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jackI have been doing drawtober all month, trying to adapt to drawing on a computer instead of paper. It's been a strange journey, some things so much easier, some things a lot harder, but I really enjoyed some of my experiments.
Probably the most convenient place to see them is on facebook: Recent uploads and all my art. You should be able to see them without logging into facebook! If not, please comment and I'll have a fiddle. Or if anyone has a recommendation for a more reliable place to store images in albums, please suggest it.
I particularly liked the silhouetted dinosaur at sunset, the cow basking in a field of sunlight, the two superhero figures against dramatic color backdrops, the big wave, and the snowy foggy forest, and the swirly blue mist ghost.
There's some quite different techniques. The wave and forest were from Realistic Paint, a program that aims to simulate physical paints a lot more. The figures were made in Krita, a major open source digital paint program, drawing an outline (freehand or tracing a poser), using a tool to fill, and adding shades and highlights on a new layer which make it pop as a on-flat figure. The cow and dinosaur were made in Krita trying to emulate some of the techniques of realistic paint.
I found an old graphics tablet I never really used and it helped a lot with sketching well. The pressure sensitivity isn't working on this computer yet though, I don't know if that's worth debugging further.
Krita seems to asusme there's no point doing paint-y stuff unless you have a pressure sensitive graphics tablet, which makes sense, but seems strange. The colourful effects I made by using a combination of different brushes to put in colour and then smear it about to make texture, and I'm not sure if that's normal. I assume you CAN make a brush that does something similar to a paintbrush in Realistic Paint, but it doesn't seem to be the default and I'm not sure if I understand why.
But I have a cartoon-y style and paint-y style that both seem to produce results, so the month has been reasonably rewarding.
Probably the most convenient place to see them is on facebook: Recent uploads and all my art. You should be able to see them without logging into facebook! If not, please comment and I'll have a fiddle. Or if anyone has a recommendation for a more reliable place to store images in albums, please suggest it.
I particularly liked the silhouetted dinosaur at sunset, the cow basking in a field of sunlight, the two superhero figures against dramatic color backdrops, the big wave, and the snowy foggy forest, and the swirly blue mist ghost.
There's some quite different techniques. The wave and forest were from Realistic Paint, a program that aims to simulate physical paints a lot more. The figures were made in Krita, a major open source digital paint program, drawing an outline (freehand or tracing a poser), using a tool to fill, and adding shades and highlights on a new layer which make it pop as a on-flat figure. The cow and dinosaur were made in Krita trying to emulate some of the techniques of realistic paint.
I found an old graphics tablet I never really used and it helped a lot with sketching well. The pressure sensitivity isn't working on this computer yet though, I don't know if that's worth debugging further.
Krita seems to asusme there's no point doing paint-y stuff unless you have a pressure sensitive graphics tablet, which makes sense, but seems strange. The colourful effects I made by using a combination of different brushes to put in colour and then smear it about to make texture, and I'm not sure if that's normal. I assume you CAN make a brush that does something similar to a paintbrush in Realistic Paint, but it doesn't seem to be the default and I'm not sure if I understand why.
But I have a cartoon-y style and paint-y style that both seem to produce results, so the month has been reasonably rewarding.
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Date: 2020-10-25 10:43 pm (UTC)Right now, Facebook gives me a 'something went wrong' error (seriously!) so I can't comment further. I definitely find pressure sensitivity useful, but you might be able to map some of the sensitivity to speed instead, which gives you at least some control.
using a combination of different brushes to put in colour and then smear it about to make texture, and I'm not sure if that's normal
In both analogue and most digital apps, that's called 'a blender/blending brush' and yes, it's a normal workflow. Realistic Paint seems to be an outlier in calling everything 'brushes'.
It's taken me some time to get around that particular hangup - I like using 'brushes' much more than I like using 'blenders' but in the end, they're all computer tools with similar ways of working, so this is not a very useful approach.
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Date: 2020-10-26 08:48 pm (UTC)*sigh* FB is so tiresome. Try twitter: https://twitter.com/CartesianDaemon/media That's not as conveniently categorized but most of the images I posted this month were art posts :)
Thank you. Yeah, I was definitely thinking I could do something like that, I think that would work fairly well for me. The paint strokes in Realistic Paint were basically ok, even if I moved on to Krita to get more flexibility. But I expected some sort of "here's some basic brushes you should try if you're just starting out" before I went designing my own settings, and the lack of them seemed to suggest I was wandering off the main trail onto my own path, which has to happen at some point, but made me cautious in case I was making things harder for myself.
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Date: 2020-10-28 05:22 am (UTC)I have sort of been trying to do this for years but never fully made it from paper to computer. Could be fun to try again, but I just forget all my Photoshop and Illustrator skills (work pays for these), and then moving to something completely new seems even more of a pain.
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Date: 2020-10-28 08:21 pm (UTC)When I first started drawing much as an adult I thought it might be easier to draw on a computer with an undo but I actually didn't, I learned to just sketch with multiple sketch lines until I got it right like is traditional, and only now transferred the learning to some computer effects. Some of the skills are the same but some are very different! I haven't followed a lot of the pros and cons of different programs, but I think if you've used any package before, you've probably absorbed some basic principles which I muddled through not knowing what to google for until I figured it out :)
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Date: 2020-10-31 11:44 am (UTC)Re: #ImHelping
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