A R T I S T S - picture posts

[Randis]

In my Impression DA was never much of a site that is focusing on practice, development but rather a place where people simply present their artworks. If you are after progress then a smaller art community will do better.
i am running one, feel free to check it out, lots of nice and friendly artists there and talent. There is art database with tutorial videos, demos and so on... And there are monthly study activities, challenges...
http://wecookart.com/forum/index.php
As for the custom brushes, you can make your own easily, google for some custom brush tutorial of PS.
I would not rely on them however, i hardly use any at all.

[MiNuN]

@nocks I would love to see your final piece on unique ffxiv media thread ^.^;;

[Mikita]

Everyone here has inspired me to pick up the Intuos 4 and try again! ^^

Last night I started on a picture of a FF14 friend. It's only lines so far, but I'll practice cleaning it up and coloring next.

Since we can't post images it's a link to my Lodestone blog.
(Sorry it's in Japanese this time -- I usually do bilingual posts, but I was feeling lazy this morning).

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=156808


I think Randis is right -- it will just take getting used to the disconnect between tablet and monitor, but there are definitely benefits to going digital for artwork.
One very nice thing I've noticed so far -- it's great being able to erase so cleanly on a digital canvas! ^^

I usually use Photoshop for imaging, but for drawing I'm trying to use Paint Tool SAI which has some very nice features -- especially being able to rotate the canvas more freely than in Photoshop.

[Randis]

i also recommend the app Open Canvas 1, the 1.1 version is old but its free and has cool features such as canvas rotation in real time, network paint mode, painting progress recoding and its less than 1 mb in size. It lacks all sorts of adjustment features and is only good for painting practice.

[n0cks]

In my Impression DA was never much of a site that is focusing on practice, development but rather a place where people simply present their artworks. If you are after progress then a smaller art community will do better.
i am running one, feel free to check it out, lots of nice and friendly artists there and talent. There is art database with tutorial videos, demos and so on... And there are monthly study activities, challenges...
http://wecookart.com/forum/index.php
As for the custom brushes, you can make your own easily, google for some custom brush tutorial of PS.
I would not rely on them however, i hardly use any at all.

I'll check it up.
I was using DA because many people also upload their tutorials, and many of these have come in handy to me.

@nocks I would love to see your final piece on unique ffxiv media thread ^.^;;

Sure.. unless I totally mess it up >.<
I'll try to do some more coloring tomorrow ^^

[Shelia]

@OP: I kind of already started a thread... Oh well.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Fan-Art-Thread

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On a side note, though... your pieces are really nice. did you take any professional classes (college, private art classes, etc.)?

[Randis]

@ Shelia

I have seen it, but your thread is about FF fanart, this one is focused on the artists and does not have to be FF related at all. I much love to see original work.
I did not study art but i learned some things from some other artists when i was young, later when i started working for Game Studios and publishers i leaned a great deal more and widened my service to 3D, art direction, animation , SFX, composting and cut, Photography.

[Shaolin]

I doodle sometimes when I'm bored. Here's sketch of an anime character. ^^ Gold Star for those who know which anime char it is lol

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9...0691511720.jpg

In case you couldn't guess it
http://myanimelist.net/character/14944/Hime_Yarisakura

[MiNuN]

^Got that ^^;;

[n0cks]

As for the resolution, it is always best to work in print resolution, i usually always have my images 20 inch high or wide at 300 DPI.

I just set it to 200"x200" at 300DPI... and each image 10,1Gb!! Do you really work with this resolution?