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The piece for said story is finally all done! Its in my Digital Colors gallery

I'm not direct linking because I guess its sort of one of "those" types of images..... but its REALLY fairly tame when it comes to that. I didn't even put it in my pin-up section. But better to be safe than sorry!

*is now imagining extremely ripped babies yanking apart telephone books and crushing cars*

Ergh, I really want to do this, but I don't think I can commit to the time. I put my commissions ahead of non-paying things and I have a personal series that I'm just starting the sketches on that I can't WAIT to start revealing. Plus, come August I want to increase my class load.

I shall be voting, but I can't be in the running for FArt champion this year =(

One excellent reason for putting in all your flat colors first is that colors can look different compared to other colors. So if you just go through and detail color your project bit by tiny bit, it might look weird at the end because you never saw how all your colors interacted before going straight through.

And as stated before, channels have a lot of correction usage. Photoshop does a HECK of a lot of stuff and kind of just happens to be nice for digital coloring too.

Frost got my merciless teasing about how horridly old he his in person at exactly 12:00am this morning ^.^

Lots of good stuff has been said in this thread thus far.

As an artist, I know I feel awful when my estimations aren't what I think they'll be as far as time goes. That's why I always err on the side of over-communication. Sometimes stuff just happens.... like I just won't like the way the piece is going and I'll scrap it and make it better. If there's a real hard deadline I probably wouldn't do that, but I'll always tell the buyer exactly what's going on and my feeling on the piece and make sure the timetables are still acceptable.

There have been times when I've taken on way too much and learned from it, but it wasn't my buyers who suffered, it was me! I'll neeeeeever run a mini-sale during a school semester ever again. I worked myself into a frenzy for a couple months and had no free time. But keeping my good name, so to speak, was the most important to me, so I made sure everyone still got the same level of service and made a mental note that doing that much with schoolwork was a BAD idea.

Yeah... I don't think I could fully color something beyond MAYBE cel shading in Illustrator without eventually going on a murderous rampage.

But for inks its Winny McWin.

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After doing inking once in Illustrator, I will never completely ink in Photoshop EVER again. I'll take my basic inks from Illustrator and do some touching up/fine details on them in Photoshop and then color in Photoshop. But Illustrator saved me literal hours.

You recently got a Cintiq, right? I would think with how awesome Illustrator translates your brushstrokes into the digital world, it would be reeeaaaal nice on the Cintiq.

You can get a full demo for 30 days and all. Try it out. If you put a pencil sketch as a TEMPLATE into Illustrator, it will automatically bring it to 50% opacity and lock it as a background layer and you can do your brushstrokes on top in a separate layer and the strokes aren't automatically selected all the time.

I've never used the flash program but.... after about 2 minutes of using Illustrator to do inking, I fell in love.

Its neat seeing how a style develops in an artist in action!

Any hot chicks popping out of cakes for you?

Yep, the course is how to do the vector work and the general ins and outs of the program. Hopefully it ends up being a useful addition to my arts skilz.

Lord knows that the time I saved is already totally worth it!

Cool, I'll check them out. I only fiddled with a couple brushes since I'm unfamiliar. They should work with my tablet. Its old, but it is an Intuous 2.

The course I'm taking is focusing more on the design stuff you can do with Illustrator, but with flipping through the syllabus and seeing the projects, visions of lettering and simple but slick backgrounds danced through my head.

Here's a side-by-side of the inking I did first in Illustrator and then touched up in Photoshop. Left is Illustrator, right is Photoshop.

Lines

Like I mentioned, I didn't do this as a stylistic change, but I want to emphasize the CRAZY AMOUNT OF TIME Illustrator saved me by doing the basics in there first.

Have to let The Masked Shrike approve them first. But yeah, I have files of both what I did up in Illustrator and then after I cleaned it some in Photoshop. I didn't do it as a big stylistic change, but it chopped literal hours off my usual work time.

And you know, I WOULD do this after I spent hours and hours and hours and hours on another piece. But I already had that going for quite some time before Illustrator became available so.... ah well.

So I just tried out Illustrator for my inking for the first time (I'm taking a digital illustration course this semester that uses Illustrator)....

.... *dies and goes to heaven*

My GOD this is going to save me a hell of a lot of time. After messing until I got some brushes that I liked, I couldn't believe how much better it made the transition from the tablet to the screen.

I never get tired of that cat ^.^

I'm past all the important birthdays and decided to stop aging at 21, so I don't actually do anything.

But tomorrow will be a day of tacos and double XP and wine!

The traditional one is so pretty....

I also like the shape of hot chicks.

Oooooooh, what extra special shape would this cake be in, perchance???

Yeah, the floor came out totally cool!

I always really like the things like that in your work, Juggs. You seem to throw in seemingly simple elements but they really end up polishing off your pieces.

I love the days when a ton of your characters suddenly inhabit my dA deviation watch box ^.^

If I'm doing digital, I ink digitally. I get my floating line layer easier if I do it that way. I also lose a ton of detail and crispness once the inks go through the scanner.

If the piece is staying in traditional media, I like Pigma Micron pens.

62, I think all my own work.

Uuuuum, yep!

Don't you remember how many threatened lawsuits and removed material there was in YouTube's starting years? Just that there was nobody worth suing behind it. I remember when Google bought it, people thought the lawyers would be in hog heaven since some money was finally there to sue for. Didn't quite go down that way.