I don't know if that's the title I should have given the thread, all I know is since I got the tablet I wasn't able to finish one single peace of anything in Photoshop.
It's just too confusing, I got the lower pen button as the eraser and the upper one as right click, I start up Photoshop, I fill the background with some color and when I'm starting to do something, I get stuck somewhere.
I don't know what my Photoshop layout should look like, I don't know any painting techniques because I never used Photoshop in that way, I don't know anything, I can't blend colors, I try smudging, blurring, whatever, it always fails.
I need tips, I need help, I bought the tablet so I could do digital art. I'm mild good at pencil in my own way, but I can't seem to do anything close to it in photoshop because I don't know any techniques. Everything feels so weird.
Thanks.
My god I think nobody wants to read that.
Put spaces between your text. Not just a singular huge line.
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You'll get used to it, that's all
Everyone had problems getting used to tablets =)
Here's one way that you can do it.
Select the brush tool, and open up the "brush window". Make your settings look like these windows, and change the toolbar at the top of your screen to these specifications. You can increase or decrease the opacity depending on how many times you want to go over a specific pixel.
[img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/possiblesettings.png[/img]
[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;19079490]Here's one way that you can do it.
Select the brush tool, and open up the "brush window". Make your settings look like these windows, and change the toolbar at the top of your screen to these specifications. You can increase or decrease the opacity depending on how many times you want to go over a specific pixel.[/QUOTE]
Do what exactly? Blend colors?
Thanks to all the replies, also, Wheeze is right, sorry about that.
I'd throw together a quick-tip thing, but I'm kinda working. I'll subscribe to the thread and see if I can't answer any specific questions as they come up.
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my first word of advice is to not start from scratch. If you've got some sketches or something scanned on your computer, try tinkering around and tracing them to get a feel for the motions.
[QUOTE=DarkSpirit05er;19079812]Do what exactly? Blend colors?
Thanks to all the replies, also, Wheeze is right, sorry about that.[/QUOTE]
Yea, I should've specified blending colors. I use this setting all of the time when i'm just using my laptop's "touch pad". Of course, it can't read it's pressure sensitivity, but that's just unfortunate.
Oh, and if Wheeze can't read a single paragraph without going "TL:DR", I believe he might have ADHD. Seriously, that is just sad.
Practise, lots
[QUOTE=daijitsu;19079819]I'd throw together a quick-tip thing, but I'm kinda working. I'll subscribe to the thread and see if I can't answer any specific questions as they come up.
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my first word of advice is to not start from scratch. If you've got some sketches or something scanned on your computer, try tinkering around and tracing them to get a feel for the motions.[/QUOTE]
When you're finished I'd appreciate the "quick-tip thing" please. :D
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[QUOTE=DaveP;19079918]Practise, lots[/QUOTE]
I can't practice when I can't do something in the screen. I just get stuck not knowing how to do something, a bit weird to explain. I know what I want to do, but I don't know enough about Photoshop painting to actually do it.
Don't worry man, I can guarantee you that all the digital paint artists here on Fp and probably everywhere know exactly how you feel and what you're going through. We've all experienced it, are experiencing it, or will experience it. Now that you know you aren't alone:
What helped me when I went through a period of idea-less-ness is doing portraits and copies of great works or friends, It's a great way to practice and you'd feel the need to complete it if you're doing something for a friend. Plus it's extremely simple.
Another thing that helped me was just doing sketches and what not, not worrying about colour or lighting or anything, just take a basic brush and sketch the heck out of your tablet. (or your sketchbook).
Hope that helps, I'm sure other artists here will tell you better advice. But that's what helped me.
here's a nice little tutorial I did a while back. Try out the concepts explained, even if you're not doing an eye. You learn a few things from it. :D
[media]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/362/3/f/Eyes_Tutorial_by_daijitsu.jpg[/media]
[url=http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs24/i/2007/365/7/1/The_Heavy_by_daijitsu.jpg](final result of that drawing, kinda flat)[/url]
[url=http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs23/i/2007/358/0/e/The_Scout_by_daijitsu.jpg](the eternally more popular Scout, as seen on 4chan, several leech deviant art/sheezy art accounts, and photobuckets worldwide.)[/url]
if you want some lineart to practice this on, feel free to trace over anything from my deviant art- daijitsu.deviantart.com
...or if you want to do the eyes tutorial on eyes, go ahead and use this one-
[media]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/267/2/2/inking_style_testing_by_daijitsu.jpg[/media]
...just remember to grayscale it (CTRL+U, turn saturation down). it was originally tinted to blend into deviant art's old background.
Could always try something like artrage. It's got a very simple interface and is just good fun.
Thanks for those tutorials, and I'll give artrage a try, and that Paint Tool SAI and Corel Painter.
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