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I'm not very good at updating this thing. Or submitting art regularly.
It was my birthday on the 11th, and the notable thing about this is that I was given a Wacom Intuos4 for said birthday. I am excited to draw and colour for the first time in ages, just to see how much it improves my digital colouring and what have you. It feels really smooth, like I have more control. But it needs more playing with. And since I am now class-free for 3 months, I look forward to doing this. Hopefully. Oh god please let me produce something worth finishing. 8|
In other news, my subscription ran out, and while I miss the extra thumbs per page, I don't particularly feel like paying DA to totally and utterly fail to respond to TOS and copyright violation reports. I don't think I've had a single response on one for at least a year. When this is on obvious things such as explicit pornography and things that are clearly movie stills and actor/model photos, this is incredibly piss-weak.
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Also, if you don't mind me asking, how is the transition from using traditional media to using a tablet? I'm interested in getting one myself, but I want to make sure it's going to be something I can still make decent work on.
Well, I had the Graphire4... or was it 5. I don't know. But I've had that one since 2006, and it was fine, but the Intuos has a much more natural cartridge paper texture to the active area, so it feels as though you have a lot more control.
The transition is strange and difficult at first - looking at the screen rather than your hand and what the pen is directly touching. But you gradually get used to it. Doing clean, straight lines is a pain, mostly I colour, or if I do digital lines, it's slow, and done really zoomed in. Though I now have SAI and Manga Studio, which have handy correction settings that will correct odd little bumps into smooth curves.
In getting a tablet, definitely get Wacom, they are undeniably the best. And get the size that's round about A5 - they used to be 8x5 but they're a little different now that widescreen has become standard. But any smaller and it's going to be really awkward. The Bamboo (what the Graphire is now known as), I hear it's still good for beginners and people who want to see what they're like without spending a lot of money on them. As it is, the Intuos costs a good $500AUD, seeing as that's the step up - the only step up from that is the Cintiq, which only true professionals can really afford and justify, what with drawing directly onto an LCD screen. I WISH. The main differences in Bamboo and In tuos is that the Intuos has far more pressure sensitivity levels and neat short-cut buttons and so on, and the Bamboo is no longer marketed as a quality artist's tool, but as a kind of home/office creative novelty. Which is a pity. But it still does what it's supposed to and they're much more affordable.
I've only been informed of one deviation removed that I reported and that was someone copied and posted some Eminem lyrics because "someone requested it"
2) Subs are overrated
3) New tablet is win!
4) Looking forward to new artses, I need them right now. Srsly. Inspiration plox. I have not drawn anything in months!!!!
Also. Get skype woman!
Your work is surely missed and a belated happy birthday to you. Congratulations on the awesome gift. Hopefully we will get to see some work in the future. ^_^
I hope to submit more now that I'm on break, but we'll see - art is kind of... I just don't enjoy it any more, it just frustrates and discourages me. But with no assignments to worry about for the time being, maybe it won't be so forced.