Comments on: COMPOUND SHAPE-Ta-Da! http://www.briandenham.com/compound-shape-ta-da/ Comic artist Brian Denham's art site Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://www.briandenham.com/compound-shape-ta-da/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Anonymous Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.briandenham.com/?p=9#comment-360 This is the one thing I've been struggling to get working from your tutorials. it says < Compound Path > in the layers palette, and all the path objects group together on that, so i assume it worked, but if I place an image below I see it through the "gutters" insted. Know what I'm doing wrong?<br/><br/>Dave<br/><br/>Ps I'm surprised you don't get more comments. Perhaps theres not enough people working this way yet. I only know 3 other digital artists. This is the one thing I’ve been struggling to get working from your tutorials. it says < Compound Path > in the layers palette, and all the path objects group together on that, so i assume it worked, but if I place an image below I see it through the “gutters” insted. Know what I’m doing wrong?

Dave

Ps I’m surprised you don’t get more comments. Perhaps theres not enough people working this way yet. I only know 3 other digital artists.

]]> By: Brian Denham http://www.briandenham.com/compound-shape-ta-da/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Brian Denham Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.briandenham.com/?p=9#comment-359 I used to draw exactly to the edge of my square frame until I started on Darkness last year and by accident I made a Compound Shape. My brain started ticking and I remembered seeing Sienkiewicz pages with White Tape over the gutters and Eureka! I had the idea to place the Compound Shape on top and draw under it.<br/><br/>It helped to that David Lapham wanted white gutters for the Darkness. Then I couldn't fake it and have black gutters hiding all of my overlapping artwork.<br/><br/>I was so glad to figure that out. It sure saves a lot of time by trying to draw exactly to the edge of panels. I used to draw exactly to the edge of my square frame until I started on Darkness last year and by accident I made a Compound Shape. My brain started ticking and I remembered seeing Sienkiewicz pages with White Tape over the gutters and Eureka! I had the idea to place the Compound Shape on top and draw under it.

It helped to that David Lapham wanted white gutters for the Darkness. Then I couldn’t fake it and have black gutters hiding all of my overlapping artwork.

I was so glad to figure that out. It sure saves a lot of time by trying to draw exactly to the edge of panels.

]]> By: Gary Mitchell http://www.briandenham.com/compound-shape-ta-da/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Gary Mitchell Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:07:00 +0000 http://www.briandenham.com/?p=9#comment-358 So that's how you do that! I've been trying to get my panels to act as cropping areas forever. Never even thought of making them holes in a compound layer. So that’s how you do that! I’ve been trying to get my panels to act as cropping areas forever. Never even thought of making them holes in a compound layer.

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