I'mmm Baaack!!!
17 years ago
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I'ma be back now :)
Apologies to everyone I've basically blown off.(?)
I have for at least 6 months been unable to draw. I just recently realized what the problem was (I hope). After my first commission I kinda freaked out. It never actually occurred to me that I would actually get commissions. I was just putting it out there after my brother encouraged me (everything is always his fault :) ) I got it in my head that I had to be MUCH better than I actually am. My eye became much more critical of my work. Each and every line that I drew was suddenly "BAD". I dunno if this makes sense to anyone but hopefully I'll be doing more work. I'll just have to accept that I am sucky and you'll have to deal with it :P.
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A couple of other things I forgot to mention. I recently "lost" my windows partition (if you can, unplug hard drives your not installing anything on :( ). As such I'm gonna be doing everything on Linux. If anyone knows how to use gimp and could give me some pointers here it would be very appreciated. Especially on what is known as "clipping layers" in Photoshop. I have heard that there is a plugin that will let you do something similar in Gimp but I have no idea where to find it.
Apologies to everyone I've basically blown off.(?)
I have for at least 6 months been unable to draw. I just recently realized what the problem was (I hope). After my first commission I kinda freaked out. It never actually occurred to me that I would actually get commissions. I was just putting it out there after my brother encouraged me (everything is always his fault :) ) I got it in my head that I had to be MUCH better than I actually am. My eye became much more critical of my work. Each and every line that I drew was suddenly "BAD". I dunno if this makes sense to anyone but hopefully I'll be doing more work. I'll just have to accept that I am sucky and you'll have to deal with it :P.
*edit*
A couple of other things I forgot to mention. I recently "lost" my windows partition (if you can, unplug hard drives your not installing anything on :( ). As such I'm gonna be doing everything on Linux. If anyone knows how to use gimp and could give me some pointers here it would be very appreciated. Especially on what is known as "clipping layers" in Photoshop. I have heard that there is a plugin that will let you do something similar in Gimp but I have no idea where to find it.
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Thankee
I heard about what you said, so I am here to give you a hand!
You should consider going to those websites:
http://www.howtodesignvideos.com/
http://cheltzey.blogspot.com/2007/0.....ing-masks.html
http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/
http://registry.gimp.org/
http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/normalmap/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-plug-ins/
I believe that should help solve your problems!
I'm still searching through all the plugins. Hopefully I'll find some Brush Dynamics in there somewhere xD