Re: [Adonthell-artwork] Re: Adonthell-artwork Digest, Vol 22, Issue 4

[Ingo Ruhnke]

2009/5/16 Maedi Prichard <address@hidden>:
> Hi Ingo, very nice characters. I've read through 'The Designer's
> Reference' on the wiki... but what apps are you using?

Gimp

> Are you able to document your workflow?

Workflow is very simple. First thing I did was to produce a prototype
graphic based on naked-guy[1], basically just an outline used for
reference.

Then when starting a new character I paste that reference into the
background. The canvas is 128x128, so I have some space around the
characters. Drawing was all done in the final in-game resolution, so
no scaling.

Next I opened up the already existing character portrait and used it
for color picking and drew in all the main colors into the reference.

And finally I just detailed the things, added shadows, highlights, etc.

XCF images can be found at (mostly just single layer + reference
layer, so not very spectacular):

git clone http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/vegastrike.git/

[1] 
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/15bffa5ff34caf4cf4d46285b875d51f-proto-sprite.png

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