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Hi. My name is Valency. I'm a senior year graphic design student in the U.S. currently. I've mostly done logos and generic painting, but not a whole lot in the vein that you guys do. I have, however, followed several of you for a bit now and decided it was high time that I join. You guys are the best of the best and I'd like to follow that if I may.

My drawing skills are, at best, mediocre. You can get a glimpse of what I'm currently capable of here: http://valencygraphics.deviantart.com/ga...?catpath=/ There's nothing earth-shattering, but I'd like to get there and put in the hours this next year to do it. I really think that my graphics would improve drastically if I can get some rudimentary basics down. I have a few goals already in mind:

1. Speedpainting a day. Kind of like a photographer's "photo a day for a year," this is for warm-up, practice, work, or all three. I have no idea what I'll do each day, but if you folks have some pointers, it won't go unappreciated!
2. (At least a) Portrait a week via /r/redditgetsdrawn. I know one of the ways you get better at subjects and matter is to keep drawing and drawing and drawing. Redditgetsdrawn seems to be a decent place to get some subject matter that I can use This will be the first year that I get extremely involved in making sure this is a priority (after schoolwork, of course!).

Any tips, tricks, critiques, slams, praises, compliments, ridicules, or meh's are welcome to me. I learn the most from constructive critique and having reasons for the change indicated explained to me.

First tip I would need: I just got an intuos 4 small. I am super excited to test it out once I get to school, but I'm wondering if there's a guide out there to give me an idea of how to set it up in a way that's suitable for working on painting or just to start out with until I figure out how I want to set it up? Thanks and hope to see you all very soon. :D


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#2
Hey there,

I'm new here myself, but I recently watched these tutorial vids from Shaddy Safadi that I found very helpful.

He has a brush pack and a diagram of his tablet layout that I started using that helped save me a lot of time.

Good luck!

Mike D.

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Thanks!

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Website: www.valencygraphics.com

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Hello, looks good! You can go to Control Panel> Tablet Settings to set up your tablet's specific parameters in whatever program you're using. In Photoshop I have alt mapped to one button on the pen for quick color picking, and right click on the other to change brushes on the fly.
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Hello and welcome to Crimson Daggers :D

I am rather intrigued with your different art styles and concepts - Keep up the fab work. I look forward to seeing more from you and to seeing your sketchbook :D

mii
Ps. Loving the last piece. However the guy figure seems a lil out of proportion to me. He seems like he's got a regular upper half but then very short legs, like a dwarf (small person - trying not be be offensive here!) ...not sure if that was what you was going for. ~ Just thoughts.

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