Ryan Boyle of Sketchy Pictures created a neat video showing off his sketch process.
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Yesterday we asked our Facebook fans to let us know their preferred stylus. Check out the responses. Wacom’s Bamboo got the most feedback, but Bradtastic at least is pretty emphatic about the oStylus Dot.
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A fine addition to our LearningPaper tag, here are some tips and tricks for your Tuesday, courtesy of Wouterzartz.
Blue snake (i know it’s green) #MadeWithPaper #LearningPaper step by step tutorial on Flickr.
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Step by step tutorial of the blue/green snake paper 53 drawing I did.
1. Take the pen (left one), not the marker and fill in most of the screen. Move as fast as you can because then the stroke becomes huge.
2. Take the marker for the edges and missing bits.
3. Use the brush to fill in the last bits of the edges (pass 3 times slow and it is 100% filled)
4. Lay down a basic shape with the pencil in green
5. Fill that shape with green. Use the left ink pen to fill it complete (I found that out later…)
6. Lay down basic shades to form a shape
7. Fill in details
8. Add highlights
9. Keep correcting. The more time you put in a drawing, the better the details become, but know when to stop.
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The incomparable Florent Bonnefoi does another of his great 4-part process posts. We’re learning a lot from him ourselves, so we implore you follow his Tumblr, The Paper Lab. Also, share tips that you’re discovering by tagging your posts “LearningPaper”!
Four steps to “The cat”
Let’s go back to the sketch published last Sunday. Dealing with cat hair appeared to be quite
a painchallenging, but, thank you pencil ! the result is finally acceptable.The outline was made with the black pencil. It’s easier to mask, next, with watercolors and other pencils, than fountain pen (but, maybe a bit less funny). Don’t spend to much time here, accuracy is not so important at this step, since the main elements of the sketch (eyes and nose, in this case) are globally right aligned.
As with black&white sketches, Paper’s grey tone appeared to be very useful for drawing that damn hair, always with the pencil tool. Grey watercolor was also used on dark hair zones, and reworked with black, and white pencils to depict hair.
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A lot of people ask us about palm protection to aid them in using Paper. Sam Millett took it upon himself to come up with this clever solution!
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Yesterday’s “Kickstarter Project of the Day” makes cool use of Paper in it’s stellar campaign video. You can do similar overlays by saving your sketches to the camera roll with the “Save Background” setting turned off. Check out the video and, of course, visit the project page!
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Awesome Paper user Florent Bonnefoi shares a bit of his process using the LearningPaper tag. An idea Mischa came up with a few days ago, LearningPaper is a way to ask questions and share techniques with our budding Paper community. Use it on Twitter too!
Four steps to “Guillaume”
(souvenir from a quite drunk evening)
Done with the Paper App, as usual, on the iPad 1 with a the Bamboo stylus
This sketch has been done quite quickly, in about 2 hours and a half, using the black pencil rather than the fountain pen, as in my previous sketches. It appears to be faster, since I usually overlay almost all the draft with the other tools and colors.
As usual, all of the Paper tools were used, but mainly pencils and watercolors.
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