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Some people ask me how I make the drawing look like this: http://baltosource.timduru.org/art/no/2 ... play=10000 Using GIMP and Paint so I'll show you with this tutorial. [ Its my frist one so go easy on me xD]
Paint is on everyone's computer but to get GIMP just go to Steet's topic and download it there: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2508


Note: Your picture will always look better if its saved to PNG. Avoid JPEG.
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Alright so frist you have to sketch out your drawing on paint.

I normally use the light blue colour so then you can ink it in black on GIMP.

When your done sketching you should have it all sketched out.


Next, Open up GIMP and open your file and get your sketch.


Now what you want to do is Ink right? So lemme show you how.
First go to Dialogues at the top, and go to layers.


When you click layers, your going to get a box and click the new layer button.


After that your going to get a new layer on top of the background layer. Your going to click ''New layer'' to ink.


Now to ink your going to need to click the Pencil not the Pen. If you ink in the pen it will make it harder to colour.


Now your going to pick your pen to ink with.I usually pick the tinest one, but that's up to you.


When your done inking it should look like this:


Right. Now you want to remove the blue lines. So you have to go back to your layers box.


Now you delete the background.


Now it will look like this.


Now you have to fill it all in white so you can add your character's markings. I prefer to colour in paint then GIMP because its easier.


Now click every spot that has the grey squares. Make sure you Dont miss any spots. or it wont show on paint.

It should look like this:


Now you can leave GIMP and go to paint. Make sure you save it.
When you open paint, you going to colour in your character. So open up another paint and get a picture (or ref) of your character. Then you copy his/her's colours onto your main drawing.


Now colour him/her in.


Now that your done colouring your char in, you can go back to GIMP to add the background

When your on GIMP open up your coloured drawing. Now click the magic wand.


Click into the background.


Now you can pick any picture of your choise for your background but make sure you ask the owner or add refence if take from Google Images. Make sure your image is the right size. If ti appears to big or too small choose another. But if your image is too small you can always make it bigger on paint. [It wont look nice pixelated though]

You can always draw in your background but you know me, Im a lazy fart.

Now that you have picked your image, you will go back to your drawing and Right Click into the blank space then go to Edit then to Paste into. NOT PASTE.


You should get this. Now that that si done, you might still have some blank spaces like shown below. Just do the same process you did to fill the other space. Magic wand> Right click> Edit> Paste into.




Now that's done you may get some lines on the top and bottom if your image was slighty not big enough. That doesnt matter. To fix that, you can save the picture on GIMP and then go to paint.


Now Im going to fill the lines, Black.
Or you can go to the blue dot in the corner of the picture and remove the white lines.


Now save it and your done.
Note: Your picture will always look better if its saved to PNG. Avoid JPEG.



And there you go! Hope this helped. xD

Hyun © Kolton
Image used: http://www.freefoto.com/images/16/08/16 ... ne_web.jpg [Made it larger in Paint.]

Nice, Kolton! I'm gonna have to try this.

Thanks Kolton this was helpful but I have a quick question, can you do the same with a hand sketched drawing as in you hand draw it, scan it in then ink in gimp and color in paint?

Yup xD

ok Thanks again, I'm goint to try it

Great tutorial Kolton. I wouldn't know how to do some of it without you. However,I did know some of it already but it's OK to know a program if you use it for most of the images you do right? Looks like you did it with a tablet-right?

very helpful thanks for making this topic!

I have a link on top of the tutorial where you can download it if it isn't already on your computer.


No, I used a mouse xD but It works with a tablet too if your more comfortable with that.

A mouse?! Wow,I'd have never thought...the lines looked like they were drawn with a tablet...you're really good.

Really noice tutorial Kolton. I personaly prefer drawing backgrounds myself but I understand that this isn't so easy for those without Photoshop or some othr advanced drawing program. GIMP is good tho' for it..



Oh and if I may give some ritique sine I'm too lazy to go to your gallery for this you may want to shorten up your legs. xD

That's if the person drawings prefers to draw it or not it depends but this is just to show them how to put the backgrounds in.

And yeah, the legs on my wolves are large. Im working on it xD