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  Computer color's hard, just gimme a brushDec 14, 2012 12:32 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Just when I thought I'd tried all the color stuff I was gonna try...here's some actual watercolor for you. :P Some of the drawing steps:
 
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'Cause see I got the urge to run a few more computer color tests, and it turned out that the photo method I used for instance with yesterday's page doesn't *quite* have the sharpness I'd like it to have sometimes, especially toward the edges of the image--it worked pretty well with yesterday's page, but that was you know sort of a soft-focus glamour type portrait shot; for other stuff it has trouble. So I thought I'd have to work up artificial color from scans, but that's actually pretty tough to do from a nice flat, clean scan of a black and white image; you need to add gray washes for gradient maps to have something to work with, for instance, and I don't want to have to add washes to every image necessarily. So finally I figured heck it'll be easier just to paint the darn things in actual color myself. :P
 
My palette is currently lacking yellow and orange, since when I was putting together a tiny palette with the idea of doing abstract color, I thought well those are gross colors, who needs 'em; but if you look back through the last week and a half of artificial colors I've been doing, you'll see I discovered I actually like using yellow and orange. :P So I've rush-ordered some...also some more blues--although just after I placed that order I found the first blue I got is pretty darn good, you just really have to load up the brush with it--and hmm ah a cadmium red is on the way as well. These are Winsor & Newton artist watercolor half-pans. Excitement with toxic chemicals!
 
 
 
 
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