Hello everyone! It’s Delphine here, and today I would like to explain how I build a scene “inside the box”! So I am going to show you how I pick and choose my images and bring them together. I merge all my images using Word.
Step 1: I always start by choosing the character I feel like colouring, Gumnut Curly Top for today’s scene.
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Step 2: I choose a background that suits the image – The Beach.
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Step 3: I then crop my background image and make a close-up so as to fill in most of the space behind my character. Here they are merged:
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Step 4: I like to “frame” my character so I am going to add images on the sides. Obviously here we need palm trees, so I am using the Palm Trees digi stamp…
… which I crop and merge with my scene to get the following image:
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Step 5: Now, I need something on the left to completely frame my character. Another tree trunk would be perfect, I am going to use Island Hammock:
The tree trunk I am interested in is the one on the left, again I crop the image, but this time I also flip it over to the other side to get a mirrored image (trunk on the left, foliage on the right) and I then rotate my image by 3% to get it straight. Here is the result:
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Step 6: To finish the “framing”, we need to fill the corners at the top too, I would like more leaves on the top left, so I am going to use another part of the Island Hammock image with leaves, the upper part of one of the trees. Here is the result…
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Step 7: Have fun colouring:-)… Here is my coloured scene and the list of Copics I used…
Character: E0000, 000, 00, 11 (Skin)/ E31, 33, 35, 37, Y11 (Hair)/ Y11, 15, YR12, 15, 18 (Outfit)/ E71, 74, 77, YG25, 67 (Gumnut)
Sky: BG0000, 000
Sand: E40, 41, 51, 53, 55, 84
Sea: B14, BG01, 10, 11, 13, 15, 72, 75
Trees: E81, W3, 5, 7 (trunks)/ BG99, G28, 82, 85 (leaves)/ E71, 74, 77, 79 (coconuts)
Rock and Leaves on the ground: W1, 3, 5, 7, YG03, 13, 17, 67
The word Sunshine comes from a Paper Makeup sentiment stamp.
And here is my card…
Hints and Tips:
- To build your scene, you can think: character – background – sides for framing
- You can use only parts of your digi images, you don’t have to keep the whole images. Crop, resize, rotate… There are lots of possibilities!
- To crop your images, you can either crop and add to your scene OR add then crop. If I know I want to keep most of the image, I first add it to the scene, then crop. If I only want to use a small part of the image, I crop my image, add it to the scene then make adjustments.
- You can use the coloured samples from the store for inspiration, I did for my character:-)
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Oh boy I definitely need to book mark this one as well as learn to merge in Word, I currently use PE10.
Awesome creation as always Delphine.
Hugs
Jane
Delphine – you did fantastic on this tutorial! I am sure it will be very inspiring to many!
xxoo
This is amazing…thanks for sharing.
WOWsers Delphine – LOVE the end product – and great tips for using “parts” of images
xXx
awesome, Delphine, thank you!
hugs, Alina
Oh wow! That’s fabulous, I just LOVE how you pulled them all together. Thanks for sharing
Delphine thank you so much for the tutorial wonderful!.
Wow Delphine! This is fantastic! Great tutorial and I adore your coloring! I really love how you colored her hair. Fabulous.
Hugs,
Julie
OH Delphine you are amasing my friend!!!! BRILLIANT BRILLIANT ,Love your take,WOW!
Wow, how clever you are with merging images. It’s something I really want to get into….if I only had a functioning brain lol. Hugs lin
This is gorgeous and framing her really makes a beautiful scene! Love it! *Hugs
yay! excactly what i needed, cause i still cant do this. Know i have to try and i so badly have wanted to learn how to do this, so thank you so much Delphine!:) Off to try to make a little scene. Wisch me luck!
Great tutorial Delphine, you have shown everyone that you don’t always need to use the whole digi image, just part of it creates a whole new look and makes them more versatile.
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This is an awesome tutorial Delphine! You are really talented at creating these scenes…heaps of great tips and I will really take them on board!
Fantastic tutorial Delphine, I definitely need to start thinking about how to build up scenes like this, it’s really fab x
What a super tutorial and a fantastic card! NancyD