Digitally Coloring Art and Other Questions.

[Duel]

Hey all, me again. I bought a Book yesterday on shape symbolism and character design. It works wonders.

First off, I've never colored my scanned art digitally before. I usually just used coloring utensils and I'm not that great with colors either. I want to start coloring my scanned art through the power of technology. Got any tips for me? And also, quick question, should I buy a Tablet? It seems great but I've never shopped for a Tablet so I wouldn't know what deals are better by comparison.

And finally, sorry to be wasting your time, this question goes to Loki. Did you use a tablet for your Adventure series or did you scan?

I just had to ask that. Thank you for your time.

[Loki]

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I pencil, ink, scan, and color.

Gloomy, however, does all of his work with a tablet and doesn't use paper at all.

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

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Plus, from the looks of it, they cost a lot.

[Sejon]

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I scan as well. I enjoy the tablet for quick sketching, but generally nothing more than that.

[Nixon]

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All my freelance stuff has been traditional illustration work. People want a tangible piece of art that they can put up somewhere. A color print won't cut it. So my tablet usually won't get much use. It doesn't help that I like moving my art around, so I can draw/ink/color at a different angle.

If you want to learn how to color well, study color theory. This isn't the best guide, but it talks about some of the basics.
http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html

[BIOHUNTERZ]

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From what I have seen form my job the tablet is the industry standard. I know its sort of stating the obvious, but If you are NOT comfortable with one (which I am not totally at but working on it) you might as well just quit trying for anything design/game/art oriented work wise. People will want to see it on a resume or through you online portfolio. I know its a hard lesson for someone my age to try and play catch up but I am confident I can do it.

[Sejon]

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I just usually don't care to. I like the good ol' pencil and paper too much.

[d2king10]

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If you get a tablet, get a Wacom.

[Goufunaki]

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I prefer using a tablet.

It eliminates the need of buying all those pencils, erasers, pens, ect. Plus working on a tablet is just a lot cleaner and easier to work with.

I always scanned pencil/ink drawings to work with on photoshop anyway, but doing so would make my outlines look horrible, plus scanning at a higher resolution took way too long for me. With a tablet, I make the resolution high from the start, and then draw clear outlines.

[Nixon]

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I just usually don't care to. I like the good ol' pencil and paper too much.

Yeah, I feel the same. I'm a caveman artist at heart. I'll learn how to utilize the tablet to its full extent eventually, but right now my clients don't want tablet/digital art.

And you don't need strictly digital art in order to have a good portfolio site. For some reason, people are still interested in regular illustrations, paintings, sculptures, watercolor, etc. Go figure.