Hi, I'm also trying to learn to draw, like I_HATE_JOHN_CALVIN, who's beautiful birbs inspired me to post some of my progress. Here's Lenin, some birbs, a predator, and some women. Been drawing with Krita everyday for 22 days so far. Everything is from reference image, not good enough to be original. Is there a thing with commies and birds what the hell CALVIN?

  • Remicita [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    What. I tried to learn to draw for like half a year and it looked way worse than this the whole time. Is this like u coming back to drawing after learning and practicing a lot in the past or something

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I had some practice in the past, about a month of really going through that drawing on the right side of your brain book. But i let it slip and this is my second try, really trying to stick with it this time. I think my advantage is having experience playing around with photoshop as a kid. I'm still not that good at actually drawing. Like I can't draw a straight line to save my life without hitting ctrl Z 15 times straight, but I have a pretty good grasp of Krita and am good at using it to my advantage. Devouring a ton of tutorials helps too. David Revoy has some great ones , i think he's one of the krita developers, and i think you will surprise yourself how good it comes out of you try them

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://www.davidrevoy.com/article185/tutorial-getting-started-with-krita-1-3-bw-portrait This is the one i did that made me go hey i can actually do this

      • Remicita [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Oh it's a digital thing I see. Do u use one of those tablet and stylus setups?

        • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yes i got a cheap tablet under a hundred dollars. It's kinda weird hand eye coordination issue at first cause there's no screen on the tablet. You draw on it but look at the monitor. But i like digital, don't need paper or materials just draw and draw and erase and draw and undo and undo try try again lol. And once you get good at how the layers and other features work it really becomes interesting. In traditional media if i made a large proportion mistake i would have to erase and start over. Here I can select and warp and stretch and duplicate and liquify and mirror and a bunch of other tricks to solve problems that might stump me on physical media.