[REQ] Hand-drawn art, texture, procedural (colored pencil) tutorials.

[petefs]

My girlfriend is in a masters program at SCAD for animation, and is inexperienced with doing layout and rendering with colored pencil. I'm looking for some good online resources for tutorials and whatnot on doing that sort of thing, specifically with pencils. I have her going through the sticky, but most of it is software-oriented : )

Thanks in advance! She's a perfectionist and very worried at her inability to produce results she's happy with ^_^

[mlk]

I don't mean to be mean, but she's at SCAD, shouldnt she know about this, why would she need advice from mostly geeks on this board (although I reckon we do have a lot of traditional artists...)

check cgtalk out of curiosity or deviantart, I know they have more traditional artist than kforums do...

[petefs]

Nothing wrong with criticism ; ) As far as knowing about something, you can't be great at every medium or every task involved with something. Getting a leg up never hurts for something that you have no experience with ^_^

I was looking for resources from people that may have a bookmark folder for them ^_^ I just wanted to post somewhere that I already had an acct :b

Thanks for the pointers, I'll point her there.

[DDD]

try over at cgtalk. There are some good threads on sketching and drawing. What in particular does she want to know?

[billystar]

uh... try www.lowopacity.net

buy a book becuase IMO the web doesnt cater too well for traditional mediums

[danielthelion]

heres the more important question! how come your on here looking for help instead of your GF??? if shes so concerned she needs to take the initiative herself.

[petefs]

DDD: thanks, pointed her there ^_^ I'm not 100% sure, just passing on what she mentioned.

billystar: thanks, passed on : )

danielthelion: Because I offered to, of course ^_^ No need for her to get an account when she does nothing flash related whatsoever ; )

[SeiferTim]

I like your Prinny Laharl :beam:

[petefs]

hahahaha, good eye ; ) Scanned it out of my artbook. I have a weakness for turn-based isometric strategy RPGs :b Raharu's t3h hotness, and I have dreams of tossing his prinny butt and watching him explode.

[simplistik]

LoL... this is off topic and I don't know what the off topic tag is... but... I went to your site, pretty nice... but what i really like is since i'm on safari it said thanks for not using IE.... LoL... "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there"

[petefs]

anything not IE is fine by us ; )

every minute spent making stuff work in IE is a minute I want back ^_^

[DDD]

anything not IE is fine by us ; )

every minute spent making stuff work in IE is a minute I want back ^_^

Doesnt IE still own 95+ percent of the internet usage? Seems that statement should be reversed... :beer:

[petefs]

IE has driven me to exactly too much of that, delicious beer : )

If 95+ percent of the web-browsing wasn't done in IE, I wouldn't have spent the time to make stuff work eh? :b Doesn't mean that I'm happy about it ^_^

[DDD]

I feel you. My friend complains as well. But I never have issues getting stuff to work in IE. I guess thats why I never understand those complaints.

[petefs]

for example...

which is easier?

standards world:


var IFrameDocument = document.getElementById('myIframe').contentDocumen t;

or


var IFrameDocument = document.frames['myIframe'].document;


our world:


function getIFrameDocument(aID)
{
if (document.getElementById(aID).contentDocument) {
return document.getElementById(aID).contentDocument;
} else {
return document.frames[aID].document;
}
}

var IFrameDocument = getIFrameDocument('myIframe');


I honestly can't even remember which one of those is netscape and which one is IE. I have to encapsulate every other thing in some sort of function, or prototype methods into objects to fix them (which isn't good because I've heard there are GC problems with that). Anyway, you get my gripe I guess ^_^