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

[Carol Spears]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:38:25PM -0800, Poppy Casper wrote:
> 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)
> 
hi,

i checked for a couple of these images and they were not available.

i did get the brushes, however.

thanks,
carol