/loomis/ - Art Gains

>>1854

Krita is fucking amazing. I tried it like a year or so ago and hated it, then tried it again a few days and and it immediately became my favorite program. They really have been improving a shitload.

>>1855

A year ago it barely worked on my high-spec laptop but now it's great. It's come a long way. I can't wait for animation to be integrated (I've tried the beta but it seems to make it run a little slow again for me).

>>1813

I have one, it's nice.

>>1826

>>1827

I got a 610 Pro. The drivers now come with a CD. You just have to uninstall your previous Wacom driver in order for it to work. Mine was called "Bamboo".

>>1809

Is there an update on this now that it's out? Is it good?

>two different kind of overpriced wood pencils just because

Fam pls.

>>1524

Some of the recommendations are terrible.

>Office Printer Paper

Just get a sketchbook at your local art shop. It's cheaper and it's meant for drawing unlike printer paper.

>Electric Pencil Sharpener

The better and cheaper option would be a small metal sharpener that you use by hand.

>Huion

It's not as reliable as Wacom, but then again Wacom is expensive as fuck.

>No eraser

Sometimes the wood pencil erasers are absolute garbage. Get a reliable polyester eraser and/or a kneaded eraser.

>>1585

>Just get a sketchbook at your local art shop. It's cheaper and it's meant for drawing unlike printer paper.

There is no sketchbook paper that is anywhere near as cheap as printer paper. However I agree a sketchbook should be on there anyway.

>The better and cheaper option would be a small metal sharpener that you use by hand.

I don't know, I've had bad luck with them, my electric sharpener never fails.

>Huion

While I have an Intuos 5 large that I enjoy very much, I've used a Huion and they are actually quite good considering they're 1/3rd of the price.

>>No eraser

This is mostly a suggestion for a very very beginner whose work will not be worth salvaging in most cases.

>>1524

OP here.

I use school-tier notebooks, palomino manual sharpener, palomino blackwing and papermate mirado classics, and I did have paint tool sai.

Anything else, besides the book and tablet?

>>1741

>school-tier notebooks

Don't use lined paper fam, printer paper is cheap.

>palomino manual sharpener

Nothing wrong with that but maybe try sharpening a pencil manually with a knife or something. I just started doing that myself-it's actually pretty comfy and you can shape it to your liking (I usually leave the lead a cylinder shape and begin to draw with that, it eventually turns into a point on its own).

>palomino blackwing and papermate mirado classics

Blackwings are overpriced meme-pencils; I'd just use USA Gold or whatever low-cost brand you can find and invest in real charcoal pencils.

>>1744

Thanks for the advice

I was going to get more palominos but now I'm getting USA Gold

If you plan on getting the Huion Giano It'd probably be wise to wait a few days/weeks/months until it is available on amazon before getting it, then I think you'd get free shipping costs so you avoid having to pay an extra $20 something

>>2303

>>2306

I'm pretty much convinced at this point, but on the topic of Amazon, is there even the vaguest idea of when it could end up there?

While getting free shipping would be nice, I've been putting off buying a tablet for far too long, and I'd rather not wait another month or three before it ends up there or worse, have it end up getting a hefty price increase in the process.

>>2307

Upon a tiny bit of looking around, a post on their suggests it 'should' pop up in March or so.

Maybe I will wait.

>>2306

Unless they're adding $20 to the initial price, adding it to my cart doesn't seem to show any shipping costs; Perhaps actually trying to purchase it will change that, I dunno.

what's a good cheap tablet?

Foxes are nature's anorexics

well, apk where?

>>2541

Just google "Autodesk Sketchbook Pro apk" nigger I don't remember where I got it some shady blog site

>>2541

Samefag here

Nevermind here's a link to the one I installed, just uploaded

https://a.pomf.cat/fcehhz.apk

You're welcome for spoonfeeding

>>2544

This version should have every single brush and tool unlocked by default, as opposed to the Google Play version which puts it all behind a microtransaction.

>>1516

not exactly easy to aim higher when you've already have been stuck at the ground floor

plus i generally waste several months at a time on dumb abstract shit in order to compensate for being a talentless hack

Had an idea for a comic, decided to learn to draw.

Funny enough since I've started learning (3 years ago now, art is just starting to look halfway acceptable) my writing has significantly improved and the concept for the comic has completely changed.

Originally it was about a zombie chick walking around a psychedelic wasteland and completing random tasks. It's currently a comedy about a dude who looks like he came out of Stalker in a desert wasteland killing ghosts and anomalies for cash.

My major struggle at this time is figuring out how to balance realism and stylization. I made the early on mistake of animu as inspiration.

Thankfully I've wriggled out of that hole somewhat by drawing noses and lips that aren't just a line.

>>410

i want to draw what i want to see, i am just getting tired of a lot of art

Well I got it now but it don't work right. I tried GIMP and the pressure sensitivity doesn't work. It's just one solid line. The opacity and size doesn't change no matter how hard or light I press. It works just fine in the configuration tool for the tablet. I tried Photoshop CS6 and it only makes a dot, then wherever I draw once I lift the pen off the tablet it creates a straight line from the first dot to the last position of the pen on the tablet.

nvm fixed it

>>2514

Don't use GIMP; get this instead

https://krita.org/

>>2516

A tablet is an investment that will last years; a bad one could potentially set you put you off drawing forever. Don't be afraid to spend a couple hundred dollars on something like that.

The best place to start is not in the MEGA, but in this video. After practicing these exercises HARD, consider giving "Fun with a Pencil" a try

>>2487

I know you're probably going for the anime aesthetic and this is more /co/ but I'm just using this as an example. There are tons of artists out there to choose from. All you'll needs is a handful of characters with a few high resolution stills of poses/expressions/clothing options each and a few larger pieces of unique splash art. Super, super doable - you just have to find the right person for the job, I just don't know if a contest on an unfortunately dying imageboard is the right way to find that person.

Traffic has supposedly halved since late last year :(

>>2453

http://hslpicker.com/

Oh shit, this is tight. I never thought about separating lightness and saturation, although it seems obvious now.

The way you talk about color theory just makes me realize how much work I need to get done! :)

>>2454

Not bad, I feel like the protrusion of the chin and angle of the nose may throw off some of the other features though.The chin is sticking out in a manner that suggests she's tilting her head up slightly but her stage-right eye and eyebrow implies a more straight ahead look.

Rollroll

>>527

>tfw still no stable mac version

>>2216

>having a mac

Found ur problem m8

>>2411

Good lord

How much did you charge?

How long did it take you?

That's actually a pretty solid animation for its purpose. The animation itself is very limited but I'm sure it still took you a lot of time.

Let me put it this way. It looks like you're working on behalf of a lawyer. Lawyers make a lot of money by providing a service that not a lot of people can do, you have to understand that you provided a service to him that not a lot of people can do, don't sell yourself short because you're hurting yourself and you're hurting the rest of us when you do so as well.