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• condimentia   7 years ago

  GoodFrenchFence, that's simply perfect!

  Editing your comment: GoodFrenchFence, that's simply perfect!

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• GoodFrenchFence   7 years ago

  Well thanks! I couldn't figure out how to work a water balloon, but I could envision a regular helium balloon. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I'll have to try the hatching more often now that I know I can do it to get inbetween colors of the pallette.<br /><br />As an aside, when I execute something well, how do I get past my fear of never being able to create it again? I know a typical technique is to re-paint the same thing multiple times. Sometimes it's to improve, sometimes it's to try something and see if it works, sometimes it's necessary because you have to re-do the background. But once I paint something, if it meets my standards I don't want to touch it again. I know this is a mental block for me. Any suggestions?

  Editing your comment: Well thanks! I couldn't figure out how to work a water balloon, but I could envision a regular helium balloon. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I'll have to try the hatching more often now that I know I can do it to get inbetween colors of the pallette.<br /><br />As an aside, when I execute something well, how do I get past my fear of never being able to create it again? I know a typical technique is to re-paint the same thing multiple times. Sometimes it's to improve, sometimes it's to try something and see if it works, sometimes it's necessary because you have to re-do the background. But once I paint something, if it meets my standards I don't want to touch it again. I know this is a mental block for me. Any suggestions?

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• condimentia   7 years ago (edited: 7 years ago)

  The only reason I purchased a Super Status was so that I could replay, over and over again, how I see various artists create their work. I'm still at a loss at how much of this beautiful art is created though, particularly straight lines and tight outlines, but I'm also hampered by the fact I only use a desktop PC and a corded mouse -- so I'm not using a tablet or a stylus or any special tools and thus am frustrated at the "one shot" I have to create something. I've ditched and skipped many doodles just because they didn't turn out the way I wanted them to, and it's not enough to blame my tools. Like you, I want to just try again until I get a technique down, and a quick one at that. The only reasonable suggestion is to create a private room for yourself, where you can practice various styles. One good thing about DoD rooms -- they don't time out unless you fail to make the first stroke. So let's say I belong to 3 rooms and I have a prompt to draw. Sometimes I'll just make a colored stripe, and leave it for awhile (sorry if I delay the chains!) and go work on some other doodle. If you wanted to practice a concept a few times, you could draw it in a private room, and then come back to the chain "on hold" and begin there. So long as you made a stroke, it will be there waiting. Perhaps that "drafting table room" can work for you as a testing area?

  Editing your comment: The only reason I purchased a Super Status was so that I could replay, over and over again, how I see various artists create their work. I'm still at a loss at how much of this beautiful art is created though, particularly straight lines and tight outlines, but I'm also hampered by the fact I only use a desktop PC and a corded mouse -- so I'm not using a tablet or a stylus or any special tools and thus am frustrated at the "one shot" I have to create something. I've ditched and skipped many doodles just because they didn't turn out the way I wanted them to, and it's not enough to blame my tools. Like you, I want to just try again until I get a technique down, and a quick one at that. The only reasonable suggestion is to create a private room for yourself, where you can practice various styles. One good thing about DoD rooms -- they don't time out unless you fail to make the first stroke. So let's say I belong to 3 rooms and I have a prompt to draw. Sometimes I'll just make a colored stripe, and leave it for awhile (sorry if I delay the chains!) and go work on some other doodle. If you wanted to practice a concept a few times, you could draw it in a private room, and then come back to the chain "on hold" and begin there. So long as you made a stroke, it will be there waiting. Perhaps that "drafting table room" can work for you as a testing area?

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• GoodFrenchFence   7 years ago

  On reddit's DoD forum, when someone asked "How do you create straight lines on DoD" nearly everyone answered either "I have a tablet and make a quick stroke" or "I'm using a mod/script/extension that gives me a line tool."

  Editing your comment: On reddit's DoD forum, when someone asked "How do you create straight lines on DoD" nearly everyone answered either "I have a tablet and make a quick stroke" or "I'm using a mod/script/extension that gives me a line tool."

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• condimentia   7 years ago (edited: 7 years ago)

  Yep. I'm also enchanted by doodles with perfect gradient backgrounds. As a fun distraction and mindless hobby, I can't quite go that route of extensions or tools or tablets because it would be a bigger suckage of time. For me, this is just meant as a diversion from some other task so I need to make sure I don't make it easy to spend more time here!<br /><br />By the way, some of your background strokes are really shaping up nice, like this one and your doodle in Fantastic Beasts. It reminds me of user geneticpaint who uses circles, but still, I love the dimpled effect you get.

  Editing your comment: Yep. I'm also enchanted by doodles with perfect gradient backgrounds. As a fun distraction and mindless hobby, I can't quite go that route of extensions or tools or tablets because it would be a bigger suckage of time. For me, this is just meant as a diversion from some other task so I need to make sure I don't make it easy to spend more time here!<br /><br />By the way, some of your background strokes are really shaping up nice, like this one and your doodle in Fantastic Beasts. It reminds me of user geneticpaint who uses circles, but still, I love the dimpled effect you get.

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• GoodFrenchFence   7 years ago

  Thanks again. What do you consider the "background" -- the blurry landscape behind what's in focus, or everything other than the foreground subject?

  Editing your comment: Thanks again. What do you consider the "background" -- the blurry landscape behind what's in focus, or everything other than the foreground subject?

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• condimentia   7 years ago (edited: 7 years ago)

  I mean generally a solid or very neatly constructed gradient background behind the primary image. I can see SOME evidence of the "strata" of colors, but they are so tightly and neatly done, like these https://doodleordie.s3.amazonaws.com/d/Eq9YxhlZHE/eJLmKYhhK.png and https://doodleordie.s3.amazonaws.com/d/l14O7dxHc/ZyVjAtYZf.png

  Editing your comment: I mean generally a solid or very neatly constructed gradient background behind the primary image. I can see SOME evidence of the "strata" of colors, but they are so tightly and neatly done, like these https://doodleordie.s3.amazonaws.com/d/Eq9YxhlZHE/eJLmKYhhK.png and https://doodleordie.s3.amazonaws.com/d/l14O7dxHc/ZyVjAtYZf.png

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• GoodFrenchFence   7 years ago

  Yeah, those two were almost certainly created using the gradient tool in the doodlehelper userscript.

  Editing your comment: Yeah, those two were almost certainly created using the gradient tool in the doodlehelper userscript.

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• GoodFrenchFence   7 years ago

  Glad you like my quick backgrounds. It does seem to be turning into its own style without my even intending it to. When I'm fed up with creating more detail I just say "How can I create a background quickly? What's the biggest brush I can get away with that won't destroy the work I've already done?" Glad that results in an enjoyable style.

  Editing your comment: Glad you like my quick backgrounds. It does seem to be turning into its own style without my even intending it to. When I'm fed up with creating more detail I just say "How can I create a background quickly? What's the biggest brush I can get away with that won't destroy the work I've already done?" Glad that results in an enjoyable style.

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