (sam)]

7 minutes ago, Arika S said:

combination of the pen tool, gradient tool (wings) and soft round brushes (body)

i would mainly use a modified gradient pattern then use the eraser at different sizes and intensity to try and create some natural dips in it's circumference 

 

Just now, VegetableStu said:

that looks like a vector drawing though o_o looks doable too

vector graphics can't do transparency, in fact, they can't do gradients since gradients are two colors changing their transparency which is interwoven into each other

[Arika]

2 minutes ago, echy said:

just the body, idk which gradients to use

dont need a gradient, just use the colour picker on the image to get your three colours, then use the brush tool

 

do dark blue first

make brush smaller

green

brush smaller

white

[minibois]

Just now, echy said:

just the body, idk which gradients to use

You use a friend that goes from foreground color to transparency. With foreground color you choose a darker shade of blue, then a lighter shade and then white and you just lay down the gradient one after another (making each circle smaller than the last)

[Arika]

[echy]

7 hours ago, Arika S said:

 

woah how did you do that

 

7 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

not sure about GIMP or inkscape, but you can do transparent gradients in illustrator with the gradient panel

thats amazing

[Salv8 (sam)]

6 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

but you can do transparent gradients in illustrator with the gradient panel

when the fuck did adobe add that in? i don't remember it being in there in the 2017 release...

[Arika]

Just now, Salv8 (sam) said:

when the fuck did adobe add that in? i don't remember it being in there in the 2017 release...

since at least CS3 i think?

[echy]

i get stuck here

[Salv8 (sam)]

1 minute ago, VegetableStu said:

-snip-

hmm, i must of missed that...

oh well! the more you know, thanks!

[echy]

5 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

looked it up. according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator#Versions_CS–CS6

 

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if you want a perfect circle done quickly, use the circle selection tool, then the gradient tool panel

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/gradients.html

 

separately, if you want to do that with the brush tool, right click the canvas and reduce the hardness of the brush

my hardness is at zero

and i use the gradient map and got this

[minibois]

24 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

not sure about GIMP or inkscape, but you can do transparent gradients in illustrator with the gradient panel

 

Can confirm Inkscape can also do gradients and transparency. 

Gimp can do this too; but that's mainly a raster based image editor, so I don't think that's fair to compare to the others.

 

Inkscape's gradient tool is not super great though, compared to what I have used in other programs. This is what I could throw together real quick.

 

I definitely see some banding on the image as well.

 

14 minutes ago, echy said:

i get stuck here

 

You should choose a very soft brush, I don't have Photoshop but I'm pretty sure you can just select a different brush. But the disadvantage with this method is that you likely wont have all the circles lined up perfectly with each other.

[echy]

6 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Can confirm Inkscape can also do gradients and transparency. 

Gimp can do this too; but that's mainly a raster based image editor, so I don't think that's fair to compare to the others.

 

Inkscape's gradient tool is not super great though, compared to what I have used in other programs. This is what I could throw together real quick.

 

I definitely see some banding on the image as well.

 

You should choose a very soft brush, I don't have Photoshop but I'm pretty sure you can just select a different brush. But the disadvantage with this method is that you likely wont have all the circles lined up perfectly with each other.

well i got this now, to the left, its a bit closer using a softer brush but it still doesnt still look quite like it, i need to go softer but idk how

[echy]

6 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

-snip-

o ok ill give it a try

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

does a bigger circle or transition help? o_o it's kinda visible when I specifically look for it

Even at nearly 10K*10K pixels, you can still see banding. Even at a normal viewing angle  

There doesn't seem to be a way to export images at a color level that is not 8 bit. Gonna blame it on that. Supposedly 16 bit color export settings will be added later.

[zassou]

i probably can recreate it into vector graphic in photoshop. altho the best tool for task like this is illustrator or corel draw where they specialised for vector drawing/tracing. (which i know little about)