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[Dragonborne Fox]

I'm not super skilled with Paint Tool Sai yet, but people do in fact request me to do coverart. I think I'll take the offer.

[ssokolow]

Since your post title seems to imply that you see GIMP as a vector art program, here's some stuff for future reference:

1. GIMP is a raster program, not a vector program. (It thinks in grids of pixels rather than piles of lines and shapes)

The simplest way to think of it is that raster images (eg. from GIMP) get blurry or jaggy if scaled up while vector images don't.

2. GIMP is specialized for photo retouching. The equivalent tools specialized for digital painting would be Krita or MyPaint.

(GIMP is even less suited to digital painting than Adobe Photoshop. Krita and MyPaint are designed to compete with tools like Corel Painter and Paint Tool SAI, which are specifically designed for digital painting.)

3. An example of a free vector program would be Inkscape, which competes with things like Adobe Illustrator.

...oh, and sorry for not getting back to you Re: My Little Changeling. My schedule completely fell apart (again *eyeroll*) and I'm still trying to catch things back up.

[tiwake]

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You can technically vector with gimp. Not that it should be done... ever... but it is possible. Krita is kind of badass... I love it (just saying). Krita use to be linux only, looks like that changed recently. Most of my arting is done in inkscape, vectors are so much fun.

http://tiwake.deviantart.com/art/Chrysalis-sad-324837922

[ssokolow]

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GIMP has a vector tool, but I don't consider it "vectoring" unless the program can export in a vector format like SVG. (Which GIMP 2.8.10 apparently can't do)

I definitely agree that Krita is awesome though. I'm more a programmer than an artist of any kind (something I'll get around to changing someday) but my brother loves it for his digital painting.

I'll probably work in Inkscape too when I learn to draw, but, given my previous attempts, my work flow will probably be:
1. Open up GIMP on left monitor
2. Open up reference materials on right monitor
3. Take graphics tablet in left hand and Ctrl+Z in right
4. Sketch (estimated ratio: 10 Ctrl+Z presses per retained stroke)
5. Export to PNG
6. Replace GIMP with Inkscape
7. Import PNG as background layer
8. Ink and color
9. Save as SVG. Done.

As for your art, not my preferred shading style, but it's good. (Something about the shading makes her body and limbs look a little too much like cheap, plastic 3D rendering for me.)

[tiwake]

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Enh... my chrysalis is nice because its a fully shaded vector... its kind of difficult to find "properly" shaded vectors like that. I too would consider myself more of a programmer than an artist, though I really dont want to change that either :P On the otherhand I deal with vectors almost every day at work with CAD software that I use for making parts and programs for the CNC lathes/mills. "Arting" in inkscape just feels more natural to me than more traditional things for this reason.

I should stop trolling old comments late at night

[ssokolow]

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True. Somehow, that other vector you linked feels different though. I'm not sure why, but my brain looks at your Chrysalis and says "That might have been generated by a 3D modelling tool and a lighting algorithm" while not doing so for the Fluttershy and RD one.

(My best guess is that your perspective+shading combination is just a touch too close to mechanical perfect while the Fluttershy+RD one still has a certain flatness to it despite the shading.)

Either way, you're still more of a graphic artist in your day-to-day activities than I am. The closest I get is tuning the aesthetics on widget-based UIs.