How to paint...

Ah.... I am such a klutz at painting. Among other things, of course, but i'm moaning about painting right now.... Been failing Art classes at painting and design forever... But I got an A at still art on my very last Art exam! =D

Anyway, I've just discovered the world of micro drawing... zooming in until everything is pixelated and then pushing and pulling the colours here and there to make sharp and soft tones.

That's the bad thing about digital art. It's big. There's more to draw. And there's more flaws to see with the zoom key on most browsers.

Thought about using colour pencils - at one point I was SO OBSESSED with wanting to buy a set of Faber Castell Watercolour pencils. Then I realized it probably wouldn't look nice when scanned in. And certainly no one uses traditional art for game art!

I'd finished smudging some really nice shine on Tio's hair, when i realised my tablet was some much sharper than before. Yep, I used too much force, wearing away and sharpening my PLASTIC pen nib. Dang, must be more careful. What's more, the smudge tool that i was using DIDN'T EVEN HAVE PEN PRESSURE CONTROL ON!!! What the hell was i pressing so hard for!!!

I still got some 5mm of plastic nib left before it's officially an unsalvageable blunt end. I would need another tablet then... Hopefully my current one will last two years... I'm on a technology hiatus, see, no point upgrading my workbench when I'm not gonna use it for a good two years. =( Hopefully tablet prices have fallen much by then! I know I can get tablets 25% larger than my current one for the same price at which i bought it at back then. Which was like only nearly one year ago. Not Wacom. It's Genius - some taiwan brand that works remarkably well even at half the price of the western Wacom brand that EVERYONE [literally, every single tutorial/deviant-artist out there uses Wacom] uses.

Sometimes, I find my own art so adorable i just wanna hug it. But I can't, since it's well ... 2d. I wonder if it's a coincidence that a certain character more often than not, ends up being drawn/painted better than any other character. It's like selectively inspirational painting or something. =0 Highlights does wonders for fleshing up art.

I really want to work on my painting skills, but obviously i can't do that with a comic strip - each panel will take forever to paint. Like now. But then... if i do a big single frame shot and i mess up the high quality line art with another suck oil painting, i might kill myself even more. Hmm... heck, just see what another stuff i think up next and just paint it.

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Tanimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Bleach OP1 [Asterisk] - Orange Range