What does the Intuos have that a Bamboo Fun doesn't have? I got my medium Bamboo Fun for $80 second hand and it's working great!
The intuos medium is bigger than the bamboo fun, it has the fancy buttons on the side, double the movement resolution, double the pressure levels, tilt sensitivity, eraser, and longer warranty from what I can tell. I used to have the bamboo fun and i really didn't like it, but I love the intuos.
having a medium-sized tablet was so good for me because i could stretch it across both of my monitors while still having higher sensitivity than my small tablet did on a single monitor. god-send if i want to put my taskbars/windows for photoshop on the second monitor to give me more work space on the main monitor. really good for work flow
a mate of mine has the intuos5 medium too and the amount of stuff he can do with the side buttons is pretty cool. i never really bother to learn them but he has them mapped to various different things dependent on what program is being used. so he can use his tablet on 3ds/cs5/cinema4D/unity and have the shortcuts change every time he alt+tabs between the programs
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;38518436]having a medium-sized tablet was so good for me because i could stretch it across both of my monitors while still having higher sensitivity than my small tablet did on a single monitor. god-send if i want to put my taskbars/windows for photoshop on the second monitor to give me more work space on the main monitor. really good for work flow
a mate of mine has the intuos5 medium too and the amount of stuff he can do with the side buttons is pretty cool. i never really bother to learn them but he has them mapped to various different things dependent on what program is being used. so he can use his tablet on 3ds/cs5/cinema4D/unity and have the shortcuts change every time he alt+tabs between the programs[/QUOTE]
I tend to use my old Graphire4 for my second monitor
I can just slide the pen between the Bamboo Fun and Graphire and it works pretty well!
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[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;38511113]The first one looks great, but your figures are holding your work back so badly man[/QUOTE]
Thanks!
I'm not too concerned about the anatomy at the moment. I really want to improve my understanding of anatomy but at the moment the figures are there more to show scale than contribute to any narrative. All my paintings at present are just environmental practice for form, lighting, tone, etc
[QUOTE=Robbobin;38510425]I want to be a professional illustrator, does that count? Maybe I should hold off though, hmm. :c
[editline]19th November 2012[/editline]
Thanks for the tipoff about reddit btw, I'll look into it.
[editline]19th November 2012[/editline]
looking into an intuos instead, now. I have a volito2 from ages ago, but its just so teeny tiny.[/QUOTE]
idk much about tablet and stuff myself but I trust this dude a lot:
[URL]http://frenden.com/yiynova-budget-cintiq-alternative/[/URL]
the article basically says yiynova has a better (and bigger) screen than cintiq, less cursor lag ((but it doesn't work well or at all with OSX)) and costs a lot less, but you lose some of the viewing angles and the drivers that come with the yiynova are hit and miss, along with some of the panels being crap whilst others perform amazingly
[QUOTE=D3TBS;38514397]oh man, I made so many of those in china, when I was in a summer school for a week or so, Id do stuff in like, A2 it was huge. Then when I came back here, all my drawings were lost. Oh well.
Anyway, how big are your drawings how? Ive had people ask me a lot about cross hatching, I usually just tell them to follow the shape and feel of the object being drawn. Its kinda vague but I really cant explain it better[/QUOTE]
That's not cross-hatching, it's contouring.
Getting deja vu here
[QUOTE=Maloof?;38518457]
Thanks!
I'm not too concerned about the anatomy at the moment. I really want to improve my understanding of anatomy but at the moment the figures are there more to show scale than contribute to any narrative. All my paintings at present are just environmental practice for form, lighting, tone, etc[/QUOTE]
But that's the point, your figures are breaking the scale and perspective of your landscapes since they're so out of proportion in themselves. In your pieces without figures I don't think about it, but where there is one or more the eye immediately picks up on that doorway being wrong or that pathway being too small or that railing too low, or whatever it might be.
As far as the scenes themselves are concerned you're improving for sure (well it'd be criminal if you didn't, considering how many of them you work on)
Have another boring soldier dude, guys.
[IMG]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/329/4/a/peacekeeper_by_skoparov-d5lmz37.png[/IMG]
I'm thinking of getting a laptop so that I can work on paintings wherever instead of having to be in the uni labs or at home in my room.
Does anybody have any advice on what's best in terms of screens? I'm looking at spending $1200NZD max and I don't want something with really awful colour or that's really glare-prone
[URL="http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=c&p=laptops"]This is the store I'm looking at buying from[/URL]
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[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;38519330]
But that's the point, your figures are breaking the scale and perspective of your landscapes since they're so out of proportion in themselves. In your pieces without figures I don't think about it, but where there is one or more the eye immediately picks up on that doorway being wrong or that pathway being too small or that railing too low, or whatever it might be.
As far as the scenes themselves are concerned you're improving for sure (well it'd be criminal if you didn't, considering how many of them you work on)[/QUOTE]
Ah I sort of see what you mean
I don't think the figure in the foreground of that top image is too incorrect
I kinda hate that they only accept cross-hatching at my place. No Contour, Smooth, or whatever.
"Not cross-hatching? Disqualified!"
And the fact that I've been smooth-shading for over 9 years doesn't help, either.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;38519942]I'm thinking of getting a laptop so that I can work on paintings wherever instead of having to be in the uni labs or at home in my room.
Does anybody have any advice on what's best in terms of screens? I'm looking at spending $1200NZD max and I don't want something with really awful colour or that's really glare-prone
[URL="http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=c&p=laptops"]This is the store I'm looking at buying from[/URL]
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
Ah I sort of see what you mean
I don't think the figure in the foreground of that top image is too incorrect[/QUOTE]
All of the figures in that particular one are snowmen
:v:
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
I'd say you have a bit of snowman syndrome running through all of your people actually
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;38520714]All of the figures in that particular one are snowmen
:v:
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
I'd say you have a bit of snowman syndrome running through all of your people actually[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;ubeVUnGQOIk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeVUnGQOIk[/video]
Haha, how do you mean snowmen?
funnily I saw the entire uncut version of The Snowman only yesterday. It's so good
And I mean it looks like they're made of snow instead of limbs and so on :v:
Anyway, I've been a bit slack, meant to start posting something every page but I've fallen behind already. Here's some sketchy sketches, more to come.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/n3PrQ.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Ctc7n.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J76dm.jpg[/t]
Thumbed because I didn't think they were so huge, but do click the bottom one at least cause you can't see too well, cheers.
Here, have some practice shit.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/BbnMD.jpg[/t]
It's supposed to be M. C. Escher's "Eye", which I've displayed below, minus the skull. It's not finished, but I'm proud of it because I've hardly ever touched charcoal.
[t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tp4_mTSJKtQ/T0_f-5chShI/AAAAAAAAAA4/p4BlPPYpvvw/s1600/mc_escher__s_eye_by_xxx_ellie-d36912u.jpg[/t]
Man, I still need to work on that eyelid. It looks way too... foldy. Whatever that means.
Anyway, I did this because I wanted to practice drawing an eye. That is all.
kirbykirbykirby
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/kirbeh.png[/IMG]
here's an updated version:
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/thenightmareofdreamland.png[/img]
Too much Silent Hunter III
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/jFVno.jpg[/img_thumb]
Needs more specular reflection on the water.
Much more.
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
+ That fire isn't bright enough.
Yeah, maybe. I figured that in rough water, the reflection would be broken up so much that it wouldn't have much of a reflection at all.
Maybe I under-did it
[QUOTE=salmonmarine;38524359]Yeah, maybe. I figured that in rough water, the reflection would be broken up so much that it wouldn't have much of a reflection at all.
Maybe I under-did it[/QUOTE]
Maybe. But in this case, the sky is still quite bright as well as the fire.
Or that's just your brush used on the water was a bit big.
I wouldn't put much specular from the sky in there, because it looks pretty overcast and dispersed
I'd put a fair amount from the fire though
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49828537/paints/hillcarlights.jpg[/IMG]
First refpaint... Opinions?
Fuuuuuuuuuu, got some prints from my uni's su print shop thinking they can't be [I]that bad.[/I] Went for 2 A2 prints (£6 each), and jesus motherfucking christ. They came out so bad you could hardly make out lines and white artifacts everywhere, despite the guy working there insisting there was nothing I could do to optimise them for printing.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting quality prints, but it would've been nice for the prints to at least pretend to represent what it was supposed to rather than some dark brown shitty mess. The A4 prints I got previously were fairly cheap (~£3 each if I recall), used exactly the same image to print from, and came out really nice.
So yeah, the moral of the story is, don't risk money on cheap prints :D
Did you bring your own paper?
-snip I'm blind or some shit-
um [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1160368[/url]
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
it doesn't look like much, but 3d art depends loads on where it'll get used and the context of the object
Just finished making my new business cards!
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003244/visitkort.jpg[/img]
with text or without? (this is for some cover art kinda thing, but the person who wants it isn't very sure!)
[IMG]http://localhostr.com/files/nAZZosR/yn.png[/IMG]
or is it shit anyway
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;38519330]That's not cross-hatching, it's contouring.
Getting deja vu here[/QUOTE]
Not exactly contouring but I see where youre coming from. Theres a lot of ways to crosshatch. You can make it perpendicular (which I really hate and try to avoid, it kills the flow of the drawing), you can make simple lines or you can make balls or whatever you want, as long as overlapping lines give you the idea of shadow. I do loose lines, but these lines follow the shape and feel of the object. I think contouring is more just make lines around until you get the shape, sort of like bank note portraits.
Anyway, tomorrow Im gonna print some stuff that I posted here, frame it and leave it around the city. Kinda tired of the "sell on the internet" thing
[QUOTE=Robbobin;38526820]Fuuuuuuuuuu, got some prints from my uni's su print shop thinking they can't be [I]that bad.[/I] Went for 2 A2 prints (£6 each), and jesus motherfucking christ. They came out so bad you could hardly make out lines and white artifacts everywhere, despite the guy working there insisting there was nothing I could do to optimise them for printing.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting quality prints, but it would've been nice for the prints to at least pretend to represent what it was supposed to rather than some dark brown shitty mess. The A4 prints I got previously were fairly cheap (~£3 each if I recall), used exactly the same image to print from, and came out really nice.
So yeah, the moral of the story is, don't risk money on cheap prints :D[/QUOTE]
You always want to do a little test strip first!
I dunno what happened, I tried to fuse a gorilla and a giraffe and then I guess the whole thing just fell flat. 1920x720. Any Ideas on how I can fix it.
[QUOTE][IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18266801/Drawings/2011_girarilla.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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