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Back from beyond! Just yesterday I convinced myself not to plop down $1900 on a Cintiq but rather $199 for a Wacom Bamboo Create and I am very glad that I did. It’s a sexy, sexy tool…The large size of the usable area is indispensable, and it looks like my years of using the little Graphite tablet paid off, because I was able to jump into this one rather intuitively, and my style more or less jumped from paper to screen. All in all, I really didn’t need to the Cintiq after all!
Of course, I still need work: there’s a lot of things I need to fix and improve in my style, and those things still show going all-digital (I didn’t necessarily want it not to). Plus, I’ve been playing around with some of my programs and haven’t found one perfect program to use. The included Painter 4 Essentials gives awesome, beautiful lines but the tools are very limited. I’m not quite as pleased with the brush control on my Photoshop CS2, but I am the most familiar with it and am in need of many of its tools. The newer version of Photoshop Elements provided with is somewhere in the middle (though performance was lagging). I hope it is a matter of configuring my tools right. I’ve also been looking into Manga Studio, but that’s another big chunk of change.
All of this rigmarole to choose how I’m going to draw for my next comic. What I gain from doing it digitally is quickness, near infinite “paper-space” and near infinite “ink”. And this sounds kind of silly, but adding white onto black so easily is one of the biggest gains I get to achieving the style I want, and the new tablet helps my ideas translate a lot more easily.
That said, I still don’t want to lose touch of traditional media, so I will continue to practice and create of sketchbooks using pens and copics and nibs and all that fun stuff.
Here’s a character from my new comic series which I, fingers crossed, hope to launch this year. I’ll try to post more. Otherwise, I wonder what you guys have to say about tablets and digital inking and programs…thoughts, tips or advice?
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sorry for not posting in so long! gomen! D: i’ve been working on new game every 2 weeks or so.. so everyday and weekend is crunch time these days. and i have very little to show because those projects are under wraps… even though 1 is released already. (BOO!) sorry for the similar sketches, i seem to default to something along these lines these days. and on the very bottom is a sketch for part of an asset i did for work (for restaurant story)…i wish our npcs looked this cute!
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“Spelunking”
Okay, just a little quickie for you guys. Why spelunking? I only thought about it because of a dream I had about it..one of the very few, rare dreams that made thematic sense.
It’s like being in the dark, unable to distinguish between what you’re capable of achieving and what you simply cannot do. And sometimes, I’m reluctant to go in.
I’m being a little too philosophical today, aren’t I?
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Just some doodles of of monsters, rejected from the idea pile at work for new games.
hopefully i can finish rendering the cyclops tiger bunny later this week if i’m not too busy. :D
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“Significant Otters”
I love sea otters :3 They’re my favorite animals :3 :3
Even sea otter boogers are cute!
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*yawwwwwwn* i could use a cat nap too.
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a scribble for today. matches the grey weather we’ve been having lately in the bay area despite it being summer.
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Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of art-age, but I’m currently in Taiwan for a week (here’s a cute photo for you). I’m getting excited about how Starfruit&Oranges is turning out, and looking forward to drawing more when I get back!
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I’m embarrassed to present just another unfinished sketch this time around. it’s some lady on a large bird swing. but i do like the color choices i stumbled upon. O__O
but despite that I should note that i’m thrilled to be working on this tumblr account with Bryan! When I first met Bryan I was in a terrible depressed slump and him and his comic cheered me up immensely and immediately. Every chance we get to meet at Fanime it’s always been very nice to catch up and cheer on each other in our artistic endeavors, and by having this tumblr account now it’s no longer just once every year but on an almost weekly basis. I’m not quite sure what will amount from this… but I already know it’s going to be a blast and awesome! :D
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Welcome to Starfruit&Oranges!!! I decided to go all out and put all my artistic efforts into my inaugural picture for our new art blog! Not to set a precedent though; this place is meant for anything and everything art related, from simple sketch studies to full cg illustrations and the like.
Truth be told, I spent half of my time figuring out what to draw. There is a lot of rust in my artistic skills, especially in in the compositional department. I realized that over Fanime, all I drew were Star Fruit characters, and that was about it. I literally lost the ability to draw other things! So I spent many hours staring at piece of scrap paper, trying things out and not liking them. Finally I settled on a girl drinking a box of juice..exceedingly simple, but I took it and ran with it as far as I can.
I’m excited because I really enjoy illustration but I never really had time for it. I talked to Naomi about putting together a blog for us to get out of our chairs (figuratively..I don’t stand up to draw) and challenge ourselves artistically and get more practice, and hopefully generate a solid portfolio of interesting and colorful work.
Why Naomi? She’s my friend and BAAU colleague for five years, and I absolutely adore her artwork, and I think a blog in which we encourage and challenge each other, and pass the baton so to speak, will demonstrate that our art styles do complement each other in a way…possibly because we both like to draw fruit…lots of it XD.
Let’s see what happens from this point out!
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