I'm more of an auditory learner, so when I did a bit of ctrl+paint, I felt like I was getting somewhere. Hopefully saying that here isn't too blasphemous. So, I tried some Loomis, and it really didn't work for me for whatever reason. I figure I'll just ask a couple questions here instead of making my own thread? If that's okay?
Three years you can get close to professional depending on what and who you learn from.Īnonymous Wed Sep 25 19:30:17 2013 No. At two years, if you've studied and worked hard you can put out some pretty decent work. General consensus seems to be that you've got a year ahead of you before you're happy with it. If you keep asking yourself when you'll be good you may as well quit nowĪnonymous Wed Sep 25 18:34:15 2013 No. 1554328Ī long time if you are "average" (no real practice). I know it's dumb to think about it this way, but how long, for an average person at least, would it take to produce art that someone wouldn't cringe at?Īnonymous Wed Sep 25 18:16:16 2013 No.
My free time is come and go, but I figure I can do at least an hour or two every night, maybe more on Weekends. It really sucks to find out you would've progressed tremendously faster if you had just taken the time to sit down and learn perspective or lighting or something.Īnonymous Wed Sep 25 17:26:25 2013 No. The advice in the sticky and his are largely the same thing.Īs you see fit, just make sure you don't put anything off for a long time. Yes, we recommend CtrlPaint almost constantly here. Is that the name of the guy who does the ctrlpaint thing?Īnonymous Wed Sep 25 17:17:24 2013 No. Who is Matt? This is my first time on the board, sorry if that's a thing here, I'm incredibly ignorant.
Thanks for the advice, hope I can join you guys here one day. Have any of you used or would recommend CtrlPaint? Or should I just stick to advice in the sticky? Maybe use both? If so, in what order? It's more than worth it.File: 34 KB, 680x345, Help please thank you.jpg
Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing.
They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.ĭid I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. If needed, you can also add little text notes. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible.
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