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maaruSo there I was, thinking about what to sketch in-between studying kanji. Of course, there's the Ichihime doodle challenge and other fanart requests, and there was the ever-increasing backlog of original art I've always wanted to do and then, I remember, hey, didn't they have a doodling program for the DS?
So I laze around some DS forums until I come across a painting program called COLORS. I had downloaded Phidias before, but most of my efforts on it were subpar (and it took me a while to get going on it). Colors, however, was a relatively easy program to use and it felt like it was built for painting.
The cool thing, though, is that the program records every brush stroke, so you can sit back and watch how it's made later. Then I come across the GALLERY, wherein I broke down and wept for the awesome people who were painting not only with their DS, but also with their iPhones and iPods and well:
http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/
and my first reaction was, Bitch, I gotta learn how to do that. Cue me drooling over the playbacks off some of the best pieces and straining my eyes to see how they pulled off some effects. *worships*
Sure, I've seen digital paintings before in DA, but I've always had the lame excuse of, "well, I don't own a tablet, so the best I can do is a paper-and-pencil equivalent." This time, however, I have something that everyone else also owns, and therefore, I no longer have an excuse for being mediocre. T__T Yes, I must improve. *shakes fist* (So far, what I'm learning is that painting inverts the drawing process a bit - you can paint using dark first and add light elements on top - the actual artists on my flist must be laughing at me, but this was a revelation I only understood now. Orz Everything about drawing I know was self-taught).
Ok, I'd better sleep.
So I laze around some DS forums until I come across a painting program called COLORS. I had downloaded Phidias before, but most of my efforts on it were subpar (and it took me a while to get going on it). Colors, however, was a relatively easy program to use and it felt like it was built for painting.
Heheh, a first attempt at colors.
And then I realize, painting's a whole different ballgame than B&W sketching
I tried to do some experimenting with colors and got a little confused on how to make skin tones. It took a couple of hours later before I realized I could mix colors at the edge of the screen and use it as a base, so this was looking a lot better by then.
And then I realize, painting's a whole different ballgame than B&W sketching
I tried to do some experimenting with colors and got a little confused on how to make skin tones. It took a couple of hours later before I realized I could mix colors at the edge of the screen and use it as a base, so this was looking a lot better by then.
The cool thing, though, is that the program records every brush stroke, so you can sit back and watch how it's made later. Then I come across the GALLERY, wherein I broke down and wept for the awesome people who were painting not only with their DS, but also with their iPhones and iPods and well:
http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/
and my first reaction was, Bitch, I gotta learn how to do that. Cue me drooling over the playbacks off some of the best pieces and straining my eyes to see how they pulled off some effects. *worships*
Sure, I've seen digital paintings before in DA, but I've always had the lame excuse of, "well, I don't own a tablet, so the best I can do is a paper-and-pencil equivalent." This time, however, I have something that everyone else also owns, and therefore, I no longer have an excuse for being mediocre. T__T Yes, I must improve. *shakes fist* (So far, what I'm learning is that painting inverts the drawing process a bit - you can paint using dark first and add light elements on top - the actual artists on my flist must be laughing at me, but this was a revelation I only understood now. Orz Everything about drawing I know was self-taught).
Ok, I'd better sleep.
