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023 - Mr and Mrs Stock

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Thank you to Jademacalla [link] & Senshistock [link] for the original image here ([link])

If you're not me then before reading any further: yes, the outline was TRACED :omg:. Not because I'm lazy or felt like cheating but because I wanted to figure out how best to trace things to get beautiful ink lines. Painter isn't really built for inking smoothly, and there are lots of forum posts out there about this limitation. The first trace I did with a black pen and led to broken, inaccurate, sketchy lines. Second trace was with the pen tool which draws lines as vector shapes but editing the shapes is limited and fiddly. This was much better, but then I thought I might as well use a bit of vector software (Inkscape) to get super smooth. Inkscape merits more attention, but I became frustrated because I had no idea what I was doing, so back to painter and painting with black detail airbrush, very fine and at 200% magnification. Acceptable result. Going to sit down with Inkscape over Christmas break because I think if I get the hang of it that'll be my best bet for super smooth inks.
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I really like where you went with the palette; very striking. Nice work!