A background

[telophase]

A background from one panel of Project Blue Rose. I'm posting it here because it's going to be 75% covered up with the people in the foreground, and I rather liked it and wanted it to be seen.

I did the perspective with ComicStudio's tool to draw speedlines - I realized that I just had to put the tool where the vanishing points were, then draw in the horizontal lines of the room and furnishings. The perspective is slihgtly off here and there because I'd do that, go to the pic and draw some bits and bobs, and then realize I needed another major line in perspective and would have to eyeball the placement of the tool again - for some reason, it gets deactivated once I hide it to draw other lines (and you can't draw other lines with it visible). Maybe that's a bug fixed in the released version. *crosses fingers*

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I love the lines, and the viewing angle is très cool.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Once I realized that I could use the speedline tool, it went *so* much easier.

[lfe-kickingbird.livejournal.com]

Speedlines for perspective? Man, there are so many things to Manga Studio, I wonder if the developers themselves know the power of the program! haha, back to practice with the program...

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

that is one hot, sexy background. oh baby, oh baby!

[tentopet.livejournal.com]

Using speed lines is a cool technique! I have a PS file with perspective templates on separate layers. I have a standard 2-point perspective grid (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/Tentopet/PerspectiveGrid.jpg), and by morphing it, scaling it, flipping it, or moving it, you can basically get any possible 2-point perspective you want. And then I have sort of an aerial-ish grid (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/Tentopet/PerspectiveGrid2.jpg) that only has slight vanishing points (like Hot Gimmick does lots of far-off aerial views to give you an idea of what i'm talking about). And then I have a 1-point perspective thingie and even converging vertical lines if I want ot add that in with my 2-point perspective grid, to make it 3-point perspective. Anywho, it's terribly useful. I keep the file open whenever I'm penciling because I use those grids so often.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's useful ... *tries something* And I can make them easily in COmicWorks with the speedline tool and the streamline tool. Sweet! Thanks! XD

[tentopet.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Glad *I* could help *you* for once.

Oh and so you probably know all this but it doesn't hurt just in case:

With the 2-point perspective template, it's fairly large to start out with. If my angle is more aerial, I move the template so that it's mostly the bottom part that shows (making the horizon line higher), and vice versa for a view from closer to the ground. For aesthetic reasons, there's generally a closer point and a farther point, but even with this template you can choose how far/close those points may be. For instance, if your picture's centered on an area more to the left of the template, the points will be closer to equidistant, whereas you can move it really close to that point on the right and make it nearly a 1-point perspective with just a touch of 2-point. Flipping horizontal changes which side has the closer point. You can either shrink the whole image or just shrink it horizontally to get the points closer together, and vice versa. And you can rotate it 90 degrees one way or the other to do an aerial-ish view. So like at The Engine, when I posted this, people thought it'd make all my backgrounds look the same, but in reality, you can make every 2-point perspective piece known to man, if'n you know how to use it. Yay!

I learned of the template thing from Pop Mhan's perspective tutorial (http://www.popmhan.com/bb/viewthread.php?tid=284), and realized that with Photoshop such a template could become even more versatile.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! XD

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Oh, clever. Very nice.