Freckles?

Rusty Knight · Post by **Rusty Knight** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:45 am

Anyone got a good way at putting in freckles?

Lady Yate-xel · Post by **Lady Yate-xel** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:28 pm

That would depend on what you're working with, I'd imagine.

I find a low opacity brush in a reddish brown in Photoshop gets the job done.

Colored pencil on just about any traditional medium too. With a certain bit of transparency to them, they look like freckles and not the plague.

If I'm just using ink, I find the tiniest point possible and make a few dots, really. My main lady at the moment has freckles, and I've colored her all sorts of ways by now.

I'm never too worried about making sure it's always the same ones in the same spots, and I don't think anyone's readership is going to be that anal either. (I've got a cheetah skinned woman coming up who will be subject to the same principal.)

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:03 am

I've seen a few artists draw tiny circles, but that really works best with black & white.

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:56 pm

It depends on your style. Generally, if you're using full color, I would suggest just color dots, no outline. The color should use hues present in the rest of the skin pigment, just darker and redder.

When PVP began, the character Francis had freckles/zits defined by little circles. This apparently confused a lot of people and just didn't look very good. It was quickly replaced with smaller, more subtle dots.

Conversely, a Wapsi Square characterhas had freckles defined in black dots/circles for a long time. The comic is usually in black and white, so this doesn't look strange.

Play around, see what works with your own style.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:04 pm

I usually mess with the scatter brush options and set a lower opacity with my brushes in photoshop and set a size jitter. using a round brush of course. example here http://pinup.comicgenesis.com/d/20070406.html

I recomend if you're working in color to find a nice way to do color freckles and not use black dots because then you run intothis problem I love this comic but whenever a character with freckles is present it bugs me to no end. Though I never seem to tell the artist about it >_>;;; but then it's not really my place

Lady Yate-xel · Post by **Lady Yate-xel** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:38 pm

mvmarcz wrote: I recomend if you're working in color to find a nice way to do color freckles and not use black dots because then you run intothis problem I love this comic but whenever a character with freckles is present it bugs me to no end. Though I never seem to tell the artist about it >_>;;; but then it's not really my place

Wow, that is really jarring, you're right. Like fleas or something.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:32 pm

If you're coloring the page anyway, select the freckles and colorize them.

I don't know what the term is in Photoshop, but you should be able to simply select the area around the freckles and then deselect the white (if there is any) between the freckles so you only have the black selected. Then just make the freckles pink. In GIMP it's Layers -> Colors -> Colorize. Turn up the lightness and set the hue to something pinkish.

If GIMP can do it, you know Photoshop did it first.

Wyldcherry · Post by **Wyldcherry** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:51 pm

Archie

Penny and Aggie

But best bet is to check out photos on deviant art for reference:
http://perry.deviantart.com/art/Alisons-Freckles-769028
http://never-mind.deviantart.com/art/freckles-39628742

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:06 am

This is how I do it

http://yeahduff.comicgen.com/comics/20070615c.gif

(Mary created by Yeaduff)

I advise you to do what you think will look better and you'll like the most.