Krita

Crow Stand: 23s (i think)
Headstand: 60s (i had an inconvenient pose)
Shoulder Bridges: 40 (nice)
Bar Hang: 20 (yeah, only 20)

I found out the other day that drawing on paper is something any retard and his children could do, drawing on a tablet is something that would make any retard and his children cry from their pathetic, failed attempts.

When i was drawing on paper, it took me 3 days to make something that looked half decent. 3 Days from 0 to half decent.

I've had this tablet in front of me for 3 days with my mouse unplugged, and the best i've got is only just a little bit better than the portrait i tried to draw on my first day on drawing on paper. And the only reason it even looks that good is because i scanend in a sketch from day 3 of drawing on paper so i wouldn't have to draw the face as an original.

Sucks? yeah, good thing i started this soon. I hear it takes users on average 2 weeks to get used to a tablet, i've only had it for 3 days and i'm getting somewhere, but nowhere near as good as on paper. Luckily, there are tutorials. I found some cool dude, the art director of the sintel project... and he helped me out a lot by pointing me at a program named Krita.

It solves my need for cross platform software. And what's even better? he made a tutorial both  for digital painting for beginners AND how to use krita all in one package.

This tutorial is something i'm following right about now. Of course though the tutorials focus is to teach Krita, the digital painting part is very little explained (i.e. expects you know how to draw already, which is fine because i kind of do)

I watched Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 today (or finished it today to be more precise)

And i cried my eyes out... :'(

I haven't cried like that since i was 11. (I used to be a crybaby, no one would believe it if i told them now since i'm a hardass by now, but inside i'm really a crybaby, and i'm not afraid to admit it either. I'll also cry when i get hurt and this isn't a mental thing, it's physical, my bodily reaction to excessive pain is crying. I start crying automatically even if i can handle the physical pain. As for the mental part, i don't hold back when i need to cry over something mental. At around 12 i stopped crying completely, and at 16 it became a problem because i couldn't cry anymore, so i sniffed out sad anime series to watch and deliberately tried to force out some tears on sad parts. It took like a year but i finally got em flowing again, it feels so good to be able to cry over sad stuff again! it makes me feel so much more alive! like screaming when you play horror games!)


Thats it for today, i'm just doing art art art. Every day i'm learning a lot about art but that said, over the last 3 days (ever since i got my tablet) i have not drawn much at all because drawing on a tablet is brutally hard and it was only just today that i realised why drawing with a tablet is so much more subconsciously intimidating than drawing on paper. It's because theres so much more stuff you need to do and remember to do when drawing digitally, like selecting from your collection of 500,000 brushes, using the layer system right, selecting the right brush, selecting the right brush, selecting the right color and brush, coloring, shading, coloring, shading.

When drawing digitally you have to color things. The only exceptions i've seen is manga. Everything else, if it's not colored it's usually scanned. There are ways to make your digital drawing look like it was done on paper (with brushes that mimic pencil lines) but it's harder than simply drawing the much higher quality digital art you see littered over porn sites ;)