Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
Here's the question: should I do the artwork on the shirt too, or should I just leave it blank? It's a bit of a pain, but I feel bad wasting all the work I did on the guidelines.
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
@Aeon Yeah, I couldn't decide which way I wnated to take it, which is why I decided to do both. This is one of the things I like about digital art. That's not an option I'd easily have on a physical medium.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along. #krita #drawing #art #cat
The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me. If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth. Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
Decided to dust off my copy of #Krita and play around with #drawing again. This is my current work-in-progress. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out considering I'm pretty much a novice.
Full disclosure: While no so-called generative AI was used in the creation of this drawing, there was a liberal amount of tracing from a reference photo I took.
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in reply to Krit • •@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Also, what the hell is that weird line beside my nose. I must've accidentally drawn it and not noticed.
Anyhow, I'll fix that and start doing the shirt artwork on a separate layer so that I don't have to commit to it just yet.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
The things I do for my art... 🙃
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Also, I took the liberty of correcting the colouring mistake in the original art in the tshirt because I can't add a [sic] tag to a picture.
We won't talk about the myriad of new mistakes I added in the process that you can find if you look closely enough. 🫠
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
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