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About digital paintingHey guys, lately I had received a lot questions from people that are wanting to start doing digital art, and want to know about how one can start doing digital paint.
Now I'm not very good with words, however I can show you several videos that I hope people will find useful.
One thing in particular that I recently found to be extremely useful and inspirational was this video where the artist comments very thoroughly about how to paint digitally, especially how to paint light, cause painting light is one of my biggest things for digital art.
I had also get asked a lot about doing videos that show my process at drawing. So here I have three videos of me drawing several different pictures.
I also have a livestream channel, and I have here several videos of me drawing even more different artworks which you can find right below where the video screen is. And I may have time for doing a livestream session tomorrow if everthing goes alright, so I

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Well, I certainly don't set myself up as a model, but this is how I mainly draw pony stuff now, hand inking and digital coloring. Berry Punch selected by Owloysius-bot in the chat.

Couple things I forgot to put in text: I don't always do sketch in same order, sometimes full mane/head/face is done before body is drawn, etc. I like to work on a sturdy drawing paper, 80lb, because I pencil too hard and I need it to stand up to rough erasing. I always try to scale down the finished piece by about 50% because seeing the lineart at larger than lifesize is not flattering, and shows just how shaky my hand is.

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*GoggleSparks Jan 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I wish I can draw that body circle with my compass. Great work btw

*AmbroseButtercrust Jan 11, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks!

~hip-indeed Jan 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Now this is really cool. And actually drawing and inking on paper, then scanning, cleaning up and coloring? You do all the steps that make it feel like... it's a real *thing*. This is the kinda stuff I'd like to do someday, as well as getting better at flat-out digital drawing.

So you use GIMP for all your digital stuff, not just adjusting the color levels, or...?

*AmbroseButtercrust Jan 10, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks! I mostly use GIMP but also sometimes Inkscape for things like panel/text layout in comics, since it has easier/clearer alignment tools.

~hip-indeed Jan 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

'Alignment tools' sound like something I'd find quite useful myself. I've mainly been using SAI since a great artist friend of mine swears by it, and I learn more and more neat things about it the more I use it, and I use Paint.NET for typed text and some other things, but I've hardly begun exploring various programs and how one might be better or easier for a certain thing than others, etc. A lot of people just go with photoshop for everything, but it's all scary and intimidating and expensive, and I'd feel awful bad pirating it if I'm going to use it for a serious/longterm intrest like this...

~Koopsmas Jan 10, 2012

Very nice, thank you.

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