Comments | potassiumer: I come bearing gifts!

potassiumer

I come bearing gifts!

Jun 03, 2010 19:40

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 ( Read more... )

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collidingwithme June 5 2010, 09:38:32 UTC

Heh, I actually stalked your lj even when I didn't see anything in my friend's list, did you know? :P Aaand, I have a special love reserved for digital art, did you know? I'm serious, my closer friends in real life know that about me (coz they don't talk about sims, so we have to talk about something else, lol). And I am stunned. You can draw so well!!! 8D Omgosh, I stared at every picture for, like, a five minutes each! I love their hair, their eyes, their lips, the backgrounds! I especially love the second last one: the light shining from behind, the lace (I CANNOT believe you painted that!), the subject. 8D Omgawd, I really will pepper you with questions if you have the time to entertain me! (Haha, it's exclamation marks after exclamation marks!)

And, of course, you're actually thinking of drawing more for CS? I have to admit, that made me very excited! X)

potassiumer June 5 2010, 22:37:04 UTC

*dances* Really? I get a stalker? Whohooo!
Thank you! I just do my best on every piece before I get tired and quit. eheheh.
Oh yes, that particular piece is my current favorite baby. The lace took forever , but I think the effect is well worth it.
Bombard away! It's summer, so I have tons of free time. (plus I always leave huge comments on CS asking millions of questions, so its more than fair. :P )

Yep, I'm in the process. I'm pretty happy with it, and it's painted , so hopefully I won't fail so hard this time.

collidingwithme June 6 2010, 16:40:28 UTC

Omgawd, what is that of course doing in my second last sentence? 8| I must have been thinking of something else at that moment, grr.

You should join those digital art communities or something. ;) So many people would be interested in what you draw.

Okay... *rubs hands in glee* Do you paint in photoshop? Assuming that you do, do you paint in different layers or is the whole thing one layer? What's the resolution to use for these images? How do you start drawing? (I think from what I see of your sketches, you drew the outlines on paper first?) I think I better not flood it all at one go, so that's it for now. Hehehe.

Hmm... hmm? The previous one wasn't painted? You meant painting in the computer right?

potassiumer June 6 2010, 17:46:25 UTC

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 ( ... )

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