If rabbits lived in trees....

[Zab]

Yeah well
I intend to buy CS6 soon enough. I just need my study-card from CSN so I get the 80% discount.. I'm not paying 14 000skr for it, bt I could pay 2 000skr..

Well, good luck Show any pictures you get done

 

[Miss M]

I can't afford Photoshop, and GIMP does everything I want. I've done some pretty neat things (I think) on GIMP.

I am an amateur, and I'm sure you can tell that. But that is a full-sized me on a 1:87 scale model train car (it's about 8" long). The dress is my wedding dress, but I've redone the colors to look like green organza or something similar, so it looks more like a ball gown. I did blur my face a little extra, because we don't normally do faces online. This was for the title of a page on my hubby's website.

I actually had a friend ask me when I had gone to New Orleans and ridden that train. So I think I did pretty well.

There's also Paint.NET - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET

 

[Zab]

Gimp is a powerful freeware program, but it's not really userfriendly Some people don't mind it at all, but some (including me) just won't manage to get around it and make it obey us :lo:

I like Paint.net over Gimp, but paintnet is as far as I remember not great for drawing in. It is great for adjusting and doing smaller photo-works. I admit it was a while since I tried these programs. When I had a windows coputer I downloaded almost every freeware art program I could just to try them, but for a mac there's just not a lot of programs to get for free..

It's a good photo Setting models and taking pictures of them to make them look real is an art in itself. The manipulation isn't bad either.

 

[BlueLove16]

IDk how you managed to make GIMP get out what you wanted!! but poop, i hated it

just finished a couple hours off and on in artweaver and i reaaaallly like the program. very straightforward and while it kind of has some tools you have to do more steps than you should for...i liked it

http://blueshewolf16.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5rvu3l

ignore the long body that isnt anatomically correct, it was a basic sketch and paws are my fail so i tried to redo them in lineart because they looked very blah on the scan

 

[Zab]

Nice!
And you did that with a mouse?

 

[BlueLove16]

I had a scanned doodle, but redid the paws and a couple other small things with mouse, but ya all mouse or the laptop sensor pad. lol....ima gamer so i can be precise and fast with a mouse or laptop sensory pad

 

[Zab]

It's good I used a mouse for a year or so before I bought my first wacom (a volito, the chapest model they had then). Managed some work, like this one below, with a mouse. But it's just not the same thing. Precisionis a good thing with the pen, but preassure sensitivity is the real benefit.

The sparkles are from Gimp actually. At least I think I made it with a mouse and used the pen tool for the strands of hair..hmm..
At least this one is a mouse-drawing. I made it later when my tablet broke (well they dont like to have dogs chewing on the pens..)

 

[BlueLove16]

ugh so beautiful. i dont even draw horses lol...just would mess their anatomy up so badly!!

 

[Peach]

Wow! I've always wanted to try out tablets. The work I've seen done on them is amazing. I can draw most things, but hair is so difficult. Especially animal fur. I'm not sure how you give it demension.

 

[Miss M]

Wow! Very nice! :razz:

You're right, GIMP is not user-friendly, but it's the only program I could find at the time that gave me a lot of Photoshop-like capabilities without the $$$$$ tag.

I took a brief look at Paint.NET several years ago, and couldn't figure it out. A lot of it seemed to be inaccessible. I stuck with GIMP.

 

[Zab]

ugh so beautiful. i dont even draw horses lol...just would mess their anatomy up so badly!!

Oh I've butchered their anatomy pretty bad in those pictures too :lol: But 've always drawn horses, they're the easiest for me.<br /><br />__________ Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:54 am __________<br /><br />

Wow! I've always wanted to try out tablets. The work I've seen done on them is amazing. I can draw most things, but hair is so difficult. Especially animal fur. I'm not sure how you give it demension.

Hair is pretty easy in digital media (or any media where light colours cover dark ones), it's all about putting a dark underpaint and then draw each strand or bunchs of strands (depending on how close you are to the motive) with a lighter colour. Leave some dark parts. It's tedious ut not difficult.

 

[BlueLove16]

hair is much easier in digital! This was in photoshop a few years ago
http://blueshewolf16.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5lomy7


but i also really looove workng with chalk pastels and if it wasnt so messy, i would use that as a main way to do it. but i havnt been able to find a good keeper spray that works well on all papers to keep the chalk from smudging.<br /><br />__________ Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:50 am __________<br /><br />oooo...Miss M do check out artweaver, it will blow your mind how similar it is to photoshop!!

and i can see the small mistakes in the face and hindqueaters, but you wouldnt know unless you studied horses and looked at the anatomy breakdown of them which DA has some amazin tuts of skeltons to muscle of them

 

[Zab]

Bluelove; I missed your post, sorry :3

I buy really cheap plastic frames for my chalk pastels. It's the only way I can manage to make them somewhat protected.

On a completely different note: Masking fluid. I've found the secret of watercolor. >_> I've always hated watrcolour.. but masking fluid is pretty fun.. so.. here are two horses made in watercolour.

<br /><br />__________ Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:35 pm __________<br /><br />I figure I could update
I've been painting some recently. Tried the watercolors a bit..'
I made the fox and rabbit again:

A sea creatue about to be bugged by a fisherman who only see what he believe is the fin of a shark or dolphin.. I made it for a friend, she likes when ''nature'' bites back

And I felt like practice depth and landscape, so a random person with a long walk ahead.. inspired by Skäralid (a place nearby)

And a picture I'll use to show the students what I mean with creating a form by only drawing highlights rather than shadows (like we usually do). It's supposed to help them see in a different way and also a nice practice or negative space. Of course there will be both simple and more difficult referense pictures.. but I figre that something like this can be an inspiration for some.

50x70cm, dry pastels.