I once compared drawing with a mouse to cooking with a hammer and screwdriver instead of proper kitchen utensils. I had to do it for several months when I first started out on my very first game job (working as texture artist on Prince of Persia 3D), and it was manageable because textures is very different from sketching and illustration--it's a lot of photobashing with some additional painting on top. But I hated it because there isn't even pressure sensitivity so my left hand had to be on the numbers keys all the time to control the opacity level. (Fun fact: that's how Craig Mullins worked too in Photoshop. He started out using a mouse, then later when he got a tablet, he did not use pressure sensitivity with his Wacom stylus because he prefers to control opacity with the number keys. I don't know if he still works that way and I highly doubt it, since digital painting software has advanced a lot from those days, and he works a lot in Rebelle these days, and there's no way you'd get the most out of its brush engine without pressure sensitivity.)
When I finally got the Wacom tablet (1st gen), it was a huge relief and it felt infinitely more intuitive and I could draw and paint with far more intricacy and nuance and expressiveness.
I don't know why there's an insistence on not getting a graphics tablet, especially when they are dirt cheap in this day and age and choices are abundant. Even the entry-level tiny ones have at least over a thousand levels of pressure detection and will be far superior to using a mouse. I have students who used the cheapest entry-level stuff and when I tried them, they felt no different from my much more expensive professional-grade tablets, except with smaller footprints and fewer programmable buttons.
(04-20-2024, 12:21 AM)Zizka Wrote: Just dropping by to say it's great you're back at drawing and have left that A.I. stuff behind, you did the right thing.
It just not truth i am leave it to that. Personally i would rather have a open discussion but i feel that my sketchbook is not the place for that to a certain degree because it can take alot of space and i would rather have this like i said as my personal space to express anything i desire regardless of the confusion it might generate.
In the end people are not necessaly going to read everything and i will still have people coming with assumption and i will be stuck to untangle the image they created in there head of me if i let it be people assume those thing to be truth just because they think what they previously knew of me still apply or is truth even if could come from a bad perception.
I would rather not spend my time correcting people but people are wrong all the time it not new but it hurtful sometime when we don't correct what someone say about what we do that is wrong about the reason why we do the thing we do.
Even if i am trying to be transparent not everyone as the same picture of me that live inside there head. Ultimately it probably that i shouldn't be sharing as much as i been but it simply not who i am.
So i must accept that it the price i pay for my free speech.
(04-20-2024, 07:49 AM)Zizka Wrote: I sincerely don't know what hurt you about saying it's nice to see new things from you but I apologize, it was meant as something positive.
I am not hurt aslong as i correct inconsistently in the statement that was made that are not accurate that all. When you said that i left Ai behind that just not accurate. What i don't like is that you have believe to have the ability to know what i do outside my sketchbook. Just because i posted Ai sometime doesn't mean it always the case.Sometime i am just playing around with the vocabulary of the prompt and i generated so much image i just won't post every single thing if only you know how much Ai image i generated.
Don't apologize unless you meant to hurt someone and know it wrong. The best apology is to do better.
I wish we knew what was going on in someone head or what they do behind the scene but unless they tell me there just no way to know unless someone that know them tell me about it and even then how reliable is it...
I can't hold something you don't know against you. It not easy getting to know people it take patience and the fact it done on the internet add to the challenge.
You misunderstand: I apologised for you being hurt, I didn’t (and still don’t) think what I wrote was pejorative in any way, shape or form. So “doing better” is irrelevant here. I stand to what I said: It’s great to see you creating again as opposed to sharing a.i. generated images, which is less interesting (to me). In other words, practicing your art is much more likely to improve it than not practicing it, nothing pejorative or remotely insulting here.
But:
Quote:What i don't like is that you have believe to have the ability to know what i do outside my sketchbook..
No, no, no. That’s not it at all. I said:
It’s great to see your drawing again and left that a.i. stuff behind => in your sketchbook underlined and bolted for emphasis. This sketchbook thread so the comment is related to what’s in here, period.I
Quote:I which i knew what was going on in someone head or what they do behind the scene but unless they tell me there just no way to know unless someone that know them tell me about it and even then how reliable is it...
Well, now you know. Turns out you got upset about something you imagined which wasn’t there in the first place. All is well that ends well.
Back on topic:
Quote:I don't know why there's an insistence on not getting a graphics tablet, especially when they are dirt cheap in this day and age and choices are abundant. Even the entry-level tiny ones have at least over a thousand levels of pressure detection and will be far superior to using a mouse. I have students who used the cheapest entry-level stuff and when I tried them, they felt no different from my much more expensive professional-grade tablets, except with smaller footprints and fewer programmable buttons.
Quote:I and other people have pointed out that your lines are very bad and robotic like a drawing with a mouse and you ignored it,
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On the first page of your sketchbook, you mention having a bamboo tablet:
Quote:10min 1 min pose using bamboo tablet and photoshop cs6 i just start trying the tablet to day using posemaniac
Do you still have it? Or is using the mouse a preference to using a pen?
Nice work with the gemstone, very solid design. I think you used a soft brush for the lines on the outline of the skull, and it doesn't gel well with the rest of the linework which is hard edged. I would use a hard edged line instead to keep everything consistent. And I agree about investing in a tablet, it's absolutely essential - you'll work faster and get way better results in the process!
(05-04-2024, 11:19 PM)cgmythology Wrote: Nice work with the gemstone, very solid design. I think you used a soft brush for the lines on the outline of the skull, and it doesn't gel well with the rest of the linework which is hard edged. I would use a hard edged line instead to keep everything consistent. And I agree about investing in a tablet, it's absolutely essential - you'll work faster and get way better results in the process!
I did only use a hard brush the softness come from having a change of mind and resizing thing which cause loose of pixel when thing get bigger.This is a initial sketch so the line quality as no importance at that stage beyond being decipherable by myself.
(10-16-2023, 08:04 PM)darktiste Wrote: A fan art base on the day 14 of inktober which in this case was castle.This a collage of a few comic strip into a single one from the comic Game over by Midam.Were little hero in is usual quest to beat the level and save the princess. As he approch what he thought was the princess turn out to be a horrible mimic mascarading as the princess in it fright were hero loose is club.
Game over.
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You did Kid Paddle! That is so cool.
I read those comics "Game Over" by Midam when I was young! I think it is really rare to find anybody, who even knows them!
Very cool that you were doing such a thing!
His comics were so awesome -at least thats my opinion- because they always were only 1 page = 1 story and the next page is the next little story. That was a very nice format.
(10-16-2023, 08:04 PM)darktiste Wrote: A fan art base on the day 14 of inktober which in this case was castle.This a collage of a few comic strip into a single one from the comic Game over by Midam.Were little hero in is usual quest to beat the level and save the princess. As he approch what he thought was the princess turn out to be a horrible mimic mascarading as the princess in it fright were hero loose is club.
Game over.
Do you want to continue...
You did Kid Paddle! That is so cool.
I read those comics "Game Over" by Midam when I was young! I think it is really rare to find anybody, who even knows them!
Very cool that you were doing such a thing!
His comics were so awesome -at least thats my opinion- because they always were only 1 page = 1 story and the next page is the next little story. That was a very nice format.
Thank you for looking deep into my sketchbook. I am inspired by alot of french comic since it my maternal language aswell as my main language outside of internet. I am a concept artist.
(10-16-2023, 08:04 PM)darktiste Wrote: A fan art base on the day 14 of inktober which in this case was castle.This a collage of a few comic strip into a single one from the comic Game over by Midam.Were little hero in is usual quest to beat the level and save the princess. As he approch what he thought was the princess turn out to be a horrible mimic mascarading as the princess in it fright were hero loose is club.
Game over.
Do you want to continue...
You did Kid Paddle! That is so cool.
I read those comics "Game Over" by Midam when I was young! I think it is really rare to find anybody, who even knows them!
Very cool that you were doing such a thing!
His comics were so awesome -at least thats my opinion- because they always were only 1 page = 1 story and the next page is the next little story. That was a very nice format.
Thank you for looking deep into my sketchbook. I am inspired by alot of french comic since it my maternal language aswell as my main language outside of internet. I am a french born montreal concept artist.
You are french? I always somehow assumed you were from Romania. :D
You are already a Concept Artist? That's cool!
Do you have a professional Portfolio to look at? I can't see any Link in your Signature to a Portfolio.
This was surely an interesting project with still a good deal of experimentation.
Even those i like the look of it this project the shadow is not something that would fit a professional project since it hide the qualit of the 3d object since it also important to allow for the form to read properly and for other detail to be easy to understood by someone else than me it would only work in project where there is no intention to pass the concept to someone who as to interpret it sure as a final style it could work but in the intermediary time it questionable.
I am also not very happy with the presentation as i realize my presentation and compositional skill in that realm are leaking but ultimately the intention is to sell and communicate not to be the prettiest.
But overall i am happy to say that i manage to finish even those the project as been dragging on for a while.
The good thing is i can do even more thing than before since i purchase a friend computer recently which as allowed me to upgrade my blender version which give me even more option than before. It partially why i had to put the project as slowed down considerable toward the end as i had to split my time between the project and re importing and reinstalling what was on my old pc.
Hey, thank you for your motivating words to me.
Your Temple Mace image is nice, sorry I can't critique it because I'm not very good at art.
It's just a suggestion, but gonna echo what a lot of other people have been telling you and say you should get a tablet if you haven't already. While they may exist, I personally don't know of any professional artist who does (non-vector) 2D art with a mouse, and for me a tablet feels much better than using a mouse for drawing (though maybe you feel differently).
(07-18-2024, 06:31 AM)Zvarthav Wrote: Hey, thank you for your motivating words to me.
Your Temple Mace image is nice, sorry I can't critique it because I'm not very good at art.
It's just a suggestion, but gonna echo what a lot of other people have been telling you and say you should get a tablet if you haven't already. While they may exist, I personally don't know of any professional artist who does (non-vector) 2D art with a mouse, and for me a tablet feels much better than using a mouse for drawing (though maybe you feel differently).
Yes it a consistent point made to me i am going to get a tablet in the near future because i want to get more into sculpting in blender and you don't have much of a choose because without pressure sensitivity sculpting is a pain
Thank you for encouraging me to step out of my comfort zone and thank you for passing by
Really solid design with your latest, seem something straight out of Indiana Jones which I dig. Great color choices to, especially with the neon green, nicely done!
(07-21-2024, 10:50 PM)cgmythology Wrote: Really solid design with your latest, seem something straight out of Indiana Jones which I dig. Great color choices to, especially with the neon green, nicely done!
The theme is similar i give you that. Thank for passing by.
(08-26-2024, 03:29 PM)one_two Wrote: The last one is quite good actually. Reminds me design of Lara Croft series.
It the second comment that compare my work to other people work i am not sure if i should take it as a compliment or as a sign i need to get more creative.
Here what i did i included some ring to be use to trap a blade so perhap the blade get stuck and they finish there target with a second blade or a dagger will the blade is caught in the ring loop. There also small hole to remove some of the weight.
I Included the none orthographic version(first one) I also fixed the error when i uploaded some layers were missing.
Here day 4th sword yup two day late but there some other sword brewing behind the scene.
Here the description
30.Solar Claymore
Type:Claymore
Wielder:Elemental
Description:Set with a topaz
I had other plan for the topaz to be in the guard but had a last minute change of direction and decided the pommel was going to be enough
I feel like this one is a miss in term of how easy i was expected thing to be but i was meet with some few hurdle... which is a good thing because that mean there pitfall i can prepare for other on project.
That all i am going to say without entering in the detail.
