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Digital coloring tips//pose help again

I don't have a tablet, and I'm pretty darn horrible at colorin digitally. Anybody out there got tips?

I can cell shade fine with a laptop touch pad. I'm trying to learn realistic painting.

What I want to paint: http://fav.me/d5rfnno

I need pose help again. Bro told me his abs weren't right and that his right arm looks funky.

January 14, 2013

4 Comments • Newest first

MickyBumBum

[quote=Mesniac]You're trying to fingerpaint a realistic drawing.

Get a tablet and you get better at drawing IRL and digitally, save 200% more time, and the rate in which you get better will be higher.[/quote]

no money, dawg. Savin up fer one, but medical bills and college = $$
Had 2 tablets before, didn't really help me draw better... color better digitally, yes. draw better, not really.

Reply January 14, 2013
Mesniac

You're trying to fingerpaint a realistic drawing.

Get a tablet and you get better at drawing IRL and digitally, save 200% more time, and the rate in which you get better will be higher.

Reply January 14, 2013
MickyBumBum

[quote=TeenyRikku]i watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHjCWFSh7g and it helped me a lot with digitally painting
try avoiding working on a white background... when you use a color ( like a shade of a skin tone ) as your background, it helps with mixing colors.
Use various colors when painting the hair and skin tone, it gives the painting life

about your drawing, i think the ear is a little too high up. as for the pose, did you use a reference or did you make the pose up? looking at a male body (even if it's not the same pose) can help you with that.[/quote]

I make the majority of the poses up. Thanks, I'll fix the ear

Reply January 14, 2013
TeenyRikku

i watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHjCWFSh7g and it helped me a lot with digitally painting
try avoiding working on a white background... when you use a color ( like a shade of a skin tone ) as your background, it helps with mixing colors.
Use various colors when painting the hair and skin tone, it gives the painting life

about your drawing, i think the ear is a little too high up. as for the pose, did you use a reference or did you make the pose up? looking at a male body (even if it's not the same pose) can help you with that.

Reply January 14, 2013