Dec '22
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Hello! I go by DaCeroNine in the internet. I just bought the Art School course and I'm very excited to get started! I have very few accounts on the internet I keep up to date, but most of my content can be found here in one way or another:

https://linktr.ee/daceronine
https://www.instagram.com/daceronine/

Webtoon - Nozomu - English
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/nozomu-english/list?title_no=800887

Webtoon - Nozomu - Spanish
https://www.webtoons.com/es/challenge/nozomu-espa%C3%B1ol/list?title_no=800872

I've been interested in digital arts since forever. I was originally going to make it my main career, but circunstances took me to specialize in programming and sofware QA. I don't regret it, I also love what I do a lot (and it pays well), but I could never get my mind away from wanting to do something on the digitial arts space.

Back in the day, taking professional digital courses was simply out of my reach, not to mention the accessories required to even get started were way too expensive. This changed a lot in the last 10-15 years, and so, here I come back to pursue one of my life passions.

For now, my main focus is the webtoon I have in the link above, Nozomu. It's a story I've always had cooking in my head and I'm finally spending some time and resources to develop it. I believe I'm "OK" when it comes to drawing, but I REALLY want to develop my skills further. To be the best I can be at it and maybe eventually become good enough to make of this my main living.

Regardless if I can live off my digital art skills, I'm feeling fullfilled and happy by simply being able to pursue this career and I know I will continue to work on webtoons/manga and digital arts for as long as I am able to.

I'll try to post progress as I move through the course, though I will probably go slowly at it due to my work schedule.

Dec '22

Welcome! Can’t wait to see your work

Cheers

Dec '22

eyy welcome to the forums! nice webtoon though i only had time to read the first ch. Ur art reminds me of Dragon Ball Z tho ive never watched the anime lool

Nice to see another artist looking to get into webtoons :smiley:
I also want to publish a webtoon someday though i'm still plotbuilding and world building it (its a large story with 2 worlds, 5 mc's and 100's of side characters)

I'm also planning to animate 6 trailers for it and hopefully make my own music for it as well.

Can't wait to see more of ur work :smiley:

Dec '22

Welcome to the forums!, you already have a very good head start on Art so I'm curious to see where you'll end up, good luck!.

Dec '22

Reply to

mitsuki-youko

That sounds pretty intense. I'm interested to see it once you start publishing it, so if you can please let me know where to see it.
And yea, I'm obviously influenced by Dragon Ball, though I'm taking a bit from everything I see.
I really wanted to "get it right", but quickly realized the more I plan out, the more it got postponed, so I figured I would just "go for it" and learn everything in the process.
Looking back, it's almost embarrasing to read the first chapters due to how much I've learned already.
I get the impulse to go and redo them again, since they are the first impression people get, but in the end, I think it also shows the progress made as an author and artist, and I know that even if I redid them, by the time I'm done, I would have improved more and would just want to redo them again in a perfeccionist cycle.

So... might as well leave it up as is and just keep improving.

Dec '22

Reply to

CYP2C19

Thanks, I'm honestly impressed by many other artists here. It's intimidating. But in the end, all we can is just improve ourselves to be better than we were before, and see how far we can take our own skill.

Dec '22

Finally finished some of the initial excercices. I'm actually trying to use CSP instead of Photoshop since that's the main tool I plan to use in the long term, so I had to translate some exercises and find the equivalent brushes and tools. It's all very similar, so there were only a few things that didn't apply.

1 - Pen Control.
Notes: Straightforward, nice to loosen up. I did use the rotate to accomodate myself better, which I think is fine, since that's what I do on a daily basis. I tried to find similar brushes to do the pressure exercice, and for the most part I think it worked out, except for the last one, were I didn't find the options to emulate fade sensitivity without size sensitivity.

2 - Image Adjustments
The initial hue adjustments were simple enough, but color, curves and the final image proved to be more of a challenge. I tried my best to get as close as possible, and in the process got familiar with the adjustment tools, which I think was the whole point of the excercise. I didn't match it exactly, but after fiddling for many minutes, I was satisfied enough and really wanted to move on. I've always had a particual challenge with the finer tones of color, so it makes sense this felt harder.

3 - Image combination

I'm happy with the resulting image, even though I think I could have tweaked the resolutions to make the different pieces match better. Otherwise I think the colors and lighting match fairly well.

Wish I could continue, but I'll have to stop for now. I'll resume lessons tomorrow.

Dec '22

haha thanks so much for your interest!! I'm still plotbuilding and worldbuilding and have a lot of work to do on it before i can publish so i'd say i'll probs be able to publish in like 10 years? because i do work full time... so the time i have to work on this is very limited. but i will post my art on ig and on youtube - albeit i may post less art but better quality ones.

i post my music and animations on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2_j3oXTtc4KbePI4jvSdyA

and my art on ig: https://www.instagram.com/mitsuki_youko/

^ that is also where i will announce when i publish my comic and the full 6 trailers will be on youtube. now remember im talkin like 10 years from now so dont get toooo excited even tho im super excited at the thought of it XD

I also coded this website. still wip but eventually ill draw all the pics. so if u see a placeholder thats cus im not done yet XD

https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/

^ rly proud of this one cus its the first website ive ever coded and it turned out exactly as i wanted it to :smiley:

there is a webtoon artist named Cloverloy. she had the same issue but she just made a separate "redraw" comic and put the redrawn ones there :smile: you could try that if u rly wanna redraw them

das all i have thanks for ur interest! it makes me really happy ^u^ hope to see more of ur art as well!