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More Fan Art
Nov. 23rd, 2012 06:20 pm
The back-story is :
Helen Magnus had discovered that Warehouse 13 was holding a vital piece of Praxis tech, mis-labled as an inkwell used by Byron. The rest of her team were occupied with other matters, so she called in a favour from Captain Jack, to assist her retrieving this item.
They chose a time when most of the Warehouse 13 agents were off recovering something, but Artie was surprised when he came back to retrieve his Farnsworth to find two strangers ransacking the warehouse!
They chose a time when most of the Warehouse 13 agents were off recovering something, but Artie was surprised when he came back to retrieve his Farnsworth to find two strangers ransacking the warehouse!
(non) Impulse buying
Sep. 24th, 2012 10:39 amDecided to buy BOTH Paint Tool SAI and Open Canvas 5 today, and just did. That was about $A 120.63 spent, but I believe it's been spent well. They both do similar things, but they do them right. And all this helps fulfil a need of mine to draw directly into the computer.
Testing drawing programs
Sep. 24th, 2012 09:46 amTest results were - based on the narrator figure I'm using for one of the novels - versions of "Elsie":
SAI-OC Test Comparisons by LauraEss, on Flickr
The originals were all drawn on a canvas about 700px square, and I drew in MyPaint first, followed by SAI and lastly OC. This wasn't a test of my ability, but on whether the editors could give me what I wanted, and fun to use. Colouring and tones is going to be done in Illustrator so I haven't added any in the test.
OK, MyPaint has some potential, but I wasn't used to it and probably didn't find the correct brush to test. It dribbled on me, just like a real ink pen on paper, but that's not the look I want for what I'm working on at the moment (though it might be interesting in a section of the graphic novel that is meant to look like a series of journal entries). The ideal set-up for me is pen in right hand above pad, and left hand hovering over keyboard ready to change tools while still looking at the screen. The fact that MyPaint uses its own set of shortcuts which can't be reconfigured (apart from assigning up to 10 brushes) is a big point against it, because other stuff I have has been configured to use the same or similar keystrokes for the same type of actions. Why "DF" instead of "{}" (Adobe smaller/larger brush size)? If you could reconfigure key shortcuts I might be interested.
Both SAI and OC were easy for me to use. No inkspots by accident. The difference in lines reflects the brushes used and I notice that I seem to have used a heavier hand with OC. SAI seems easier to use for small finicky stuff, OC seems to give a more consistent line.
SAI-OC Test Comparisons by LauraEss, on Flickr
The originals were all drawn on a canvas about 700px square, and I drew in MyPaint first, followed by SAI and lastly OC. This wasn't a test of my ability, but on whether the editors could give me what I wanted, and fun to use. Colouring and tones is going to be done in Illustrator so I haven't added any in the test.
OK, MyPaint has some potential, but I wasn't used to it and probably didn't find the correct brush to test. It dribbled on me, just like a real ink pen on paper, but that's not the look I want for what I'm working on at the moment (though it might be interesting in a section of the graphic novel that is meant to look like a series of journal entries). The ideal set-up for me is pen in right hand above pad, and left hand hovering over keyboard ready to change tools while still looking at the screen. The fact that MyPaint uses its own set of shortcuts which can't be reconfigured (apart from assigning up to 10 brushes) is a big point against it, because other stuff I have has been configured to use the same or similar keystrokes for the same type of actions. Why "DF" instead of "{}" (Adobe smaller/larger brush size)? If you could reconfigure key shortcuts I might be interested.
Both SAI and OC were easy for me to use. No inkspots by accident. The difference in lines reflects the brushes used and I notice that I seem to have used a heavier hand with OC. SAI seems easier to use for small finicky stuff, OC seems to give a more consistent line.
Open Canvas Sketch
Sep. 19th, 2012 05:30 pm
A 2nd Open Canvas Test, being a sketch of Bobby the dog. At the time I thought I was drawing on a much larger canvas size, so I'm actually impressed with how well the brushes work.
Tablet Test
Mar. 3rd, 2010 10:46 amPicture of Bobby done using the graphics tablet and Open Canvas.
Who looks like this in real life:
