[Courses][gimp] Lesson 5: Basic Drawing Tools

[Poppy Casper]

Thanks, Akkana. That's a lot of information!

Here's a sequence of mine.

First of all, I discovered how to turn my old Paint Shop Pro "picture
tubes" into GIMP brushes - sooo.... I converted a handful of my
favorites. I love the pepper brush, but it's just not enough!

I started with a 640x480 blank white "canvas"

First of all, I added a gradient using the "fill with gradient" tool.
I set sky blue as my foreground, white as my background, and fidgeted
with the gradient tool until I had the sky line mostly straight.

http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_1.jpg

Next, I added some trees with a tree brush in a separate layer:
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_2.jpg

After that, I made a third layer for the grass. Everything after this
point needed to be scaled down to fit. The grass brush wanted to make
each blade of grass nearly as tall as my canvas, so I had to scale
down the layer after adding some grass. I filled the width of the
screen by copying and pasting the same section, then merged all 5
layers of grass together.
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_3.jpg

Next came the clouds:
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_4.jpg

And the sun:
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_5.jpg

And, finally, I added some animals (butterflies and a cat), also from
brushes. The butterflies were colored in using the "paint with ink"
tool.
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/lesson5_final.jpg

The brushes I used are available at 
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~sylph/Images/brushes.zip  (3MB)

--Poppy