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kain_kusanagi on 31 January 2013
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Trunkin said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Trunkin said:
Marucha said:
Trunkin said:

I haven't drawn anything in nearly 2 months, and I haven't done any coloring in years, but here's a picture of Link I drew way back in 2009, before my PC suddenly decided that it wasn't powerful enough to handle the Gimp. -_-

 

Yes, I used to go by "Zhipp" back in the day. Still do, actually.

>,< Cool!

Thanks. Although I don't think Toon Link was ever supposed to be cool...what have I done.

@kain_kusanagi - Those are really nice. Your MC's armor looks awesome! The one time I tried to draw him, it was...sad. So sad I had to scrap the picture.

Thanks, I really like your toon Link style. Master Chief's armor took a long time to do and I used it to work on a loose brush style. I really need to get back into doing more art just for art's sake. It's been a while since I've created a fan art piece. I do a lot of graphic stuff, but I should spend more time trying different techniques. One of these days I'll buy myself an art tablet, maybe that will push me to do more.

You don't have a tablet? Mine's a hand-me-down, but Wacom's Bamboo tablets are pretty cheap these days. I'm guessing you use the classic scanner/paper combo to do your work, then? Does that mean you do your lineart with a mouse? I can't even draw a stick man with a mouse! 

Yep, good old pencil to scanner combo. Most of the time I leave the dirty pencil lines and just enhance them. Then I like to do a water color style background and coloring job. Sometimes I'll paint over the pencil lines completely and other times I'll redraw them in Photoshop.

Right now I just have my dependable laser mouse. I've never even used a tablet or a light pen. I've always done it all with a mouse. It was tricky, but now I can do it well enough that I'm happy with the results. I've wanted a drawing tablet for a long time, but every time I start shopping for one I find other stuff to waste my money on.

I really should just buy one. I've looked at the Wacom tablets and I like what I've seen. I want to get a nice big one. I've also been considering getting one that doubles as a monitor. It would be pretty sweet to be able to draw right on the screen as if it's an interactive canvas.

Any tablet suggestions or tips you have would be greatly appreciated.