forum The Artist People Chat

Started January 06, 2019 by @The-N-U-T-Cracker

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Awww. :3

He's so cute :3

CuuuUuuuUuUte :3

:3

OKay…..
Yos
He cute :3

Yah

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Does anyone have anything else to share? As much as I want to drag out “He’s so cute :3 omg best lil guy ever -w-“ I want other people to have a chance to share!

Eyes are great

Hi! This might not be the best time to introduce myself since the last reply was a while ago, but I've been meaning to join this chat and never got around to it…. I mostly do character sketches with the occasional fanart. Most I've chatted with use my nickname Sketch or shorten my username to Project.

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I, too, do sketches of characters. Mostly Len-Dawg because he’s cool.

Nice! I mostly draw my own characters or do concept art, but I do have a public page here on Notebook where I put sketches of characters others ask for. I sort of have an odd inbetween of cartoon and realistic.

I can’t do realistic. I do sorta cartoony, but not too much as to look strange and disproportionate or whatever.

Semi-Realism is what I usually go for. It’s not anime, but it’s not realistic, but it’s abstract, but it’s so definitely not abstract.

Same. I have my own style and whilst some people may be annoying little butts and call it anime, it obviously isn't. I keep changing my style though, but it has only been anime once, and that was me trying to make it anime. Oh what a stupid little seventh grader I was.

Every time I or someone else tries to describe their style I remember how hard it is to describe a visual medium. Like 'A young woman clad in old styled clothes smiling that's been painted with a realism style' doesn't translate to the Mona Lisa very well because you can also be talking about any other realism painting showing a woman.
It doesn't annoy me when others assume my style but that some people insist that they're right when I politely try to correct them. I would think I know what my style is.

Yeah. If I say my style isn't anime, it isn't, and no one can change that. :D

My style is definitely not anime.

Yup. Neither is mine, and when people _{cough cough my "friend"} say that my style is anime and refuse to accept it when I tell them that it's not and I really don't want it to be, they don't listen and just insist on being annoying.

I don't draw or even watch much anime, but I was drawing a character and my dad came up and started talking about my anime style and I tried to tell him I was going more for the Disney style, but he insisted it was anime because anime characters have big eyes even if that was the only thing that could possibly look anime on the character I was drawing. He compares my art, assumes he's right about my style, pronounces character names wrong on purpose, and doesn't take anything I say about my characters as more than a joke, he does all this constantly and then is confused when I never want to talk about my projects with him. I actually stopped drawing outside of art class for a while because being home schooled there was no one to talk about art with that actually cares about art. Sorry if that became a bit of a rant at the end, I didn't mean to write so much.

I don't draw or even watch much anime, but I was drawing a character and my dad came up and started talking about my anime style and I tried to tell him I was going more for the Disney style, but he insisted it was anime because anime characters have big eyes even if that was the only thing that could possibly look anime on the character I was drawing. He compares my art, assumes he's right about my style, pronounces character names wrong on purpose, and doesn't take anything I say about my characters as more than a joke, he does all this constantly and then is confused when I never want to talk about my projects with him. I actually stopped drawing outside of art class for a while because being homeschooled there was no one to talk about art with that actually cares about art. Sorry if that became a bit of a rant at the end, I didn't mean to write so much.

It's okay. My dad was an artist at one point and my mom doesn't know anything about the anime style so I'm lucky enough to avoid that, but I can definitely relate to the "I'm homeschooled so there's no one to talk about art with" thing

I don't draw or even watch much anime, but I was drawing a character and my dad came up and started talking about my anime style and I tried to tell him I was going more for the Disney style, but he insisted it was anime because anime characters have big eyes even if that was the only thing that could possibly look anime on the character I was drawing. He compares my art, assumes he's right about my style, pronounces character names wrong on purpose, and doesn't take anything I say about my characters as more than a joke, he does all this constantly and then is confused when I never want to talk about my projects with him. I actually stopped drawing outside of art class for a while because being homeschooled there was no one to talk about art with that actually cares about art. Sorry if that became a bit of a rant at the end, I didn't mean to write so much.

It's okay. My dad was an artist at one point and my mom doesn't know anything about the anime style so I'm lucky enough to avoid that, but I can definitely relate to the "I'm homeschooled so there's no one to talk about art with" thing

I just don't show my art to very many people, especially my family, so I don't have to deal with that very much. And if you really hate it that much just tell your dad about it. Tell him that it really annoys you when he does things like that.

I have said so in the past, especially once I told him I wanted to be an animator, and after that I just try to avoid talking about art with family. I just show don't show art to anyone who doesn't care about art now. I'm actually drawing a lot more now, well not drawing but sketching. I tend to just leave my work to be sketches if I don't do it digitally. I can't draw digitally for the life of me so I have to import a sketch into Krita and finish it there if I want the proportions to be right. I'm actually in the process of redrawing my characters but I can't do digital art until my new pen tips come. For some reason you can only get new nibs from the product site.

I can't do digital art either, but i want to get an iPad so I can practice on Procreate. Or photoshop on a Wacom tablet. One of the two.

I have to draw everything traditionally and then scan it. Sometimes I'll recolor it digitally on my dad's computer

I can do digital art, but for some reason my traditional art always comes out looking way better.

…I really should do more traditional stuff.

I have said so in the past, especially once I told him I wanted to be an animator, and after that I just try to avoid talking about art with family. I just show don't show art to anyone who doesn't care about art now. I'm actually drawing a lot more now, well not drawing but sketching. I tend to just leave my work to be sketches if I don't do it digitally. I can't draw digitally for the life of me so I have to import a sketch into Krita and finish it there if I want the proportions to be right. I'm actually in the process of redrawing my characters but I can't do digital art until my new pen tips come. For some reason you can only get new nibs from the product site.

What kind of tablet are you using? This might sound crazy but last year I was in the middle of a dragonfly picture and my last nib broke, so I took a spaghetti noodle, broke it, scraped at the end until it was smooth enough to be used on my tablet without scratching, and then used the noodle as a pen nib. It felt a bit odd and I had to use some duct tape to help it stay in, but it worked.

I do a lot of digital stuff. It started with recolors and stuff. I used to have a whole setup of picsart, superimpose, and phonto. Along with cropping apps so I could fit the picture into the Instagram sizes. Now I don’t do that anymore and I just use Procreate.

You used a noodle as a pen tip..? That is actually kinda genius.

I can't do digital art either, but I want to get an iPad so I can practice on Procreate. Or photoshop on a Wacom tablet. One of the two.

I've heard that Photoshop isn't really the best to start out with, so if you do get a tablet, try Krita or Autodesk Sketchbook. They're both free and professional quality, but they're way easier to learn.

I'm thinking of saving up for either a Wacom or Huion but I'm flip flopping on whether I want to do traditional or digital animation or a combination of the two, as well as whether I want to stick with Krita, but either way I'd want a screen one so I have an easier time drawing even if I don't animate digitally. In case you've never tried animating I can personally say it's hard to learn when you don't know which medium you want to stick with.