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Fuck I'm Out of Practice
11 years ago
Just need to write somewhere to get this out of my head-- I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.
It used to be easy to color things in GIMP, didn't it? What, five or so years ago? Augh Fucking hell. Seriously.
I'm out of practice, and remembering precisely why I hate coloring images-- It's such a pain in the ass, and it's not really how my brain works. Which sounds like a cop out. I see in color, yes, but I feel like I don't do so well enough to actually color anything worth a damn. Traditional media is hard enough, digital is horrific-- the only advantage is I can cleanly erase my mistakes without destroying the surface I'm working on.
I really miss having Painter. I loved that program. I could try to boot up my old desk top and use that, but that would pretty much require rearranging my art room and even then, I'm sure I'd have the same problems I do now, it's just that I'd have something closer to traditional media (sort of) to work with.
And then you factor in the fact that even in traditional media, I don't use it "correctly."
The trouble with never going to school for art. You have to learn this crap yourself. Which, really, isn't such a bad thing. But sometimes I wonder if it might be less frustrating if I had gone to school for art rather than what I did.
Then again, most people I meet that go to art school all want to make things that... really don't have much appeal to me. And they seem to do no better with some of this than I do.
Rant over. Getting something to eat, taking a breath, and then going back to trying again. Can't get any better unless you try, right?
It used to be easy to color things in GIMP, didn't it? What, five or so years ago? Augh Fucking hell. Seriously.
I'm out of practice, and remembering precisely why I hate coloring images-- It's such a pain in the ass, and it's not really how my brain works. Which sounds like a cop out. I see in color, yes, but I feel like I don't do so well enough to actually color anything worth a damn. Traditional media is hard enough, digital is horrific-- the only advantage is I can cleanly erase my mistakes without destroying the surface I'm working on.
I really miss having Painter. I loved that program. I could try to boot up my old desk top and use that, but that would pretty much require rearranging my art room and even then, I'm sure I'd have the same problems I do now, it's just that I'd have something closer to traditional media (sort of) to work with.
And then you factor in the fact that even in traditional media, I don't use it "correctly."
The trouble with never going to school for art. You have to learn this crap yourself. Which, really, isn't such a bad thing. But sometimes I wonder if it might be less frustrating if I had gone to school for art rather than what I did.
Then again, most people I meet that go to art school all want to make things that... really don't have much appeal to me. And they seem to do no better with some of this than I do.
Rant over. Getting something to eat, taking a breath, and then going back to trying again. Can't get any better unless you try, right?
