The technique of mouse painting in Flash

Tip: Look at the internet so many colorful flash, I believe many friends have the desire to make their own cartoons. But most of us have not studied painting, and there are always many ideas that can't be expressed with our own brushes. There are some friends, although a little painting skills, but suffer from no scanners, hand-painted boards and other professional tools, can not be handy. In fact, as long as you have a good mouse, using good flash with the painting tools, and carefully read this article, coupled with careful and patient, even if not trained in professional painting, you can also produce a very beautiful animated comic effect.

This article mainly describes how to use the mouse to draw a person's face, including shape shaping, eye painting, mouth shaping three parts, as for other graphics, you can provide in accordance with the ideas and methods to explore, the following we will first look at the first part.

　　Facial Shaping

The exquisite facial features of the characters will make the animated works much more attractive. Face shape to be from the front and side points from many angles, first of all we have to learn the basic positive shape (see Figure 1).

This is a face of the basic shape, is made entirely with the mouse Oh!

Let's take a look at its production process:

　　(1) To determine the basic shape

The basic shape can be determined using induction, that is, the shape of the face can be expressed in a basic figure, such as: triangles, circles, squares and so on. Below I use a triangle to determine the underlying shape of the face (Figure 2).

By drawing two lines and then adjusting their relative positions, you can create a triangle.

　(2) The cheek adjustment

After the basic shape is determined, you can make some minor adjustments, using the tool in the toolbox to pull the sides of the triangle out a little, some radian, so much like the human cheek (Figure 3), this step is to add the next node to prepare.

Use the arrow tool to pull the two straight lines out of radians.

　　(3) Adding nodes

Before we adjust the triangle, the amplitude of the adjustment is very large, not too good to grasp the details, so we have to add some nodes to the two edges, so that each side of the different sections of the fine tuning, to increase the node generally to note: the node should not be too much, evenly distributed (see Figure 4).

Front face of the node position: A pair of nodes is the position of the eye, the next node to determine the position of the chin, you can also according to their specific circumstances to adjust.

　　(4) Adjust face details

Adding a good node can be a small adjustment for each node, to achieve your desired effect position, the key is to be patient and careful (see Figure 5).

After the adjustment of the face

　　(5) Making overhead

After adjusting the shape of the face, it is necessary to add the top of the head, the general head of the basic shapes is round, so we have to press the SHIFT key to draw a positive circle, the circle to have adjusted the upper part of the face. Then simply remove the lower part of the circle, leaving only the top half, so that a basic shape is almost done (Figure 6).

Also use the Arrow tool to select the lower half of the Circle line, delete it, forming the head contour.

(6) Fine adjustment of Face

What we're doing here is just a rough adjustment, and we need to tweak it a little, so we can narrow the top of the head properly and try to fit the head to face ratio until you look satisfied (see Figure 7).

After adjusting the face shape, finally a bit of a person's appearance:).

　　(7) Add ear

The face of the shape has been basically completed, the following need to add some necessary parts! Ears are indispensable, first draw an ear, and then copy, and finally with the "Modify" menu under the reverse command to the copy of the ear longitudinal reversal. Add two ears to the proper position of the face and finish shaping the face (Figure 8)!

Add ears to your protagonist.

Ok! The face of the front has been portrayed, most of the time the light has a positive face is not enough, but also need to create a different position for the character shape, I probably summed up a bit (Figure 9)!

Attention to the auxiliary line of the face, in different directions, perspective is a change

Grasp the direction of the face is able to portray the character's expression of the key to accurate, I hope that we observe more, more practice, fully grasp the changing laws of the face.

At the beginning of this article we have said that the shape of the face can be used in peacetime induction, that is summed up this shape can be used in what basic graphics to constitute it? I have done four examples to help you analyze (Figure 10~13)!

Example one, the same graphic combination: With two ellipse combination, through some coloring technique can achieve the right effect, very magical!

Example two, different size of the graphic combination:

Example three, a variety of graphic combinations:

Example four, the deformation adjustment of a single figure:

Draw Eyes

After the last period of study you may have found that we do not really use the mouse to paint, exactly, should be using the mouse to adjust the desired shape. How, now feel the mouse in your hands to listen to some?

Here we will learn how to draw the character's eyes, OK, pick up your "rat", Let's "tune" it:!

First of all, in the heart to sum up the shape of the eyes of the outline, so that the heart to know how to tune the mouse as God. Regarding the specific adjustment method, we have already talked about in the last period, mainly is uses the pen tool to edit the node and the arrow tool to adjust the radian, this period's explanation does not repeat again, we will focus on how to show the eye characteristic.

The first step is to create eyebrows and upper sockets (Figure 1).

The basic shape can be drawn by a curve of several radians.

The second step is to add eyeballs. Because the human eye is basically a circle from the front, so let's draw a circle and don't forget to hold down the SHIFT key while you're drawing (see Figure 2).

Normal people's eyeballs are usually not completely exposed, so we have to put the eyeball position slightly up to a point.

The third step is to remove the extra part of the eyeball and draw the contour of the Whites (Figure 3).

The contour line here is to fill the whites when convenient, the future contour is to be deleted.

The fourth step is to fill the color. Colors can be chosen according to their preferences, of course, the more beautiful the better (as shown in Figure 4).

Here we select the dark blue for the keynote of the spherical gradient fill.

The fifth step is to use a linear gradient fill effect to make the whites (Figure 5).

If you are satisfied with the eye effect you have made, this step can also be omitted.

The sixth step, for the eyeball to add reflective, so you can appear "lingling Big Eyes" effect, and then do a little modification, you can add a pupil to the eye. Just add a small black dot to the center of the eye (Figure 6)

Here we add some eyelashes to our eyes to make our eyes look more vivid.

The eyes are not moving, if you want to make the characters in the animation of the eyes more God, can express the small dots of high light to make the film components (Movie Clip), copied a small difference of three (I used to point three high light, because the general Japanese CG in the modelling are so, oh, just to absorb, is not advocating oh. In different layers, make some motion animations of the size change, so that the eyes will be crystal dynamic (see Figure 7).

Highlights are key to controlling the gaze direction of the eye, adjusting the size and position of the three highlight points.

　　The shaping of the mouth

In the comics, the mouth is relatively good performance of the site, sometimes only need a straight line can be displayed. But if it is a more realistic mouth, it will be more trouble. Make the mouth is mainly to pen tools, by adding and adjusting the node to form the mouth shape, below I provide you with the mouth of the production process legend, as for the specific production process here is not much to say: (See figure 8~ Figure 11)

Finally, let's take a look at the node distribution on the mouth after the painting (Figure 12) to see how important the node is when adjusting the shape of the line.