Post your Tablet PC art! (some images might not be safe for work)

[bellaluna05]

wow you guys are all amazing!!!! I really hope I can get this good! I just bought a refurbished T5010 can't wait to get it and start practicing and playing hopefully get as amazing as all of you, thank you all for sharing your beautiful work!

[m_hope]

Hey hey. I think this may be my first post on the forum.. not sure. Lurked a bit while I was shopping for a tablet PC. But this stuff is exclusively done in PSCS3 and on my HP TC4400 (which is super quirky; digitizer shielding issue ~ erratic cursor behavior.. but I make due for now).

I'll only post a couple in-progress works. Everything else is on my weird blog
panelscape





Thinking of grabbing a used Tecra M7 (and then eventually a Cintiq 17/18SX), but worried about graphic corruption issues on the M7. Any suggestions would be welcome via PM!

[nathanbarlow]

My first attempt at a Batman tutorial. Used Deviant Art online wacom tool.



tutorial from Draw a Superhero - The Completed Superhero Drawing


there was a few sketches of stuff like eyes, etc in the early days. I'm still a noob, but getting better

[thatcomicsguy]

Another experiment in my attempt to get a handle on this whole digital painting thing. The first images I did like this took me forever, (days!). The next ones less so. This one was another speed attempt, but I got caught in its gravity well and spent the better part of eight hours on it. Mostly, I spent time noodling on costumes and hair and finishing touches. The background was much speedier, maybe two hours all told there. I think the trick is to scribble and throw 'paint' down fast and then cloud gaze at the mess to find shapes which look cool, and then bring those into focus. That's where I am now, anyway.

But man, I met a hard-core professional illustrator once, the kind who made six figures every year and whose work you've probably seen on bus shelters and in magazines. He could have pounded this out in maybe two hours tops and whose foreground work would have been brief but sharp on the first go. That's the sort of goal I'd like to reach some day.

Anyway. . .



The above image is from Stardrop, one of the off-camera scenes where Ashelle had left Earth (and the story) for a few weeks. I wanted to see some of the experiences she'd gotten up to while crossing the galaxy. That's her loyal bodyguard in the background there.

This was done entirely in Photoshop, on a modified Tecra M4.

[thatcomicsguy]

Okay. Now down to business!

Spending time on a learning curve is all well and good, but generally there's real work to be done, and if you don't find it, it finds you. I think I've got enough of an angle on this digital painting thing to make a go of it for now, (but there's still so much to learn!)

--Textures being one of those things...

Trouble is, my Tecra M4 over-heats whenever I use an art program which engages the GPU heavily. Photoshop steers clear of that part of my ancient architecture, so everything stays nice and cool, but PS seems kind of limited wrt textures.

I mean, I DO kind of like the. . , I don't know quite what to liken it to. . , acrylic paint on glass perhaps. . ? --The effect you get when just using standard Photoshop brushes and color, but getting a nice water-color effect would be nice too, (and I don't mean by using those insta-filters PS offers.)

Whatever. Out of time. I need a couple more banners asap for this new literary agency I just signed up with, for Stardrop and Jenny Mysterious. (Life seems to be all about getting thrown in the drink for a bit of sink or swim! I thought I was just having some fun with digital painting, and the next thing I know, it's part of the work flow. Yikes!)

[doobiedoobiedum]

Okay. Now down to business!

Spending time on a learning curve is all well and good, but generally there's real work to be done, and if you don't find it, it finds you. I think I've got enough of an angle on this digital painting thing to make a go of it for now, (but there's still so much to learn!) --

Love the images! Big change in style from the comics?

OK, time for a "WIP" from me - personal stuff.

[doobiedoobiedum]

WIP001 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Img tabs don't work?

[thatcomicsguy]

One more. This time for Jenny.



I've got a ton of work to do on her story, but I've done all the research, written a treatment and drawn a few chapters, so it now it all comes down to a million more miles of line-work. I've set it in Toronto in the 80's. Involves time travel, Men In Black, kung-fu, magic, UFOs and crop circles and all that stuff. *Nobody* has done an even half-way decent job of telling that yarn, (imo), so I figured I should take a crack at it. It's fun stuff, but like I said, lots of work. An idea is all well and good, but unless the pages get drawn, it's. . , I don't know, vapor-novel? Vapor-lit? I've posted the first couple of chapters and I'm holding off on posting the next couple of sequences.

There's money in printed versions, and as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on whether or not sales go up or down if you post whole stories on-line before going to press. Who knows? Anyway, it'll be my first story done entirely digitally on the creation side. I'm a bit nervous about that. I ranted ten years ago about digital artwork being the tool of the devil, (partly because I felt it had no soul, but also because it all looked really obviously digital, but I think the medium has grown beyond that point now. Still paper is so. . , real.)

Ah well. Experimenting is good. There's no reason I can't go back to physical medium if this one proves ill.

So I've got a solid art tablet which seems to have a good range of capabilities despite its age, and a back-up if it dies.

Onward!

www.iboxpublishing.com

[RizaCifra]

Hi!

I've mostly been lurking in these forums, but I thought I'd share some art I've done with my old tablet PC (Toshiba M7) - which I had lots of help choosing thanks to you guys! =)

[Shogmaster]

God....D@MN that's fantastic! I'm drooling all over my 2730p here...