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astigma3 · junior member Member # Joined: 23 Mar 2000 Posts: 30

This question is for everyone but i would appreciate it if dahbi could reply. I have been drawing for some time now (mostly while teachers talking and im supposed to be "learning") and im pretty good at it. Anyways, i just got photoshop and im learning how to use it. how long did it take you guys to go from paper and pencil to getting decent looking digital art.

I knew my parents didn't like me when my bathtubs playtoys were a plugged in toaster, and an electrical outlet.

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Lemur-X · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2000 7:39 pm

Glad to see I'm not the only one that has parents like that.

I'm not that good of an artist, but I *can* tell you my first pic was a total piece of shite..... very very flawed and plain old ugly. After that, I started monkeying with different styles, and brushes and each pic, IMO, after that first one has gradually gotten better.

I think the most important thing to do is to think out your pic....after that, it just sort of comes....

--Lemur-X

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A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

While my foray into the realm of digital painting began only recently, I have been using Photoshop for 6 years now. I got it back when it was version 2.5 and am in the process of aquiring the 5.5 upgrade.

Let me tell you, the first dozen or so images I cranked out of PS were absolute crap. I still have some of them on the drive and they embarass me. They are absolutely terrible. But, after years of practice, my skills have developed to a point where I'm no longer committing garbage to valuable 1's and 0's on my hard drive.

So, my answer to your question is "years".

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Dhabih · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2000 1:14 am

I first started computer art when i was like 12, but it was barely anything, i'd just mess around in MS-Paint and then did a lot of pixel by pixel drawing for a couple years. Finally a few years ago i got photoshop, but i think because of just previous experience with digital art i got into photoshop pretty easily and was comfortable with it within a couple drawings.

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