Sigh
Added 2019-03-04 04:51:37 +0000 UTCI think I'm okay at drawing, and I'm okay at coloring, but I feel like I don't reach my full potential unless I'm rendering in grayscale (that's what this is called) but I have no idea how to color this. I've tried following tutorials about overlays, soft light, hard light, and even just painting over it, but I just can't make it work. The only way I'm going to get color into this is if I go over it again to make a simple line-art, which I think color in like a coloring book, but doing so loses all of the nuance and blending of this render.
I should resolve to take an actual art class this summer. I can't be a shit-tier artist forever. I need to earn the money I'm making for free from you fools (I say for free, because I spend my free time drawing anyway).
For the time being though, I am just going to finish this as I normally work. I'll make a line-art, even though I'll lose a lot of the finer details in doing so, and then I'll color it, even though that could take me in an entirely other direction.
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Coming from a Family of Artists, I can tell you that there is always room for improvement. Even if you reech DaVinci tier. You try detailing after coloring or some other technique and get a colored and detailed pic, and then you try something new to draw faces, so you can have a wider range of facial expressions, then you experiment with lighting and landscaping, then with texture and proportions... As soon as you stop improving, you stop being an Artist.
Nero Gerosa
2019-03-11 20:12:57 +0000 UTCI’m not an artist so I don’t know what it’s like but eh don’t give up man, things get tough but it’s all part of the process, I’m not very good at motivation but I try :p
Barcod
2019-03-04 14:32:26 +0000 UTCIs great that you look to improve, but be careful about teh slf-deprecation, probably there are nice courses online about digitally painting, in case you not want to wait until summer. and if you are Shit-Tier man I love shit ^^
Ace
2019-03-04 06:53:39 +0000 UTCThanks. I'm just super jealous of artists who can actually paint digitally.
2019-03-04 05:10:10 +0000 UTCWell, no. This is like an ink-painting. It's just mixtures of black and white on a gray canvas. There's nothing to switch off, since nothing ever got switched on. I wish it were that easy.
2019-03-04 05:09:34 +0000 UTCDon't beat yourself up too much over this. As long as you strive to be better, you will get better. Keep your head up bro.
Enjuno Juju
2019-03-04 05:08:50 +0000 UTCIs there a way to switch the view in photoshop back and forth from greyscale? maybe an adjustment layer you can lock and just turn on and off? then color each part of the image, from person to person to background, as you jump back and forth between seeing it in color and in greyscale ...
DresdenQ
2019-03-04 04:58:34 +0000 UTC
