My first Attempt on Photoshop

[Captain Awesome]

All these people posting their siggies and artwork inspired me to try my hand at photoshop. Now I'm already great with pencil-and-paper, but photoshop requires more than that. Still, for a first try at digital lineart (and, not to mention, I am almost completely oblivious to the tricks and shortcuts of the program), I'm fairly happy. May I present you the pencil-and-pen version:

as opposed to the colored version:

It's kind of a grainy thing I had going on, partially because it looks cool, but mostly because it just turned out like that.

Does anybody who knows the ins-and-outs of the program have any tips, or at least a link to a place that does? Post your comments, both about this and about the art itself, here please.

If you're interested in seeing more of my pen-and-paper art, I have handmade artwork for every character on my profile except for Sel's.

 

[Captain Awesome]

...are you all just stunned to silence at it's awesomeness, or what?

 

[Jiang Winters]

More like mesa-no-browsa-teh-fanart-stuff. Anyways, I like her. I like her a lot. You got some skills, Skipper. I'd like to see more colored art now, plz. XD

 

[Captain Awesome]

As you wish.

 

[Green Ranger]

What you want to do is either rebuild the image in Illustrator after scanning it or grab some tracing paper and redraw all the essential lines in a much more clean manner before colouring. All that scratchy sketchiness detracts from the quality of the images themselves.

The feet look a bit small, but otherwise everything seems to look good. The stances are good too, very natural looking.

Also, I've heard a program called Corel Painter is pretty good for emulating real materials. A lot of people use it for colouring. I've got it at the moment, but I haven't got anything to try t out with at the moment, so I haven't bothered trying it out yet

 

[Captain Awesome]

Thanks, I'll bear all that in mind in my future uploads.

I have Photoshop, but I don't see myself getting other advanced digital art programs in the near future.

I think the sketchiness is kinda cool...

 

[Green Ranger]

This is the tutorial i'm using at the moment. The subject matter is furry, but all the actual information is quite relevant. Check it out when you get soem time - it's pretty deep.

 

[Captain Awesome]

will do.