MSPaint-Series

-Techno-Photos

by Zuateg

Techniques # 03Personalize your Colours:Part I

Exercise on 16 Colours ModeThe usual use of the 16 colours palette resultson a flat, smooth,too much regular work.

You can create somepatterns of reticulationsthat will differentiate it.

Shadow areas.Projections.Characteristics of naindividual drawing.

Menu “exibit” - Option “zoom”/

Choose:”8x” -Option: ”Show grid”When you see the bitmap gridyou are seeing the very soul ofMS Paint. Each space is the minimalpart of your drawing.Here you will create your personalpatterns of reticulation.The next step is menu “Edit”, option “copy”. With this, your pattern is going to transfer area.Again, you go to “Edit”, option “paste”. Each time you click “paste” your patterns appear on the screen. Put them side by side. Save. Click ever the screen to return normal size.

Five Reticulation Patterns

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Here you see tenpatterns of reticulation.

The circles belowshow 8x zooms of thepatterns I haddefined to modify thebasic 16 coloursPalette.

The next step is applythese patterns on thebasic 16 colourspalette.

Testing: Digital Art is Test

Test your patterns.Go to the tool “Select”.With the cursor youselect each one of thepatterns and drag itover the colours.

You can like or dislidewhat you see.

If the result is not goodtry again.You can createnumberless personalsolutions just over16 colours. Magic?

Testing Red.

Observe as Idragged the redreticulation overall the 16 colours.

The starting pointis menu “Edit”.Option “Copy”.

Then I go again tomenu “Edit”.Option “Paste”.I paste 16 times anddrag the pattern overthe palette colour.

Testing Yellow

The left column showsmy five options onreticulation.

I’ve had tested thered one.

Now, we are testingthe yellow pattern.

It is a good job maketests with each oneof our reticulations.MS Paint isn’t thateasy. See you?

Ornamental Fish

One of myfirst works.

Only Godknows howmuch testsI’ve madewithreticulationspatterns toobtaina resultlike this.

Sea Sunset

The waves.After creatingthe pattern, itwas appliedover thebackground.

Just onedifference, butit personalizeyour job.

I tryed to keepthe center onthe Sun.

A Man - Variations

Other Men

Some illustrationsshowed herewere finished on256 colours palette.

But this fact do notchange the idea ofpersonalizingour drawings.

It is current toiniciate on B&W,go after to 16c.And finish on 256c,or 24 bits.

Next Step: Personalize... - Part II

When you see an illustration finished, withall that background colours and reticulations, youdon’t imagine the steps, masks, layers wehave to do on the way.

Next slideshow we will take slide #2 (the flat woman figure) and show to you all steps necessary to make it a personal work.

Not uneasy, ardous, painful.But some tricks are wellcome. See you at once.