01-04-2018, 04:22 PM
Okay, this is related to the whole... learning and 
D I S C O V E R I N G digital lineart-ing and shit.
![[Image: cerz5Qx.png]](https://i.imgur.com/cerz5Qx.png)
So I started inking this (after editing EVEN more) and obviously, I hit some walls. Mainly the fucking hands (I had to take like... 4 pictures to kind of get the hand that I wanted). But another wall rose up ever since I started doing lineart (I think). My lines are so... uuughghh. Y'know what I mean? They are so... ew. Something about my linework was so boring and static and it always repelled me from doing more because why do I want to look at something that I hate. Also, I always wanted my work to have a good amount of detail, yet I was never getting that sort of lineart where the lines are crisp and expressive yet small enough to make tinier details pop. I was getting a little fed up with that and I gave up on another project that I was doing because of the unsatisfactory linework. Now that I am doing something like this where I HAVE to put in a lot of detail, I started pondering and thinking...
...while I was listening to this jam.
this song literally put me in a trance
I then remembered this little comic on Tumblr about painting and doing art in general. It was a very humorous comic about handling your illustrations...
...Then I remembered one of her advice.
Look... Whenever I crop my sketches from my sketchbook, I keep the image size the same. If the image of the sketch is 500px then so is the lineart. I veered my eyes towards the dimensions at the top of my computer, and it said the Arron image was approximately 700px x 1000px. I simply changed the width to 5000px or something and I did some test runs.
Yall... my lines... were crisp, clean, expressive, wonderful, extravagant, descriptive, soulful, free, sharper, dynamic, fruitful, and most importantly, they were able to make smaller details visible. Whenever I shrink or enlarge a specific line, it doesn't get all pixely and ugly, it stays relatively the same. The solution was super simple and I didn't think of it! So yeah, all of the lineart you guys saw from me were VERY small images, which ultimately limited... everything.
![[Image: u2a86f8.png]](https://i.imgur.com/u2a86f8.png)
For example, the sketch of this illustration was insanely small and I kept the lineart the same size. Which totally explains why the lines are so fucking thick. If I go even smaller it's going to be way harder to do shit so I might as well make the brush big right? Sigh... fuuuck.
Anyways, Cool Pants Arron right here will be the first to have a huge image. (Oh and I should mention, I didn't do that much lineart after changing the image size cause it was late I wanna sleep, so most of the lines here were pre-discovery. Still contemplating if I should redo the whole thing (just kidding fuck that)(actually if the boring and expressive lines clash too much then i might have to redo it)).
I didn't have to type this but i might as well document the time I blew myself away by doing simple corrections.
![[Image: yMUViHk.png]](https://i.imgur.com/yMUViHk.png)
(Art): Oh and I am... kinda done with this? I probs have to go back and clean the line art cause its kind of Yikesville right now. Not gonna do any drastic changes (even though the collar thing on the jacket looks pretty wonky) I fixed some of it during the illustration but I actually like this piece so I might as well go back and make it look better. I am actually digging how I did his hair, I always wanted Sorn's hair to have that comic book-y style. I dunno what to call it but look up Nightwing and that was pretty much what I wanted for him. It is not exactly how they do hair in comics but I like my way so Imma keep it!
I was gonna talk about something else and explain why I'm doing all this work but next time... ...next time.
im sleepy. bye.
D I S C O V E R I N G digital lineart-ing and shit.So I started inking this (after editing EVEN more) and obviously, I hit some walls. Mainly the fucking hands (I had to take like... 4 pictures to kind of get the hand that I wanted). But another wall rose up ever since I started doing lineart (I think). My lines are so... uuughghh. Y'know what I mean? They are so... ew. Something about my linework was so boring and static and it always repelled me from doing more because why do I want to look at something that I hate. Also, I always wanted my work to have a good amount of detail, yet I was never getting that sort of lineart where the lines are crisp and expressive yet small enough to make tinier details pop. I was getting a little fed up with that and I gave up on another project that I was doing because of the unsatisfactory linework. Now that I am doing something like this where I HAVE to put in a lot of detail, I started pondering and thinking...
...while I was listening to this jam.
this song literally put me in a trance
I then remembered this little comic on Tumblr about painting and doing art in general. It was a very humorous comic about handling your illustrations...
...Then I remembered one of her advice.
Look... Whenever I crop my sketches from my sketchbook, I keep the image size the same. If the image of the sketch is 500px then so is the lineart. I veered my eyes towards the dimensions at the top of my computer, and it said the Arron image was approximately 700px x 1000px. I simply changed the width to 5000px or something and I did some test runs.
Yall... my lines... were crisp, clean, expressive, wonderful, extravagant, descriptive, soulful, free, sharper, dynamic, fruitful, and most importantly, they were able to make smaller details visible. Whenever I shrink or enlarge a specific line, it doesn't get all pixely and ugly, it stays relatively the same. The solution was super simple and I didn't think of it! So yeah, all of the lineart you guys saw from me were VERY small images, which ultimately limited... everything.
For example, the sketch of this illustration was insanely small and I kept the lineart the same size. Which totally explains why the lines are so fucking thick. If I go even smaller it's going to be way harder to do shit so I might as well make the brush big right? Sigh... fuuuck.
Anyways, Cool Pants Arron right here will be the first to have a huge image. (Oh and I should mention, I didn't do that much lineart after changing the image size cause it was late I wanna sleep, so most of the lines here were pre-discovery. Still contemplating if I should redo the whole thing (just kidding fuck that)(actually if the boring and expressive lines clash too much then i might have to redo it)).
I didn't have to type this but i might as well document the time I blew myself away by doing simple corrections.
(Art): Oh and I am... kinda done with this? I probs have to go back and clean the line art cause its kind of Yikesville right now. Not gonna do any drastic changes (even though the collar thing on the jacket looks pretty wonky) I fixed some of it during the illustration but I actually like this piece so I might as well go back and make it look better. I am actually digging how I did his hair, I always wanted Sorn's hair to have that comic book-y style. I dunno what to call it but look up Nightwing and that was pretty much what I wanted for him. It is not exactly how they do hair in comics but I like my way so Imma keep it!
I was gonna talk about something else and explain why I'm doing all this work but next time... ...next time.
im sleepy. bye.