Flash pro 8

I wasn’t planning on making a vague tutorial when I started this … But I guess this is on the menu today. A vague tutorial in Flash pro 8.

I got the program…huh…some 15 years ago? It was sort of a reward for doing some drawing for some beta web page in school. I won’t say it was love at first sight (never using any programs beforehand), but we got along fine. All the doodles you find in my blog are made in it, drawn freehand, using only a mouse. But if you put some effort in it you can make some very nice vector stuff.

I found @saywha almost at the start of my "steemit career" and yesterday he posted another of his drawings. I knew vectoring it will ruin some of the charm that the original has, but I was inspired.

I imported the image in my library and then dragged it in my work section. Right click on it to break it apart and then there is the lining. I usually select red for visual purposes only. It’s just seen easier.

Line on line with more lines and bending with some more bending upon bending later … you have your base.

I then change the line color and usually go with lighter brown. Why brown? Lines either make it or break it. I try keeping them thin and in lighter shades so they don’t overweight the colors. I rarely use solid black. This might not make sense, but black is powerful in my eyes. It screams look at me! Here I am weighting on all the rest of the colors and trying to kick their azz. So I usually go with brown or gray, since the monster is purple I went with brown.

I fill out the base with color and since the image was flat I added a bit more shading. You can go in different ways here (look at how the fire coming from the engine is shaded). I usually shade with more lines. Yes, such fun! More and more lines with bending and curving, then filling out the spaces with darker shades of the original selected colors.

Version no. 1:

Time needed: just a bit under 1h.

Very basic animation:

Time needed: 10 minutes.

Free play time in GIMP:

I do not usually mix media since it can come off wrong fast. But kind of like the result. The background was borrowed from @thecryptofiend, found here.