Hey, thanks for preserving the integrity of my crotch in this one :V

Also, Tits or gtfo, just to get it said.

I'm not going to go too deep since I consider this to be a sketch.

However, two things that I could just tell by the name and the tool -

1. Do not post names of your submissions beating yourself up. I know what you are doing and it is a mistake. You attach these words because it takes away the idea that you tried (I am not saying this is bad but you seem to think so?) so it comes off as being better because you don't care about the picture. Stop doing this. It will not help.

2. OC is a great tool for sketching and collaboration but do -NOT- attempt to finish or color it in OC. Just save it as a .png and open that .png in GIMP or paint.net. OC's layer system sucks and only lets you do cellshading which is boring.


You are doing good and you have potential. Keep drawing and trying.

The title was meant to be a joke; the original being "Lazy ass screenshot of an art program that the poster hasn't even bothered to crop properly god what a jerk" but of course, that didn't fit.

The picture itself is just a short scribble I did just to get a character concept down. I let some mistakes pass through without attempting to fix them (Eye alignment, mouth being drawn incorrectly when compared to the placement of the nose, goggles being a little bit munted in design) and pretty much didn't erase anything at all. The color was a last minute thing that only took a short amount of time to do. Had the image been treated seriously, I would have saved it as a PNG and taken it over to Adobe CS2 to ink and color it properly. The end result would have most likely been cel-shaded anyway.

I've found this sort of exercise (Where I don't erase anything) helps me isolate the areas in sketches where I'm most prone to messing up, so that I can work on those areas and make drawing a lot less frustrating in the future, since a lot of the time I end up noticing them when I've inked or started coloring the area and that's really not fun to have to deal with. The main reason I posted this one was because, despite the mistakes and the fact that I was drawing on an unfamiliar platform, I liked how it came together, and I just thought it was about time I uploaded something new in general.

ok, I look foward to your next, more complete submission in the future.

Hey, there are a lot of people who actually draw and paint very well in ways other than cel shading.

It's not the tool, it's how you use it.

I use oC because Photoshop may have more options, but it's a RAM hog and lags to shit when I try drawing or painting in it, so I only use it for basic things like cropping and text placement.

It's not the tool, it's how you use it.
Absolutely. But GIMP or paint.net could do the job of shading without tireless hours of messing with unnecessary layers.

I don't ask for much... if OC had an opacity setting on its brush I wouldn't disown it.
Any kind of decent shading requires dozens if not hundreds of individual values.
It's simply a waste of time to make a layer for each one of these values. It's also incredibly difficult to go back and edit them if you make a mistake.

The type of tools used in a digital format I recommend are only what you'd get in real life - just the brush tool, along with opacity, size, and hardness.
If I wanted to shade something, I'd slowly mix two colors. Doing layers for that in real life would mean hundreds of individual pieces of transparent paper over each other. It's just quite simply easier and allows for more freedom because you can paint/draw much faster.

I'm not trying to introduce some kind of logical fallacy by comparing digital to real life, but it's really just breaking yourself over something that could take seconds to execute, and edit, with dynamic opacity on a raster type brush.

but it's a RAM hog
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.gimp.org/

From what I've seen of GIMP as a program it's ugly as sin and the finished product isn't really to my taste. And I absolutely refuse to use any kind of oekaki/online paint site for art. If I wanted to use MSpaint, I would use it without having to be online to use it. oC may not have a lot to offer, but it has enough to make it quite versatile. If you want to use oC on one layer, it doesn't stop you. There's a paint function in even the most basic (free) version, which blends rather nicely. If you want to use layers you can use one for lines, one for flats, and one for shading, like many people do in Photoshop. Most of the stuff I do in oC is usually only on two layers, three at most unless I feel like doing really intricate colouring work. If I need something done that oC absolutely cannot do, then I switch over to PS. In fact, if I recall correctly, the forth release of oC has brush opacity adjustments.

As for Ubuntu, why in god's name would I download a new OS just to use a different art program than one I like? My current OS gives me no problems, so downloading a new one for one single program because one single program chugs a bit is ridiculous.