I am a girl who continually learn bit by bit, step by step about life. Anyway,
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becoming a pro guitarist

visit Kinokuniya again

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Thursday, 9 July 2009 { 7/09/2009 11:39:00 am }

This really is taken from a journal from dA. Unfortunately.. I forget already who posted this journal.. Gomen for anyone who posted this journal. I wish I can credit and link to you, but the fact, I can't. Hope she/he is in my friendlist. If he/she is, then you can check each of them whether one of them have this journal entry. Ehehe.. Yare yare.. Anyway, I found this by browsing as usual.. and I think this is just a good reference for me, and I hope for everyone else. Text below are copy-pasted. No edit. Actually I just post it so I can read it with a better beackground and view than reading this through notepad XP. Here it is anyway..

by someone I forgotten the ID. gomen..

I think the most important tip I can give anyone is that it is important to take regular art classes and learn the basics of art. It's only through practice of real life subjects that you can gain a deeper understanding of light and shadow, color balance, and different techniqes that are just as important in digital painting as in painting in real media. If you have access to classes, I say, go for it! I don't post many of my still life sketches or oil paintings up on my DA, but I have done them. Behind every piece in my gallery, there are hours and hours of practice on RL subjects in my sketchbook and canvases that have led up to developing a piece.
As for her other questions...

What program/s do you use, what tools do you use?

I usually use regular pencil and paper to draw all the lineart for my finished pictures. Then, I scan my pencil sketch onto the computer via Photoshop. I find that I don't have to ink my lineart since my sketches are usually pretty developed and tight enough to be used as the lineart for the final drawing pending some changes, however, if you do need to ink your lineart, then go ahead and do so.

After this, I usually save the file into jpeg at 100% quality and size, and open up the file in Open Canvas. Open Canvas has a handy multiply mode for its layers which allows you to paint right on top of your lineart without covering the blacklines. I usually lay down the skin color, hair color, clothing color, and background color (if the picture has a background) in that order. The coloring is pretty rough at this stage and I try to stick to midtones, since I'm just trying to see if the colors will all work together or not. Then, once I see what I need to change/keep the same, I start refining the base coloring that I had done before. I add shadows and highlights at this point and contours and anything else I need to do.

Once I have my basic coloring done, I merge all my layers together and start painting on top of the lineart as well. This will depend on your style, on how much emphasis you place on your lineart. I like coloring over my lineart, and leaving it untouched in certain places to define those areas, ie, face shape, eyes etc.

Once this is done, I save the file into jpeg and reload it into photoshop. This is the time when I make my final color changes, add tones/noise, fix the contrast, etc. Then I add my signature, save, and voila.

What brush types do you use when you color?

Brush types aren't as important in Photoshop and Open Canvas as they are in Painter, and since I'm not a Painter user, I don't really hold that much importance in brush type. I usually like to choose a brush that will give me a variation in opacity (opacity is how transparent the color is...100% opacity means no white from the background paper shows through) . Since I work with a tablet, I try to go with a brush that will let me darken and widen my lines as I press down harder on the tablet. Open Canvas is good in that they have many types of brushes that will allow you to do this, though I like to stick with the pencil brush when I'm doing fine details and the watercolor brush when I'm filling in large areas.

How can I produce clean lines that slightly vary in thickness?

This usually depends on having a pressure sensitive device (ie tablet). And a brush that allows different opacities depending on pressure.

If you're thinking about getting a tablet, I recommend a Wacom. If your not sure about whether or not you want to do art seriously, but would like to try out a tablet, I recommend the Wacom Graphire line. I've heard that it works decently and is pretty affordable.

I have a Wacom Intuos, which is a step above the Graphire, meaning more sensitivity, however, its also more expensive. If you know you want to do digital art seriously, it's not a bad idea to invest in a Intuos tablet.

There is another line that's a step above the Intuos, but you probably don't need that unless you're thinking of/are doing art professionally.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

...Another question...anyone think I should to a tutorial? And if so, then on what?

:3
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PS: Actually I would post that journal entry w/o edit.. but it was impossible, caused by html error that make the texts do not appear as I want them to.. T.T

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