Hello nice to meet you

Oh that is wonderful to hear! Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Yay, that is great to hear Dora! I try to make these vids as logical & easy to follow as possible :)

@@AnimalArtbyLAW i appreciate you for your support and comments i just create a little time to appreciate some of my great fans.how is your family and work?

i appreciate you for your support and comments i just create a little time to appreciate some of my great fans.how is your family and work?

Hello nice to meet you

So glad it has helped. If you look through the comments on here then several people have suggested different apps or programmes that give the same effect.

Thank you :)

Hi

Both my laptop & desktop are ssd systems already. I will need to watch this video again though to see exactly what you refer to. Thank you.

I'm not sure if it would make a huge difference. Give it a try & see is the best way to find out. It might depend on the individual image

Hi, yes that is correct. Most printers allow you to go into the settings and you can print an image across 2, 4, 8 or numerous amount of shee5s to the size required. If you Google your printer model and poster printing you should be able to find how it works for that model

It is up to the individual how they prefer to transfer their image albeit projector, transfer paper, tracing, grid. I show a couple of methods in my tutorial videos

@@AnimalArtbyLAW Can you provide a link to a video that shows how to transfer the line art to your paper?

@@Karike2 I think all of the transfer videos are only available in my full tutorials which are over on my Patreon channel but the simplest method you could use and it is how I teach at my workshops is to use transfer paper.

I have a few videos on here showing how to transfer to pastelmat. It is a ittle too thick to use a lightbox unless it is a really bright one. Graphite paper can be messy but I show alternatives on here in a couple of videos

I use a specific method that I demo on some of my longer tutorials on Patreon but when teaching in classes I show students to just use a transfer method like graphite paper or lightbox. Whichever suits people the best to get the basic lines across

I would like to know too 😀

Hi Pat. Most of my full tutorial videos on Patreon explain and show in detail how I transfer the image to the pasyelmat. I am away teaching a workshop this weekend but can check if any of the public videos on here also show it. I am not sure that there is one though.

i don't have a 'light box', so i use my computer or ipad and transfer it that way

Hi, are you using a newer version? You need to use the same version that I did in the demo as each update changes the set up. I added a link a while ago in the description to the download of the version I use

I'm not sure what you mean? It's my reference photo that I'm converting to just the key lines. I can do whatever I choose with the image. It depends where you source your original image from as to whether you can use it commercially

Hi, i already have. It's here on my channel 😉

Hi Don, so sorry, I still seem to have the older version on my devices. The important thing to find is edge detect or difference of gaussians. Is there a help/search facility on the version that you have?

@@AnimalArtbyLAW Hi Lisa, yes there is a Help section but I tried typing in both 'edge detect and Difference of Gaussians' but nothing came up. I think as it is a free download there is no way of contacting the people who created it. I also went to their frequently asked question area and there was no mention of it there either.

Hi Brenda did you work this out as I am having the same problem ?

I have found it Brenda, you click on Gaussians legacy box , if you havent found it already

@@TheShazzledazzle Hi, many thanks for this. I used the Google app iPiccy in the end but will go back and have another look at GIMP.

Hi, no I don't but there is a link in the description to the version I use

It depends on how you are going to transfer your image but I would prob use standard copier paper

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I already did an updated version on here. Use legacy in the Gaussian options

I added a link to the version of Gimp that I use. I haven't updated my version, sorry. I'm guessing the newer versions are a bit different. I will look to update it on one of my devices at some point to take a look.

I’ve also tried this but it’s completely different to the video that Lisa did so I would also appreciate an updated video please.

It is all in the video. It is the desaturation selection

Ah no, that is frustrating. I will Google to see if that version can still be found anywhere

@@AnimalArtbyLAW I Googled it too, but wasn't able to find it. Did you find it?

@@momasan2 someone says that if you download a recent version, go to filters and there is a legacy filter at the bottom of that tab with the difference of gaussian on.

I made an updated version in the last couple of months you just need to use Difference of Gaussian legacy on the drop down menu

@@AnimalArtbyLAW thank you, I will try again 🙏

I also have the latest version and also for me it is not working :-(

In the latest version Difference of Gaussian is considerably different. But if you go down a bit in the Edge Detect menu, you find a legacy version of Difference of Gaussian. That will do exactly what this tutorial describes.

@@conniesadler6543 Thank you!

@ Same for me

google pixlr editor. pretty much exactly like this. you don't download the program, you just use 'editor' online open the reference photo from computer go to adjustment tab---choose 'desaturate' right click on 'layers' (right side of screen)-- choose 'duplicate' go back to adjustment tab-- choose 'invert' on right side layer area--'toggle layers' button----choose 'add' from drop down menu go to filter tab--choose 'gaussian blur' move the sliders til you are satisfied (pretty much the same as the gimp instructions in this video) right click on layers----choose 'merge down' go back to adjustment tab-----choose 'levels' move the sliders until you have the detail you want. (i try to have the faintest lines) go to the file tab--- choose 'save' and there ya have it. very easy to use. one issue i had using chrome, this editor needs to use flash, so make sure you have 'ask me' setting in browser for flash. hope this helps

Yes & no Liz. I am like you, one of the 'old fashioned' crew so to speak. I drew from an early age & went to art college so I learned how to draw, sketch life studies, movement, composition, colour theory etc. Some of the tips tools that I teach are simply to enable those that have no idea where to start, or do not have the time to learn to draw the traditional way a means to be creative. If drawing someone else's pet then 99% of the time it would be from photos, something which took me a long time to get my head around. When I draw my own dogs I sketch them but not being able to creates a barrier for some people who simply want to create. There is no right or wrong but as long as we all create then it is all good :)

Liz Richards many of us dont have that talent

@Barbara Holmes there is no such word in the creative world as 'cheating'. And I do not abide by those that use the word either if it stops others from creating. I went to art college, I studied & worked hard for many years. This video shows people how to use a tool to create a basic line drawing from their reference photo. As I explained, this is to aid people in simplifying their reference. Not everyone has the time nor patience to learn to draw so why should creating a base image like this to work alongside your reference be seen as cheating? And how dare you insinuate that I do not draw. You obviously know nothing about my work. I feel sorry that you judge all of these people as cheats & would wish them to not create at all unless they do things your way. It infuriates me that people take the time to judge others like this, and saddens me too. Even the old masters used Lucida & other methods to transfer line drawings. I bet Michelangelo would be the leader of using apps in the modern age! :D

@@mikek4610 It’s not talent that is required, it’s learning drawing skills and applying them. “Practice makes perfect”, so to speak. But perfection is not required. It’s the differences in how artists see the world and interpret it that makes art so interesting. One of my instructors used to say that we have 10,000 bad drawings in us, so we’d better start drawing a lot now to get them all out! LOL Besides, learning how to successfully paint and draw in color and doing it well, (as in getting an appealing finished piece of artwork) is a lot more difficult than learning basic drawing skills. So if you feel you don’t have “talent” for drawing then you will soon be disappointed that you may find that you have even less for creating work in color using traditional art media (like color pencil, pastels, watercolor, gouache, egg tempura, oil paint, markers, etc). Drawing is a basic skill and there are many KZfaq videos on learning how, let alone library books and other free online tutorials. I highly suggest learning how to draw as it will give you a great sense of accomplishment along with a great skill that you can use as a foundation to build and strengthen your color art work with. And once you learn how to interpret what you see into creating a drawing, you will be able to then use those skills as a jumping-off point to successfully create things from your imagination and make them believable. It opens up a whole new, exciting world of what you can pursue artistically and how well you can convey it to your audience.

Hi, I am not sure how much more I can do to show this more clearly, sorry. I went through it slowly, and repeated the process & made sure to show & say exactly what I was clicking on. I often see people demonstrate things on here & I have to stop every couple of seconds as they do not talk you through things so I do understand. I often hit the pause button, carry out the last action someone shows me on here & then hit play & then pause again. I will see if there is any way I can make my cursor larger or brighter for the next video though

@@AnimalArtbyLAW thank you for your reply. I understand completely.... just for future reference. Thanks again.

This is an old video. The programme has been updated since and a new video made. You need to select difference of gaussian legacy option at the bottom of the drop down menu now

I will answer you here as your email added that it was sad thing that I did not answer you yet. My out of office on my email has been on for the last few days as I have been away having surgery on my back. I shouldn't need to explain this here but as you could not wait for me to be recovered enough to be back online today, as explained in the out of office message, I am responding here. The only reason I am awake now is because I am in a lot of pain but your impatient message was the first thing I saw :( Please understand that I am just one person working very hard behind the scenes and I actually have about 900 messages, mails and comments to catch up with this week. As explained in the description of the video, this is an older version of GIMP and I did include a link to that version in there. As newer versions get released they change how you access different tools and I apologise but I simply do not have time to follow every update to make fresh videos. There are other versions and programmes that can be used, people here in the comments have shared which ones. The link to the older version is still going through so it is still available. The version you need is 2.8.22 and this is the one in this video from over 4 years ago

@@AnimalArtbyLAW My sincerest apologies, Lisa. I reacted hastily and out of frustration and, of course, I had no idea you had been laid up following back surgery. Please accept my apology...and thank you for letting me know.🤗 I hope you recover quickly!

@@AnimalArtbyLAW Hello Lisa. Following my last message of apology to you, I sent you an email saying the same thing, but it came back as undeliverable.

@@momasan2 Hi Sherry, thank you for this. I was in a lot of pain yesterday and yours was the first message I picked up. I appreciate you taking the time to apologise. I truly do. I just saw you write below about the email but I don't know why that would be. I can see other mails coming through today so maybe just a glitch. Hope you got sorted with the download of the right version of the GIMP programme too.

@@AnimalArtbyLAW Thank you, Lisa. I had to delete the version I downloaded, because it wasn't showing the correct pages (as yours). I'll try downloading the version you were using. And, I hope your back pain is less each day! Blessings! Sherry

I recorded an updated version. You basically choose legacy difference of gaussians in the newer versions of gimp but I did another video on here a while back

@@AnimalArtbyLAW I retract my previous statement. Thank you !! Do you have a video on how to actually do the line art itself ? I tried it and it looks like crap

@@ashleybowes5506 Lol, no worries! Re the line art, do you mean creating it or transferring it? Ice a few videos on here showing different ways to transfer it to your paper.

@@AnimalArtbyLAW I mean creating it, as in how you trace the line art what lines etc maybe I’m not explaining very well but a fresh trace on a detailed image ?