I don’t really mean to finish it, Dr. Kane and it’s not a project or anything - it was just experimentation. lol
But here is the finished image based off the original sketch using a wacom. The mouse version has horrible mutated pixel effects and stuff.
http://www.geocities.com/rebeccatreadway/rethonafinish.jpg
I’m not happy with his lower lip. It was supposed to be “straighter”
I’ve been learning to paint to supplement my 3d skills and just finished my first digital piece… was gonna post in finished work, but i think here is more appropriate.
Before that was a lot of sketches and tutorial stuff used in the learning process. I want to thank all you tutorial makers out there, I never would have made it this far without you guys! 
Wow, thanks guys. 
There’s still some issues with the coloring in there, it’s not quite as good as the work in the finished gallery (which is ultimately where I’d like to be), so I was a bit too shy to post there. Here’s the process, it might proove insightful… and it includes a really bad first coloring attempt.
Somewhere in the process, things just “clicked” and started to fall into place. After reading the recent tutorial on portrait sketching, I realised that all the while I had been concentrating too much on getting to the finish line and worrying how it would look. The breakthrough for me, was to not bother about proportions, pose or how it looks but to just work at light and shadow without thinking about anything else. The first coloring attempt was trying to do too much at one time, and it just ended up being a mess.
It was quite an amazing breakthrough for me to suddenly be painting like this, the difference is quite staggering. Hopefully my breakthrough and the self-analysis above can help another beginner reach theirs…
EDIT: The next thing to work on is detailing and hard edges I guess… everything is pretty smudgy atm.
:applause: I really like it, it looks really dynamic, your process is admirable, I like your development. The initial sketch is very fresh. I enjoy good sketches a lot. I wanna see what you will make in 5 years from now.
Here’s what I consider to be my first effort…done back in the day…started out as a traditional oil painting copy of a painting by Odd Nerdrum, then got photographed, scanned, and completely redone in Photoshop. Boy, can I see lot of mistakes now…
[left]Meh, I’m a nice girl, I just like wierd paintings. :)[/left]
[left]~Rebeccak[/left]
Here you go… vintage 1994 work… first of 8 illustrations for a computer art class project (college level) based on classic and modern illustrations (and in some cases, tellings) of traditional fables.
I first drew the illustrations on paper. Then, on a specially allotted date and time, all students who needed it got access to a flatbed scanner to scan in their hand-drawn images. After that, I used the class’s long-forgotten, no-name Mac-based painting program to touch up and fill in the color (mouse-only, no layers).
After all of the illustrations were done, they were loaded into a multimedia display program of some sort (May have had “Lillypad” or “Frog” in the title) for display (testing this application was the driving force behind the project), and that was that!
Of course, I have no way of showing my really early work… I remember using a GIANT drawing tablet (can’t remember the name of the company… it wasn’t KoalaPad) and accompanying paint program to copy characters from the NES Super Mario Bros game onto my (now defunct) Commodore 64. I used black-and-white enlarged pixel illustrations from the game manual for pixel placement, and screen images from the game/manual for color reference.
They came out looking quite nice (especially the red & green Koopa Troopas ), but I don’t remember if I saved the work, or where I saved it if I did. And I really don’t have any way to find the image on the 5.25" disks, or load it into anything if I could find it. :shrug:
P.S. - Of course, I would pick this thread to post my first image on CGTalk… :rolleyes:
This is my first one from a while ago never actually took the time to try and finish it, dind’t knew nothing about painting.(not much now either :P)
Im also trying to learn painting to supplement my 3d.
My first 2 scketches… also first time with a graphic tablet.
Oz Haver: Thanks for your vote of confidence! I set my goals pretty high, but truthfully, if I could paint half as well as you, Luna, or any of the many wonderful artists on cgtalk, I’d be extremely happy.
I used to draw in MSPaint… 
I think I was eleven when I did this one, couldn’t find an older image.
This was supposed to be Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter book series (I was so addicted those days)
Wow. You were all so good from the beginning. I now remember that the one I posted wasn’t acutally my first digital painting. I drew naked women in MSPaint looong time ago.
Well I did a lot of sketches before I did my first actual paintings (e.g. the point where I dared to call them that) here’s my first sketch:
the first serious thing must be this:
(it’s not a paintover as such, but it’s an exact copy of a photo by Adrian Belusic)
Played with the filters on a scanned pic. First digital art by me
And this is the first thing I drew with a tablet. Done a month or so after the first pic in 2002.
I am very new to the whole digital painting , heres my first fully done by me thingie majingie
^
clicky that to see it
when i first got my paws on Photoshop 6…
first there was this then it became this…
(ahh good ol’ smudge tool. heh)
and now, after working with my wacom tablet… i have NO IDEA anymore how i did that with a mouse! (took a while.) 
I have been doing art compulsively and obsessively for years and years and years, so when I switched to digital I sort of had a handicap. Practice makes perfect, but perfect is unreacheable in itself, so all we can do is keep practicing, everyone no matter how good they are still try and strive to get better. But believe in yourself and have patience too! The learning rythm and the process is different for everyone.
