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tentacledicks) wrote2019-01-04 05:44 pm
tentacledicks) wrote2019-01-04 05:44 pm
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thinking about painting
Thinking specifically about digital painting because I haven't dicked around with traditional materials in... over a year I want to say? I have some india inks I need to break into again, though I want to pick up some masking fluid before I really go after that again, it's a fucking lifesaver, but all my acryllics are dead. So that's not my ballpark anymore I guess.
But digitally... I dunno, there's a couple methods that people seem to really find workable that just don't click with me? I know art's always about learning and growing and whatever, but it's annoying as hell to see a method that seems to work perfectly for everyone else but you, and you can't figure out what it is that makes it go off when you try it.
Wait, I'm digging up a video for exactly the method I'm thinking of too.
There are so many high level artists in the spheres I follow, especially and specifically digital painters that work with realism, that recommend the greyscale values > color overlay method of digital painting. And it just! Doesn't! Click with me! At all! I've tried it, oh I've tried it, but I tend to pick colors by eye, which makes for a hell of a thing when the overlay changes the color as you apply it, and inevitably it feels cartoonishly saturated or washed out as fuck. It's aggravating!
As far as I can tell, it's not even necessarily that the method is bad (it isn't, I'm just bad at it lol) it's just... it won't click. Some things have for me; the square brushes for chunkier paint strokes that make things a little more bold? Oh fuck yes I love my square brushes, best suggestion I've ever taken. Using filters? Color adjustment layers? Painting directly over the lines if you're planning to go Paint (tm) at all? I can, like, use all of that.
But damn, if sometimes, shit just doesn't fly for me. Greyscale > color is one. A lot of the recommendations for more fluid and cartoony action are another, I just can't stylize out to cartoony stuff at fucking all, it's hard as hell. Masking properly. Stuff like that. And there's something really goddamn annoying about it not clicking, but I guess that's why you have to try it anyways, right? Just in case? Just to see?
But digitally... I dunno, there's a couple methods that people seem to really find workable that just don't click with me? I know art's always about learning and growing and whatever, but it's annoying as hell to see a method that seems to work perfectly for everyone else but you, and you can't figure out what it is that makes it go off when you try it.
Wait, I'm digging up a video for exactly the method I'm thinking of too.
There are so many high level artists in the spheres I follow, especially and specifically digital painters that work with realism, that recommend the greyscale values > color overlay method of digital painting. And it just! Doesn't! Click with me! At all! I've tried it, oh I've tried it, but I tend to pick colors by eye, which makes for a hell of a thing when the overlay changes the color as you apply it, and inevitably it feels cartoonishly saturated or washed out as fuck. It's aggravating!
As far as I can tell, it's not even necessarily that the method is bad (it isn't, I'm just bad at it lol) it's just... it won't click. Some things have for me; the square brushes for chunkier paint strokes that make things a little more bold? Oh fuck yes I love my square brushes, best suggestion I've ever taken. Using filters? Color adjustment layers? Painting directly over the lines if you're planning to go Paint (tm) at all? I can, like, use all of that.
But damn, if sometimes, shit just doesn't fly for me. Greyscale > color is one. A lot of the recommendations for more fluid and cartoony action are another, I just can't stylize out to cartoony stuff at fucking all, it's hard as hell. Masking properly. Stuff like that. And there's something really goddamn annoying about it not clicking, but I guess that's why you have to try it anyways, right? Just in case? Just to see?
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i find that more work than its worth tho? this is coming from someone with a traditional background, but i like working with low opacity brushes in washes of color most of the time and build up the color where i need it
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(My comfort zone is pinky on the Alt key for eyedropping and 100% opacity painbrushes because I like to live on the edge I guess, but I lose a lot of the really soft lighting that I desire muchly to emulate, so BACK TO THE ARTING BOARD IT IS, I GUESS.)