art spam

[eye_of_toad]

More art spam. This is a sloppy digital edit because I'm on my Chromebook and I'm literally too lazy to walk six feet to my left and sit down at the better computer.

This is mainly just proof-of-concept anyway. I wanted to just get a general idea of whether I liked how these look colored in digitally. And... the verdict is... I remain completely undecided. There are pros and cons to markers versus digital editing.

Comments

[misbegotten]

I'm really impressed with the editing.

editing

[eye_of_toad]

Thanks. I was playing around with photopea.com online. When I'm on my better computer, I usually use Fire Alpaca. Photopea looks pretty decent, but all the options are in different places so it currently has the hassle of "Why can't I find the eraser tool? Where did they put it?" Hence, this took longer to color in than if I'd just grabbed the markers, but... digital editing has the option of that magical "undo" so I can change colors if I change my mind.

The biggest downside with digital editing for me is that I keep fussing with it for too long. Traditional art has a point where, whether you like it or not, it's definitely done. With digital, I'm always thinking that maybe I should tweak one more thing.

Re: editing

[misbegotten]

Traditional art has a point where, whether you like it or not, it's definitely done.

Good point!

I'm going to check out Photopea. I don't do art, but it's nice to have options for making icons.

Re: editing

[eye_of_toad]

I need to find a YouTube tutorial explaining Photopea.

I literally *could not find* the eraser too. So I searched for it under help and it just popped up... but then the brush tool disappeared so I had to search for that to get it back. After getting really frustrated that it was so "hard" to toggle between the brush tool and the eraser tool, I belatedly realized that you just type B and E on the keyboard.

At a glance, it seems to have more features than Fire Alpaca, but because everything is called something different and the menus were set up differently, it wasn't intuitive for me.