LACRIMA PEONS ARTZ, Draw? Post it! Options

[Raijinili]

I like the background >_>

[Megafreak]

No, the putties aren't planning a revolt! take that back!
I like the picture though

[Feral Phoenix]

YEEK. <3 <3 CUTE CUTE.

[Buddhu]

:D Super Cuteness, Liger~

I'm trying to learn how to CG nicely with Photoshop, becuase there's no real blending mode

[Liger]

<3 Thanks guys.
I have found a use for OpenCanvas. Doing lineart in OC is so, so, SO much easier than Photoshop. I will now use it for lineart. Plus, it can save in .PSD format. HAPPINESS ABOUNDS.

Uh, anyways.



Not much. Just a boredom doodle. Coloring is so much fun-!

Yeah, Buddhu, think of coloring as kinda like painting. Set the opacity and flow a bit lower when you shade (Usually I use about opacity 90% and flow around 15-30%) And instead of using the eraser to clean up shading, unless you're going for the cel-shading sort of look (which I suck at, don't ask me for help on that XD), just set your second pallette color as your main base color and color over your mistake. If you have a tablet, ABUSE ABUSE ABUSE the pressure sensitivity XD. You can also gradually color over your shading abusing the opac/flow. It blends the colors nicely and believe me, looks much better than smudge/blur.

Oh yeah, and I would go into your brushes menu (on my screen it's that tab next to "File Browser") and set Brush Spacing to 1%. That's good both for smoother shading as well as neater lineart. Well, I find it so, anyways.

Yeah, and unless you're supar lazy, stay far, far away from the burn/dodge tool for shading/lighting respectively. I sometimes use the dodge/burn for coloring eyes, but that's it. They can sometimes make the colors more vivid or dark than you want. And more often than not it looks rather ugly ):.

Hope you find that somewhat helpful. Try to find a style of coloring you're comfortable with. The way I do it allows you to be rather messy and still be able to make it look pretty ok.

Oh, one more thing. When choosing colors for shading, try not to use colors from the same pallette (like shading red with dark red and so on). Try to use dark shades of different colors (Like shading red with dark violet). Unless the color you're working with is, Idunno, black or dark gray or whatever. In which case you probably want to shade with darker shades of said color, and do the lighting according to the background/surroundings. I think my explanation made very little sense. Oh well. But yeah, think color wheel/color triangle/color whatever the heck people learn in school these days ): I learned it as color wheel in elementary school, then come high school, my teacher was calling it a color triangle. Yeah whatever.

[Buddhu]

I have soo much trouble coloring with low opacity, though. :( I have to color with 100 percent for everything, because I have an unsteady hand, and it looks really terrible when I try to do it that way. It takes me an eternity to cg anything the way I do it, though >>

[Liger]

All I can say is practice XD. I don't really have a steady hand either. I found that if I drew the lines faster it's a bit easier to keep them neat. Oh, try zooming in around 400-600%, too.



I... really don't know. New character, I guess. His designs took forever to come up with. But I'm happy with them.

Egh, I hate drawing wings.

[Yuka]

I feel like that either he's too skinny or his legs are too long, Liger. Other then that, not bad. Nice coloring :D

[Liger]

I wanted it too look like his legs were skinny and long XD. Well. No, but it wasn't originally a gryphon-like thing. I was some thingy with huge teeth and yeah. Some abstract critter I made up ): But then I hated the way the face turned out, so I changed it to a beak. Yeah, oh well XD. Thanks.



[Shounen Onmyouji - Mokkun] I've never actually watched the anime XD. One of my friends likes it and asked me to draw the white furry ferret bunny thing from it. It was really cute. So I drew it. I think it's called Mokkun. I might be wrong.

Experimenting with OpenCanvas. I think I'm getting the hang of that watercolor tool. Eh, then again, maybe not.

[Shadow]

That's just awesome.

[Yuka]

Yeah, that thing is all like "RAWR BUENOOOO!!!" as it pounces onto an off-picture mouse or something. Pure win, Liger, pure win.

[Shadow]

"BUENOOOO!!!"?

[Liger]

BUENOOOO!

Spanglish hooray! D:

[Woof woof]

I BET YOU WERE TRICKED INTO THINKING I DREW A DOG. Um. I just wanted to see how horrible I am at drawing felines. Sad thing is? That's probably the best feline I've ever drawn in my entire life. Which is horrible. More OpenCanvas fun. Alright, I really like doing lineart like that. It was really fun. That's also the largest picture I've attempted in OpenCanvas. It's rather large. Something like 1176x1058 or something. I didn't even realize I made the canvas that big. Dammit, I gotta get used to the fact that my screen resolution is 1280x1024. EVERYTHING LOOKS SO SMALL DAMNIT. But I get more screen room. So that makes me happy. I think. The head is always the hardest part to shade ): Not that I follow a light source, anyways.

[Shadow]

I perfectly know what bueno means, since I speak spanish. It just sounds strange coming from people who doesn't.

The ears made me think it was some rabbit thing.

[Yuka]

I know what bueno means; I just refuse to use it correctly.