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Started a couple other companion pieces.
Yes it is.
Yup, bought a Wacom about 4 years ago for doing hair in my illustrations and it's one of the best purchases I ever made, the quality of hair in my work improved dramatically with it, before it I was using the mouse or line tools and it just didn't look good compared to what the Wacom can do.
Indeed. It was either on or off the regular way. Then you have to erase the edges to try and make it look better which takes longer or making your own brushes. Again more time. Where as with the Wacom as you know you can setup the pressure sensitivity or stylus wheel to adjust pressure/flow or the pen nib pressure itself. The realism with it is amazing. Such fine quick strokes with no faffing about. Then of course the different nibs to help better quality. It's the perfect tool.
Have you ever tried a Cintiq in a shop? The Cintiq looks ace shame it's so damn expensive. 2k at least the last I looked sometime ago.
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Have you ever tried a Cintiq in a shop? The Cintiq looks ace shame it's so damn expensive. 2k at least the last I looked sometime ago.
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Never heard of Cintiq before, very interesting.
With the Wacom, I'd known of tablets for handwriting for a long time and I forget what prompted me but I finally researched if it could be applied to Photoshop.
What I like is that the table allows me to deal with hair the same as I do with a pencil in my sketchwork, so doing hair on the computer feels about the same as doing a pencil drawing for me. Someday I may explore atlernate methods for doing flesh and other elements, but for now I just use the same techniques I've used for years and just refine it with each new piece.
With the Wacom, I'd known of tablets for handwriting for a long time and I forget what prompted me but I finally researched if it could be applied to Photoshop.
What I like is that the table allows me to deal with hair the same as I do with a pencil in my sketchwork, so doing hair on the computer feels about the same as doing a pencil drawing for me. Someday I may explore atlernate methods for doing flesh and other elements, but for now I just use the same techniques I've used for years and just refine it with each new piece.
villainsfan42
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nice job on those pics, i love your work.
what type of wacom would you recommend?
what type of wacom would you recommend?
It all depends on what you're looking for, I don't know much about the new models, I bought mine in 2005 so I'm sure there's been a number of advances since.
When I bought mine, my main concern was workspace, you can get cheap ones but the working area is like 3" x " or something and it wasn't much, I got one that's about 6" x 4", it was still fairly affordable but much more work space.
For anything drawing, I'd recommend getting one with a larger work area. Even with the size of mine, I still have to move the image around on screen to line up w here I want my pen to fall, I'm on a 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor and the Wacom covers about 1/4 of the screen space.
When I bought mine, my main concern was workspace, you can get cheap ones but the working area is like 3" x " or something and it wasn't much, I got one that's about 6" x 4", it was still fairly affordable but much more work space.
For anything drawing, I'd recommend getting one with a larger work area. Even with the size of mine, I still have to move the image around on screen to line up w here I want my pen to fall, I'm on a 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor and the Wacom covers about 1/4 of the screen space.
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Every now and then it helps to take a break and come back to these things. When you're just rolling along, sometimes you're just doing things to keep a pace going, but when you come back to it, you get more objective and really see if things are or aren't working, and I found the face needed some overhauling in terms of tones and shadows so I started tweaking that.
Needed a break from the Rambo 2 tonight so I chipped away some at the First Blood piece again.
It sure is a fantastic piece but please say thats a scaled down version and you have a higher res version than this? well if all your paths and such are still in tact it would be scalable without going fuzzy.
The original files are 300 DPI 8 x 10 pieces, I just scale them down to post here.
