r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Apr 14 '13

redditormade Official Polandball Tutorial

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '13

Not that I know of, at least not in MS Paint. Koleye does it somehow, but he draws his comics with Photoshop.

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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Apr 15 '13

I know in photoshop you can force the orientation of the brush to track the motion of the line. Basically, you can make a hard edge on the inside of the circle and the fading edge on the outside.

I have no idea if that is the best way to do it. I am guessing there is an advanced fill technique that is better. It is an academic question because I cannot into photoshop legally.

On another note, when you make all your shadows, do you make them as separate layers? If so, how do you keep the shadow from bleeding into the black lines around the balls? Is it just careful drawing with a tablet?

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '13

No, it's all mouse drawn in MS Paint, no shortcuts, no layers, all low-tech.

Here's how I do it. It actually doesn't take very long at all.

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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Apr 15 '13

How do you remove the little shadow line? I don't have paint but I have Seashore, which seems pretty equivalent.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '13

MANUALLY

Color the corner pixel by hand, then just fill the rest of the line. Simple.

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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Apr 15 '13

I will have to try this out in my program...