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I wanted to

make a sequence of her and scarlet in the cinema and losing her toffie down the side of the seat. However, I am not up to par with my pen yet.
Its starting to get used to it. The nib is receding into the pen however. I have a feeling I will need a new one just when I get used to it.

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:01, archived)

is this a graphic tablet I assume

I aquired corel painter x.. trying to do that showed me how shit my cheap ass trust one really is :D

I want rotatey pen functions :(

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:05, archived)

I had a trust a while back

went with the bamboo this time around its only got an a5 drawing area but it seems perfect.

the rubber on the end however keeps randomly switching on but apart from that its great.
edit I think it cost me about £50 with the postage I'm glad i got it now

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:07, archived)

I'm getting into the coloury things..

one of my projects at the moment is colouring in a 5 page section from Akira... a lot of digital colouring I see in comics I think is shit.. and I keep thinking I could probably do better so I have decided to start putting my graphics skills where my mouth is...

or something.

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:12, archived)

I'm making a video

as I go along right now. It will be accompanied by a full PDF tutorial of the way I do my digital painting and cell shading.
I'm no expert butt here may be a few tips for you to pick up.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:20, archived)

I remember you mentioning previously

and I will deffinately give it a read and a watch.

I also aquired the jeremy sutton corel x dvd guide thing.. but I found him painful to watch. lol. I don't think I'll be using painter x till I get the rotatey pen ability as I cannot be fucked with continually having to rotate the canvas.

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:23, archived)

hehe. he is a pain in the arse

( Sutton ) but it's worth browsing through the chapters for tips.
The Fay Sirkis DVD is much more informative and has some good tools with it. ( brushes, palettes etc.) As long as you can get over her annoying speech impediment.
rotating the canvas is second nature to me now but I have it mapped to the buttons on my tablet but it's no hardship to do it from the keyboard. In fact you should get used to doing everything barring your pen-strokes, from the keyboard shortcuts and stop using the gui where possible. It speeds things up massively when you know your tool shortcuts.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:34, archived)

I have managed to do so with photoshop

well.. for some things anyway.. although due to work area fail I have to have the key board at a 90 degree angle to me :D

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:50, archived)

I tend to sit back

in my chair with my feet up on the corner of the desk. The tablet then goes on the slide drawer where the keyboard usually is and it sits perfectly under my right arm and I put the keyboard on my lap under my left hand. I have to turn slightly to see the monitors but it works perfectly for me, until my arse goes numb.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:57, archived)

ok i have considered this at length

It might be that you have long legs or a small desk.

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 22:46, archived)

I would watch

I think the chances are high that I would learn something I didn't know. It wasn't until about 3 days ago I realized I had a "pick tool". I am not big on reading instructions.

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:25, archived)

I Like the transparicy options on the layers

I used to just ignore it all but there is allot of nice blending techniques to get rid of seams.
for the katsuit I just copied the section onto a new layer and chose "difference" transparicy and added a few bits and bobs after. painter x is what i use too atm the only thing that anoys me about that is they keep trying to sell me an addon pack

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:21, archived)

yes I dislike things like that

I bought L ron hubbards book on dianetics *it was 50p in a charity shop* before I knew what it properly was.. as I had only heard it mentioned in a tenacious D song..

through out all of it there are adverts for other products seminars hundreds and hundreds of dollars for audio tapes... I was feeling really down at the time and so was looking for help.. and it almost had me to a point... that is untill I read the bit that claimed they could cure you from being gay.. at which point I bellowed out laughter closed the book and put it down never to be picked up again.

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:29, archived)

he should have stuck to making telescopes

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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:32, archived)

he made telescopes?!

marvelous.

ooh this all reminds me that I have a comic I should be drawing.

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arrangedletters, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:34, archived)