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Sociopastry posted:I really like your painting style. Are you just over painting or what is it you're doing?  For things like this one, where I'm using a lot of different references (I have different references for hands and even individual fingers, leg position, boots, pants, different parts of the jacket, multiple for the shark head, etc.) I do a pretty detailed sketch so that I can fiddle around and make sure everything fits together in the right way. In this case, I 1. lay out the sketch in a layer over a gray background layer, then 2. go underneath that to put in flat colors, then 3. add a little bit of value detail, then 4. merge those layers to start painting, and then 5. color. I refine things all throughout as I go along. This is pretty much the same thing I do when painting in traditional media (oils especially) I don't do much with fancy brushes—I just use a brush with one hard edge and one soft edge set to pen pressure opacity and oriented based on stroke direction, and at the biggest brush size that's practical for whatever I'm working on.  If I'm drawing something pretty much directly from one reference, I usually just go straight into (black and white then color, or directly into color) painting. If I'm drawing something mainly from imagination, like the picture I posted earlier with the axe lady, I tend to do a really quick rough sketch and spend most of the time just painting: 
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nope, that answers it! I thought it looked similar to oil painting so I'm glad to see I was halfway right. I'm still trying to find my style of shading digitally. I have two modes, it seems like, where I either do hyper-saturated things like the first Gunslinger drawing or stuff like:   which were done for shirts and are way less saturated then the stuff I tend to do for commission.
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Sociopastry posted:I'm still trying to find my style of shading digitally. I have two modes, it seems like, where I either do hyper-saturated things like the first Gunslinger drawing or stuff like:
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Thanks. Bonehilda's her own woman.
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Anyone here use the Surface Pro 4 for drawing? I'm thinking about picking one up. Nevermind I heard it was bad. cmykJester fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 17, 2017 |
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ohigami oh my posted:Anyone here use the Surface Pro 4 for drawing? I'm thinking about picking one up.
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Mostly that the pen for it is garbage and that it lacks the GPU power needed for photoshop.
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if we're talking about tablets, I really like my UGEE M708. I got it to replace my 15 year old bamboo tablet and I'm in love with it.
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ohigami oh my posted:Mostly that the pen for it is garbage and that it lacks the GPU power needed for photoshop. Sociopastry posted:if we're talking about tablets, I really like my UGEE M708. I got it to replace my 15 year old bamboo tablet and I'm in love with it.
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Drivers are available for windows 7-10, Mac, and I'm not sure about Linux. Works well in photoshop and the pen pressure is really good, and the buttons are customizable, which I like. Downsides: not compatible with the current release of Krita, which hurts me to my bones, and the tablet size I got can be a little cramped if you have a dual-monitor display like I do. That said, I still really like it a lot. Also comes with a really nice pen stand that has replacement nibs in there, which I thought was neat.
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Huh. Never even heard of Krita. How does it compare, performance-and-feature-wise, to other programs?
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I loving loved it. It's basically a less-performance heavy version of Photoshop, with a lot of customizable things. It's also free, which was a huge bonus to poor-as-gently caress me. https://krita.org/en/ here's the website. I honestly loving adored it, but like I said, the UGEE M708 isn't compatible with the current iteration of it. It's being updated fairly often tho, so hopefully that will change.
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Whoa. I'll have to give that a try. Thanks!
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yeah, no worries! It's legitimately my favorite art program and I'm waiting eagerly for the day that my tablet is supported again.
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Off topic but wow—this thread is way different now that the middle aged asian man that likes to cream his pajama pants while looking at pictures of Something Awful Forums moderators ate a 30 day and the RoboLabia guy is back on hiatus.
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I wouldn't say "ruin." Those moments are definitely entertaining.
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I recently got a Huion 1060 plus and it's so good I wanna marry it. It was affordable at around 100bux with shipping, and has a big nice draw area. I can now do linework without the stabilizer 'cause there's hardly any wonk to the lines. There's 12 customizable buttons and the pen's light and feels good in my hand.
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I don't much care for anxiety dreams in general, but they can make for some interesting drawings.
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 I'm honestly still in the process of learning/playing catch up & lately I've been doing fan art for practice when I can't think of anything else to do. Any advice would be welcome.
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Nijinsky Hind posted:
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a hole-y ghost posted:My general advice for trying to learn and play catch up is to figure out what you're really bad at in drawing and make yourself draw things with that in it. I meant like advice on the pic I posted but that's good advice too
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Well, it depends on what you want to improve on, really. Any art you really like the style of and want to learn, or anything about how you draw that you're trying to figure out how to push further?
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His pose is pretty stiff and not action filled, when you draw a character try to reduce the number of lines that go straight up and down to as small of a number as you can without looking ridiculous
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Was working more on the one I just posted and accidentally shifted a layer, but I thought it looked pretty cool  just wanted to share this little moment with youse
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that looks super cool like that, actually.
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Sociopastry posted:that looks super cool like that, actually. +1 I like it shifted!
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Nijinsky Hind posted:
You might wanna work on connecting your lines - you're leaving forms open when defining edges don't quite meet, which gives the pic a bit of a hazy, airy feel. That's fine for stuff like hair and feathers and as a stylistic choice for background or undefined stuff, but I think here you'd want a more solid feel. For example, the corner of the cape, point of the boot and just under the elbow are wide open with only the colour connecting them. Also try to pull your lines in one quick swoop, so you don't end up with mid-point flyaway ends, like on the cheek. Control-z is your friend here, just pull a quick line and if it doesn't work out, ctrl-z and repeat until you got what you want. Since there's no variance in line width, I take it you're not working with a tablet? Sociopastry posted:yeah, no worries! It's legitimately my favorite art program and I'm waiting eagerly for the day that my tablet is supported again. I know this was a while back, but check out Artweaver, it's another free art program and my absolute favourite, and maybe there's a chance your tablet would work with it? Sharpest Crayon fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 19, 2017 |
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Cool, I love hearing about good programs—didn't know about Artweaver either! Anyone else super bummed that a lot of the images in the good art goon thread are turning into dead links?  That thread is gospel to me
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a look-see
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RIP to the highest quality art thread on the forums
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Well it's a lot busier now we're all just talking about poo poo  Does anyone have any tips for representing stubbly/shaved hair? Do you think this works?
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deathbot posted:Well it's a lot busier now we're all just talking about poo poo Another thing to keep in mind, however you end up drawing it: stubble tends to look denser towards the edges of the head, because you see more of it overlapping with itself:  I've exaggerated here for effect but hopefully this gives an idea. a hole-y ghost fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 20, 2017 |
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Drawing update: think I'm done with this one.
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deathbot posted:Well it's a lot busier now we're all just talking about poo poo Ghost already pointed out following the shape of the head, but I'd like to add that here you should also pull back on the hairline. For very short, almost bald head you might only want to put down a couple of dots or very short lines here and there to represent stubble. For longer stubble it's ok to do short lines to define the hairline, and a sort of a "fuzzy" uneven outline at the top. I put together some ways I've done short hair, if it helps: 
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Sharpest Crayon posted:You might wanna work on connecting your lines - you're leaving forms open when defining edges don't quite meet, which gives the pic a bit of a hazy, airy feel. That's fine for stuff like hair and feathers and as a stylistic choice for background or undefined stuff, but I think here you'd want a more solid feel. For example, the corner of the cape, point of the boot and just under the elbow are wide open with only the colour connecting them. I actually was working with a tablet  . I was using the linework pen tool in Paint Tool SAI set to a small size. I realize I should've used some line width variance but that's honestly not my strong suit
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Revisiting an old project and trying to learn Marvelous Designer for the jacket. So far it is very difficult to get the results I want. Leather jacket ended up looking more like the puffy pirate shirt from Seinfeld. Ugh. Concept here.  Quick stab at adding the monowheel. 
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A++++ Motorcycle Monkey
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