galza

Nothing major, I got off my butt and tinkered with getting a newer avatar made. Guys, I have to say, I think my cell shading days are officially behind me. I tried to make this avatar as a throwback to my old style with hard brushes and opacity shading, but I just couldn't do it.. so I busted out the oil paints and spent well over a few hours working on something that's so minute that it's probably not worth the time spent lol. Hey, it looks nice though. ;) Anyway.. I got some ways to go before I hit my stride it seems.. with the oil paints anyway. Whenever I do it, I feel like I'm not putting enough contrast into my work. I really need to figure out how to do that and then refine things a bit more. Its the one thing about "Magic in Leaves" that I felt was lacking for sure. Everything is kind of samey. My next big project will probably be an attempt at not doing that. But we'll see how it goes. I make no promises. Dan OUT!

Kind of self explanatory. I've been tinkering with a new program to make the good stuff in, but I don't fully understand how all the doodads and dongles do the howzits and why. For the longest time I've primarily used Photoshop - since migrated a few years back to Clip Studio Paint. I've just haven't been in a position, until recently, to pick it up and really make an effort into understanding how it works. They are very similar, but starkly different all at once. A long term goal of mine was to learn how to do digital painting. I think I can pull it off much easier with Clip Studio, but.. at the same time I have no idea what brushes I should be using.. Anyway, tldr, got a new Avatar. I don't know know how I feel about it. The efforts of tinkering with a new program, and I have no idea what I'm doing lol Dan OUT!