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So I was talking process with 
keto, and dude asked about the Monsoon piece I did a while back. Considering it was part of a tutorial thing anyway, I may as well write up the basic steps real quick and crank out a flash thing.
For all you folks who missed the digital painting panel at FC'09, here you go <3
keto, and dude asked about the Monsoon piece I did a while back. Considering it was part of a tutorial thing anyway, I may as well write up the basic steps real quick and crank out a flash thing.For all you folks who missed the digital painting panel at FC'09, here you go <3
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Thanks, dude ^_^ I feel like linework has always been a slow and clunky process for me. If anything, deciding that my lines don't matter because they're not showing in the end has probably helped me loosen up and feel like neurotic about them, which can only serve to make them better 9_9...
Haha Understandable. In the end if it makes you feel better about how you work, then its all good. Im a big fan of linework, and mines now starting to become a bit more consistent, and lots of times color makes them even better. You do sweet work, man. Its interesting to know that we all have our little quirks with how we do stuff :P
Oh of course. I think what it is(and ive been guilty of this thought plenty of times) is that when you find people you look up to in the artist community, you tend to perceive them is infallible. hehe Ive seen that a lot with friends of mine who are way into comics. Them insisting certain DC/Marvel writers or artists are GOOOOOOODS :P
In some ways, they're less intimidating that way. If you elevate your heroes to unreachable status, you don't have to feel bad that you're not there yet yourself.
I'm all for people having art heroes (I've got plenty!), and people should do whatever they need to do to stay happy and engaged in creating things, but I can pretty much guarantee that your friends' art heroes have art heroes of their own, and that they feel frustrated with their work from time to time. Forgetting that every artist is just another human who had to learn everything through practice and study can get to be a problem if it turns into an excuse to let yourself off the hook from practicing and studying.
I've certainly been guilty of that on more than one occasion. Haha, this is me reminding myself as much as anything <3
I'm all for people having art heroes (I've got plenty!), and people should do whatever they need to do to stay happy and engaged in creating things, but I can pretty much guarantee that your friends' art heroes have art heroes of their own, and that they feel frustrated with their work from time to time. Forgetting that every artist is just another human who had to learn everything through practice and study can get to be a problem if it turns into an excuse to let yourself off the hook from practicing and studying.
I've certainly been guilty of that on more than one occasion. Haha, this is me reminding myself as much as anything <3
Thanks again for all the talk dude, I really am grateful. :) I've been trying for awhile to break down this wall between digital and traditional art, and you helped thin out that wall a bit.
It's frustrating when I know what I WANT, and I know how to achieve it traditionally, but attempt it digitally only to have my digital tools fight against me rather than work with me.
We'll see how it goes. :)
It's frustrating when I know what I WANT, and I know how to achieve it traditionally, but attempt it digitally only to have my digital tools fight against me rather than work with me.
We'll see how it goes. :)
Yeah, dude ^_^ It's always fun talking shop, and I know what you mean about trying to wrestle digital media into a more traditional place.
I think as you keep working in Photoshop (or whatever program you choose), you'll master the medium just the same as you might master watercolors or oils or anything else. You get better at understanding its strengths and weaknesses, and learn better how to bend it to your will. You get faster and more fluid with it, and it all becomes second nature.
I guess at the end of the day, my advice would be to stick to it, think critically about the sort of marks you want to be making, and try to have fun experimenting and playing around with new ways to go about doing that ^_^
I think as you keep working in Photoshop (or whatever program you choose), you'll master the medium just the same as you might master watercolors or oils or anything else. You get better at understanding its strengths and weaknesses, and learn better how to bend it to your will. You get faster and more fluid with it, and it all becomes second nature.
I guess at the end of the day, my advice would be to stick to it, think critically about the sort of marks you want to be making, and try to have fun experimenting and playing around with new ways to go about doing that ^_^
I tried out a couple of flash slideshow makers, seeing as how I don't have Flash on my painting computer anymore. The first few were rubbish, either because they insisted on adding gross transition effects to the slides, added garish, distracting watermarks, or wouldn't let you actually export the freaking Flash file at the end 9_9
This guy was made with Slideroll, which is actually pretty reasonable. The free version puts that subtle watermark/link in the upper right corner, and the result looks decent enough <3
Now that I've got the research phase done with, I'll probably make more of these, because they're fun to do <3
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TOO YOU FREAKING GUY
This guy was made with Slideroll, which is actually pretty reasonable. The free version puts that subtle watermark/link in the upper right corner, and the result looks decent enough <3
Now that I've got the research phase done with, I'll probably make more of these, because they're fun to do <3
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TOO YOU FREAKING GUY
*nods* absolutely! Give me more reason to learn actionscript, anyway. I foresee the only hard part being creating a templated system, since FA likely wouldn't handle external sources well. Now I'm curious if actionscript is at all reflective. Be really cool if you could indefinitely add pages and it would indefinitely add more little dots on the bottom (that could scroll, perhaps?)
.... not really D:
My project for a class was an incredible delve into the horrors of Adobe. Debugging can actually cause bugs, finding out what you did wrong in the first place requires reading through a somewhat-poorly documented API, and most of the time I just sit there cursing my poor laptop for exploding (and lacking in anything that looks remotely like an Actionscript IDE).
It's fun times, sure, but it's also masochistic >n>;
My project for a class was an incredible delve into the horrors of Adobe. Debugging can actually cause bugs, finding out what you did wrong in the first place requires reading through a somewhat-poorly documented API, and most of the time I just sit there cursing my poor laptop for exploding (and lacking in anything that looks remotely like an Actionscript IDE).
It's fun times, sure, but it's also masochistic >n>;
This is what I am currently seeing: http://tinypic.com/m/ac3lep/1
When I click on the download tab, all I get is a brown screen.
When I click on the download tab, all I get is a brown screen.
Haha, oh man, at first you had me going, "Stretchy...bit? Where in this did I talk about... OH WAIT."
I was totally wigging out over the content-preserving scale feature that night. Haha, and yeah, Adobe's gone and broken the world again with this new fill thing.
Anyway, thanks for coming to the panel, haha ^_^
I was totally wigging out over the content-preserving scale feature that night. Haha, and yeah, Adobe's gone and broken the world again with this new fill thing.
Anyway, thanks for coming to the panel, haha ^_^
If he's being a bum, you can always order a copy and send him the bill <3
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