My first drawing tablet!

[ríomhaire]

Oh dear god I suck with it! First ever tablet drawings, done in MSpaint!

 

[Barnz]

Eww.

char

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

stop using paint.

it doesn't even support stroke pressure etc etc.

 

[ríomhaire]

Paint is all I have more the moment. I'm working on getting the proper tools.

 

[ktimekiller]

ew paint

 

[Barnz]

Get GIMP, it's free (and equal to Photoshop).

 

[AtomicSpark]

Also try Inkscape, a vector graphics editor (like Adobe Illustrator).

 

[Robert-]

...or not.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Ban people who say "purchase", "buy", "acquire", etc.

 

[L3N!N]

Get GIMP, it's free (and equal to Photoshop).

It seems like that at first.

 

[Raziaar]

I actually like the drawings. Hehe.

 

[Kadayi]

I'd recommend you look at buying Painter X which is about 130 quid from the Corel Store (http://store.corel.com/webapp/wcs/s...play?langId=-11&storeId=10302&catalogId=10805) or if that's out of your budget range then try Painter essentials 4, which is a cut down version and a bit cheaper (they do 30 day trial versions at the site btw). Painter is a much more responsive program than Photoshop imho (and a lot cheaper), and is widely used by people like Ryan Church (http://www.ryanchurch.com/04PRO.htm) and Feng Zhu (http://www.fengzhudesign.com/gallery.html). Yes you can use Photoshop for illustration work, but in all honesty as someone who pretty much uses it everyday it's principally a package that's centred around photo retouching/manipulation. Incidentally which graphics palette did you buy?

 

[Barnz]

I think he should learn how to use Photoshop, before start using Painter.

 

[Naph]

Don't buy Corel, it is in fact a cancer. I have so many issues with that program.

 

[Barnz]

It's true that Paintshop Pro sucks, but Painter is awesome.

 

[Kadayi]

I think he should learn how to use Photoshop, before start using Painter.

If you want to make decent Digital Art, Painter is a better choice by far. There really isn't anything that Photoshop does on the artistic side that Painter doesn't do better. Ideally it's nice to have both, but you could just as easily have PSP & Painter X both for less than the cost of one licence of PS CS4 and manage perfectly well. Unless you're a photographic professional buying a PS CS4 licence is kind of a waste of money imho. where I work we use it, but the depth of the application is hardly ever used. It's like having a SUV to drive to the corner shop.

Don't buy Corel, it is in fact a cancer. I have so many issues with that program.

Without Corel Adobe would have complete market dominance when it comes to digital image manipulation and that in itself would not be a good thing. Both Photoshop and Illustrator are applications that are long overdue reinvention in a 'back to formula' manner in the same way that Adobe reinvented their DTP line with Indesign rather than make further iterations of Page maker. They are utter Bloatware in terms of feature sets and the reluctance of Adobe to make positive moves towards rationalising them is utterly bewildering tbh.

 

[Barnz]

If you want to make decent Digital Art, Painter is a better choice by far. There really isn't anything that Photoshop does on the artistic side that Painter doesn't do better. Ideally it's nice to have both, but you could just as easily have PSP & Painter X both for less than the cost of one licence of PS CS4 and manage perfectly well. Unless you're a photographic professional buying a PS CS4 licence is kind of a waste of money imho. where I work we use it, but the depth of the application is hardly ever used. It's like having a SUV to drive to the corner shop.

Photoshop is something necessary to cleanup images, draw lines and so on. I can't imagine using Painter without it.

 

[Kadayi]

Photoshop is something necessary to cleanup images, draw lines and so on. I can't imagine using Painter without it.

Why not just draw directly using the palette? That's what I do. It takes a little while to get used to looking at the screen as you draw rather than at the 'paper' but once you crack it it's much easier overall. Also lines are just a bit of a contrivance to define the edges of things, I honestly wouldn't get too hung up about them, colour, focus and contrast should provide your edges ideally.

I've tried to get the hang of Painter so many times but I just can't some people can do amazing things with it but I can't get over the interface. All I get out of it is immense frustration

Stick with it and bend the interface to your needs. If you can find a copy, it's worth hunting down Ryan Churches intro to Corel Painter for the Gnomon Workshop. It's a few years old now, but explains his set up. One key thing he does is pretty much move all the palettes to the bottom of the screen and he doesn't bother with the mixer palette at all, but instead just uses the colour wheel. This gives him a much larger Canvas space as a result. Also the short cuts to rotate the canvas (Alt + space) and dynamically change the brush size (Ctrl + Alt) are essential to know.

 

[Darkside55]

I don't know what everyone's talking about in this thread. You can make wonderful things in MSPaint. You don't need much more than MSPaint if you're a good artist and have 5000 hours.

Also, now that you have a tablet, get JTablet and do oekaki.

Like, all the time.

 

[ríomhaire]

I now have Paint.NET (Came off some PC magazine disc my brother gave me) in which I am in the middle of drawing this:

And GIMP, which I haven't used yet.

 

[Nomad]

TwistedBrush? No, I'm kidding.

 

[nurizeko]

I lul'ed a little at the OP.

Well done.

 

[Sheepo]

That picture is really cool