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Published: 2010-12-31 08:02:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 3353; Favourites: 86; Downloads: 19
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CLICK FOR BETTER VIEW (it is my first time to say this words....)Finally, I have developed the new style of mine! It feels.....so different for me, but well....actually my renew the style isn't over yet so....I don't know if my style will be changed again...
Actually I wanted to draw about New Year or Christmas, but I had no idea what should I draw
And....I was tired so I decided to color it in manga way....hahahaha, it doesn't look bad...at least for me
Happy New Year! (it is still too early though)
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Ahahaaw! >w< <3 Very very very cute picture! 
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awww your art it getting better and better everytime you submit a picture, it looks awesome
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Thank you
So, do you like my new style?
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Yeah your new style looks amazing, gaara looks really really cute
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Yeah, but Gaara isn't look really nice, I should fix it again
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no no no no no, gaara does look nice, and really cute
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I'm not statisfy though
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how about my fic? Have you done yet?
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almost finished hehe ^^
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Happy New Year to you too <3
They look tottaly awesome (like always) in fact, they look even MORE awesome than those pics you've drawn months ago... you're so tottaly improving... can't say that for me though, so I'm really frustrated these days and stopped using photoshop for a while xD -.-'
Favs. ^^
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Why? Actually I felt same too, you see....I just found the new style of mine, I don't know if I will change it again or not....
Thanks for that, I see you are improving too you know
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Un. My linearts suck like hell and it affects the pic too. No good lineart, no nice, awesome looking colored pic. -.-' It's frustrating, seriously. And then I try to look at tutorials on linearting, and then I find something that might work for me, and then I almost say "Hey, this is it!" and then... well it looks suckish anyway. Not to mention that I turn sad and frustrated anytime I look at tutorials because people who actualy KNOW what they're doing get an awesome result... and my lineart is just wobbly, no matter how you look at it. I lineart it by hand, it ends up all fuzzy 'cuz my paper can't take liquid ink. I lineart it with tablet, it looks all wobbly again, 'cuz my hand is shaky when I draw slowly to nail the sketch lines. When I make a quick stroke the lineart line looks fine, but I usually miss the sketch line, so I think that I either need a break, ormaybe I should quit on digital arts alltogether. There are just people who have a feel for digital drawings/video editing and people who are born with shaky hands and just can't draw a straight line. xD
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I feel same with you, usually I wonder why I can't draw body posture really well. I can't draw the movemwnt really well unless I pose in front of mirror (I feel stupid when I do that). There are people who have amazing talent rather than me, just like my ex-boyfriend. My coloring isn't getting nice either, Hanchi-san is really awesome right now rather than me. Sometimes I also think if I should quit but you know, just like usual, if I quit then who will draw NaruGaa again? Hehehehe, that pairing is the one who motivate me to draw you know....
You should ask to your self, why do you want to quit? Why you can't quit? I hope you will get good answers for those question
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Well for the first thing, I want to improve badly, and I know it's not going to be easy. I'm always looking up to people who draw awesome anime linearts, but at the same time I'm really sad because I know that a) They KNOW how to handle programs and I'm still not sure that I do. b) Their hand doesn't even look shaky, linearts are always so smooth, and aren't looking transparent at all... you know when in photoshop you draw a black line and it's sometimes transparent to the point you can still see a color you color with one layer underneath... but maybe it's just my settings. c) Their linearts don't have annoying black spots all over the pic - heck I don't have a clue how the hell those black spots even GET in my pic... they're all over places I didn't even touch with my pen. d)... those linearts are a joy to color, and they always look so good, even when colored with simple colors in simple ways.
So my reasons I should quit:
-some people coloring in photoshop for the first times color better than I do.
-I don't have a feel for drawing digital pics
-my linearts look bad
-I know it takes a lot of practice dealing with programs, but I just feel like I'm not getting anywhere, even though I've been doing stuff in photoshop for 3 years and looked at thousands of tutorials.
-I don't wanna sound pesimistic, but I don't think I'll ever be as good as professional anime artists, when it comes to digital coloring (and you know most of arts are meassured by how good your digital drawing/coloring is these days, there's not many people who still draw/color traditionally.)
Reasons I shouldn't quit:
-Drawing anime is my life and I can't quit on it, no matter how hard I try.
-I want to learn and improve in photoshop badly. I just want to, and I feel frustrated when I feel like I'm not getting any better.
-Since I'm visiting artistic school, and passed the entrance exams, I SHOULD have a feel for colors/shading/drawing/ideas... well art in general.
-Because I want to reach a level of better digital drawing/coloring. I want my pics to look good, just like professional anime pics do. Since I started drawing anime, I imroved a lot. I've gone all this way and I don't want to quit now.
-Because if I stopped drawing...it would be like a huge part of me is missing. Also, I wouldn't be able to say "Hey, I'm not hanging on my computer just to stare at internet/facebook/myspace/whatever all day, I'm doing something to be active in using programs, and I want to be able to do it better." If I stopped using programs, I can only use my computer for passively surfing the internet & playing videogames, but I don't intend to throw my life away, I want to make something of it.
Basicly, my answers of why to quit and why not to quit are pretty even. So I dunno what to do. Maybe I'll take a break, but I'm afraid that if I do, my digital drawing/coloring won't go any better, not matter what my dad says. I asket him for advice, and he said to take a break, so I get some new ideas and maybe see things from different perspective. But I think taking a break from a program won't just magically make me better in using it.
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Okay, here is my advice. You should be grateful, what you have done all this time is looking up to the those who better than you. Have you look to the down whose worse than you? At least you CAN use photoshop, because I know people who like draw but CAN'T use it.
About the lineart, I know what you feel because somehow my lineart is also kinda transparent, but I'm an ignorant people so usually I just "so what?" and continue the drawing. Actually I want to learn how to make colorful lineart, just like in game but it isn't easy, I tried but I failed, so...well, I will try again later. It just like that, I like drawing and it will kill me if I have to quit. I don't really care about the other's art if I'm too care.....I wil be ended die because jealous to SasuNaru's fanart too much. Relax and ignorant, that are how I live (I get if from my father). I draw for fun, so why I should be stressed about that? Of course everyone want to improve but it takes time you know
Your hand is shaky? I think not, because if your hand really shaky then you don't even be able to draw you know. If you use pencil, do you feel your hand shaky? Not isn't it, because you can still draw pretty well. I can tell what is your draw, because sometimes I don't even know what is my friend draw....
Do you want more advice? I think you should find your "goal". Sometimes I draw for fun but most of time I draw for my goal. My goal are to make wonderful NaruGaa fanart so people who acknowledge them more than SasuNaru (I know it is impossible to be granted) and because a mangaka (even though I will become a nurse or doctor so I know it is almost impossible). if you find your goal, you will be more confident. I think you should do that, okay?
If you have some problem about photoshop, you can ask me. Maybe my skill is...bad, since I learn by myself so sometimes the way I drawing and coloring are....weird but I will help you if I can
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Yeah, I know there are people that are still not as good as me, I mean I realize that I'm not completely photoshop useless, but I'm not all that good either. I don't feel good enough to make tutorials, because I know there are tones of people that could give better and more reliable tutorials than me. My problem is, that I'm never completely happy with myself (and probably never will be) because I'll always see some things I could do better and try harder to do it better next time. That's my way of trying to improve, I guess.
I know some ways to make colorful lineart, so maybe I can help you with that. ^^ I tried a few times. The thing is, you keep your lineart and white background on the same layer and probably use 'multiply' mode when coloring, right? That way you still see lineart black, but colors are seen as if they were above the white background (as much as I remember you said you just fix your linearts after scanning and then you color, you don't separate your lineart from the rest white paper... I think I asked you how to separate lineart & BG once...) Well, if you make them separate layers, you can color lineart in other colors than black by locking pixels on lineart layer or you could use something I call mask layer, you make it by creating a new layer above the lineart one. Then press alt+ctrl, move your mouse in between the lineart and new layer and you'll see your cursor turn into something black looking round/arrow thingy, I dunno how to describe it really... then you just click and the layer above lineart will group with the lineart layer. Whatever you color on the layer above will only be seen on the places where black lineart is. Basicly you can color all over the layer, but the only thing changing color bellow will be your previously black lineart. Locking pixels is a convinent method, but grouping layers like this is way more relieable, because you can make as many grouped layers as you wish.
Believe me, my hand is shaky. Even on paper, I can't draw a straight line in one shot, so I make kinda... short stroking movements. After that, my lineart is covered with strokes, and then when I try to ink it slowly and carefully, my hand is shaking. That's why my linearts look wobbly, like I said.
My personal goal always was to be a great manga/anime artist, maybe someday make my own manga. That's why I always try to fix my mistakes when I see them. I mean being an artist as a proffesion means having very slim chances. Either you make it or you're just poor and end up barely having enough money. But once you are at the top you can be a multi-millionare, not matter what you do for the rest of your life, because every product labeled with your name will be sold big. So anyway, I still have some plans for the future in store, just in case if I fail in becoming manga artist.
Your skills aren't bad. Well, maybe you're not a professional, but let's just say that your skills are still way above mine. xD
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So that how you improving your drawing. Well, mine is kinda....well, I will alwats try to be better each time I drawing since I like to do experiment...
About the colorful lineart....I will try later, actually I think it just don't suit me, since it is too troublesome. But, it looks nice....
Oh shaky hand....I don't know about that. My hand only shaky when I starved or sick 
Great? Wow, that is a big goal. My dream is only make a manga. Only one is enough as long as it is made by myself. I don't care about money, I can search that by do other work. I want to see my comic in bookstore, even though only one. I think it is my dream. But, to make it accomplished I have to improve my skill more
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Yeah, my way of improving is looking at lots of anime pics (even though it makes me feel miserable) see how they're done, how their eyes look, how the hair is done, face shape, the way it looks from different angles... then try to do it the way it looks ...(not by just copying the pic but by making my own). But then I realize eyes are too big or that the faces I draw are all chibi style, or the proportions are wrong... then I try again and again, but I still haven't reached the real "anime potential". Not to mention I still have tons of trouble with clothing and folds...
Yeah, it looks nice. You should try it out, when you have time. Oh, when you color it this way don't forget to use the color that's darker than the darkest color you used for shading. If you make hair brown for instance and then use darker brown for shading, you should use even darker brown than the one you used for shading, because if you don't, lineart won't be visible at some places. And you don't want that, right? Hope I'm making any sense here xD.
That's exactly why your linearts lok smooth and okay. I'm trying so hard to make it look okay that I'm nervous or something, and then my idea of good lineart and the lineart on the pic just don't look the same. My problem is, that I tend to lie down when I'm drawing. And then, looking from a certain angle, I THINK something looks straight, but is in fact tilted big time, when I finish the sketch and look from above. xD
Well by being great manga artist I don't mean being ultimately famous, just being better than average. I don't really care about making lots of money either, but it would be nice if I had enough to live normally. And most of artists were either really poor or really rich. If you manage to get to the top in America, you're bound to be a millionare, no matter what you do. Living in a small country, I don't have many chances of being known for my manga arts, and probably I won't earn much money from being a manga artist, so it's good to have some other plans for the future.
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I usually read manga 5 times for one manga, so I can memorize the picture, pose, angle, expression, and the other. So, when I don't know how to draw some pose, I will take a look to my manga collection, I have to memorize them all so it is easy to search when I need it. And of course, I really like to stare into manga/anime picture for a long time. I just stare....for a long time, usually I only enjoy how nice the picture since I have my own style
Do you use some basic to draw? If you don't, usually it is hard to balance the face. I just restudy everything again yesterday, because of that my style changed. I look into other mangaka style, mostly CLAMP then changed several part for my style. I like it now, but probably I will change it again until I satisfy.
Oh, I know but I really like black line art, it is easy too see and to draw
It just "stand out" rather than colorful lineart. I don't know why, but I just like it when it is black
I redraw my lineart in computer, of course using a tablet. It take a long time since I fix the mistakes in my drawing. Usually it take me...1 hours if not too complicated...I usually sit when I draw, I can't lie down since my head will get dizzy.
For me, mangaka isn't a job, but a hobby, because my parents forbid me to become a mangaka. But, if I become a nurse or doctor then make a manga, they will not say anything. They will happy, and I will happy too
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