Art Development: Applying Colour to Grey-Scale Sketch in Gimp
So, the grey-lead pictures on different backdrops were kind-of okay, but what if I wanted to have colours? I’d read somewhere that some artists used a grey-scale drawing to give them an idea of shade, so I decided to use my Rosebuds on Colorized Backdrop – Saturation 6 as a base. Here’s what I did: 1. Imported the image I wanted to use. 2. Saved it as Pink Rosebuds on Colorized Backdrop-Saturation 6. 3. I selected the brush icon (9th symbol down in the left column of the Toolbox dock) 4. I didn’t want a heavy mark, so I chose something that looked a bit fuzzy—the first blotchy symbol in the 9th row of the ‘Brushes’ dock. 5. I also wanted to be able to see the grey-scale through the painting I did, so I went to the Tool Options box and changed the Opacity slide bar to 43.9 6. ...