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2 years ago
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I think artist should help other artist out more. Not in the "Follow Xbunny69, they have nice art!" kinda way. Just providing helpful infofrmation and tips that they stumbled upon that make art easier for them, since it might help someone else imnesly.
I've seen it too often where artist will stomp out, and witch hunt people who dare have a similar style, or try drawing a similar thing, just to protect their very neiche thing. Was VERY bad on DA a few years ago, regarding Chibi style, and people throwing hands over who stole who's art/traced.
I have solid art friends, and we share info, and WIPS, and generally help each other when we can. I don't provide much, but it is still helpful to have a second set of eyes to potentially catch something you messed up on, or might have forgotten cough cough mixing up characters, and having to redraw everything couugh cough
Artist should lift each other up, not strike one another down. (that includes you AI artist...) Everyone should just help everyone to improve.
I've seen it too often where artist will stomp out, and witch hunt people who dare have a similar style, or try drawing a similar thing, just to protect their very neiche thing. Was VERY bad on DA a few years ago, regarding Chibi style, and people throwing hands over who stole who's art/traced.
I have solid art friends, and we share info, and WIPS, and generally help each other when we can. I don't provide much, but it is still helpful to have a second set of eyes to potentially catch something you messed up on, or might have forgotten cough cough mixing up characters, and having to redraw everything couugh cough
Artist should lift each other up, not strike one another down. (that includes you AI artist...) Everyone should just help everyone to improve.
If you use a thick lineart, you can just bucket fill, and have base colours, with no worry about finding those white dots that would usually get missed.
if you use thin lines for lineart, (like i'm slowly starting to do), instead of hand painting everything, Simply colour along the linearts edges with the colour you want to use, and a brush that is slightly thicker than what your bucket expansion is, making sure it is 100% within the line. When you bucket fill, it will fill the area inside, while not bleeding outside the lineart. This has saved me so much time with tracing back and filling white areas i missed.
(this is just for base colours)
i'm still learning stuff, but i'm learning stuff fast. Once i figure out how i want to do my secondary colour layer, it's over. (i hate highlights so much, i'm going to figure out how i can make art look better without using them often.)