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Profitable Conversationalist
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 Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:27 pm
I am starting this thread to discuss tools of the trade, favorite drawing medium(s), and techniques we like to use.
I'll start with a little about my art.
I love pencil sketching, but inking is a chore for me because of how frustrating it can be for me. I am trying to get used to using tracing paper for inking so if I mess up it can be salvage because I don't mess up the original sketch. For now I still have to ink over my sketches as they are, but I often mess something up and am disappointed as a result. As I don't own a light board I'm still having some difficulty with my tracing attempts.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:50 pm
Do what I used to do:
Make a photocopy of the original sketch and ink the copy in. Usually all the excess stuff is cleaned on copiers and printers. So once you ink the copy, copy the copy and most of the gunk should be gone. But alas, I no longer do that. I'm starting to go digital. What I do is I sketch and scan my art. Using photoshop (or GIMP), I create a new layer and ink it in, tracing over the sketch on the empty layer using the pen tool (since I don't own a tablet).
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Profitable Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:03 am
Hm. I shall have to give the copier trick a try. I'd ink digitally, but so far I've failed at each attempt. My hand just is too unsure and thus my lines look messy.
EDIT: If this is still showing as the first post, someone on Gaia's team made a little coding flub. Check out the date stamps for this post and the post below. xd
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:11 pm
Ah, but the Pen tool shall fix that. Here's a guide: The pen tool is your friendWhen you create a path using the Pen tool, right click and choose stroke path. I'm not sure if it mentions that, but it looks like a good guide. I can't seem to find the one I used though razz
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:43 am
I learned doing it by hand, I guess you have to mess up a few to gain mastery of the technique. I had to just let it go and not seweat it if it's not perfect. You can also always make it look like you meant to draw it like that.
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:29 pm
Hm, that is true. But styles can change too. I am striving to improve mine. I have two cartoonish styles and the manga style I like to use.
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Profitable Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:16 pm
Tools of the trade, medium, techniques... hmmmmm, I'd have to say my mechanical pencils, regular wood pencils, and red ink pen! I find inking hard to do as well and get dissappointed when I mess up. However, if I do mess up on an original drawing, I find new things to put in that I never thought of before.
Also, if it helps, you can draw in pen and practice inking that way. I drew in pen for a whole year (found it hard to go back to pencil) and I was able to go back over my drawings with little mistakes.
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:16 am
My favorite sketching tool is a ball point pen. I love the permanency of the medium, it forces me to think about what I'm drawing and make every stroke count, unlike working with a pencil where I get too comfortable spending so much time just erasing and re-working it. I highly recommend it to anybody who thinks they spend way too much time with an eraser in their hand.
I do most of my inking on Photoshop, and it's not that hard to do for me. I've worked with Photoshop for over 6 years, and a tablet with maybe 4. It's a bit of a chore, but I don't spend more than 2 hours inking anything anyway, maybe except a comic page.
Coloring is the biggest hassle for me. I'm not very good at coloring digitally, mainly because I have to kick a lot of my old habits, like using too many layers. I want to go for a more painterly look now, and most people have told me to stick to 3 layers or less. Still, it's tough.
I can color better traditionally. My favorite mediums are watercolors and colored pencils. I love how unpredictable watercolors can be, and colored pencils make such beautiful, vibrant colors if done properly.
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