I use GIMP for art and stuff, but the lines just keep being pixelized and stuff. I want to do those smooth lines I see on those Sonic fanart.

Please do not tell me to use Paint Art SAI.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by “smooth.” If you mean “smooth” as in “no sharp corners,” try playing around with the “smooth stroke” settings under the tool options. If you mean “anti-aliased,” I'm not entirely sure what the problem might be - but I couldn't get GIMP to draw anti-aliased until I learned that I needed to stop using the Pencil tool, which does not do anti-aliasing.

In my experience, though, GIMP isn't very great for art - I would recommend using Krita.

TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by “smooth.” If you mean “smooth” as in “no sharp corners,” try playing around with the “smooth stroke” settings under the tool options. If you mean “anti-aliased,” I'm not entirely sure what the problem might be - but I couldn't get GIMP to draw anti-aliased until I learned that I needed to stop using the Pencil tool, which does not do anti-aliasing.

In my experience, though, GIMP isn't very great for art - I would recommend using Krita.

Thanks.

Personally, I haven't used GIMP very much, but when I was using GIMP, I used this tutorial. (It may have been another tutorial.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJdIuUG3ec


Just use Firealpaca!

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

Personally, I haven't used GIMP very much, but when I was using GIMP, I used this tutorial. (It may have been another tutorial.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJdIuUG3ec


Just use Firealpaca!

I used that tutorial too.

PrincessPandaLover wrote:

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

Personally, I haven't used GIMP very much, but when I was using GIMP, I used this tutorial. (It may have been another tutorial.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJdIuUG3ec


Just use Firealpaca!

I used that tutorial too.

Oh.. Then just use Firealpaca.

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

PrincessPandaLover wrote:

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

Personally, I haven't used GIMP very much, but when I was using GIMP, I used this tutorial. (It may have been another tutorial.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJdIuUG3ec


Just use Firealpaca!

I used that tutorial too.

Oh.. Then just use Firealpaca.

Please don't report me guys for the gibberish filename this image received from cubeupload. It wasn't intentional.

Better be using GIMP, I'm so used to it.

It's probably because Gimp is a bitmap drawing program.

Make pictures with a higher resolution, or use a vector graphics program like Inkscape

You mean when you fill the lines in there's those weird little white pixels?

scratchisthebest wrote:

It's probably because Gimp is a bitmap drawing program.

Make pictures with a higher resolution, or use a vector graphics program like Inkscape

Nah, vector is not my thing.

Tymewalk wrote:

You mean when you fill the lines in there's those weird little white pixels?

No.

PrincessPandaLover wrote:

Tymewalk wrote:

You mean when you fill the lines in there's those weird little white pixels?

No.

Then I'm not really sure what you mean by “smooth lines”. You already seem to be using the paintbrush tool.