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Most of the time tho.

Depends on how many nights a week I'm working, really. :P

HUZZAR

I am update

authoredinexile.tumblr.com

Hot damn that's pretty rad. Looks pretty clean too.

...Most of my stuff looks sketchy and shit. I mean, this is my latest sketch◊.

Also Hi, I'm a gender-nonconforming girl as well. I'm straight though.

edited 28th Jun '16 10:43:48 AM by electronic-tragedy

That looks pretty good.

That looks awesome

That looks awesome too. It does look sketchy but that kind of works for that. Makes it look rugged

I'm working on something now with my new pencils. I'll post it when I'm done. Unless it turns out bad. Then I won't

Oh yeah, that looks really good, actually.

There are people who actually go out of their way to put filters on cleaned images to look like that.

And to "clean" something, just run it through photoshop or Gimp, grayscale it, and edit it with the "curves" tool. After you tweak the color curve a bit you can threshold it, since black/white uses less memory than grayscale.

I didn't have photoshop readily with me, so. But yeah, I know what you mean there.

So yeah◊ Now I just need to do better shading and, you know, draw hands

I really want to learn to do digital art. But I'm not quite sure where to start

I'd say to start, buy a drawing tablet. I bought a Wacom Intuos tablet a couple years ago (I think for $72), and it still works like a charm, and it's pretty easy to use. I also use Medibang Paint, which works on my Mac, and it's for drawing. A similar choice is Fire Alpaca but I got used to Medibang's interface faster.

Whatever you do, take it slow and don't get frustrated. A lot of artists stop producing because they're not getting the results they want as quickly as they want them.

I'd start with getting a reference book of some sort about your favorite thing to draw. Those "how to" books are amazing. I browse them a lot when I'm in a bookstore, even when I can't afford to take them home.

What are the major differences between doing digital art and doing traditional art? I do a lot of traditional art, but I assume that diving in the exact same way with digital art might not be the best method

edited 28th Jun '16 11:17:51 AM by Cailleach

Is that Albert Camus?

@blkwhtrbbt

I gotta say that looks like legit manga quality right there.

ive been thinking about making my own webcomics one of these days. so far i can only do simple drawings. here's a link to my dA and my art tumblr.

edited 28th Jun '16 11:39:58 AM by AnimeBadger

So I still don't know if I should do Tracer or D.va and have no idea how I'd do either of them. Hrm.

Well you can draw hands which I think qualifies as a feet on it's own.

Webcomics ride further on the quality of the writing than the artwork.

Ask Randall Munroe.

I mean. He actually is a really good artist, he just chooses to go really minimalist on his comic.

Thanks Sgamer. To be honest, that's what I would be doing if it paid well.

edited 28th Jun '16 12:04:59 PM by blkwhtrbbt

I wish I could draw at all, but I'll never be capable of it.

And because somebody comes along and says I can with effort: No, I can't. I have learning difficulties and any fine work involving the hands is impossible for me, hence writing was impossible and why I was given a grant to get an IBM PC years ago, and why I still have that PC now running a very early version of OS/2.

This is probably a stupid question, but

If your gender identity shifts between male and female and sometimes neither, would you be genderfluid and nonbinary? Or would there be a better way to refer to that?

@Badger

holy shit you got yourself a follow

that is a quality blog

A person who shifts genders is genderfluid, and a person who does not always identify as male or female is nonbinary.

Solip - the one person I know like that for definite just calls themselves genderfluid because it encompasses it all without being too pedantic about it.

Sorry, being irrelevant again.