Digital or By hand
#1 Guest_shirafuji_*
Posted 13 February 2006 - 12:43 AM
#2
Posted 13 February 2006 - 12:54 AM
#3
Posted 13 February 2006 - 02:30 AM
If I'm inkin a CG then digital
if I'm inking manga then by hand
#4
Posted 13 February 2006 - 03:05 AM
Well, if I'm drawing (hardly likely, since I'm not an artist myself, but I try on the rare occasion), I'd prefer digital -- it's significantly easier for me, and would look better. Or, to put it another way, it's about the only method I can do it.
However, if the skill of the artist with hand inking and digital were equal, I think I prefer the APPEARANCE of hand-inking, usually. It looks more natural.
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#5
Posted 13 February 2006 - 03:10 AM
#6
Posted 13 February 2006 - 03:19 AM
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#7
Posted 13 February 2006 - 04:34 AM
#8
Posted 13 February 2006 - 05:10 AM
For digital, you did have to be real good in using the mouse..
#9
Posted 13 February 2006 - 08:05 PM
#10
Posted 14 February 2006 - 01:03 AM
#11
Posted 15 February 2006 - 12:48 PM
While both has advantages(I won't point out), both styles has disadvantages too:
Digital: You need to have the expensive and not-so-expensive tools (computer,tablet(optional), drawing program, mouse, scanner, etc.) and requires knowledge and skill in using those.
Tradi: Requires talent in using media, there's no undo option, can be easily damaged(esp. when you're using paper)
The adv/disad are based on my experience. (If mixed media won't be considered) I would prefer the hand-inking(traditional) more since it's more easy to manipulate though I use digital more since it appears better to me and I can't afford to pay the scanning again...
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#12
Posted 16 February 2006 - 08:55 AM
For me MAKING something, I'm trying a mixed approach. I like to draw the picture in freehand pencil first. I'm trying to decide whether hand-inking or using the PC to ink is best. I'm leaning towards CGing because I like to draw my pictures small then blow them up on the PC.
I'm using Photoshop, but I'm also experimenting with the trial of OpenCanvas 4, which is pretty solid so far. Like Painter, it lets you rotate the picture freely for natural strokes. If only Photoshop had that! You can still rotate the picture at 90-degree (or custom input) increments though it's not as quick or natural.
#13
Posted 16 February 2006 - 08:03 PM
For example we have Fred Perry (Golddiger, Legacy) he uses 100% digital nowdays when he does his comics, he likes it and to him this is a faster way of doing it.
On the other side we have Ben Dunn (Ninja High School, Mangaverse) he makes his comics and inks them by pen and ink, because he likes to do it by hand.
I do agree using the digital may seem more expensive (PC, Tablet, etc) but the traditional way alway imples cost (paper, ink, pencils, erasers, brushes, etc) and that is not cheap either. Another thing is that if you make 1 mistake in the traditional way, you have to start from 0 while in the digital you just hit the undo function
I work digital because it has more rooom for making errors, a color, a mistake in the stroke on the brush, etc. all can be fix very easy... downside of this, sometimes its too much time consuing and you may get tired and give up because it requires constant practice.
for example
here is a page I got for when I was working as inker for a comic called chisuji
this is how I got it, so I get to work ink it with only a mouse and my love for comics and after pretty much 6 hours or sometimes even 8 to ink 1 page
and this is how it looked:
nowdays I work as the colorist of that comic and I dont ink anymore this is my most recent work
So if you go digital or traditional or a hybrid in between the two, dont worry, the rule here is do your best, and use any tools that can help you do your art faster and better.
#14 Guest_shirafuji_*
Posted 17 February 2006 - 12:29 AM
can you tell me the base color code you use for skin? mine never seems to come out right.
#15
Posted 17 February 2006 - 11:01 AM
I think one of the downsides of digital can be the amount of time required to work on a picture. For example, I'm much faster inking by hand than by PC tablet. But I still tend to feel a little uncomfortable if I'm trying to draw a large picture from stratch.
CG Colouring is about the same amount of time as hand for me (at least from the small experiments I've tried), but it definitely has more flexibility - as you said, you can change and adjust colours and effects if you don't like them.
I'll try something today (if I can grab the time, if not then next week), maybe try to draw something at a comfortable size - then scan it in on PC and blow it up. Print it out and do a new, more detailed pencil drawing by tracing the sketch.
#16
Posted 17 February 2006 - 06:43 PM
can you tell me the base color code you use for skin? mine never seems to come out right.
well it takes a bit of work there, try using the option multiply on the brush and play with the colors making it a bit lighter or darker, or you can just take the color base from other images you like the skin color using the eyedrop tool in photoshop.
hope that helps
#17
Posted 27 February 2006 - 03:08 AM
=__= I ink by hand and clean up and fix stuff on the computer. But I don't really have the time to scan anything now, so my hand drawn stuff is all inked by hand and my computer art is all done my paint in windows.
#18 Guest_jtl889_*
Posted 27 February 2006 - 04:01 AM
it's basically a free photoshop, very professional yet cost efficient and much easier to use in my opinion, it was originally made as a photoshop for macs, but they expanded into freeware for windows too
#19
Posted 04 March 2006 - 02:25 PM
Any tips on how to make lineart faster? 'cause my hands end up dead tired whenever I work on a very clean lineart.
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