Now I really, really want to learn painting techniques
So there I was, thinking about what to sketch in-between studying kanji. Of course, there's the Ichihime doodle challenge and other fanart requests, and there was the ever-increasing backlog of original art I've always wanted to do and then, I remember, hey, didn't they have a doodling program for the DS?
So I laze around some DS forums until I come across a painting program called COLORS. I had downloaded Phidias before, but most of my efforts on it were subpar (and it took me a while to get going on it). Colors, however, was a relatively easy program to use and it felt like it was built for painting.
Heheh, a first attempt at colors.
And then I realize, painting's a whole different ballgame than B&W sketching
I tried to do some experimenting with colors and got a little confused on how to make skin tones. It took a couple of hours later before I realized I could mix colors at the edge of the screen and use it as a base, so this was looking a lot better by then.
The cool thing, though, is that the program records every brush stroke, so you can sit back and watch how it's made later. Then I come across the GALLERY, wherein I broke down and wept for the awesome people who were painting not only with their DS, but also with their iPhones and iPods and well:
http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/
and my first reaction was, Bitch, I gotta learn how to do that. Cue me drooling over the playbacks off some of the best pieces and straining my eyes to see how they pulled off some effects. *worships*
Sure, I've seen digital paintings before in DA, but I've always had the lame excuse of, "well, I don't own a tablet, so the best I can do is a paper-and-pencil equivalent." This time, however, I have something that everyone else also owns, and therefore, I no longer have an excuse for being mediocre. T__T Yes, I must improve. *shakes fist* (So far, what I'm learning is that painting inverts the drawing process a bit - you can paint using dark first and add light elements on top - the actual artists on my flist must be laughing at me, but this was a revelation I only understood now. Orz Everything about drawing I know was self-taught).
Ok, I'd better sleep.
So I laze around some DS forums until I come across a painting program called COLORS. I had downloaded Phidias before, but most of my efforts on it were subpar (and it took me a while to get going on it). Colors, however, was a relatively easy program to use and it felt like it was built for painting.
Heheh, a first attempt at colors.
And then I realize, painting's a whole different ballgame than B&W sketching
I tried to do some experimenting with colors and got a little confused on how to make skin tones. It took a couple of hours later before I realized I could mix colors at the edge of the screen and use it as a base, so this was looking a lot better by then.
The cool thing, though, is that the program records every brush stroke, so you can sit back and watch how it's made later. Then I come across the GALLERY, wherein I broke down and wept for the awesome people who were painting not only with their DS, but also with their iPhones and iPods and well:
http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/
and my first reaction was, Bitch, I gotta learn how to do that. Cue me drooling over the playbacks off some of the best pieces and straining my eyes to see how they pulled off some effects. *worships*
Sure, I've seen digital paintings before in DA, but I've always had the lame excuse of, "well, I don't own a tablet, so the best I can do is a paper-and-pencil equivalent." This time, however, I have something that everyone else also owns, and therefore, I no longer have an excuse for being mediocre. T__T Yes, I must improve. *shakes fist* (So far, what I'm learning is that painting inverts the drawing process a bit - you can paint using dark first and add light elements on top - the actual artists on my flist must be laughing at me, but this was a revelation I only understood now. Orz Everything about drawing I know was self-taught).
Ok, I'd better sleep.