02-03-2014, 10:11 AM
Lyraina:
Maybe it would be beneficial to divide the "end goal" into some kind of connected mid term schedules. For example, "from april to june, I'll do mostly anatomy, faces, character stylization, gestures and design" or "from december to march, I'll do landscapes, light, color, environments, perspective, alla prima stuff etc".
I don't know lol
I assume by harder brushes you mean the more opaque ones? I think my enemy is in fact the pressure sensitivity. It doesn't matter whether I paint with hard or soft brushes, I seem to screw things up due to pressure sensitivity being on. Maybe I should do studies with full opacity (or at least 80-90%) and pressure sensitivity set to off. Funny thing is, when I paint traditionally, I put strokes and layers without any problem and the result isn't muddy. It's due to lack of natural blending in photoshop. Though, SAI has excellent blending, so I mess around with it lately.
Monkeybread:
Well, you can't really hijack a SB thread:)
I think a friend actually has the alla prima book. It might be the time to visit him:)
Ah yes, the finished illustration. Something that I've been avoiding like whole my life. Now I don't avoid it that much, though I severely lack in areas of background or perspective (and I mean severely), so when I do it, it's usually a fleshed out character concept.
My hand is pretty much status quo, so I'm continuing with keeping it safe. Maybe I should have paused completely for a couple of days, I don't know. Anyway, I did one face, it's notoriously worse than those I did yesterday, which only shows how that study-apply thing is valuable:D
Maybe it would be beneficial to divide the "end goal" into some kind of connected mid term schedules. For example, "from april to june, I'll do mostly anatomy, faces, character stylization, gestures and design" or "from december to march, I'll do landscapes, light, color, environments, perspective, alla prima stuff etc".
I don't know lol
I assume by harder brushes you mean the more opaque ones? I think my enemy is in fact the pressure sensitivity. It doesn't matter whether I paint with hard or soft brushes, I seem to screw things up due to pressure sensitivity being on. Maybe I should do studies with full opacity (or at least 80-90%) and pressure sensitivity set to off. Funny thing is, when I paint traditionally, I put strokes and layers without any problem and the result isn't muddy. It's due to lack of natural blending in photoshop. Though, SAI has excellent blending, so I mess around with it lately.
Monkeybread:
Well, you can't really hijack a SB thread:)
I think a friend actually has the alla prima book. It might be the time to visit him:)
Ah yes, the finished illustration. Something that I've been avoiding like whole my life. Now I don't avoid it that much, though I severely lack in areas of background or perspective (and I mean severely), so when I do it, it's usually a fleshed out character concept.
My hand is pretty much status quo, so I'm continuing with keeping it safe. Maybe I should have paused completely for a couple of days, I don't know. Anyway, I did one face, it's notoriously worse than those I did yesterday, which only shows how that study-apply thing is valuable:D