No one wants to suck at art, everyone wants to further their capabilities as an artist. Don't lie. Anyway, first thing is first, what do you use as your art media? Colored Pencils? Photoshop? GIMP?

Anyway, I been having a stupid little pet peeve with photoshop over the past X amount of months since I been using it. That is, Making the and coloring the line art. Typically when I draw I start out sketching with a 3pt brush till I get a decent line work for what I want to color later. Then, i move into a new layer, set the sketching layers to lower opacity levels, then use the pen tool on that new layer to make solid almost pretty crisp lines, then delete or set invisible the ugly ass sketch. Like here▲. Looks alright. I am content with PS's capabilities.

However when I go to color it, thats a massive problem. Which brings me to make this journal Its not like MS paint, where you can use the "spill paint" to fill between the lines. Because, it will end up shitty where the color doesn't even fully come up to the line, or overshoots it and colors over half the line. So you have to create a new layer and paint underneath the lines and erase what sticks out underneath. And after your daunting hours put into it, it still doesnt turn out 100% perfect. Like this▲.

My Own Critique of stuff:
-The front fender, just look at it where the color meets the wheel well. You can see how some colors just overshoot the line because I didn't erase it in its entirety.
-The metal texture/shadowing; same issue, doesn't come up to the line or overshoots it. I am not going to elaborate on my TL:DR technique but its effect given I have over 9000 hours to devote to simple menial shit.
-http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3659808/ on here, the stock of the weapon. Self Explanatory, look at the issues.


SO YEAH, I think i want to move onto something totally different. Like Adobe Illustrator. I am tired of trying to hard to achieve maximum perfection in stuff, and coloring line art in photoshop is way way to time consuming. I am moving on to something more toony anyway in nature, unlike something like say, this, which, IMO, would have turned out better if drawn in some style like REVAtheSCARF's or TAVIMUNKS. For one, its less time consuming and I can put out more work, for two, the proportional yeild of "intrest" to "Time/Quality spent on a work" is out of whack. The best art is not always the art with the most detail in it. I been going by this motto for a while now on a few of my freinds galleries whose art is actually more appealing to me then say, ZEN's. where if there was anymore detail it would look like something IRL. For three, the threshold I have to pass to reach some furfag popularity like ZEN's is way to high to pass through.

I have no idea where this journal just went, except me ranting on art. So I am just going to make a summation and say as the title implies, does anyone got some damn advice or software that could render line art and possibly color it too, or maybe help me and my photoshop problem?