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hmm no I dont think i do lol XD
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![[Art] Smile](https://storage.googleapis.com/paperdemon-prod-la/submissions/thumbs/art_img_thumb_31125_31084f0940378f971743c15f8b48b7445ebe043210f07.jpg)
You paint in RBY (additive colour scheme), but the scanner scans in RGB (Light colour scheme), but prints in CMYK (subtractive colour scheme) RGB can't pick up every colour in the spectrum so pretends with metals, and it knocks back the almost whites and almost blacks with light noise cause it works by reflection. Your monitor is rarely calibrated perfectly so you paint with the colours mixed incorrectly anyway, but after you re-render your image perfect again, there's colours that CMYK isn't capable of that RGB is (fluorescent greens, pinks etc...) End product? Frankenstein's monster. At best. Even if you test your image for gamut errors (colours that can't be printed).
The fun world of CMYK printing for tradtional AND digital users
The fun world of CMYK printing for tradtional AND digital users
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sheridan oh wow! O_O thats crazy I never knew that! gotta love technology it never makes anything easy lol you take 4 steps forward and end up 3 steps back lolArkillianDragon They're just curve balls. as I said. Digital is not superior to traditional, neither is the other way around. Each have their quirks.sheridan that is true, i guess in the end it just matters on your what you prefer to use lolArkillianDragon Or which is best to use in a situation. I hate digital drawing, but some art requires it to be digital
this picture wouldn't have been half as good if I didn't vector it even though I knew nothing of vectors at the time but the basics. I had to learn 2 programs for making comics, and learn complex procedures to make this. It was worth it in the end. Illustrator is a good puppy to me now 
sheridan that is very true and I must say that picture is AMAZING! its funny how complex they seem and then you figure it out and its jeeez thats easy pish posh I got this
ArkillianDragon Heh- I wouldn't call it easy though I still threw 20 hours of my life into this battling illustrator. I know MUCH easier ways of doing it now but if you can imagine, the face and the arm have heaps of tiny little vectors? Yeah... that slows the process down a heap. Live fill is the best though. You can flood fill all sorts of weird crap with that tool :3 Just need the vectors first.sheridan lol you have more patience with a program then I do lol if i picture starts clocking over 8 hours with me I start rushing it and half doing it XD I have no patience with it lolArkillianDragon You just need to make sure that you keep interest levels up- that's all. IF the picture is boring, then stop or make it better. It's also a frame of mind. When you're being creative, time is less important. I could easily spend 20 hours on a picture if it was detailed enough.sheridan that's true, and being creative really helps Although I seem to be losing that haha sometimes Ii feel the only time I have my muse and creativity going is when I'm in school and suppose to be doing school work XDArkillianDragon Urgency can create it's own version of muse. The only way of getting out of that mind set is by just drawing random stuff, or starting a project. Sometimes both at once XD The more new stuff you try out the more muse seems to come. IT works for me anywayssheridan lol I will have to give that a try!!
sheridan that is true, i guess in the end it just matters on your what you prefer to use lol