"Look into my eyes. Look into my eyes. Not around the eyes. Look into my eyes." - Little Britain
Decided to take my sketch from the other day through to completion, it's nice to give a little more time and colour in some of my more favourite sketches.
Tried to keep a fairly loose style for the colouring and shading on this one. Pretty much used the largest brush I could get away with, as quickly as possible.
Also squared off the canvas a little for Instagram compatibility. (FYI http://instagram.com/mjwfrench)
A quick sketch request for my missus. Getting late so time to ht the hay. Nighty night!
Another few sketches today getting the hang of Sketchbook Pro. Really enjoing the natural feel of the program compared to Photoshop, the brush simply seems to behave much better.
I've had a few attempts at colouring in Sketchbook Pro as well, but find the layers, and blending to be a little fiddly, so I've taken to sketching in Sketchbook, saving as PSD (awesome feature) and colouring in Photoshop.
Here's a quick character sketch I did today for funsies.
Edit: For some reason the non-inked file shows as a black box in Blogger, if you want to see the work process check it out on my tumblr or www.matfrench.com
It occurred to me after several years of drawing in Photoshop, that there could, just possibly, be a program out there a little better suited to sketching.
I have tried other programs before, such as Painter but always ended up moving back to Photoshop (I do still prefer painting with the more digital feeling brushes), and to be honest, I'm just so comfortable with the Adobe UI now that I feel strange using other programs.
Anyhow, I decided to give Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro 6 a go when I had a few spare minutes last night, and I may well be making a purchase on this one...
I have to say it's great to sketch with a more natural feeling pencil / brush. A few features also are really tempting me over. Real-time symmetry (horizontal and vertical) are both awesome features that still haven't made their way over to Photoshop. As well as the very awesome 'smooth line' tool, which is basically dragging the 'stroke' about half a cm behind my pointer, resulting in very controllable, smooth, lines - fantastic for very neat line work.
One issue I have, is the interface, it's obviously designed to be minimalist and user friendly, large icons etc, make it feel a little patronising. It feels as if the program was designed for tablet PCs - the mobile version, and then just plonked on desktop with a significantly (although still cheap compared to Photoshop) hiked up price.
Overall, I've only done the one sketch so far, but think this may well be my go to sketching app from no on. Next up I may well have to check out Artrage, and the newest Painter, which I've been reading good things about.
A quick sketch before I head to bed. I have no idea what he's running away from, but my bet is it's terrifying!
Every now and then my Windows 8 just decides to say "nope, no more pressure sensitivity for you until you restart your computer", which invariably means I have to do an hour long update... So yeah... Waiting for that was fun. Silly Windows 8!
In other news, I'm severely torn between buying a Thinkpad Yoga and a Surface Pro 2... And I can't bring myself to buy either, especially so close to CES 2014...
Good night!
