RE: Resources!
03-03-2016, 08:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2016, 08:06 AM by seedy.)
oh no, photoshop makes total sense for digital painting for concepting. (I mean, I'm using it for that rn...) but that type of drawing is so different from what most people want out of webcomics usually? (ofc I have to put here that sarah stone, the artist who drew the transformers comic my icon is from, draws REALLY GREAT speedpaint-y backgrounds in her comics. a great example of beautiful, beautiful pages that don't slave over every last detail.)
photoshop's adjustments, transform tool, liquefy, and user-friendly layer palette are definitely the best even if all you're doing are a bajillion thumbnails. my main complaint when it comes to concepting in PS is that it doesn't have a "transparent color" like sai & the workarounds for that (masks, darken layer settings, alpha channels) really slow you down compared to just hitting a hotkey, even if you make actions for them. (I know it has an erase tool but that's just not the same, dammit)
huh, different strokes I guess about the importance of those books. I still find rereading the two volumes to be pretty enlightening? it #speaks to me even if I already know all the lessons. obviously parts of it are dated, and there's been a lot of innovation since, but imo there's nothing else that lays it all out in one spot the same way. plus I really like the way it doesn't feel like it's telling you the One Right Way and the heavy use of examples.
photoshop's adjustments, transform tool, liquefy, and user-friendly layer palette are definitely the best even if all you're doing are a bajillion thumbnails. my main complaint when it comes to concepting in PS is that it doesn't have a "transparent color" like sai & the workarounds for that (masks, darken layer settings, alpha channels) really slow you down compared to just hitting a hotkey, even if you make actions for them. (I know it has an erase tool but that's just not the same, dammit)
huh, different strokes I guess about the importance of those books. I still find rereading the two volumes to be pretty enlightening? it #speaks to me even if I already know all the lessons. obviously parts of it are dated, and there's been a lot of innovation since, but imo there's nothing else that lays it all out in one spot the same way. plus I really like the way it doesn't feel like it's telling you the One Right Way and the heavy use of examples.