zannamarie
Glad it helped.thank you SO MUCH for this! It has made a significant difference and improvement.
It sounds like you've come a long way in a very short time. You'll have this done and colored before your husband makes it home.
Glad it helped.thank you SO MUCH for this! It has made a significant difference and improvement.
Another suggestion. Instead of trying to remove the sketchy feel of the, well, sketches, why not use them to your advantage?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you want to color it as if it were a coloring book, yes? Why not think of the images as acetates which you color underneath, instead? This brings out the texture of the sketches more. I don't use Gimp, but I think it works the same way as Photoshop.
Attached is one of your images which I played around with. This took 10 minutes, so there isn't a lot of colors yet, and the colored areas aren't too defined or distinct from one another, but I hope you can already see the potential in them. The left one looks a bit like it was done oil pastels, but I like the "hardness" of the right one more - it reminds be a bit of expressionsim.
I hope this gives you more ideas and helps your project!
Edited to add: Oops! reall has already suggested this! lol
YOWZA,
They look amazing. The one on the right really punches hard and well.
Wow, I have got to pin my husband down when he gets back and ask him if he can show me how I can do that on gimp or any other program he has squirrelled away.
You are kiddin me right? I mean 10 mins?? I am beyond impressed. And it is showing me I can get a great feel / vibe with just a few colours on each card.
I can see myself really enjoying using both a b/w version and a coloured version. Maybe, just maybe these wee folk will see the light of day. Wait and see I guess, but you guys all ROCK!!
Will keep you posted.
Thanks again blue_fusion. Yuu have kick started my desire to actually get to grips with this online stuff and make it work for me. And have fun during the learning process.
Davina
ETA I have just seen the bonus of what you have shown on that far right image. You can see the Hermit in the wings watching. When the Hierophant passes over, he will step up to the plate. A wise head at the moment, but on young shoulders. Heck I am sooo excited now. Just got to hear back from the artist that I can go ahead and take ownership and finish this baby.
Tarotbear, I like how you coloured your own deck, but the difference is you started with clear and clean line drawings. When it was obvious he was not going to finish the product, I begged him to provide me with just clean line drawings, whereby I would spend the time colouring. Sadly it never happened.