I come bearing gifts!

[potassiumer]

 So, yeah, I stopped posting because no one actually comes, right? *echoing silence*  Right.  But I reasoned, this will take like fifteen minutes, and if I don't post, people will continue not to come.  It's like in that one movie with the baseball feild: "If you build it, they will come."  Hopefully any watchers I garner won't appear and disappear

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[potassiumer]

Haha, I didn't notice.

I'm on Deviantart, but I don't have that many digital paintings, so not a lot of watchers.

Yes, I paint in Photoshop CS2, using my Wacom Graphire 4 tablet, on a Mac. (Macs FTW!) I use more layers than you can shake a stick at, and generally mess up and paint on a layer I wasn't supposed to, leaving me to improvise on how to fix it. :P The resolution is generally the default 8X10 in. canvas at 300 px per in. I'll then crop it to the needs of the particular piece I'm working on (after I finish sketching). Then when I'm ready to post it, I'll save one photoshop copy at original size, and I'll save another, smaller one as a PNG for posting. I use Image>Image Size to shrink it for comfortable viewing, which will generally be 40-20% of the original size of the picture.
I usually start drawing on the computer, which saves me the trouble of scanning. I'll sketch in grey, then when I'm done I'll set the layer to multiply and fill in my flats on layers below it.

The previous one was "painted" on the computer, but it was done in cell-shading style, not what I call "Painting" style.

[collidingwithme]

Dang, I don't have a mac. X( But I do have bamboo fun (omg noob, lol)! Yea, the mixing-up-my-layers thing happens to me ALL THE TIME, and I wasn't even doing awesome paintings like you, I was just doing posters for my club. o_o

Gosh, if that is 40-20%... WOW, what a huge file. How do you start learning to draw these? I'm planning to learn everything from the internet. :D Um, okay, I don't really have a plan. Or checksheet to tick my progress against. :P

Erm, if you don't mind explaining, what's cell-shading? Eep, I feel like a clingy ex. :X

[potassiumer]

Go get one! Nao! >D I don't think the type of tablet really matters; it's what you can do with it that counts. (That sounded like, idunno, an ad for children's cerea. So cheesy!l) I hate mixing up layers, it's all I can do to keep from committing suicide when I realize I've mixed up the layers on a really complex piece. What kind of club?

Yeah, haha, my computer kinda hates me for leaving them open. I learned everything I know about digital art from the interwebs. If you check Deviantart: http://www.deviantart.com/, they have a slough of really good tutorials (as well as some really bad ones. It's like a fly market in there. I'll probably make a post with my personal favorites, but in the meantime, check out Coffeekinns' (I watch her on Deviantart) collection of tutorials: http://coffeekinns.deviantart.com/favourites/#Tutorials-Tips . Also, something I find helpful is to find an artist (or several) that you really admire, get a whole bunch of their pictures, and reference them heavily while doing your own. At first (at least for me) I end up looking like some kind of lame imitator, but I'll pretty quickly just take the best and evolve my own style. As you can see from my gallery, I'm still evolving quite rapidly. A few of my personal favorite digital artists are: Aurory (http://aurory.deviantart.com/), Charlie (http://charlie140588.deviantart.com/), Imaliea (http://imaliea.deviantart.com/), and Michelle (http://michelle84.deviantart.com/). Not all of my favorites are on Deviantart, but the vast majority are. :)

Hmmm, cell-shading is where you block in colors instead of blending. Most cartoons (think disney) if shaded at all will be cell shading, almost all of my art is soft-shading. Cell shading: http://pyawakit.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d104w48 Soft shading: http://Kyena.deviantart.com/art/Portrait-of-a-Wax-Dragon-31096010

Haha, you don't come off that way. :)

[collidingwithme]

Omg, I just finished a drawing and I mixed up a few layers! *super sad face* Anyway, my club is a students club for my course (environmental science and engineering). I do posters and publicity stuff for the club. :)

Wow... so many tutorials. *.* I got a feeling I should have gone through most of them first before I started drawing. I simply referenced from photos found through googled, lol. My favourite artist, who inspired my love for digital art, is Linda Bergkvist (aka Enayla). Your favourites just became mine too, by the way. X) Where's your gallery? :D

[potassiumer]

Haha, I'm convinced everyone mixes up layers. It's almost impossible not to. Awesome; what does one talk about during an environmental science and engineering meeting? Global warming (or lack thereof)? Or am I totally barking up the wrong tree?

My gallery really doesn't have anything that my journal doesn't (aside from some old junk that I'd have to shoot you for witnessing). The link's here anyway: http://erdexie.deviantart.com/

[collidingwithme]

Sadly, yea. :( BUT I DON'T WANT TO MIX MY LAYERS EVER AGAIN!!

Hahahaha! No, we're not the professors or research post-grads! We're a students club, so we organise events for our environmental science and engineering (ESE) student body. To serve and to inspire. <-- that's our motto/vision/mission (lol, I don't really know the difference) We try to be environmentally friendly or do things that more or less relate to the environment, though it's mostly things for the students, like industrial visits or the freshie camp which I'm so busy with currently.

Ack, I'm dead. :P

[potassiumer]

ME NEITHER! But, it's already happened many, many times on the picture I'm currently working on.

Ah, fun times. Everyone seems to be "going green" nowadays- it's probably fun to know you're part of such a big movement.

Aw, wherefore?

[collidingwithme]

Haha, not fun when you're studying it (especially when my current modules are irrelevant to the environment)!

Um, because you said you'd shoot my for viewing your junk? (OMG LAME!) XP