Thanks for taking your time to explain this. Really exciting to see what an amateur seriously playing can do.

WOW.... I'm in awe and can't wait to see more.

Part 2 of 2

I couldn't put more than 3 attachments, so I continue here. Here is the start of dressing the knight with helmet and cape:



And here are the fabrics for the rest of the armour for both the knight and the horse.

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Let me know if you have any questions. If you have a digital drawing tablet and painter software, I'd love to see what you do with it.

Cheers,

BJ

(Alternate title: an amateur having fun with my toys) Part 1 of 2:

I have been talking a lot about making my knight quilt...drawing it with my new setup of a Wacom Intuos4 tablet using CorelPainter 11. I thought I would show you some of the admittedly early and unfinished results. Here is a crop out of the whole drawing that I drew using the Thick and Thin pencil on a white canvas. Note that I opened a file from a Dover disc of horse drawings, cloned it, selected all, backspaced, and turned on the tracing paper. Then I could trace the drawing right how I wanted it. After that, I had to draw the knight free hand...many many adjustments later, this is what it looked like:


Now that I am constructing the knight, I decided I wanted to paint the face using digital ink and print it out on fabric. After painting, In saturated the color 25 percent more and printed it on fabric. It still seemed too light for me, so I sent the same piece of printer fabric back through and remarkably it printed exactly right, making the face dark enough. Here is the result:



Then I painted the horse, minus sweeping tail and armour and printed as I did the face and then reprinted as I did the face...it looks kind of like a ghost, but I think after I add the armour and tail and hair and knight, it will look just right. Here is how it looked:

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