03-15-2023, 12:16 PM
A forest is not a place, it's a dream that overwhelms the senses with details, scents and sounds. No wonder it's difficult to depict, and impossible to describe. When you say you want to make it readable and fast to make, I'm afraid the only way is by drowning the peripheral vision into blobs and streaks of darks and lights, and forcing a focal point. Not that I've ever been successful at doing this...
Regarding the vegetation library, an often overlooked fact is that many species are multi-stem trees, resulting in a different structure and overall shape than single-stem ones. Also as soon as you have a clearing and sunlight, even a tiny one, you will find fast-growing vegetation (bush and birch) that create a parallel universe.
Your foliage technique is intriguing, can you tweak it for more fuzziness and overlap on larger, distant volumes, or would it take a NASA computer to compute?
Now I want to know more about your painted comic project, badly.
I think I understand what you mean by death gripping the pen. At school I used to literally carve the paper with my ballpoint pen, so I switched to a fountain pen, still managed to bend a few tips, even tried a more sturdy calligraphy pen with a slanted tip to force me out of my bear habits.
With the tablet pen I scratch the film and I have the same issues as you getting terrible pressure control when tilting the pen. I never thought of holding it vertical, I will try that but I know I won't like it.
Maybe we are in need of a motion capture system to draw in thin air.
Regarding the vegetation library, an often overlooked fact is that many species are multi-stem trees, resulting in a different structure and overall shape than single-stem ones. Also as soon as you have a clearing and sunlight, even a tiny one, you will find fast-growing vegetation (bush and birch) that create a parallel universe.
Your foliage technique is intriguing, can you tweak it for more fuzziness and overlap on larger, distant volumes, or would it take a NASA computer to compute?
Now I want to know more about your painted comic project, badly.
I think I understand what you mean by death gripping the pen. At school I used to literally carve the paper with my ballpoint pen, so I switched to a fountain pen, still managed to bend a few tips, even tried a more sturdy calligraphy pen with a slanted tip to force me out of my bear habits.
With the tablet pen I scratch the film and I have the same issues as you getting terrible pressure control when tilting the pen. I never thought of holding it vertical, I will try that but I know I won't like it.
Maybe we are in need of a motion capture system to draw in thin air.