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Camo on illustrator CS2
Can one of the master recolorers or designers show me how to do this? I use an older version of Adobe illustrator CS2 and the only way I can think of doing camo is with the pencil tool (one can see the problems here but I've made a few sharkmouths with the pencil tool before). With people like Bruno and Carlos pumping out a new model/recolor every day, there has to be a less labor-intensive way to do camo.
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I'm using Inkscape, and use the Pen (Bezier) tool to draw pretty much everything.
Gary
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I'll be watching this with interest...
I looked up a couple of tutorials, they showed using the pencil tool, but with a drawing tablet instead of mouse/trackpad. Little out of my discretionary funds range at the moment. Have you played around with the brush tool? Might be helpful with some of the more "blobby" patterns. It also seems to draw smoother than the pencil tool (but that could also be a function of settings- Didn't play around too much with those). Do you have an example of what effect you're trying to achieve?
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Yes. I would like to make a camouflaged A-3 skywarrior. Here is a picture of the plane : http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft..._tri_color.jpg
I've never really learned how to use the pen tool but maybe I should. It seems a lot easier than pencil!
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OK....... I too use InkScape, but maybe this will help..........
I too use the pen tool and because it is vectored you can move the line into any shape you want........ I do not fill.....not yet, so this is just a line usually 3 px in width....... you need a nice line, but not too thick of one. Once I get the shape I want I use the blur tool to create a wet edge, or feathered edge. This is very much like the airbrush tool in Photoshop, in that it gives a bleeding edge with one color on top of another color. When I an satisfied with that I use the pen tool again this time with the fill color of the line I just blurred. I create a filled object inside the edge of the blurred line and thus get the "sprayed effect" that I want..... Does this help in any way with Illustrator? Oh and I am NOT a master recolorer, this is just how I figured out how to do feathered edge camo on some of my recolors........... |
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Oh and if it was me doing that camo........ I would do abase layer of the light gull gray......next would be dark gull gray, and finally the battleship gray last........ and I would do them in separate layers
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Thank you john! That really helps! On my version of illustrator there is no blur tool but I'm sure that using blend and maybe a little bit of creativity I can make do
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Does Illustrator have and airbrush or spray gun tool? When I do a repaint I will draw all the shapes and panel lines, etc using vectors (Corel, which I assume is similar to InkScape). Then I import those as a layer into Photopaint which is raster and do my painting there on a separate layer (if they are camo, or weathering or whatever), this gives you the ability to have slightly blurred lines, like they were sprayed on . The trick is to do everything on separate layers, that way if you screw up you only have to change a small part of the drawing.
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No it doesnt. Thanks for the response and info though! I might be better off to just get inkscape on second thought, even though my laptop is already cluttered with school junk
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You do have Effect->Stylize->Feather. This will give you the same type of edge as the Photoshop Airbrush tool on the filled solid object to which it's applied.
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