I thought it would be fun to do a Q+A thing as I try to get other things finished. Ask me anything you like and I'll put the answers here. I won't answer if the question is too uncomfortable, but I expect most people to have common sense. I'm going to try answer some more commonly asked questions to start. -------- Q: What do you use to draw? A: I was actually asked this quite recently, so I'll just copy that answer. I mostly use Prismacolor colour pencils, cheap markers, and ballpoint pens for sketching, but I'm willing to use anything available to me if it gets the job done. I use Micron pens to outline more finished traditional drawings, and I often colour those in with Prismacolor markers. As for my digital drawings, I used to use Photoshop, but I can't anymore because it's expired for me. I also use the Scratch vector editor every once in a while, and I used to also use the bitmap editor. The doodle in this project was done in bitmap. Q: How do you draw/ make art? A: I don't think I can cover everything about art, but practice, study, and try to have fun. If you do something often, then you're bound to at least get decent at it, and if enjoy doing it, then you'll want to continue working at it. Q: Are you a boy or a girl? A: I'm female, but I don't think it really matters much. You can call me whatever you like. :) Q: Do you do requests or trades? A: I don't take requests, but I do start trades when I have time. I still need to finish a design trade, but I'm trying to find a new art program first. Q: Is there any specific reason that made you go from digital to mostly traditional art? A: I've always preferred working traditionally over digital, but I used to work in digital more often because it was more convenient. I did more animating in the past, and that was easier to do digitally than traditionally. I also didn’t have as much access to a camera before, so I couldn’t take pictures of my traditional work. I own my own laptop with a camera now, though, and I do less animating, so I can make art dumps more easily and I have less use for digital. Q: Do you have any advice on colour? A: It helps to pay attention to values and the saturation of the colours in a piece just as much as, if not more, than their hues. When every colour in a picture has the same saturation and value, they become more difficult to distinguish, even if they’re completely different hues. As a general rule for saturation, I try to lean more prominent colours towards grey and use bright, saturated colours more sparingly as accents. As for the use of values, certain digital programs make it possible to switch pieces into greyscale, but squinting can make it easier to note contrast in values when working traditionally. Other than that, I highly recommend checking out Marco Bucci on Youtube, since he explains some more complex concepts regarding colour better than I probably could. Q: Why are you good at drawing? A: I'd say any skills I have are the result of time and practice. Art has been one of the few things I've been consistently motivated to do, so I just draw constantly.
