Whoops! Thursday has been fixed. If you go back, you’ll see the strip that was intended to be there.
April likes Joel. He’s gives her something to play with.
Using a #13 Photoshop brush in this one. Still playing with various settings, trying to get something that looks nice. The line work is kinda wobbly – hopefully I’ll get better with it.
I still feel like the heavier lines give your characters a stronger presence, or at least makes them seem more vibrant. As for wobbly line work, it looks confident to me. (But heck, I’m no artist, so I’m certainly not the best judge!)
The trouble with thick lines is they make it difficult to draw details, and you get a lot of those in panels that have backgrounds. It does make it easier to play with line weight, though.
The table is both good and bad. Being able to look at your hand when you draw is a huge benefit. When you’re drawing with an Intuos, it’s easy to have strokes shoot off at odd angles. On the other hand, the screen is 1/3 the size and the pen is much poorer quality. The colors are also really desaturated, so you overcompensate – which makes them really garish when you look at them on a regular monitor.
I suppose neither is really a great tool, which is why I keep jumping back and forth. Right now, I’m thinking the tablet is better, but I may change my mind again. Then again, skill is likely my biggest limiting factor over all.
I did figure out some new brush settings this week that should make it easier for me to draw the sketch. We’ll see if that makes a positive impact starting on the 24th.
OH, I had thought you were going between tablet PC and scanning. Could the difficulty you occasionally have with the Intuos just be that you haven’t fully adapted to using it and not looking at your hand? I’m under the impression that Wacom tablets are the tool for digital art, so it certainly wouldn’t hurt to use the best tools available. Hell, they may be crazy expensive, but would a Cintiq solve your tablet PC woes? 😕
Just don’t sweat your skill too much. You’re your own worst critic. 🙂
I’ve tried a scanner, tablet PC with pen, and Intuos 3. I know a lot of artists use an Intuos, and I have had some success with it, but I find the tablet PC with the visual feedback easier to use. I’ve only done about four strips with pencil and ink – they’re the ones where the panel borders aren’t straight.
I bought a Cintiq more than five years ago, but it didn’t work Windows XP or later. Still kinda mad about that, since it was really expensive. I’d like to buy a new Cintiq, but $1000 – $2000 is out of my price range right now.
April enjoys that rumor a little too much. 😛
Did you use a thicker line for this page, or is it just me?
(Also, did the page for Wednesday get reposted as the page for Thursday?)
Whoops! Thursday has been fixed. If you go back, you’ll see the strip that was intended to be there.
April likes Joel. He’s gives her something to play with.
Using a #13 Photoshop brush in this one. Still playing with various settings, trying to get something that looks nice. The line work is kinda wobbly – hopefully I’ll get better with it.
I still feel like the heavier lines give your characters a stronger presence, or at least makes them seem more vibrant. As for wobbly line work, it looks confident to me. (But heck, I’m no artist, so I’m certainly not the best judge!)
How’s it been switching back to the tablet?
The trouble with thick lines is they make it difficult to draw details, and you get a lot of those in panels that have backgrounds. It does make it easier to play with line weight, though.
The table is both good and bad. Being able to look at your hand when you draw is a huge benefit. When you’re drawing with an Intuos, it’s easy to have strokes shoot off at odd angles. On the other hand, the screen is 1/3 the size and the pen is much poorer quality. The colors are also really desaturated, so you overcompensate – which makes them really garish when you look at them on a regular monitor.
I suppose neither is really a great tool, which is why I keep jumping back and forth. Right now, I’m thinking the tablet is better, but I may change my mind again. Then again, skill is likely my biggest limiting factor over all.
I did figure out some new brush settings this week that should make it easier for me to draw the sketch. We’ll see if that makes a positive impact starting on the 24th.
OH, I had thought you were going between tablet PC and scanning. Could the difficulty you occasionally have with the Intuos just be that you haven’t fully adapted to using it and not looking at your hand? I’m under the impression that Wacom tablets are the tool for digital art, so it certainly wouldn’t hurt to use the best tools available. Hell, they may be crazy expensive, but would a Cintiq solve your tablet PC woes? 😕
Just don’t sweat your skill too much. You’re your own worst critic. 🙂
I’ve tried a scanner, tablet PC with pen, and Intuos 3. I know a lot of artists use an Intuos, and I have had some success with it, but I find the tablet PC with the visual feedback easier to use. I’ve only done about four strips with pencil and ink – they’re the ones where the panel borders aren’t straight.
I bought a Cintiq more than five years ago, but it didn’t work Windows XP or later. Still kinda mad about that, since it was really expensive. I’d like to buy a new Cintiq, but $1000 – $2000 is out of my price range right now.