Scribbling-related mutterings

[lizbee]

1.  It would be a really bad idea to embark on a Draw Every Companion project, wouldn't it?

2.  Drawing in Photoshop is hard.  The brushes aren't quite right for it.  Or, more likely, I'm not very good and need practice, but still, I'm having brush issues.





Donna's harder to draw than Rose, Martha or even Romana II, because unlike those women, Catherine Tate actually looks like a person, not an anime drawing come to life.  How dare she!

Also, my shading is kind of lol.  PRACTICE PLS.

Comments

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

Are you using a Wacom tablet? Drawing in Photoshop with a mouse never worked out for me. Like drawing with a bar of soap. At least it never got me to where I saw other artist who said they used Photoshop were. Because they were using a Wacom tablet. After I found that I didn't feel so bad. And bought one.

Before I had Wacom I'd typically draw something by hand, scan it in, do this thing where you can isolate the pencil or ink lines into their own layer (leaving the white as a transparency) and use Photoshop only for coloring on layers I'd create below the line art. With a tablet I draw the lines on its own layer directly and then color in under layers. Just skips a step really. I can't find the tutorial I used to learn that Wacom-less method, but this one seems like it is about the same:

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/html/channels2.html

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

See, here's the extremely tragic fact: I was using a Wacom tablet when I did that.

I think I just need practice. Practice and smaller brushes. And I'm going to keep saying that until I suck less.

[nopejr.livejournal.com]

It would be a really bad idea to embark on a Draw Every Companion project, wouldn't it?

If by 'bad' you mean 'awesome', yes.

[lovesafable.livejournal.com]

If drawing in photoshop, try not to make your brush strokes so thick.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a good point. Practice, practice, practice. Thank you!

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! Yeah, Photoshop is geared mainly towards making effects on regular pictures, I think.

cool

[hermitsrme.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha

I like it

great stuff

cheers

[taimdala.livejournal.com]

WACOM, WACOM, WACOM all the way.

If you can get one, do. The smallest one I've seen is the lovely one my husband surprised me with last May on Mother's Day. Its sensor pad is 4" x 6" and its corners match the corners on your computer screen, so really, unless you're doing really really large and complicated stuff, bigger isn't necessarily better.

To give you an idea how wedded I am to the thing: whenever I take my laptop out of the house, the WACOM comes with. At 4x6 (plus the tablet frame the pad is sunk into), it's pretty portable.

In my pre-WACOM days, I did some pretty passable ooloring with a mouse in Paint Shop Pro and PS, but to actually draw...I'd do it on paper and then scan. Heck, I still do.

Sooner or later I'll master the bezier curves and all the rest of it, but til then, I'm perfectly content with scanning my graphites and then coloring them in.

(And no, I don't work for WACOM, though I recc them from the rooftops for absolutely free.)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Tragic fact: I did that picture with a Wacom tablet. But I've only ever used it for colouring; I'm just now beginning to use it for freehand drawing. Practice is required!

[taimdala.livejournal.com]

You betcha. My drawing with the brush tool is pretty sucktastic and at this point in my learning curve, it's just way easier to draw on paper and then scan it in.

Kinda like the Dark Side of the Force, that way...

[infiniteviking]

1. Believe me, I've considered it. ^_^;

2. You know, I like her expression. Do you have one of those cool pressure-sensitive tablets? They can be tough to get used to, but they're great fun. XD

[hyel.livejournal.com]

I hear you, re Photoshop drawing.

Somebody did draw all the companions, it was a big favourite on DA recently.