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ModPunchtree In reply to Aeodin [2016-05-22 20:21:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! the main problem with this is that it took me many more hours to do than if I did it on paper then traced it :/

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Aeodin In reply to ModPunchtree [2016-05-23 14:34:42 +0000 UTC]

What program were you using? Photoshop? 

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ModPunchtree In reply to Aeodin [2016-05-23 14:35:58 +0000 UTC]

I used paint tool sai for this one

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Aeodin In reply to ModPunchtree [2016-05-23 16:26:46 +0000 UTC]

Are you finding it at all confusing to use? When I first started using SAI I found it quite confusing, and I found that tutorials made by others on the web weren't as helpful as I had hoped. 

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ModPunchtree In reply to Aeodin [2016-05-23 19:49:48 +0000 UTC]

I didn't particularly know what I was doing when I first came across SAI but it wasn't that difficult to figure out, it is just a more simplified Photoshop but with features such as stabilizer for the pen input.

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Aeodin In reply to ModPunchtree [2016-05-23 21:16:24 +0000 UTC]

Oh photoshop was way too confusing and counter-intuitive for me, I abandoned it pretty early on; with SAI it took me a long time to really figure out a lot of things. For example, what multiply does; what happens when one layer is above another layer; that you can actually move layers around (I was in so much shock when I realized this); that for SAI, the drivers often stop working spontaneously, and then your lines come out blocky instead of tapered, and that in order to fix that you have to reinstall the drivers for your tablet-- which for me happened pretty much every single time I want to draw :/ 

One thing that drove me nuts for ages which nobody ever explained was that after you select something (ex., with magic brush), in order to de-select it you have to click on the eraser icon at the top of the window. I was going nuts trying to figure out why I can't do anything until it was deselected. 

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ModPunchtree In reply to Aeodin [2016-05-24 15:15:30 +0000 UTC]

I do agree that there are a major lack of tutorials for software like Photoshop and SAI so they aren't very new-user friendly. I started using Photoshop years ago but I never actually created anything using it until about 3 or 4 months ago (around about the time I joined DA), so I did have the advantage of kind of knowing the programs when I started drawing. But until there are decent tutorials for these programs most of it has to be figured out by trial and error :/

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Aeodin In reply to ModPunchtree [2016-05-24 23:37:07 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, what really drove me nuts is that whenever people like on DA made tutorials, they would skip crucial steps, and I would not be able to proceed beyond that step. It felt like the tutorial was meant more as a promotion for the artist ("Look at how well I draw, look at how good my drawing came out"), rather than to really help people learn. And then if you were to ask questions about stuff they didn't explain, the artist would be too high and mighty to explain anything and just say "yeah, it's hard to explain" or "I'm too tired to explain" - where because of that their entire tutorial would become useless because you can't proceed past the step they didn't explain. 

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