Drawing Question
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Drawing Question
QUESTION: Do most of you draw with a Mouse or with some kind of Pen/Stylus/Tablet?
I am attempting to work with the mouse and beginning to feel my hand is not steady enough.
I know Practice Practice Practice. Just curious as to what the 'professionals' are using
Omen River
I am attempting to work with the mouse and beginning to feel my hand is not steady enough.
I know Practice Practice Practice. Just curious as to what the 'professionals' are using
Omen River
Hello all
You can use the freehand tool with a pen, you might go faster, might be more intuitive to you, but unless you can draw, you'll endup doing alot of cleaning and tweaking.
Personally I prefer the mouse over my Wacom for drawing in AS, while the Wacom is all I use in Photoshop.
I find that going a point at a time in as gives me huge amount of control over the drawing, I usually say that I am modeling in as, not drawing.
My avatar I made in few minutes, my first character in as, my monster was my full first character in as. Here are a few of the drawings I made using my mouse, in the end, it is a question of preferences.
Erik, from the Digata Defenders
A girl's head
A monster, with masks for shadows
A girl from La Reine Soleil movie
Gilles
Well, it depends.omenriver wrote:QUESTION: Do most of you draw with a Mouse or with some kind of Pen/Stylus/Tablet?
You can use the freehand tool with a pen, you might go faster, might be more intuitive to you, but unless you can draw, you'll endup doing alot of cleaning and tweaking.
Personally I prefer the mouse over my Wacom for drawing in AS, while the Wacom is all I use in Photoshop.
I find that going a point at a time in as gives me huge amount of control over the drawing, I usually say that I am modeling in as, not drawing.
My avatar I made in few minutes, my first character in as, my monster was my full first character in as. Here are a few of the drawings I made using my mouse, in the end, it is a question of preferences.
Erik, from the Digata Defenders
A girl's head
A monster, with masks for shadows
A girl from La Reine Soleil movie
Gilles
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I have been doing this lately, but most of the time i would just use my drawings as references while redrawing the images in AS with my mouse.madrobot wrote:I draw on paper, scan that in and put it in an image layer, and "trace" that using the add point tool and the mouse. I find that give you economy in terms of geometry (!)
I'm just now starting to fiddle a bit with the pen tool using the wacom...
I use a tablet for the backgrounds, foregrounds, props and some clothes for characters.
But some parts of my character need more precision that only the mouse can give me.
But some parts of my character need more precision that only the mouse can give me.
Uhm... I think a scanner be better for that work...Darramouss wrote:Draw on paper, photograph with phone, bluetooth to computer then trace over in ASP.
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I mounted a digital camera to an old film enlarger... you know those old fashioned gizmos for printing your own photographs with chemicals like the cavemen use to do?
Anyway, I can put large format stuff on the bed of the enlarger, and set the timer on the camera so there isn't any "movement" to blur the image when I press the button. Have to use indirect lighting on anything "shiny" but sketch paper works pretty well. It's great for those large sketch pads that won't fit in a standard scanner.
Another trick is to put a light box on the enlarger bed and put slides or transparencies on it. You can zoom the camera onto the slide image and have a cheap/quick slide scanner... yes... I have slides .
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Anyway, I can put large format stuff on the bed of the enlarger, and set the timer on the camera so there isn't any "movement" to blur the image when I press the button. Have to use indirect lighting on anything "shiny" but sketch paper works pretty well. It's great for those large sketch pads that won't fit in a standard scanner.
Another trick is to put a light box on the enlarger bed and put slides or transparencies on it. You can zoom the camera onto the slide image and have a cheap/quick slide scanner... yes... I have slides .
-vern
I tried that but I could not figure out where to connect the Flux Capacitorchucky wrote:Hook the etcha-sketch up to an infra red camera and start a feedback loop to the stereo-lithographer then I just chisel it out of rock when that doesn't work and ram it into the back of an old calculator .A crystal set can send the signal via satellite to your iphone and boomshanka - works a charm.
Omen River
Thanks everyone for the comments