Post your best Wacom sketches!

[ya3]

Exactly as the title says.

I know it's been done before... but meh... let's do it again, because Wacom tablets (say it with me) PWN! :hugegrin:

--

I'll start:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tsg1/scribbles14.jpg

Alias Sketchbook Pro 1.1.1
Wacom Graphire3 6x8

[Nikaosky]

That's cool YA3!

[BoonDock]

I'll post some from my Toshiba Tablet PC ... (it uses wacom technology so that should count right?!)

[fasterthanlight™]

I dont know about these being my 'best' sketches, but they certainly are my first 2. These arent even original, i grabbed the basic sketches off of google and traced them, just getting used to it.

Alien
Coloured using the wacom too
http://s88179003.onlinehome.us/alien.jpg

DUDE
http://s88179003.onlinehome.us/dude.jpg

[jokun]

eesh. okay, so far this is my best. i've never actually used a tablet before. it taking some getting used to, since i'm used to looking at the surface i'm drawing on, not a computer screen.

i'm using that Alias Sketchbook, too, that i tried for the first time about 20 minutes ago.:worried:

[Ben H]

I'm pretty crap at drawing...
This isn't my best, but it's the first cartoon I drew on my new tablet, there is a teacher at my school who this resembles, and I have a cartoon frame in the weekly school magazine...

-Ben

[Ben H]

Just did this, probably the best I've done on my wacom so far (I'm bad at drawing :P)

-Ben

[jokun]

so, what program is everybody using? like i said, i'm using alias sketchbook, and i know ya3 is too. how about the rest of you guys?

[Ben H]

Alias Sketchbook

[Pattt]

:)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23727093/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/23723304/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/23792416/

Colored:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/23752276/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/25921445/

[JoshuaJonah]

images dont work

[fasterthanlight™]

I'm using photoshop

[Pattt]

images dont work

Fixed. :)

[Ψ]

hah here is mine , did it about in 5 mins total.

made in photoshop.

[Ψ]

oops shadows are going wrong way...

[Bird-E]

First digital drawing in ages, so give me a break.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7650/draw4fb.jpg


Picture is of Trey, the badboy of an animation series im trying to get off the ground. Original character by Bird-E.

Done in about 3-5 mins in photoshop. Doesnt look right to me, but I guess you cant compare digital drawings with actual sketches. For those of you who are wondering, that's a tattoo on his right arm and his hand is in his pocket. No, he is not posing, he's scratching his head. That's a kind of in-built uzi/mac holster at the back of his pants and his crew's trademark arm band on his left arm.

[Pasquale]

:cantlook: hahahah a terrible picture but meh i'll post it heh
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7406/panda5rm.jpg

[Pasquale]

ooo! im gonna post a wacom jumping panda :P animation

[Bird-E]

http://img497.imageshack.us/img497/8503/sketch8eu.jpg

i was goofing around (procrastinating! ahhh i'll never make this year's resolution). Just a quick sketch. Made in flash, because it feels more 'native' to draw my characters. Its kinda scrappy looking, but in animation, no one notices.

Trey doesnt normally smile, but I had to make him suit for this picture.

[Pasquale]

i rekon flash sucks for drawing characters cause of the smoothing- draw the roughs in sketchbook :P- then clean up in flash :)

*edit- here is my roughs for my random jumping panda
im cleaning him/her up now

[Bird-E]

the point of the brush's smoothing is to alias your work. It helps me a lot because sometimes my hand shakes (notice the left arm on my first sketch), and I dont want such small movements to affect my work. There are ups and downs of both methods though. Like i said, when animated it makes no difference, except for the pan/still shots which i pay extra attention to.

[Pasquale]

hence why you rough out ur frames first in a more precise app then line test the final shot for the sequence in something such as flash ;)
That's how they make the Gorillaz video clips (well the old ones) they were lintested in flash and rendered in flash :) (my friend worked on it)

btw in flash that line consistency is VERY noticible as you can see quiver even in the slightest movements

[Bird-E]

heh we could go on about this for ages, but im gonna cut it short. so sue me, im lazy. Im a designer, not an animator :), i want to get it all in one shot, because animating tends to annoy me. Just a hobby man, im a soon-to-be newgrounds artist.

[Pasquale]

heh

[jnstevens87]

Here's two of mine. All Photoshop.

[Ben H]

Nice work jnstevens!

-Ben

[jnstevens87]

Two more: Second one is a threshold in conjunction with a wacom sketch.

[Pasquale]

my cleaned up random panda is coming!

[ramakrishna P]

Here's two of mine. All Photoshop.

Try more of these type....They look realastic!:)

[hybrid101]

i don't see anything ramakrishna.
nice panda, darkmotion. hey jnstevens, those sketches were awesome!

[BoonDock]

These are some nice entries...I gotta get in...I'll try and do some sketches when I get off work today and submit them later this evening! :thumb:

[jnstevens87]

Another:

[Ψ]

dude jnstevens, you have a nice talent there man..

[jnstevens87]

dude jnstevens, you have a nice talent there man..

It's the tablet not me.

I wish some more people would post, cause this thread is fun.

[Ψ]

these sketches are really really old. i think perhaps maybe 2 years old..

i was just playing around when it suddenly got serios..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/_azzy_/pArrot.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/_azzy_/sparrow.jpg

[Krilnon]

http://images.reclipse.net/wacomScene.jpg

[nobody]

Underground shark... yes!

[fasterthanlight™]

:lol:

[Pasquale]

yay i give you crappy jumping panda- which i made while my sister had friends over... *shudders*
http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pandacolour3ur.swf

[jnstevens87]

Ha ha. You should save that as a gif. I want to put that on my desktop.

[Berg]

my tablet decided to not work anymore on new years eve...

[jokun]

Cool stuff, everybody. I've always been a big fan of the land shark. I don't have any more at the moment, but I'll see what I can whip up later on.

[Pasquale]

Ha ha. You should save that as a gif. I want to put that on my desktop.

Heheh u mean my jumping panda?

Go ahead and decompile it use it for what ever the hack ya want

OOO someone make a random bg to fit the random jumping panda!

[Pasquale]

I think we need a club section in the forums :)

[jnstevens87]

Heheh u mean my jumping panda?

Go ahead and decompile it use it for what ever the hack ya want

OOO someone make a random bg to fit the random jumping panda!

I would . . . If I knew how to decompile it.:-/

[Pasquale]

i could just post the fla.. hahah

[jnstevens87]

Or tell me how to do it, cause now I wanna learn.

[Xero]

I really like jokun's sketch. The forshortening on the hand is great and the pose has a cool fluidity to it.

Here are some im working on:
A Value sketch over one of my Pencil sketchs. Just got me a scanner a couple days ago.
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8963/centuarconcept7al.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8228/paintingfromrefrence5dk1hc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4172/oldsnizz0md.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[jnstevens87]

Those are badarse! I'd like to see what's wacom and whats scanned on that first one. And what program are you using?

[Ψ]

aaoh very nice. amazing work man.

[Seb Hughes]

WOW, ther epretty much all very nice and pro :D

[Xero]

I am kinda in a rush right now so i will have to find my sketch later but the program i use to paint is photoshop CS 2.

[Xero]

Another quickie

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/1224/warrior21aw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[TheCanadian]

Whoa fork, nice work :s:

[Ψ]

bah mine is nothing compared to xero's artwork. he can really capture the shadows and the anatomy

[mezora]

http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/3955/image0021vg.th.jpg (http://img420.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image0021vg.jpg)

yeah it sucks.. But then again, its a rabbit :P

[vectorboy]

Rabbits nibble, they don't suck :lol:

I like it btw! But maybe clean it up a little...

[.soulty]

woah some really nice work in here.. :)

Xero, great stuff :thumb:

[Xero]

Thanks guys.

[danielson]

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Image-Library/Exempla/Davinci-mona-lisa-1503-06.jpg

[Xero]

"Scratches head" =/?

[jokun]

Wow, that's some sketch. :liar: :sure:

[jokun]

x for the comments, xero.

really nice drawings, btw. i especially like the guy w/ the white beard. great shadowing there.

[odedvard]

http://www.zigzach.com/zach_self_wacom.jpg

[Ψ]

nice nice. like the way you make the coat.

the shading also look nice. but the faces looks like its a bit hairy :D but nonetheless great job.

[iLikePie]

i was trying to do different styles, so i experimented today with a photo of some eyes as a reference, and came up with this. i like it, because it looks a bit less digital than other stuff i've done before...then i got bored of it, so thats why some bits (like the shape of the shadows) looks weird.

[.soulty]

very nice Pie and odedvard.

odedvard yours reminds me of max payne for some reason or some sort of mafia thing.. :)

Pie that is some excellent experimental work, i didnt know you were into fine arts like that :thumb:

[iLikePie]

neither did i :P

nah, i'm trying to be more 'artistic' because i realised that a straight design background can really constrict your creativity.

odedvard, how did you do your portrait? was it from a photo, or just imagination...? i know people who do self portraits from memory, and i don't think i really even know what i look like.

[zeldafreak]

i wanna post one, even though i cant draw to save my life. you might end up seeing one here.

[Bird-E]

http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=explode9bz.swf

goofing around and decided to animate. Ballistic (my upcoming animation series) grand theft auto style. The guy is Trey, the kinda do-it-all guy.

For those who dont get it, he set a bomb and the job isnt done until it goes off (the GTA-style bit). basically he's just monitoring it. as he's walking off, if this was GTA, it would say 'mission complete' and the money would begin rolling in.

edit: added music, maybe it will help you understand

[Pasquale]

lol waht teh heck was that?

[Bird-E]

ever played gta?

edit: maybe its just the way I play it...

[Xero]

I am applying to get into Vancover Film School (http://www.vfs.com) and am trying to beef up my portfolio until june to have no stress before I get in. Im trying to aplly color to some sketches. Everything is done with a wacom no scanned in sketches. This is an underpainting at 72 DPi which I will up to 300 dpi when I go into add detail and shizz. I plaen on modeling this guy as well tomarrow.
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/2361/concept1jpg4ss.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Xero]

Took the lines off and started painting without em.

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1871/concept18xd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Ψ]

dude those are awesome :D :thumb2:

[Xero]

Update. Added more colors and started making up some kinda vibro sword (ys I used to play paladium =)). Changed the pants and you might notice a little change in the crotch area.

Edit:: *removed*

[Pasquale]

lol thats so gonna get removed ;)

[nobody]

I think we can handle it. If someone actually cares I'll remove it.

[Xero]

Lol sry bout that I just thoguht of when i was in elementary school. One of my "friends" used to draw weiners's on all my artwork. Ill Replace it if anyone cares. AS for the painting. I think i got a bit carrier away with everything I was doing in the paintings and didnt take enough breaks. Its now a piece of poo that will rot forever.

[luksy]

one of my first (newly bought) wacom sketches.

[skepticstudios]

http://www.bobvideo.co.uk/images/sketches/sketch01.gif

This is the last sketch I did, just thought I'd post and introduce myself :)

[.soulty]

^ nice style dude, i like it.

and Xero you got some mad skill i dig that character you drew. Oh and i edited your 2nd edit pic.. think you know why :sigh:

[luksy]

oh come on, we're not children. It's an oval with two circles on the both sides, come ON. :shifty:

[.soulty]

we might not be children but there are children on these boards.. lets not soil them minds too early.


...maybe next year... :lol: hehe.

[Ψ]

skeptic studios i really like that one. Looks awesome..

(Gosh. whenever i use the word awesome, i sound like a child. :( )

[Pattt]

A little girl. :)

http://www.gtasajten.com/forum/uploads/post-24-1137968413.jpg

[Xero]

What a cute kid =D!!!

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7762/concept39lj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I decided to pick it up again today and try and salvage it I think im close to done just need to make the canvasa bit wider and have more dramatic lighting sloping down. And no 8=D

[jokun]

That's, um, some codpiece there. He could put an eye out with that.

[Ψ]

dude that looks very nice. Keeps getting better everytime.

Umm one thing, fix the helmet :D

[Desire]

Xero can you please stop showing off!^_^ no way am i posting my work now lol.

[Xero]

Ψ - Thanks for the comments man. What do you mean fix the helmet? I put those lines on a different layer so I could get better perspective. Its a work in progress so i just show what im working with as im going with the flow.

Jokun - Haha well you saw how big his member was he need some protection. Hehe ya I am going to erase it.

Desire - I'm not tring to show off the reason I post is to get some feedback as to what people like to see in paintings and what they don't. For example seems like people don't like his spiked sports cup so i am am going to delete it =D. As for you submitting your stuff, the only way to get better is to get critqued by other people. Leave your inhabitions behind and just show people what you like doing. There are all sorts of different styles however there are ways to learn drawing universally that I would be glad to give you link to or talk with you about.

[ElectricGrandpa]

hey xero, do I see some faint trees in the background? if I do.... then I likey.

[Desire]

if you could teach me to draw like that i would marry you :stare: lmfao jk.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.rate/Cheetah.htm

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.rate/Gorilla.htm

wacom + flash
(>'')> <3 <(''<)

[Xero]

ElectricGrandpa - Thanks. Supposed to be some kinda foiliage in the background mabye trees :).

Desire- Really great drawings desire. Keep em coming! I have done animation drawings in flash with my wacom and I thoguht it was one of the hardest things to do. I suggest sketching in either corel painter or photoshop. Also If you really want make your animals pop out you need to study real animals. Like anything worth having you have to put forth the effort to get better.The best way I would say is to set some time aside to draw animals whether it be your pet or find a picture on the internet and draw that. Also a really great book which I highly recommend is "The Sketch Book for the Artist by Sarah Simblet". What I read really helped me get past my fears of what other people think about my sketchs or drawings and what I should really care about such as composition and emotion. Also listen to something that doesnt distract from what you are doing. Like movie soundtracks, trance music, or classical music. It doesnt really matter just as long as you enjoy it. I hope I was helpful.

[mlk]

I am applying to get into Vancover Film School (http://www.vfs.com) and am trying to beef up my portfolio until june to have no stress before I get in. Im trying to aplly color to some sketches. Everything is done with a wacom no scanned in sketches. This is an underpainting at 72 DPi which I will up to 300 dpi when I go into add detail and shizz. I plaen on modeling this guy as well tomarrow.
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/2361/concept1jpg4ss.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Hey there, my school is setting up some kind of exchange programme with vfs (i'm in france), I think we have 2 little taiwanese dudes working on a final year 3d animation from vfs (they're around 30 I think)... I'm still in the first year (out of five total) so who knows, maybe i'll see you there someday !

'till then keep posting the good stuff !

[skepticstudios]

http://www.bobvideo.co.uk/images/sketches/shock.jpg

[Xero]

mlk - Awsome man I hope to see you there someday. I really enjoy Canadian people which is one of the reasons I would like to move there. my other option is going to the gnomon school in Hollywood which sounds great and all but I can't help but feel its more of a technical school then an artisitic one.

[mlk]

i was studying in the UK last year and halfway through the year we got a new tutor who had spent a year at gnomon, and boy did I learn a lot from him, but as you mentioned it wasn't that artistic. I regret not staying there a bit, though final year projects cannot be compared....

[BoonDock]

A very ... VERY quick sketch ... (I'll try and post more as I get em done)

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8408/eyeball9cs.th.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eyeball9cs.jpg)

[fasterthanlight™]

thats nice boon, the shadings just right

[BoonDock]

^BUMP^ (just would like to see more submissions and I'll be posting some more probably tonight)

[Desire]

my atempt at something a bit more realistic, nothing great some helpfull tips wud be great. (used a photo for reference)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.rate/painting.jpg

if i cud only paint a decent body on me lol.

[skepticstudios]

Thats amazing Desire, nice technique

[Tempest811]

http://www.surreal-utopia.com/miscellaneous/turtle1.jpg

was a quick sketch i did for a friend while they watched :p ..20 mins prolly

[iLikePie]

hey tempest i like your turtle :P

the wood looks a bit blurry, but i suspect thats just because it was a sketch and you didn't bother fill in details...

i reckon you could work on the stroke directions if you wanted it to look even better - at the moment it feels in parts (like the underside of the turtle and the highlight on his head) that its just a filter, because all the lines go diagonally in the same direction.
if you were to paint those lines (especially on the belly) to emphasise the form of the belly by sorta curving out from underneath i think it'd really enhance the solidity of it :)

[BoonDock]

@Temp - nice turtle!

[Ψ]

so where are your skectches boondock :P :D

Nice one tempest i really like it

[BoonDock]

Yeah sorry, I've been gettin busy at night, I'll try and post some tonight I promise! (they might be some repeats that I did in the past that were posted but don't know if the threads are still around) -- I did post that eye sketch that I did real quick that night. :thumb: ;)

[BoonDock]

Ok as promised, here are some old things I've done, none of my new stuff I'm workin on, and the ones that I'm posting right now will not be finished if they look like they are un-finished...just because I was either burnt out on them, or I just forgot about em.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6818/celeste0qb.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=celeste0qb.jpg)

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1065/desktop43lc.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop43lc.jpg)

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9553/eye6zx.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eye6zx.jpg)

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7792/hung1yu.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hung1yu.jpg)


(http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eye4fy.jpg)

[Desire]

Temp - nice turtel man really like it!

Boon - Lineage 2 Dark Elf's FTW! hehe :) quality game, anyways i really like the female one. You should so finish it mate. :D

[BoonDock]

That female is my girlfriend, and she wants me to finish it too, but I just don't have time to make it as good as I would like.

[jokun]

nice stuff, man

[Rw2]

Nice... people those are great !!!

[andizzle]

Took me bout half an hour, still workin on it

Gandhi (http://www.freewebs.com/ahdesign/pics/Gandhi2.jpg)

Tell me what you think

-Andy

[jnstevens87]

Tell me what you think

-Andy

:-/ Start over. Looks like the spacing on your brush is not set to 0%, and I think the black lines would look nicer if they were 100% hardness and had the size jitter set to "pen pressure."

[Xero]

Naw man dont start over, painting is just overlapping. Off to a great start. Just get some better skintones and try and define the nosrals. Remember everyone makes mistakes when they paint. All you have to do it expiriment with different spettings and brushes and you could come out with something cool.

[andizzle]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll post a new one when I get around to it.

-Andy

[Xero]

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6767/ninja1gw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

A quick one. About an hour and a half with soft brush this time. Experimenting with the colors a bit and having some fun.

[.soulty]

^ woah dude thats some serious skills there.. reminds me of the ninja in Metal Gear solid.. hehe :thumb:

[Xero]

Thanks man. I actually just played the game F.E.A.R and some of the concepts in that game are pain awsome and feel powerful. However I did have Ninja from metal gear in mind. However I was thinking of ninja from metal gear as I was painting this. It's really hard for me to paint something thinking of color, value composition, and design at the same time it really wears on my mind. I think I just need to slow my *** down a bit and take a breather.

[.soulty]

patients is a virtue as they say ;)

[Ophyr]

First post :P

Characters that I'm working on for a game --

http://www.ophyr.nl/misc/bannerything.png


Another character for another game --

http://www.ophyr.nl/misc/puff.png

[BoonDock]

@Xero - what are you using to do your sketches? Alias Sketchbook Pro? Or something else? I use Photoshop to do details, but Sketchbook Pro to do the sketching and rough layout of things...just curious to see what you've been using! Nice work on that last submission by the way, love the eyeholes in the helmet with the orange glow...would be a great finishing touch on that one!
:thumb:

[Xero]

I use photoshop for everything. Mabye a little corel painter at sometimes. I dididnt really do a sketch withthe ninja guy just blotted out his form and pose then went into it with lighting in mind. For the legs i just got a random brush and sketches it out.

[BoonDock]

Ah, I was wondering what you used because some of the strokes looked smooth like in Sketchbook Pro rather than in PS. (I use a Tablet PC to do my stuff and Sketchbook works a lot better than PS for sketching...just because it's not as big of a memory eater)

Thanks for the input, keep up the good stuff! :thumb:

[iLikePie]

ophyr, thats some pretty sweet pics! I love the clean smooth lines you get, is it done in flash with the brush tool?

and what are you using them for? you said they're for a game, but are they just concept pics or do you actually animate them ??(cause that wouldn't be easy!).

[hybrid101]

hey ophyr, those are cute! i especially like the dragon

[Xero]

Another sketch. No ref. Been playing videogames like a crazy man. Age of Wonders II: Shadow magic is the ****. And time consuming. Mustered up the energy to make this out today. Back to the games!!!

http://img497.imageshack.us/img497/6982/vamp4lw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[.soulty]

:!: hooollyy crapola, dude thats so dope! what you using for that one, painter?

[Xero]

Thanks man. Nope always photoshop.

[BoonDock]

:thumb: to you Xero.

[Xero]

Still having fun with it palying around. Mixing the colors and adding some darks and lights. Gonna go in and fix his lips and really try and get those skintones down. Next comes the boring part -.-. http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/1699/head24gj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[mlk]

rrr this has a lot of depth in it, i loves it !

you probably don't need this but: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=317235 =)

[Xero]

Wow thanks for that post man havnt come across that one yet. Reminded me I need to work on my environments =/. As for the cmoic book style meh... I dont really like formulas to do things. Although I think I might try it out. Making fast simple paintings has always been appealing to me. Never was really into marvel or anything of the sort myself so I might need to find me some inspartion. I have always liked sparth and craig mullings style and have always found there work process appealing. Though they have a more traditional painter to computer approch then nebezial from cgtalk has. I have to admit though the comic book is faster and easier to read then working with forms. I really dont have my own approch right now I am willing to try everything to find my own style. All I do right now is start off with some random apbstractions and kind bring it into focus persay...

[BoonDock]

@Xero - Hey man, that last post is tremendous and really makes me want to know what your style of using Photoshop is...???

How many layers do you have already invested in this image? Do you follow any type of tutorials found online? Or is this all from your skill, which I wouldn't be surprised if it was your skill only.

Also, have you ever gone to gfxartist.com and posted work there? You would become an elite member in no time with work like this.

Any way I can get you to teach me the ways...I try and try to use my tablet PC but I don't get results like you are getting with this piece...any hints?

Thanks :thumb:

[Pattt]

WOW Xero! OMG! :O

[iLikePie]

i love your expressive strokes... especially those black multi-lined ones near the neck - looks like a cool brush.

I kinda agree with you that a more traditional approach can look really effective. Those extra scribbles and incidental strokes definitely bring the whole thing together. I have trouble with leaving stuff that looks obvious, like the darker gray bit on his forehead, but you really pull it off.

i'd be interested to hear whether you use layers as well.

[samoscratch]

Xero it is a pleasure to look at your sketches/drawings you are bursting at the seams with talent.

[Xero]

BoonDock- Thanks man.I was like you a year ago looking for tutorials online on how to paint things that look cool. I, coming from a webdesigner stand point thoguht there was a tutorial on how to paint faces. I then started reading alot of posts at both conceptart.org and cgtalk.com about anatomy, compostion, color. All it takes is alot of hard work. I force myself to do a painting everyother day. Sometimes I hate it and other times I just dislike it. All it really is is experimenting. As for layers I use em but only a couple at a time. Sometimes I just throw one on if I dont wanna mess something up. After about 30 mins I save then cntl+e all the layers because at that point I got like 7 of em floating around.

[iLikePie]

Sometimes I hate it and other times I just dislike it.

gold :P

i like the idea of not using many layers... feels more like real painting, and i think it helps avoid the look of characters "stuck" onto backgrounds or that kind of thing.

[BoonDock]

@Xero - alright well I'll delve into some tutorials and such, I tried my hand at something last night, I'll post it today if I get a chance, it was a quick sketch I did in Painter in about 10 mins I think...stay tuned...(at work right now gotta wait till lunch to post stuff from my tablet pc)

[evildrummer]

amazing stuff from everyone!!!!!