The second self portrait for 2009. This time I did use a very low-res photo as reference. I’m basically trying to figure out the style. I’m frustrated with how messy I am. I have no control over the pen. My hope is to work at it until I get a strong line without wobbling. At the moment I can only do that with a fast stroke… which is invariably inaccurate, so I fall back to sketchy lines. Bleh.
Also, colour. I’m no good at colour, so I’m trying to keep it to about 3 of them. Although, I do plan to have coloured lines, instead of basic black. When I was in primary school, art teachers would get shitty with me for never using colour. I grew up in love with comics, and for the most part – the good ones are black and white. It’s just stuck with me… but I don’t know, I think it will be better if I use colour.
Also, I’m doing this digitally. No paper whatsoever. I wonder if that is a mistake. Things keep crashing… I don’t have enough RAM or disk space. And there are weird glitches in the software. Fugh.
Jessica Andrews
looks great Paul
Gendo
I don’t think working all digitally is a mistake – I only sketch in a book for fun, any kind of work I do is all done digital.
How don’t you have control over the pen? Not sure I get what you mean there
Paul McClintock:
I have jittery hands… I need to set the damping to 80 or 90 percent in order to get anything close to a straight line.
Gendo
Even if you zoom in real close and go slow? I can’t lines consistent and straight zoomed out, even with customized brushes that I use everyday. I got jittery hands as well, my handwriting is like chicken scratching. Another thing I noticed is the big difference between having the tablet pressure set to really soft, or really hard, worth going back and forth with them and fiddling a bit