American Dragon + Walkthrough on GIMP

Ok Here is how i did American Dragon, Bryan Danielson

First, I chose the color of his trunks, which is kinda burgundyish, and did the tights.

Second, I colored the Kneepads Burgundy using the soft light brush.

Third, Since I used a Gene Snitsky, I had to smudge the Laces off the boots.

After that, I smudged the boot Line to make it look like the socks were apart of the boots.

Then after i did the smudging, I colored the boots/Socks Burgundy.

Then I noticed, he needs his Kicker Outlines! So I hit Soft light brush, and clicked black. I made the outlines straight (sorta) by clicking the mouse once to make the starting point, pressed shift, and clicked where i wanted the straight line to end. To make straight lines, hold the shift key.

After that, I colored the Wrist bands a couple shades of white (2 or 3 i think)

Now, I was ready for the head! I erased the head by using the eraser tool in Gimp.

Then, I went to look for Ref pics. I chose this one:



I opened up Paint (OmG) and Resized the pic to almost where is was mostly the head. I saved it, and clicked back into Gimp.

After that, I opened it as a layer, and erased the remnants of the background. I placed it on the head, and clicked merge down.

After that, I smudged/blur the head to make it look more plasticy.

Finally, I finished and saved it.

Upload it to PhotoBucket and there you go!

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Place to get crisp high resolution figure images: figure*images.co.uk (remove the star)

Figure used - Gene Snitsky DA 11

Brushes used - Soft Light (Good for darker colors) and Color (Good for light colors)

Gimp version used - Gimp 2.6

Tips - Use the soft light brush for Black and Whites, as they wont turn gray like if you use Color.


I think your supposed to use saturation on the head, which I forgot to do. Not sure on that. Sorry.

Have fun making PS figs in GIMP!

EDIT: Dont use Saturation. Use Hue.

And sorry about the skintones not matching, couldnt get them to match.