He is a dumb old man, but I need to learn to draw dumb old men! Haha.
I really just need to start practicing coloring more. It's just harder because I can be *moderately* happy with a sketch in, say, 30min, but coloring something takes a while and almost always looks worse than the original! XD I really like the sloppy coloring style but at least the way I do it it always feels 'juvenile'. I need to work more with my tablet sensitivity too (like I said below)... sometimes even with a low opacity brush I still feel like I'm coloring with crayons.
I've never been good at coloring though, mostly because I have no art skills... I have a box of really expensive colored pencils I never learned to use though, does that count? ;)
Ah, I used to be able to do that with my old tablet. Like, for example, uh.... ignore the fact that the art's bitchass terrible, but the hair strand-y thing here or even here (seriously I suck at art, those are 4-5 years old). For some reason I can't get there yet with my new tablet, which is actually funny because the new tablet is actually a Wacom rather than some Cheap Ass Knockoff. I don't know if I don't have the pressure sensitivity set right, or if the Photoshop settings need to be tweaked, or if I just suck and need to develop that skill again (or maybe all three).
One of the things I'd really like to develop with the tablet are some mad, mad pressure-sensitivity skills.... outlining a picture, for example, without making it look like a sketch again. Or drawing hair. Alas, tablets.
I really think I just haven't played enough with the settings -- as much as I talk about cockeyed_art, I'm still only drawing about once a week, and for a short period of time at that. I just play with line thickness / opacity "jitter" by setting them to Pen Pressure, but I am going to try your settings next and see whether or not that works.
The pressure sensitivity is *hard* too. Because if I ever want to learn how to outline, I need a nice solid line to come out when I draw -- but I SUCK now, so I'm always changing it back and forth between practicing something I suck at and sketching something I'm OK at but isn't teaching me anything (haha that's an awesome sentence!).
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I really just need to start practicing coloring more. It's just harder because I can be *moderately* happy with a sketch in, say, 30min, but coloring something takes a while and almost always looks worse than the original! XD I really like the sloppy coloring style but at least the way I do it it always feels 'juvenile'. I need to work more with my tablet sensitivity too (like I said below)... sometimes even with a low opacity brush I still feel like I'm coloring with crayons.
I've never been good at coloring though, mostly because I have no art skills... I have a box of really expensive colored pencils I never learned to use though, does that count? ;)
That's what practice is for, huh.
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One of the things I'd really like to develop with the tablet are some mad, mad pressure-sensitivity skills.... outlining a picture, for example, without making it look like a sketch again. Or drawing hair. Alas, tablets.
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The pressure sensitivity is *hard* too. Because if I ever want to learn how to outline, I need a nice solid line to come out when I draw -- but I SUCK now, so I'm always changing it back and forth between practicing something I suck at and sketching something I'm OK at but isn't teaching me anything (haha that's an awesome sentence!).
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