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HELP! How do you art so fast?
17 years ago
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Okay, I'm getting really really aggrivated at myself with this. And I need peoples input and help.
I'm watching all these artist pump out artwork of amazing quality in what seems like blistering fast times. My question is how? What are they doing that is making it so easy to color something in a day. For a single drawing, If im coloring all day, will take me about 3 or 4 days to complete. And Honestly I don't know how I can possibly go any faster.
My steps go like this. Scan in sketch and start it up in SAI, then I go over and Ink it. That doesn't take me too long, a couple of hours. Then I lay down all the base colors using the brush tool, then I shade it and add lighting using the airbrush tool. Then quickly go over it with the water tool to smoothen it. Then I go back and erase the layers around the lines individually using the eraser tool, This is the part that seems to take me the longest. But I can't find any other way to do it, cause the magic wand tool sucks so much, unless I'm not using it right.
I don't know. It really gets on my nerves that it takes me soo damn long to finish anything while I watch people post a billion things.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to go sending notes to those popular, busy, artists asking stupid questions that sound like they should be common sense, unless I really really have to.
I'm watching all these artist pump out artwork of amazing quality in what seems like blistering fast times. My question is how? What are they doing that is making it so easy to color something in a day. For a single drawing, If im coloring all day, will take me about 3 or 4 days to complete. And Honestly I don't know how I can possibly go any faster.
My steps go like this. Scan in sketch and start it up in SAI, then I go over and Ink it. That doesn't take me too long, a couple of hours. Then I lay down all the base colors using the brush tool, then I shade it and add lighting using the airbrush tool. Then quickly go over it with the water tool to smoothen it. Then I go back and erase the layers around the lines individually using the eraser tool, This is the part that seems to take me the longest. But I can't find any other way to do it, cause the magic wand tool sucks so much, unless I'm not using it right.
I don't know. It really gets on my nerves that it takes me soo damn long to finish anything while I watch people post a billion things.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to go sending notes to those popular, busy, artists asking stupid questions that sound like they should be common sense, unless I really really have to.
Sorry I can't really help, but I wanted you to know that not all artists are quick lol.
Its the same with my writing, I'm getting lathargic with it, and I try my damndest to take my time, but I forget or dont have much insperation, the stuff I post up is stuff thats already been done and beta-read.
Wish I could help....
The biggest time factor for me is sketching.
I usually get what the form looks like with my sketches, and then proceed to outline it out.
I don't have good knowledge of colours and shading, so I just pick what looks nice for me.
Overall, I can produce 1-2 full picture a day.
Just stick with what you know, get better with it, and you'll get faster.
Beyond that, I guess it depends upon what you're doing the work with... if you're working with a mouse, then bless your soul because you've got infinitely more patience than I do to be working with that thing. It seems the vast majority of the "popular artists" and myself included are using a Tablet to do their inking and coloring in "insert paint program of choice." And having inked and colored using a mouse in the past, I can definitely attest to the fact that doing the same work with a Tablet is WAY faster than trying to do it with a mouse. Inking used to take me anywhere from 2-4 hours as well, depending upon the size of what I was working on, but with my Tablet I can ink pretty much anything in under an hour. Same deal with coloring, though I couldn't give you any time estimates... just know that it's much shorter.
Hmm... well, I don't guess I know what else to suggest then...
Its one of those situations where, for me, the only way I could come up with a solution would be to actually watch how you draw and try to point out things that way. Xp And I can't do that, so I guess I'm pretty useless.
Though I guess one thing I could ask is, why don't you erase those lines you mentioned as you're making them, rather then waiting till the end? Or are they something that just don't show up right away? o.o;