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Friday, May 25, 2007 - 02:51 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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A Man, A Pen, A Tablet

First off, there's no palindrome in this.

So I dusted off (literally) the Wacom tablet and sat down to do some serious painting, as I figured I needed experience for a planned new blog skin, as well as my webgame. Let's see what I wanted:

1. Pseudo-professional quality, i.e. good enough that casual visitors won't puke all over their screen.
2. Speed, since I can't really afford sitting down for days for every single little piece.

On the quality side, I scoured the Internet for good CG painting tutorials. Had to find an artist whose style I admired, to begin with - some were just not up my alley. One headache later, I stumbled upon the excellent work of one Mattias Snygg, who more importantly had bothered to throw together some tutorials for the uninitiated (i.e. me). Randis Albion's another inspiration to work towards, though I doubt I'll even begin to approach that level anytime soon; His astounding (but sadly not too informative) video demonstration really took my breath away.

After some gaping, I figured that I had to start somewhere, and loaded my copy of Corel Painter Essentials and hacked away, following Snygg's advice. Soon enough I was rudely reminded that the cut-price Painter Essentials had exactly five levels of undo only, and had to more or less restart. I also learnt that the sloping surface of a graphics tablet is not the best place to place its pressure pen.

My first attempt at tablet painting took me... five hours? Hopefully I'll speed up a lot as I continue. Not sure about the bewildering array of brushes available, so I used the Blender Brush for almost everything.


Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | Step 6
The Learning Of The Wise

Stopped here, although a lot more improvement is of course possible. Contrast also tweaked abit

I know, I know, it's a bunch of mistakes, my virgin effort okay? Quit ROFL already. I dread the time when I've to do hair...



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1 comment

c.wenhoo said...
wtf


May 25, 2007 - 19:44 SGT     

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