Paper Demon 8

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Thanks for the comments Heidi. As for the photoshop stuff, the technique I used here is completely different from the one explained in my tutorial. With this method, you only use a hard brush and you paint by varying the opacity on your brush. The numbers above the letters on your keyboard are quick keys to change the opacity. Like 2 will put it at 20% opacity and 8 will put it at 80% opacity and so on. This is the method my friends use at school and it takes a lot of getting used to.

lol perhaps I should have made him smile instead of just sort of look pissed off? haha thanks for the comments SaiyanGirl

I have little self confidence because my classmates are ten times better than me. I'm nothing compared to many of them. I'm in the middle. I'm always afraid the teacher is going to think I'm a slacker because the work I have isn't up to par with the good half of the class. But it isn't that. I know I'm not a slacker, I just don't know how to go about doing the assignments. I'm not receiving the detailed instruction I used to get in the earlier classes with the better teachers. This teacher just gives you the assingment and expects you to figure it out. It's a sink or swim situation.

I kinda know how you feel with artists you feel are better. I always encounter people who are ten times better than me but it makes just try even harder to be better than them. I guess what I'm saying is get inspiration from them if you know you can do better than strive that much harder for it...wow I sound like a cheesy rags to riches movie But you are a wonderful artist and your teacher doesn't answer questions or nothing? He doesn't even give you a brief explanation of your assignment? Seems to me if he doesn't he really shouldn't be teaching cause he's not exactly teaching anything he's just handing out assignments left and right.

thanks. the teacher answers questions but he doesn't show us how to do the assignment. he tells us what he wants just not how to do it. i mean that's what we are there for, to learn how to do it. To learn how to design environments.
As for encountering good artists, if I encounter them like on the internet like find them here or on DA, it's inspiring. But it's somehow different in school. It just makes me feel worthless and lazy like I'm not trying hard enough because we are taking the same classes and they are doing better than me.

I've had teachers like that and yeah it is really frustrating to get something done that you don't know how to do. There's no other teacher that teaches that same subject that maybe you could switch to? That might help you out if there is but then I'm thinking of high school stuff and college is most likely very very different. And you can't be lazy or worthless if you've kept up PD and ZMT for so long with success. You have alot of things to deal with and doing school at the same time is admirable just have faith in yourself and continue to do your very best.

Yeah you are right. PD and ZMT are something to be proud about. Unfortunately, there are no other teachers or sessions for these classes because we don't have enough students to open up more than one section of the class. What I've decided to do is finish up school as soon as possible and just get the BA degree instead of the BFA and then get certified training in web programming. I just want to be done at this school as soon as possible.

yeah i know. i just feel like switching majors but it's too late.

Thank you Emmet

Thank you for the comments.

The line work was done with paper and pencil. The coloring was done with a Wacom Graphire tablet. I just bought a Wacom Intuos tablet a couple days ago and it is really awesome. If you have the money, I'd go with the Wacom Intuos.

don't get a tablet brand other than Wacom. Wacom is the best and has built in functionality with photoshop and painter. actually when I bought my intuos it came with coupons for buying painter and photoshop. if you are a student, you can buy all of your software and your pen tablet too at creationengine.com or academicsuperstore.com

Thanks for your answer. Right now, my brand new Wacom Intuos tablet is lying beside me on the table. Also other people have recommended it. I wanted one for a long time, and now I’m very happy and I’m testing all I can do with it. But now my hand is hurting and I must take a break. (Unfortunately my hands and wrists are very sensitive and always start to hurts too easy and fast, same when I'm working to long with the mouse).

My first picture I will do with the help of the tablet, I will show on this site, but I think it will take me some time.

Oh great! Congratulations on your new purchase! I hope you enjoy the Intuos and I can't wait to see the resulting artwork.

Thank you for the comments Atlantis. I know what you mean about those other sites. I'd like PD to just be a little different, you know?

Yeah. I'm trying to do a different design with the website I'm building so that it won't be boring.

Yeah it's kind of challenging to make a design that's both organic in design and practical.

It is, and if you do it makes you the better designer. My website is in hebrew so I have to also consider the language (rtl).

Oh wow. Hebrew. Send me a link to it when you are finished. I'd like to see it. Even though I wont be able to read it lol.

Ok. It might take some time though.