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    Sokagirl's Gallery -

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    wow sokagirl that looks like a fancy bracelet :D you keep getting better and better. Awesome work.

    I really like the color and transparency used in that. Background could do with some work but the bracelet(im gonna call it that) looks absolutely perfect.

    I agree! It does look like a bracelet! Nice work Sokagirl :)

    How to create a "earth type" planet texture

    in Tutorial Graveyard

    Posted

    Hey there, this is my first tutorial so bare with me! let me know

    of any mistakes or how terrible it is!

    so lets begin!

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    firstly find a land texture that you are going to use as your base. This could be cracked earth,

    lumpy terrain, ect.... for the basis of this tutorial i will be using this texture found via google:

    595483_land_texture.jpg

    ok start off by opening paint.net to a 800x600 canvas. open a new layer and put your basic

    texture on to it. As you may notice, it may be too small. BUT thats ok. Just copy and paste

    untill the whole canvas is filled up. you should have something like this:

    terra1.jpg

    As you can see from mine there are plenty of seams. But dont worry about fixing this up,

    it will be a waste of time as they dont become noticable later on.

    next create a new layer and fill this in green (not a bright green). Set the layer opacity between

    85 - 90% ( i used 80) what this does is it gives a green tint to the texture. We are trying to

    create an "earth like planet texture" so some green is needed. You should have something lik this:

    terra2-1.jpg

    Thats the easy part over and done with! Next wee are going to add water to our planet texture.

    creat a new layer and call this "water". Now with the paintbrush tool, select a meduim blue colour

    and begin outlining your oceans and lakes. For rivers i reconmend using a brush width between 1 and 4

    pixels. Eventually you should have something like this:

    terra3.jpg

    Now create a new layer and call it "deep water". The idea here is to select a darker shade of blue and then

    paint, in the middle of your large water areas (lakes and oceans) to create the sense of deep water. Keep

    away from the shore line! You will see why in a second.

    Once you have your deep water areas, apply a fragment blur with the settings: count 4, distance 8.

    after this, apply an average blur of a strength between 8 and 10 ( i normally use 10). You should have something like this:

    terra4.jpg

    We now have deep water, yay! But we need a shore line. So create a new layer and call this "shore water". Take the

    paintbrush tool with a pixel width of between 6 - 8 and map out your shorline, following the origonal shape of your water.

    What your aiming for is to put the shoreline at the edge of your water. Once you have finished add a fragment blur of 4, 8 again and then add an average blur of 10.

    you should have something like this:

    terra5.jpg

    Now we want to add some climate to the texture, not much though. Create a new layer and call this "yellow". On this layer

    create a yellow eclipse accross the centre of your texture, keeping well away from the top and bottom edges. Erase any pats that go over any water (including rivers). you should have something like this:

    terra6.jpg

    But what a mess! open up the "yellow" layers properties and change the blend mod to overlay. Next change the opacity to 35. The yellow blob becomes almost invisible, but yet adds a strange sense of climate to the picture:

    terra7.jpg

    Now lets create some atmosphere! Create a new layer and call this "clouds". Change your prmary colour to black with a transparancy of 0. Have your secondary colour as white. Now go to effect -> render -> clouds. You can play with the cloud settings but i find these to be good ones: Scale 535, roughness 0.65.

    you should have something like this:

    terra8.jpg

    ....and your done! All finished, you now have an "earth like texture" for your planet :)

    Of course dont stop there! You could try adding in some icecaps:

    Terratexturefinish.jpg

    So what can you do with this texture? create a planet of course!

    Heres my finished planet:

    Terra.jpg

    Feel free to post your attempts, i hope the tutorial was easy to follow and to understand :)

    =MA=

    Sokagirl's Gallery -

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    wow awsome blend of colours and a nice arrangment of patterns! I love it :D - looks like a shogun wizard in the background overlooking a powerful fire and wind spell that he is using to cause destruction. ( there is a distinctive face in the background caused by the pattern - i think anyway)

    one day Sokagirl your going to have to teach me how you make this wonderful patterns.

    markyd21's gallery

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    You kidding? Your space stuff is great, I have not created a space scape since my one with the earth....You've inspired me to do another. I'll keep you posted on it since we share an interest in them.

    P.S. The dragon sketches are rather good work also. Another source of inspiration for myself. I am gonna get some sketched in and mess with them.

    :shock: i have inspired you? wow thats a first, thank you :mrgreen: I spend a lot of time on the spacescapes, space captivates me and i am glad they are inspiring you to make some of your own :) As for the sketches thanks again, i like to sketch and to have someone say that they are good work makes me proud of them.

    Textured painting! Skin 101

    in Textures

    Posted

    @Midgetalien: Yup, it can be applied to painting beasts too :wink:

    @Aislin: :lol: i know, i still need one myself lol. Uhm theres quite a few out there if you search though

    awsome, and yep i am looking for a tablet as well. Havnt found any yet. Though amazon has a few good ones atm.

    Midgetalien's Gallery -New spacescape page 11

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    i think you don't need to post every little difference you do with your sig and avatar, like just a text change

    Your right.....I just upload em and post em. Bah, no harm done though

    anyway heres some stuff that i ahve been working on yesterday and today. Its all 100% PDN + plugins (though i guess even with plugins its still 100% PDN right?)

    The only exception is the witch on the witch poker chip. I got that from a free clip art site.

    PokerChipHalloween2.jpg

    PokerChipHalloween.jpg

    NebulaCloud.jpg

    mountian.jpg

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