forum Drawing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Hey_Its_Snowy_And_Im_Generally_Confused

Hands.
Are.
So.
Evil.

Hands and male lips are the bane of my entire existence. I can draw lips on female characters just fine, but whenever I try to draw them on my male characters it comes out looking really weird and feminine.

Oh. My. God. YES
I also have huge problems with eyes, I always chicken out and draw them closed

Deleted user

Yeah. Hands are the worst, for male lips I just draw a line with a slightly curved line underneath (which may or may not come out looking okay), and eyes are like my favorite things to draw. I love to draw huge round eyes, which make the person look a bit cartoonish.

@shattered_heart

I'm sooooooo embarrassed. My mum saw me drawing and wanted to see. But I didn't want her to, because I knew she would start flicking through the pages. And she thought I was just insecure about them and was like, "No, I love seeing your drawings. Come on, they can't be that bad."
I didn't want her to know it was literally full of strange fantasy creatures I had made up and girls crying, so I refused again. She let it at that, but now I'm worried that she might think I draw bad pictures.
Why does life hate me?

@Elder-God-Whisper

This was me, only the situation was slightly different. It was when I was only just beginning to draw well, and compared to how well and fast I draw now, the drawing was crap. I was drawing on the way home from a store, and my mom's like, "What on earth can you draw in a shaky car in fifteen minutes?" I shrugged and drew anyway. By the time we got home, I had drawn a very pretty body of a girl, and my mom's like, "Lemme see!" So I let her, because I'm only insecure when it's outside my family. So you know what she does? SHE TAKES A PICTURE OF IT AND POSTS IT ON F**** *FACEBOOK!!!

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

Ok but the weirdest thing my mom has posted about me has got to be the time when I went outside after taking a shower and my long hair literally froze, and she took a picture and posted it to Facebook. Normally when she does that no one sees, but I went to AHG (American Heritage Girls) the next day and ALL my friends knew about the “time my hair froze” and there was an entire conversation about it

Deleted user

My dad always thinks that I'm drawing naked people when im working on anatomy, but i kinda dont want to refuse to let him see my work because then he'll think im doing something bad.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

My dad always thinks that I'm drawing naked people when I'm working on anatomy, but I kinda don't want to refuse to let him see my work because then he'll think I'm doing something bad.

Sometimes I use Incognito tabs to search for references, that way if something bad comes up it won't show in my search history and I won't get advertisements for every article of clothing I happen to google… I discovered recently that it's kinda hard to explain to your siblings though that your 20+ tabs all set to the most sketchy browsing mode possible are all just drawing references and nothing suspicious.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

(This is me entirely. but my mom gets pissed if I draw a guy centaur without a fucking shirt! I mean, seriously!?!?)

Alright, my mom is very strict about the clothing I put on my characters because EVERYTHING MUST BE MODEST (An opinion I agree with, but a few of my characters sure don't) but if I drew a centaur without one I'm 90% sure she'd be perfectly fine with it. You don't draw pants on cats, or underwear on goats, or even gloves and scarves on polar bears, there's no need to draw shirts on centaurs.

@Elder-God-Whisper

(My mom doesn't see it that way… There's actually been very few instances where I've drawn a guy without a shirt, and everything else has rather modest clothing, yet my mom gets pissy with me anyway AND I WANT TO KNOW WHY!?!?!)

@Reblod flag

You know what's funny…I think I prefer Medibang Paint Pro to Photoshop. It doesn't have as handy of an interface as PS and doesn't have all those high-tech tools but my stuff looks better. Especially since the tapering looks better and there is a stabiliser.
So if you're thinking about programs consider Medibang or Firealpaca which is similar but I think it has more of a focus to animation than Medibang.

Deleted user

You know what's funny…I think I prefer Medibang Paint Pro to Photoshop. It doesn't have as handy of an interface as PS and doesn't have all those high-tech tools but my stuff looks better. Especially since the tapering looks better and there is a stabiliser.
So if you're thinking about programs consider Medibang or Firealpaca which is similar but I think it has more of a focus to animation than Medibang.

I just use Medibang, bc Medibang pro isn't on the app store for my phone

@Elder-God-Whisper

Look at other people’s art and use them as references for a little bit. Then, wgen you’ve gotten used to hiw to draw certain lines and how to color, etc., use what you’ve learned to make your own art. I like going back to my old art and redo them, using what I’ve learned.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

You know what's funny…I think I prefer Medibang Paint Pro to Photoshop. It doesn't have as handy of an interface as PS and doesn't have all those high-tech tools but my stuff looks better. Especially since the tapering looks better and there is a stabilizer.
So if you're thinking about programs consider Medibang or Firealpaca which is similar but I think it has more of a focus to animation than Medibang.

My best friend uses FireAlpaca and I've tried it before, let me just say it's not for everyone. I have tried so many times to like it, I have done challenges with it many times and I've compared it to nearly every other software I've used, but every time I try to use it I feel this extreme… Hatred? I don't know what's so bad about it. It has a color wheel, pressure sensitivity, customizable brushes, and it even senses the eraser on the back of my pen. But every time I try using it, I compare it to my artwork in Krita or Artrage Lite or even Verve Painter and in order to make it look like a worthwhile program I kept having to say things like "But FireAlpaca can be used for animation and Artrage Lite can't so therefore even though the results look like crap it's a better program" (I have not used Artrage in over a year and Krita can do everything FireAlpaca does so I've stopped trying to defend it like this) I think it might have something to do with my art style, FireAlpaca is geared towards cartoon and anime styles and therefore doesn't have the blending and textures and features needed for more realistic or semi-realistic art. Also while this isn't a big deal, why are there three brushes dedicated to the freaking mascot??? If you're going to demonstrate how the brush types work then use a good, useful example. Krita's mascot isn't even visible except in the splash screen, and even then they sometimes replace it with Pepper and Carrot, the main characters from a webcomic. And not to mention Krita has SO MUCH CUSTOMIZABILITY. You open the brush editor and you can control the color rate by X tilt on a freaking curve. In FireAlpaca/MediBang, you open the brush editor and it can't even tell the difference between opacity and flow. Are all the features Krita has… Necessary? Not at all. But are they useful? OH HECK YEAH. Sometimes we need more ways of blending colors together than "Take a brush on low opacity and lightly color in the area where the colors overlap, then eyedrop the color and do it again over and over again, and if that's not blendy enough just take the blur tool to it". Also, Krita is open source and you can request features you'd like added, and while it usually takes a while to add them, the developers listen. Meanwhile, on FireAlpaca, they've been given 40,000 requests to add more strength to the blur tool and what did they give us? the edge pen. What is that good for? Well, you can't use it for line art because it colors in the center on the same layer, maybe if you were doing a one layer challenge you might be able to find SOMETHING it would be good for but I kinda doubt it. Also, there are no textures so that's a bummer. But on the upside, it's WAY easier to learn plus all the important features are there, and many people prefer that simplicity. So if you're an anime artist, and you don't use a lot of different brushes, you'll probably love Medibang/FireAlpaca. If you're someone like me who has an unhealthy obsession with blender brushes and textures, Krita would probably be best. Autodesk Sketchbook is kinda the middle ground, simple, but good for ALL art styles and has lots of customizability, however, it's made particularly for use with Wacom brand tablets so it doesn't work too well with other tablets. So you might as well just try all of them and see what you prefer. They're all free and have no viruses, so there's no risk. (Sorry for the wall of text, I hope it's helpful and makes a tiny bit of sense.)