As anyone who has read my Rising Star posts recently will know, I have been experimenting with MS Paint. I have found quite a few artists who use it and have discovered they can make some pretty cool looking gradient effects. Most of the youtube videos I have watched do not have talking witch is a bit frustrating because it is hard to know what they are doing. Sometimes if there is no voice they may put text on the screen telling you what to do.
At first this was not so easy to follow even with the text. But for some reason today it just clicked and even though my first attempts did not work out as I thought it should I think I have figured it out and was playing around with the settings.
Most of the paint images I have seen done are landscapes so I wanted to try a landscape color blend with an evening sky and a greenish, grass land.
I think I used the water color brush as the other utensils just did not cut it in the thickness and I was not crazy about having to try the airbrush can. It still took me some time to fill all the white/light spaces but this is the result.
I then proceeded to fiddle with the resize settings. The instructions are to change percentage to pixels and the untick maintain the aspect ratio radio button. Watching youtube on a phone screen is not always helpful when it is a screen recording kind of video. But the resize horizontal and vertical settings need to be changed depending on which way you want the gradients to come out. This image I changed the horizontal number to one then clicked ok. I then had to go back in and put in the original horizontal number. Be careful because sometimes paint changes the vertical number then will not let you continue until the value is within proper limits. After all that, this is what I got.
Not the change I was expecting but it looks better then the beginning image.
I then went looking around again and noticed a video where the vertical number was change to one. So I gave that a try and wala. IT WORKED the way I had seen the outcome of others.
Up until this I got the thought that five colors was too many and had to go check if there was a number limit for amount different colors/Shades used. Bipu Art is one I watch a lot and he used five colors in his night wolf piece.
I know there is still so much more to learn about this program but I am feeling way more comfortable with it than when I first started. I was so afraid I would mess something up. I know though that you can never get it wrong. 馃榿馃榿
