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So, first of, I've seen / heard lots of people complaining that they cannot get art of their character done cause they do not have a visual reference, and due to language barriers or lazyness, most artists here on FA only accept commissions if people have visual references.
This is obviously ment for those people who do not draw themselves, but nobody is so bad that they cannot draw a few circles and something!
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On the rare times I take description commissions, I also draw a simple ref like this before actually starting the drawing, since my brain is dumb and it's superduper hard for me to form an image to my head from text, cause ew I fucking hate text unless it's short!
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And yes I am dead serious about this tactic of making a ref! This is better than a secondlife image too, since it lacks shading that might distort the colours. (tho I don't personally mind second life references either)
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And uh, a 5 minute scribble on the bottom pretending to be an art piece.
And sorry about the text being very awfully placed, my photoshop kept giving me random errors and erasing my text if I tried to change its size or move it around - but I just wanted to do this quick :'3
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Edit: There are also plenty of free bases to use for colouring if your character is very basic (say, a feline, canine... etc.) or you can use those bases and even add/edit your own ears/tails/wings on them, cause a reference doesn't still have to look amazing even if you used a base, as long as the important stuff is there c:
This is obviously ment for those people who do not draw themselves, but nobody is so bad that they cannot draw a few circles and something!
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On the rare times I take description commissions, I also draw a simple ref like this before actually starting the drawing, since my brain is dumb and it's superduper hard for me to form an image to my head from text, cause ew I fucking hate text unless it's short!
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And yes I am dead serious about this tactic of making a ref! This is better than a secondlife image too, since it lacks shading that might distort the colours. (tho I don't personally mind second life references either)
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And uh, a 5 minute scribble on the bottom pretending to be an art piece.
And sorry about the text being very awfully placed, my photoshop kept giving me random errors and erasing my text if I tried to change its size or move it around - but I just wanted to do this quick :'3
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Edit: There are also plenty of free bases to use for colouring if your character is very basic (say, a feline, canine... etc.) or you can use those bases and even add/edit your own ears/tails/wings on them, cause a reference doesn't still have to look amazing even if you used a base, as long as the important stuff is there c:
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You know, I never even looked at it this way until you mentioned it. So yeah, I feel a bit better about being a total slop artist; if I can just do well enough to provide a reference, it can be improved on and worked with from there!
Oh. And your five-minute quickie is still better than my best work. T.T
Oh. And your five-minute quickie is still better than my best work. T.T
or...OR!....you could just use this? - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8016880/ and just edit the details you want. lol
Sometimes a completely freshly drawn scribble is still better tho, atleast when I draw, the simpler and less detailed the reference, the more I pay attention to the shape of the character and the better it seems to come out. I'm not entirely sure why, but perhaps it somehow gives my mind more freedom.
Yes but you draw. A lot of people cant draw...not even a stick figure. Going to a random person who cant draw and ask them to draw a ref for you. Some people seriously cant do it. I know I cant anymore. My hands shake to much when I hold something. So its not an option for some people.
Well its entirely different if someone has damanged hands, but in that case they probably can't draw in the markings anymore either.
I'm not saying people need to draw a masterpiece, or even a pretty drawing, but anyone can draw that circle for a head, a couple of triangles as ears and sausages for limbs. It's supposed to be the point of this tutorial.
And nothing prevents people from drawing on paper either and then photographing it with their phone, webcam or asking a friend to photograph it.
I'm not saying people need to draw a masterpiece, or even a pretty drawing, but anyone can draw that circle for a head, a couple of triangles as ears and sausages for limbs. It's supposed to be the point of this tutorial.
And nothing prevents people from drawing on paper either and then photographing it with their phone, webcam or asking a friend to photograph it.
Well the baseis just so they can use so that the artist can see what the char looks like right? Since when people get pictures they send the ref and the details of what they want in the picture. They can ask the body shape be changed and such. Unless the artists to picky about details that they expect the char to be exactly what the char is in the ref...which that's to picky.
This is excellent. I'm going to keep it in mind when I start commissioning pictures of some of the characters from a story I have in development.
One problem I have, though is that I have difficulty figuring out how to do even the most basic things in the drawing program, such as delineating a region that's supposed to be a particular color, and colorfilling it. I suspect artists who do digital art all the time could do it in five seconds flat without a second thought, whereas a guy like me might easily spend a half hour digging through the help info, googling for tutorials, and still end up beating my head on the desk.
One problem I have, though is that I have difficulty figuring out how to do even the most basic things in the drawing program, such as delineating a region that's supposed to be a particular color, and colorfilling it. I suspect artists who do digital art all the time could do it in five seconds flat without a second thought, whereas a guy like me might easily spend a half hour digging through the help info, googling for tutorials, and still end up beating my head on the desk.
Well, how I did it in paint, I drew edges around the area to be filled with a colour, with the same colour as I was going to use to fill it with. You can also draw the edges where colour changes with a black liner. (say, use the big brush for outlines and one pixel pen for the area surrounding each colour)
And if you have a program with layers, put the lineart on top and colour on layer below (doesnt even matter if the colour goes over the edges)
And if you have a program with layers, put the lineart on top and colour on layer below (doesnt even matter if the colour goes over the edges)
I'd be worried about coloring over the line that's supposed to be the outline, and have to try to redraw it or erase it or risk the colorfill filling the whole outside (since it's not bordered anymore). There's probably a way to make the outline non-colorable, but that's another thing I'd have to figure out how to to (as well as remove any stray bits of color that end up outside the line). And if I draw edges with the black liner, can I remove those lines after I do the colorfill?
well, you can't do any of that stuff in paint, but if you got a proper art program and use layers, you just put lines on a layer you don't touch and they wont be affected (or if you want, you can just touch the lines) - basically layers are like you had multiple pictures on top of each other :'3
I think I get the idea what layers are, and I'm guessing my fairly old edition of PSP supports them, although I've never figured out how to use them. I guess my main point in this discussion is that, to use a driving analogy, instructions like 'To get to destination X with a minimum of traffic, you want to follow this route..." might not be what someone needs when their understanding is on the level of "Which lever do I pull to put the car in reverse?".
i just had to post my disaster of a try ^.^
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11733059/ i have to figure out how to add text
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11733059/ i have to figure out how to add text
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