I used frames also to contour all the card. Observe the black frames around the text boxes. Using grid gives you total domain over MS Paint. With the option “Show Grid”, on menu “Image”. Too much work made under 8x zoom, bit after bit.
Illuminated with yellow (it will be put upon a cobalt sky!). Observe this brazilian portughese title: June Party, in English. It is useful for applying layers over layers.
Changing the option “Opaque” you make transparent your image. Remember: MS Paint menu bar has “Image” choice. Step 09: insert balloon: “select”, “copy”, “paste” Step 07 Use the sketch as a guide To put each draw in right place And combine each one to make an unique rope ornamented with party flags. Just ahead you will apply them to the string. Select each one of the flags and put it where you want. The tool “select” gives you the power to construct any composition you would imagine. I’ve grouped them to save space in the screem. For example: layers, multiple undo/redo, multiple zooms. I was thinking about what if there was a custom version of that program, but which had extra features.
However, I miss MS Paint of Windows XP a lot, and that pallette loading feature from the Windows 95 edition. Are in doubt? Try each one of these solutions. Ever since I've heard of layers in Paint.NET, I stopped using MS Paint. Remember: You have to much options in colouring: 16, 256 colours, and. Then, choose how much colour you want to fill the surface. But now, each one is to be kept in his own file. At the final edition you will have all parts put together. Remember you are creating independent files to each step of your drawing. Step 04 With the balloon the procedure is the same. In these “ white bits”, the tool “pencil” can fill with colour the remained white spaces. The 8x zoom shows to you some quite invisible imperfections in areas that are closed to colours: they remain still white and your draw seems dirty. Use primary colours: yellow and cobalt blue. You can also select the stars, and modify them: So, you will have a b&w sky, plenty of stars, each one different from the other. Step 02 With the tool “Line”, 2nd thickness, I draw a few stars. Attention: give a name and save each step individually. Darken lines if needed.MS Paint: Creating an Invitation Card by Zuateg (Fourth Image) Bonus: Add a bit of dim, saturated lighting to the shaded portion to liven up the character a tad more. Congratulations! Your drawing is now shaded. With whichever tool, use these new colors to hide the seams and gaps. Lastly, (third image) use the eyedropper to grab the now-shaded colors. Just try to make sure neither the gaps or overlapping portion, referred to here as the seams, land on very detailed areas. This will, of course, happen anyways so don't stress out over it too much. Try to avoid overlapping the lines or leaving space between the lines. The third step (second image) is to use the marker tool and shade in long strokes across the drawing. Any color darker than your shading will become lighter afterwards, so you need to prepare to replace said colors after the entire shading process is over. The darker the color, the less details that need to be fixed. Having extremely high saturation from the get-go will balance this out and give you access to darker shading without much fear of extreme color loss.įor this example, I went pretty low on the value scale for one big reason. The farther from the center of the value bar, the less saturated the shading will be. I would recommend always using a high saturation for this method, but the value is where things get interesting. The next step is picking the value and saturation of the color. Look at your piece and think to yourself "What would look nice?" or, if there is a comprehensive background, "what is the appropriate shadow color for this setting?" If this doesn't help, just grab whichever color you like, apply it to the drawing with the marker tool, undo, and repeat this process until you find one that looks good with the drawing. Now, there are plenty of approaches to this, but here's one that is simple, clean, and relatively painless.įirst step is picking a color. While slight shading can look fine, a good shadow can really solidify an object or character. That's perfectly normal, especially when it comes to programs without layers, such as Microsoft Paint. Some artists can be a little shy when it comes to shading.