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Working on a short sci-fi animation with robots. Finished Part II.

Part I is here: https://youtu.be/KySKBXBi5u4.

it's old, but I have it up on my fridge because every time I see it I smile.

I have gotten hold of a cheap drawing tablet and having a lot of fun with it. I only have experience with gesture sketching with pencil on paper but wanted to try inking and colouring too.

Drawing long curves with an ink pen brush preset is something I am having some trouble with. It is difficult for me to draw smooth curves and when I join multiple stroked together I get varying width and clear nodes which looks bad.

Would using a path to draw such curves be cool? Or should I just practice more?

The main page has an example of a concept artist using it for character design; I've also seen some really cool landscapes while playing around with it, so that'd be fun to paint as well

I had trouble mixing paints to match colours in my reference photos so I wrote myself a computer program to help. I can load a photo of my paints to tell it what I have available and photos of my mixes so it can tell me how far off I am and what to add next.

I added code to generate a sketch from the reference, scale it to my canvas and print it for tracing over multiple sheets with markers to line them all up properly.

There's code to break the reference image into areas of colour close to my available paints.

You can load photos of your work-in-progress and it can compare them with your reference and suggest changes.

No one but me has used it yet and I'd love it if someone could look at the web site and give it a go.

You can find it at https://www.artistshelper.com/p/lemmy.html

It'll be full of bugs to start with but if you report 'em I'll try to fix 'em.

I haven't used it yet but I'm so sick of eyedropping photos in Procreate that I'm really excited to try it!

Centers on watercolor but the pigments referred to are the same in oil, acrylic, etc.