The sketch thread!

[ZenVirZan]

I cropped the bottom half. Idk why. I always end up drawing your characters impish.

making a whole game with art of that quality would be totally passable. how long did that portrait take you?

 

[Jason]

making a whole game with art of that quality would be totally passable. how long did that portrait take you?

I'd like to know this too, as well as what your brush settings are...

 

[coyotecraft]

According to my Browser History and the File's creation time, roughly 20 minutes. It was originally a full body portrait.
And my brush settings has Size and Opacity pressure dynamics turned on. I don't think I've done anything special to it.
"Smooth Stroke" is off. Unless I'm Inking, and I rarely do.

 

[coyotecraft]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcw0dd12DA

I'd record myself drawing. But it kinda slows down my computer and prevents me from dragging layers around. Plus I'd have to figure out the right video settings and maybe capture a smaller portion of the screen. Otherwise a 30sec video of my desktop comes out as a 1GB video that would take an hour to upload to youtube. I tried converting this to webm before uploading, so it was a lot smaller filesize.

 

[Jason]

It's just whenever I do lines they're always transparent as fuck (Like a light grey) whether I have my opacity pressure on or off, so I have to go over them like 3-4 times to make them darker... gets a bit annoying at times.

 

[coyotecraft]

Hmmm. If the pressure is off then... whats the Brush Opacity set to? I think I remember talking to you about lowering it once. Maybe you changed it and forgot?

 

[ZenVirZan]

What are you using to record? You can get away with a considerably lower fps for drawing and stuff as long as the resolution is still high. If you don't have a newer nvidia card, Dxtory isn't too bad for recording with.

seeing you draw would be ballin' af

EDIT: whao i clearly took too long to reply, your vid post was the latest when i sent this lmao

 

[BizarreMonkey]

I cropped the bottom half. Idk why. I always end up drawing your characters impish.

Nice! I'm totally using this for a cut in in Intel MV! for some of Sacre-blu's big attacks.

Also I'd recommend Bandicam for screen-recording, it's what I use for my speed draws.

I actually bought it (it's not overly expensive for the full version), takes off the 10 min video restriction limit and you can record an area of your screen, a game window, and such, it's what all my recordings you see around here are done with.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

It's just whenever I do lines they're always transparent as fuck (Like a light grey) whether I have my opacity pressure on or off, so I have to go over them like 3-4 times to make them darker... gets a bit annoying at times.

If you're using sai, using the pen tool over the marker might help. You might be doing a similar thing in whatever program you're using, lemme show you a comparison...

In marker, this is how lines tend to look...

If you use pen, you'll get those nice tapered lines that everyone likes so much.

EDIT: OOPSHITFUCK I DOUBLE POSTED WITHOUT MEANING TO, MY BAD!

 

[Jason]

Right, so I've finally got GIMP set up to my liking...

Did a few quick lines for a pose I was thinking of, like he's mid jump away from us... preferably with a cape on or something, this was the "frame";

And this was... well, the first thing that came to my head when I thought to myself "Hmm... what should he look like?":

... Not a fucking clue to be honest, butt I seem to have forgotten the cape. #badpunisbad

 

[BizarreMonkey]

I cant actually draw with my tablet coz it packed now. :[

So I used photoshop like a garbage and made some wallpaper instead :0

Spoiler

And here's one for Fantasia, unlike the previous, this is not all my work, the three portraits on the left are by PJCR, while the image on the right of Sacreblu is by Mr-Sage.

The black bar on the bottom is to accommodate for my task bar.

 

[Spoo]

So I picked up a cheap little art tablet. As I've discovered, digital art is hard, yo.

Not that I'm much count at drawing anyways. Here's hoping I can improve.

 

[Spoo]

A little better:

 

[coyotecraft]

I remember learning to draw with a tablet. Mostly griping the pen in a way that I wasn't pressing buttons.

Oh yeah. I was drawing Bayonetta for a few minutes and stopped when the Magicians came on. Then I started messing around with recording options. Then I had computer problems yesterday. It's crap, but I'm not really in the mood to work on it more.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Yeah the jump isn't an easy one, but as you keep at it you'll get more use to it.

I decided I couldn't stand it any longer, I've grabbed my tablet from being packed, I've got another three days, I know I'm not gonna last that long, already having drawing withdrawals, lel.

I then proceeded to draw this.

 

[Xhukari]

Still looks awesome, Coyote! :-D
I find your work pretty inspiring, really.

 

[Jason]

Yeah, I like how he can do pretty amazing sketches and shit in a matter of minutes and yet they still look professional as fuck, lol

 

[coyotecraft]

Yeah, but I can spend 8+ hours refining details. It's like, with a sketch, a hand is just this impression of a hand. But I start inking and suddenly there's a bajillion things wrong with it. The fingers are all different sizes and the wrist isn't rotated naturally. Or it's holding a thing at an awkward angle and I have to erase and redraw the whole thing.
And every once in a while I'm drawing something I've never done before and end up spending forever on.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

I keep drawing lewd shit. :[
NSFW:

Spoiler

h e Lp .

 

[coyotecraft]

I see your lewd art and raise you one Gameboy era Link pin-up.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/708 ... racles.png