Started a digital painting today. Inspired by some really awesome stuff I have been bumping into lately on teh internets, so thought of working one of my own. Even though that means sacrificing my right hand to my stupid tablet, but I'm drawing this digitally, unlike most others where I ink by hand then color in PS. And like everything else I do, this already looks too ambitious. but iamfinishingthis, damnit! So I would like to post WIPs everyday, just to get myself working on it, at least a little everyday,in between other projects. But look mommy, it's a million layers already! Some day I'll do better, I promise.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Layers of layers of layers
Started a digital painting today. Inspired by some really awesome stuff I have been bumping into lately on teh internets, so thought of working one of my own. Even though that means sacrificing my right hand to my stupid tablet, but I'm drawing this digitally, unlike most others where I ink by hand then color in PS. And like everything else I do, this already looks too ambitious. but iamfinishingthis, damnit! So I would like to post WIPs everyday, just to get myself working on it, at least a little everyday,in between other projects. But look mommy, it's a million layers already! Some day I'll do better, I promise.
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layers are a digital painter's second greatest friend...the first of course being the undo button...having said that...i personally feel that the risk of an unwanted mistake makes the manual process so much more interesting and satisfying...i have never quite felt as much satisfied with a digital sketch as with a manual one, maybe it's the risk of walking the fine line that makes a manual artistic journey so much more satisfying, or maybe i am just rambling in nostalgia :)
ReplyDeletehowever, digital painting has definitely opened up new areas of exploration..
Haha! Yes yes and yess, on the Undo button. Thanks to the undo button, I think I have taken the risk of experimenting more, and I feel thereby have even learned a lot too.
ReplyDeleteThere's an interesting podcast on this traditional media vs digital media debate :
http://sidebar.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/ep-66-brushstro.html
Listen to it, it's by artists who have mainly worked in traditional media- and I agree with a lot of what they say about traditional media- but I also think some of what they say is a bit of prejudice. For example, I have learned a hell lot through digital media, in contrast to what they about not learning anything through this. Standard paint is still fun, and yes, the challenges of no color pickers or undo buttons or layers does make for good training, (for example, MAYBE I'd be a better artist if I practiced in traditional media more- and when using PS I'd have then depended less on millions of layers, and undo. I forget which comic artist, but I was reading his blog where he said he did everything in one layer, because he was used to traditional media- and his work was quite awesome.
But then at the end, I think it's about how you're using whatever media you're working with, and with all the advantages, digital media really deserves more respect. Maybe because it's new it gets so much flak. Like the new little kid on the block. But one of these days, I'll rob a bank to get a cintique, you watch me.
At least have my eyes set in intous4 medium.
Ignore typos, past bed time by a few weeks
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