need help - few quick quastions

[xLonewolfx]

common i didnt ask for money

just few words:sad:

[Leaters]

Get a Wacom.. that will solve all that ales you.

[tobyWong]

I only know one person that can draw with a mouse. Get a wacom tablet if you want to draw on the computer It will save you from frustration- And the're hella fun :)

Opacity of the brush is personal preferance-

I use usually use

40% for sketching

80% for colors

and 90-100% for outlines

always with wet edges on :)

Peace,
-Toby

[Kirt]

1.are u ppl usualy use refs?
I use references everytime I draw something I'm not familiar with or I'm having difficulties with a pose. However, I usually start each picture with several rough thumbnails or sketches. This lets me identify problems early in the process.

2.are u using hyper pan or regular mouse?
I use a Wacom for coloring but still do my sketching and layouts on paper with a pencil. I just can't let go of the traditional tools because I like the way it feels. Maybe in the future I'll work completely with digital tools, but I doubt it.

3.how do u make your lines so cureved? i find it very hard with my mouse
I wouldn't try making a curve or straight line with a mouse. Royal pain in the ass if you ask me. Well ... OK, a straight line isn't that big of a problem. But, drawing anything with a mouse is a hundred more times more difficult than doing it with a Wacom or on paper.

4.what opacity of a brush should i work with?
This is really a matter of preference and technique. It's kind of like asking what color socks do you wear. Know what I mean? You can use whatever opacity that you feel gets the job done.

and if u can please post some progress of one (or more) of ur work explaining what u do and what tools u used
Check out the WIP Challenge threads that just started. If you see something that you want to know more about, just ask the artist. Pretty easy to learn a thing or two there. Also, enter the challenge and you'll find the other artists are more than willing to help you out with your own illustration.

[xLonewolfx]

thank u very much ppl!!

:thumbsup:

[Tommy Lee]

Check out the WIP Challenge threads that just started. If you see something that you want to know more about, just ask the artist. Pretty easy to learn a thing or two there. Also, enter the challenge and you'll find the other artists are more than willing to help you out with your own illustration.

Thats right buddy!!!!!!

[xLonewolfx]

i have 1 more quastion

how can u make draws without a ref?

any tips of how to set the colors and light to look realistic?


can u ppl post here works without any refs?

:bounce:

[Tommy Lee]

To ya question:

Go outside and look at everything exactly. Nature is the best teacher of lightning. Without references ya can´t learn lightning or shading.

Make Photos of different things and draw them off. For example:

Take a coffecup and an ashtray(not a glass one!!!). Place them on a table and light them with a lamp for example from the right. Make a photo and draw it off or draw it off directly.
While time´s passing by take more complex objects.. and so on.

That should help for beginning with lightning and shading.

I nearly never use reference. Just when i need a twisted pose of a humeanlike creature I took a photo of my girlfriend for reference.

Browse my threads for nonref images.

Cheerz:beer:

Tommy Lee

PS: Sorry for my poor english:D

[xLonewolfx]

thanx man

i get to stare alot of things and trying to figure the light and colors

guess im talking too much without trying anything

ill better start drawing and see how it goes but first i need a pen =|

i have a track ball and i can make a simple cureved line with it

:beer:

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