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Al! posted:trying some digital painting for a while helped me with my gifs It's cool how that all works - almost nothing you choose to learn about ends up being useless. Character Design References hold a themed character design contest every month. Somehow I ended up with some free time this weekend (thanks grandparents who babysit) so thought I'd try to do an entry for this one. The theme is Alebrije Creatures, so here's my two-headed fire-breathing bat-snake-alpaca linework.  Ya'll have been killing it this month. Ibblebibble, you may not be able to recognize it yet since you're just starting out on your drawing journey but you're improving with every drawing, keep drawing. Lofi, love the dragons. AI, that last gif is really cool.
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Shinmera posted:Super rough sketch tonight because Krita kept glitching out and I started too late anyway. thank you for mentioning Krita, i installed it tonight and did this after experimenting with some different brushes 
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Yay, I brought my sketchbook when taking the boys to swimming class. The perspective is completely screwed but still it makes me happy.
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Al! posted:thank you for mentioning Krita, i installed it tonight and did this after experimenting with some different brushes Krita is pretty fully featured, but it's also pretty buggy at times. Tonight I spent about for hours or so doing character designs on stream. And first I did some warmup sketches. Stream recording is here Shinmera fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Al! posted:im still figuring out this digital painting thing, could use some critique or suggestions Here's what your last 3 images look like with all the color taken out.    The first thing I notice with your paintings is that you don't have much contrast in values. Most of the pictures are sort of middle-dark gray, with very little in the way of very light light and very dark areas. This aesthetic mostly works in your animated pieces because you have movement to help guide the viewers' eyes around, but with still images I think you could use more value contrast to do the same thing. For example, in the pic of the heron in the cave, I think you should totally brighten the hole in the upper left - like, almost to blow-out levels of brightness - and then have a god ray coming from the hole diagonally onto the heron. This would also help give the heron a reason for being so light when it's in the middle of a dark cave; right now it stands out as not fitting into the environment. I think it would also help for you to think more about the light sources in your images. In the flying hawk, for example, you have this hawk flying through a cloudless sky in the middle of the day. The central mountain (which could also use some more value contrast, as sunny midday light is about as high-contrast as you can get in nature) shows that the sun is above and somewhere to our right - but the foreground cliffs look as if they're being lit from an overcast evening scene - the colors are dull and muddy. The hawk also doesn't have any indication that sunlight is hitting its back at all. If you're using Photoshop you can make a solid black layer at the top of your stack and set the blending mode to "color" to see what the image looks like in black and white without having to convert the image to grayscale and then back again, I do this to help make sure I'm picking colors that are actually lighter and darker than each other rather than ones that just appear to be.
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Shinmera posted:Streaming some art tonight. Will replace this post with the results once I'm done. I am there but chat is being stupid for me.
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gmc9987 posted:If you're using Photoshop you can make a solid black layer at the top of your stack and set the blending mode to "color" to see what the image looks like in black and white without having to convert the image to grayscale and then back again, I do this to help make sure I'm picking colors that are actually lighter and darker than each other rather than ones that just appear to be. Side note: there are a number of methods of turning an image into black and white in Photoshop, some of which are better at translating color values into shades of gray than others. I find that a Color layer/0 Saturation layer doesn't translate the values as well as I'd like. For me, the best way is to go to View -> Proof Setup -> Custom... then pick Gray Gamma 1.8/Perceptual, which yields a result much closer to what I get by squinting my eyes. I don't recall if this is a shortcut I set up myself, but I have it bound to Ctrl-Y now, which additionally is a lot easier than creating a new layer and then scrolling to it every time I want to toggle it. Argue fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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Haven't done daily drawings in far far too long. Anyways, here is a non daily drawing.
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Some good sketches though! I find that if nothing is coming to mind when drawing, it's best to just 100% throw yourself into self-indulgence. Draw hot guys, hot girls, giant robots, cool explosions, spaceships... whatever get the juices flowing.
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I admire your discipline to draw every day Heavy Liquid; are you spending a set amount of time on each sketch or does it vary? Also, is there any special reason for using a blue (pencil?) for your line work in some of your sketches ( if line work is even what it's called)?
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I got aseprite while it was on sale, it's pretty alright but has some real weird quirks and annoying things it changes to my normal shortcuts.
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