Blatant self pimping

[Krustabi]

Amazing stuff.

[The Amstor Computer]

What's this pish all about, then?

;-)

[Carlsborg Expert.]

You gonna do us some environments, Johnny?

[Matt Timson]

Curses!  My achilles heel!

It's something I definately need to work on, so maybe...

[Art]

I thought your acheilles heel was fields, hedges and fences? Or was it trees? No, trees was Wils...

[Matt Timson]

No, you're thinking of backgrounds in general.  Fields, trees and hedges are just deadly dull to draw...

;)

[Wils]

No, trees was Wils...

Oi! I drew trees!

[Quirkafleeg]

Oh, is that what they are...

[shane05]

It's a bout time you got a site, or at least that it came to my knowledge. I really liked the work I've seen and wanted to check out more. What do you use for the thick black lines, is it a pen or digital?

[Matt Timson]

Cheers- everything's digital from start to finish.  I've been fully digital for about four years now.

[Max Kon]

'I've been fully digital for about four years now.'

Wha? does that mean you are just a computer programme? And were you partially analogue 5 years ago? ;)

[Carlsborg Expert.]

hi, Johnny.

Was hoping you could answer some of my curious questions.
 You may not understand what I am trying to ask exactly but thats ok.
As long as you can help me.

How much do you learn after being taught basics?

Is in f more in line with a learning arc?

Are there certain conducts you administer during a creation,as with beginning to create a piece?

Photo research is obviously tantamount in helping busy illustraters.How would you adapt this with your work on enviro/mapwork?

Thanks,these may seem silly questions, and I apologise if Im asking the wrong thread.

I am curious and maybe you could hit a fews snails on the head for my work ethics.


cheers

Jimmy.

[Matt Timson]

I don't think you ever stop learning- cliche but true.

I haven't really done any enviro/mapwork- so I'll have to let you know.  I imagine it's the same as with anything else though- I'll see shapes and pictures in a lot of things- tree, clouds (no, I'm not some mad hippy- my brain's just wired up that way), even the way that the light shines on the ceiling when it creeps through the curtains in my bedroom window in the morning.

Everything I draw, almost without exception, starts off as a doodle in photoshop.  I doodle away until I like the look of something and then I resize it, flip it, reverse it- whatever- until I like the way it looks.  Then I loosely colour it before taking it into to Painter and then back and forth between Painter and Photoshop, depending on what tools I think I need to use, until I'm happy with it.

I'm sure that there are people out there that can answer you questions much better than I can as, to be honest, I'm not that great at explaining how I arrive at any finished pic.  Just doodle until you doodle something that you want to run with.

:)

[Carlsborg Expert.]

Sure.

Cheers for the input.

The flipping sounds a real time saver. The ammount of times Ive started a sketch and half way through,gone, "you know that would have looked better left to right,"or vice versa.

( youll know what I mean)

Jimmy.

[Matt Timson]

The same holds true with "hang on, that hand is too big/this could do with more blue in it/this is too dark/light".

I actually find it difficult to draw on paper now- it takes me ages.