[Phire2]

Hey what's up, i'm sure you've heard these questions many times before, but i'm very curious . I'd like to know if you were naturally good at drawing when you first began or if your schooling really helped you get started. Or if you've read any books that showed you drawing techniques. Another question, How can you bare using the paintbrush in PS don't you have to shade by selecting colors manually? I'd like to draw a persons face but I just cannot get the concept down in my head on how to start or where to begin. Since real life has no lines I just don't know what to do really.. I know you probably have no time at all to make tutorials for anyone else. Although if you get some time it would be cool if you could paint this:



Anyone else is welcome to try too.

[jHof]

Thats what you do in any other type of painting. Some you have to mix the colors, still moving your brush away from the image. While others you grab a new color pencil/marker/pastel, still moving away from your image. Digital is about the samething... although you can make short cut keys to speed thingsup.

[-- Transcendent --]

Agreed, Phire2. Here's the million dollar question ... Is criag a "born genius" ?

Pehaps some old drawings and sketches might give a clue or two ?

[TheMilkMan]

If you look at spoog's very old stuff that he did when he was like 10-11 ( it's right there on his site ) it was done in an old school computer paint program they are black and white and primative but they look better then some of my artwork looks now. I will go out on a limb here and say Spooge is an artistic genius..you don't get that good with just practice and don't let anyone tell you other wise!!!!

He is right up there with Brom who used to do kick ass shit when he was like 10-11 also..

I think it would be interesting to see spooge post his artistic history..I mean an illustrated evolutionary post of his artistic abilites...start with stuff say when he was 10-11..and go from there...same with fred and Liqued...would be interesting..I mean I did not even start drawing until I was like 16 when I got spawn 10.....I think getting that early child hood expereince really fosters the genius side...sinks in deeper maybe?

[TheMilkMan]

Ohh and also I don't think that you should ask spooge to paint something for you...I mean he does this for a living and gets paid to do it...if he is really nice he will give you some good advice on your own pics .. and maybe do a repaint if you are REALLY LUCKY ..but if he gets asked like 50 times a day to paint something think he is going to hang out here..anyways just my 2 cents.

[-- Transcendent --]

Agreed, Milkman, now I'm prepared to quit art. Grrr ... I think I left my right brain to rot and emulsify in those years of my childhood, now look ...

You are sure craig did those macpaint sketches when he was 10-11 ?

[spooge demon]

I finally removed all the breakables from the studio and decided to give painter a try. What a pain! I start at low enough rez so that I can draw a stroke and have it come along sometime this week. But when I want to really control something, like around the eyes, there is not enough rez. What a mess. I may try again sometime. I think starting at low rez and blocking in and then going to PS would be a good idea. But painter all the way? Arrghhh.

There was one tool I used and it flashed the whole image, no way to undo. Sometimes it paints, sometime it does not. It would take a long time to get your head into the way it thinks.

BTW, I am gone for 3 weeks after tonight.



genius? haha! Not a chance. I am lucky in that I have been very interested and motivated to work hard over a number of years. I also have a range of interests that support one another.

That tank drawing was done at 14, and it is in no way special. I don�t know when I did those Mac paint images. When was the first Mac out? Probably did them then. I was 11 in 1975, so I could not have done them then. It must have been around 82, or 18 YO. But I got out of digital art for a long time after that. I remember my Dad telling me in ominous tones that I had better get my ass in gear and buy a computer and figure out how to use it or get buried. That was in 92!

[CapnPyro]

hey thats a smart dad, i'll bet he's one of those types that bought microsoft stock or apple way back when. spooge that picture looks great its intersting to see the things you added and left out, i like how her eyes are on us. nice to hear your feedback on painter also, id like to give it a try sometime. where you goin on your trip? heh have fun at any rate

phire i think the key is, and you always hear different iterations of it, is 'practice practice practice.' as for the selecting colors in photoshop, with a tablet it gets really quick, also when you have a color on your picture that you want to use, just alt click it and it becomes your current color. the lines problem is simple, really. start with a line drawing and fill in all the white, once you get that you can see how colors interact with one another. i think most people start with a flat color then add darks/lights to it, thats how i work atleast. im really new with painting tho, so dont mind me

-Capn

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[jHof]

Mmmmm... nothing better than eating rice krispie treats(R) and studing Spooge's work.

Oh wait, DING DING! Time to go home! WOo hOO!

Have a good'n Spooge.

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[Anthony J]

spooge work on the face some more !
I think it'd be great to see more detail
on this piece

good job as is though

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