Comment on Tribute to A Hesitant Goodbye by *frankensusan

Awesome colors! Really great depth to this, I love it!

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Thanks for the ! I had fun with the colors, but drawing a straight line on a tablet while looking at the screen almost drove me nuts. I still don't have it. I can already see some things I want to change about this one if I did it again. But it was great for learning the tablet. and how to do things in the digital world.

Off to find something to take the swelling down in my knuckles.. Dang it sucks to get old!

Susan

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Have you ever tried Arnica Montana ointment? It's actually quite useful for bruising, and might help with swelling as well. Also emu oil can also be quite effective.

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Very nice. Great colors.

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Thank you!

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hm. no. i think i may have some somewhere around here...

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Hey Susan. I think you did a terrific job on it. Wonderful use of the colors, and think you interpreted the whole scene quite nicely. I especially like your blending of the shades in the sky. Very nice. How'd you find doing digital as compared to traditional?

If there's ever anything else in the gallery you find inspiring, please, don't be shy.

Also, I'd like to feature this in my next journal if that's OK.

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Hi! Oh whew! I'm glad you like it, I was worried. Of course you can use it in your journal that's so cool! I already have ideas of what I want to change on it, but I'll probably just leave it.

Digital vs traditional is a big brain exercise for me.

Hand - eye is different as you are working on one surface and watching it happen on another.

Ergonomics are different as the tablet is flat where I usually work on a tilted surface. I can probably work around this by putting the tablet on my lap or something.

I had to learn to change layers when I wanted to keep something I liked as it doesn't "dry" like paint! I had a hard time with the color mixing as I have the free corel painter that came with the tablet and it doesn't appear to have a place to mix and keep colors that you have mixed and like. I had a heck of a time drawing due to the hand paper disconnect. Some of the things I did, I had to go with because I couldn't undo them and I hadn't saved my work. As a programmer I always did "save often" but as a painter you don't get that chance, I guess in digital painting you can! duh!

It was cool that I could take the photo and resize it to my version and check my drawing. I realized later that I could have traced it! HAHAHA I don't think I'd want to do that regularly or I'd lose the drawing skills I've been working so hard on developing, but for quickies it will be nice.

I'll definitely add the digital stuff to my portfolio, but really, I didn't get dirty at all! And I kind of like to get dirty when I make art, it lets me know when I've been working too long, I have to go clean up a bit. Forces breaks when you run out of clean brushes.

There's so much potential to play with painting programs, if my hands hold up I can see being very productive as you can "pause" much easier than traditional painting. I think perhaps doing the sketches traditional and scanning them for playing with before a final traditional painting might be a very good way to learn what I like.

Anyway that's probably more info than you wanted!

Thanks so much for letting me mess with that photo and for inspiring me. That photo really hit home with me, and your description of it is spot on too.

Happy waves to you!

Susan

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Never worry. I'm a tough critic, but I have'nt taken off any heads yet

I remember it took me quite a while to get used to a mouse when they first came out. Same hand eye problem. I tablet compounds it I think, from what I could see. I have'nt used one, but I have seen them being used. Though if you can adjust to it, I understand they so much better for artwork.

And layers. When I get a multilayer photo edit going, I often get lost on what I'm doing to what layer, and forget to select colors from the layer I'm working on. I've cloned from layer to layer, un-intentionally. The good thing is, if some thing doe'nt work, one click and it's gone. Which of course, could be a bad thing too.

Tracing is a standard procedure I think. I was bored in Costco the other day was brwsing the magazine rack. There was a PC3 magazine there for enthusiasts. In the mag was tutorial on doing oils with layering and all that. The first thing they did was start with a photo and traced over it. But I think your point about honing your drawing skills, rather than losing them is good.

A tip on saving a color pallette. Make the overall canvas for the piece a bit larger than the finished work. Then you can save swatches of custom colors on the margins, and use the dropper to pick them up as needed. Convenient. When the work is done, resize the canvas to match the borders of the painting.

Your idea of scanning in traditional sketches looks like a winner too.

Thanks for sharing your experince with me. I always like to hear the process as much as see the work.

Till soon.

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