A book full of ideas for your Wings of Fire fanfiction! Name ideas, characters, book covers, and more..!
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I've had a few people ask me how I make my hybrid bases, so here's a tutorial! Keep in mind that I'm not the best at this and there may actually be an easier way to do it that I'm not aware of...
Anyway, I use the app IbisPaint. Read my last part "Tutorial: Coloring Dragons and Transparent Bases" for more info on how to use the app.
First, you need to plan out the hybrid you're going to create. Will it be a SeaWing with SilkWing wings and horns? A NightWing with IceWing spikes? Download both (or all) of the bases that you're going to be using. If you're going to use the body parts of a certain dragon, create an artwork with that base. Just select "Import Picture" while starting the artwork and choose the base.
Crop out that part the best you can and erase every other part of the base. You can crop the picture by pressing the "Canvas" button then selecting "Trim." Make sure the image is transparent by choosing the Clear White option (explained how in the previous part) and save the image.
Basically what I'm saying is to isolate the part so you have a transparent image of only that. Like this SilkWing wing:
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Repeat this until you have all the parts you want — horns, spikes, wings, whatever.
Now onto making the actual hybrid. I start out with an HD Size Canvas, 2048x1536. This is one of the options on IbisPaint when you first select the button to start a drawing. I use a large canvas to make sure that I will have room to work, but I usually crop it smaller once I'm finished.
Add the base you'll be adding the parts to (not the one you took them from) to the canvas. To do this, go to the part where you view your layers and press the button that looks like a camera. After adding a picture you might get a pop up that asks "extract like drawing?" Just say cancel.
Don't resize the image, as it will make the lines a different size which will make it a pain to work with. If you're wondering, the bases I made were just created with the default brush.
After that, it's basically just adding the parts you edited off the other base before. If you're making a SeaWing with SilkWing wings, erase the SeaWing's wings and add the SilkWing wings the same way you added the base to the canvas earlier. It might take some adjusting and erasing and redrawing to make the part connect well to the base.
I basically just repeat that –erase part, add other part– until I'm finished.
Make sure you keep track of your layers! Each image will automatically become a new layer, but you can combine layers. Select one of the layers you want to combine and make sure the other layer is directly below it. Press the button that's an arrow pointing down at two lines, aka the Merge Layers button. It will combine the layer you've selected with the one below it.
I usually make small things like spikes all one layer and have a separate layer for the wings, the original base, etc. I don't make the whole thing one layer as I've found that this can complicate things, but feel free to do that if you wish.
To sum it up, it's basically:
• erase part of base you're going to replace • add part of other base you want to add • draw and erase some things to make them connect right • wash, rinse, repeat until finished
Anyway, that's about it. Sorry if I didn't explain it too well, feel free to ask questions if you need to!
