Trying out Paintshop, it's still new to me. How am I doing? Well, click here and see

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Well, turns out my mom has a copy of Paintshop, and I've been messing around with it a bit. Still haven't got the hang of it, but maybe I could get some tips and pointers from those of you who've been using it longer...

Here's what I've been doing so far

http://www.deviantart.com/view/6382768/ (Messed up with the pencil, but hey, it's a start.)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6437311/ (Evil Sorceress seeks rich tycoon for long term fiendship. Must have dime.)
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6438862/ (Yeah, I plan on someday making animated Sue and Louie cartoons. This is the title card of one of the 3 ideas I had. Now all I need is flash or something, and somebody to do Sue's voice.)

[Fawriel]

*muttermutter*how am I doing how am I doing you're already better than me*mutter*

Oh, and I love the Louie and Sue one. =3

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Thanks... I'm kinda exparamenting with as many different things as I can.
I'm mostly looking for help with shadows and shading. Anyone got any paintshop tips on that area?

[Hare]

Well, an easy way to go about it is to make the shading layer at 50% opacity, then use a soft brush to paint in the shadow areas with black. (since the layer is at 50% opacity, it will darken whatever you color over). Thats the technique I used back when I was getting started.

Though primitive, its quite effective. http://groups.msn.com/purrhead/shawnsart.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=51

All the lighting in that pic was made using that technique. (you can make a lighting or highlighting layer with the same technique).

Anyways, I'm impressed by your advancement in your coloring skillz :).

Nice stuff, and that is a very acurate potrayal of Magica Dispell. Ah the classics. :) ... Dang its kinda crazy how there was actually a Duck Tales movie out in theatres, back in the early 90's. I just remembered that.... I'm old O.O;

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Well, an easy way to go about it is to make the shading layer at 50% opacity, then use a soft brush to paint in the shadow areas with black. (since the layer is at 50% opacity, it will darken whatever you color over). Thats the technique I used back when I was getting started.

Though primitive, its quite effective. http://groups.msn.com/purrhead/shawnsart.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=51

All the lighting in that pic was made using that technique. (you can make a lighting or highlighting layer with the same technique).

Anyways, I'm impressed by your advancement in your coloring skillz :).

Nice stuff, and that is a very acurate potrayal of Magica Dispell. Ah the classics. :) ... Dang its kinda crazy how there was actually a Duck Tales movie out in theatres, back in the early 90's. I just remembered that.... I'm old O.O;

GREAT- FINALLY SOME HELP /\:D/\
Thanks, I'll try putting that into effect in my next few picture(I also have an animation that I hope to colorise of Spot the Starcat leader reving up, running and dodging plasma gun blasts. Yes, it's big but it's almost finished.).

Actually, the thing about Magica was that I had just finnished reading the greatest Magica comic I've ever seen; 'Forget it' by Don Rosa(who's rapidly becoming my favorite.), and I noticed a few differences between the way Don draws her and the way others do: namely the wayward hairs on top and the fact that her dress shows a bit more cleavage...(Eh heh heh...) Since it was coupled with 'The Bedeviled Dime' which was the first scrooge story I ever read, I felt I needed to do something to commemorate it, so I drew her the standard way I've used to seeing her with those differences...
Oh, and if you ever get a chance, you should read 'Forget it', it's funny.

Also, I did see the Ducktales movie. It was really cool, especially the ending with that "Stop those pants" line.

"I know I hate you but I can't remember why I was here..."
-Magica DeSpell.

[Fawriel]

Don Rosa is the greatest. Absolutely. He made the only comics I actually found funny.. ^^;;;
Anyone read that one about this ancient Indian city?

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Personally, Don Rosa art style and sence of where everything in the Donald Duck universe falls into place is what I like. Heck- the guy has a Time of Death for Uncle Scrooge that seems resonable. (According to him, Scrooge dies at age 100. Pretty reasonable, in my opinion.)

Well, it's not shaded, but I did this whole thing in Paintshop.

(The background is actually a 3D rendering done in Rhino.)
Get me outta here!!!! (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6717786/)

[Coppertop]

Kind of choppy at first, but way more than I can do =D

[Captain Spam]

The way I generally go about making a shading layer is by adding a Multiply layer above the layer with the colors, then painting in the shaded areas with the same color. That makes for a darker resulting color underneath. For highlights (I don't use those often, sadly), I just use a Divide layer.

You can see how that works out on <a href="http://dementiaofmagic.net">my comic</a>. It's how I do things.

The problem is, this doesn't work with all colors. Mathematically, bright colors won't produce much difference, if any at all. Using my comic as an example, Alex's hair (#FFFF00) shows no difference if I use the same color over it on multiply. So that doesn't always work well.

I think I'll swap to a different method next chapter.

Anyhoo, about the pics, I'd say you did a spiffing job. The way you colored things actually added a bit of a textured feel to things (The scroll especially) in a subtle way to make it stand out. Sweet!

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Well, here's a bit of something I tried doing using you guy's suggestions.

Hope you like.
King of all the land... Now who'd ever thought that? (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6866564/)

[Fawriel]

*nudges GenEx*

Well done, Buddy. =3
Some of those shapes are still sort of.. what's it called, unplastic?
The throne's buttons (? ) could still use some shading, and the rodent on the right also looks kind of flat for some reason...
But other than that, awesome. Really looks like *lights go out and Faw illuminates his face from below with a lamp*
*EVIL*tHiS!

[Radium]

*EVIL*tHiS!
I actually thought WiseTea was writing that message until I saw the sig.

[Captain Spam]

"All the people in the world I don't like, and I'm stuck in a room full of them."

I like it. Gives the shadowy look and feel of the Fabled Panther King's throne room quite nicely.

[Risp_old]

I actually thought WiseTea was writing that message until I saw the sig.
I never even noticed it wasn't him.

[Sun Fun Dude]

Wow these are all really awesome. That spot one is very well animated I wish I could do that kind of stuff.

[Batty Buddy]

Que Passa!!!!

Just for those of you who don't think you can do these things, I origionally didn't think I could do them...

... Just a few words of incoragement, since I've been getting quit a few of those messages... /\:D/\