[Gothic Gerbil]

Well here you go, decided to try doing a speed pic since everyone seems to have had fun doing one at some time or another. Wasn't really fast, was about an hour's worth, and it really didn't help that people kept on coming down and interrupting me grrrr. It was pretty fun though. I forced myself to use big brushes since I have a really bad tendency of bogging myself down in details very early in a picture. This kind of broke me away from that aya. Boring subject matter yes I know, but it was the closest thing at hand. I'll probably do my mouse on the next try. Well here you go, rip it apart. This'll especially give Rinaldo a chance for revenge considering how harsh I was on his dragon pic. =)





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-- Jeff Land
http://www2.andrews.edu/~landj/
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[Tinusch]

Fancy newfangled tablets with all the gizmos and the lights and the decorations and the this and the that and whatnot and all I have is a boring old ArtPad II

[Rinaldo]

heh *cracks knucles*

Keep your edges sharp as posible. use totaly flat colour. there should be no real need to use any shading on this sort of subject until the last minute. utilise the pencil/line tool if you have to. it's the same as using a ruler as you would traditionaly so don't view it as cheating.
The perspective is off. you can see that the wacom tablet and the actuial active drawing area are not aligned.
The most usefull thing I found when doing this sort of thing is that Flat Colour (tm) is the key. it will hold a suprising representation after you just put down flats. the only area were you would really need a graduation is where the background receeds into dark. Work out wheather it is easier to go from positive to neagative or visa verca. With the buttons for example you could draw each individuialy or you could draw a line with the button colour that goes all the way across the tablet and then use the actuial tablet colour to take the inbetweens out. this would (I feel anyway) give a cleaner look and be a ton easier.

Heh I'm done, I consider us even now(unless you have other ideas of course)

[Gothic Gerbil]

*yawn* Ok, actually nearly awake now and have to say I don't know what I was thinking when I picked my tablet. I rotate and sling that thing all over the place basically when I use it. Not a very stable subject matter. When I was doing this one I realized looking back through the psd when awake that I wasn't even consistent with which layer I painted stuff on.

Thanks for the help Rinaldo, I'll be sure to make you proud of me in my next one. Though about the ruler, in the one intro to painting class I took in college (flunked it because I was doing everyone else's homework instead of my own ) the teacher preached on about how you should never never ever use a ruler because it would give a mechanical feel to your sketch or whatever and a freehand straight line would have much more character to it since it is human. Hmm, and it probably didn't help that the tablet picked up a lot of colour from the monitor which was constantly changing as I worked on the picture. Oh well, learn learn learn and I shall actually be good one of these days! Hmm...time for some coffee...

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-- Jeff Land
http://www2.andrews.edu/~landj/
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