Old-school Tamiya

[BarleyBop]

Of course — do you know how large Illustrator files get if you apply blur effects?

Haha, when I was using Illustrator, there weren't even blur effects! And it came on floppy disks in a binder, in a box!
But at least you owned it, and they couldn't take it back!
And my MacII had an additional 1 Mb RAM upgrade which cost $1K CDN

 

[Jakko]

I only started using Macs in 2005, though with hindsight I kind of wish I had ten, fifteen years before … But I want to know the answer to my own question now And it's kind of interesting — I took a blank canvas with a simple diagonal line from bottom left to top right, then applied 25 px Gaussian blur, and then changed that to 50 px. The simple line is 337 KB already, and that's without colour profile embedded (it was 1.2 MB with …), the 25 px blur is 610 KB, but the 50 px blur is 513 KB. I had not expected the file size to go down with more blur.

And then I tried saving the 50 px version as SVG, and the file size is only 96 KB …

 

[Steve Ski]

Ruck On, Jakko, all is looking good. Yall are discussing the shadows and highlights from a distance, which will work just fine. If you ever plan to go deeper, as in getting a closer finish, try using oils, just for the heck of it. What you'll notice is there won't be any abrupt seperations between contrasts, it'll be much smoother. It's a personal choice we all make, but that sure made my brush work easier, the paint does the work.

Ruck On, Jakko!

 

[Jakko]

I have tried some oil paints long ago, but don't really like them. My problem, really, is twofold: One, I'm out of practice — twenty years ago, I could paint better than this. I've never been a good figure painter, but I could and did paint eyes in 1:35 scale. However, I hardly painted any 1:35 scale figures for 15 years or so. Second is that my hands shake a bit more than they did back then, which is why I don't try to paint things like eyes anymore

 

[Steve Ski]

I have tried some oil paints long ago, but don't really like them. My problem, really, is twofold: One, I'm out of practice — twenty years ago, I could paint better than this. I've never been a good figure painter, but I could and did paint eyes in 1:35 scale. However, I hardly painted any 1:35 scale figures for 15 years or so. Second is that my hands shake a bit more than they did back then, which is why I don't try to paint things like eyes anymore

No worries, that's not a deal breaker, Ruck Onward!