Oct '17

Hello everyone, I feel like I'm the only one who's yet to complete any assignment. Got at most five hours free every day.

I've barely finished 'Photoshop for digital production' and haven't yet got to any assignments, though I figured I'd create a topic of my own and hopefully will get to complete the whole course in time.

Perhaps I'd get to know new people in the process as well. Discord group had expanded so much over the few days. o_O Some got cool artwork already, I'm not that skilled yet though by going through whole course I wish I am gonna become a lot more proficient and efficient in digital art. So far I use it the same way I used traditional media - brush and eraser on a piece of paper. :smiley:

Oct '17

Hey Deanyosla, nice job so far! For that final assignment: the brush I used was the hard round brush from the basic set of photoshop brushes and then played a bit with the pressure tool, the tool that changes your brushsize when pressing harder and the flow. I hope that helps. Keep it up and good luck =). Looking forward to see more of your assignments.

Oct '17

Thank you Ardeey! If I do load basic brush presets I'll lose the ones I currently got? Because I've purchased some from here, there was a discount.

And for some reason it doesn't have the right settings enabled, no idea either which should I use. I'll rematch assignment video after work and give it another go.

Oct '17

Your welcome =). Well that depends. If you saved the brush presets you already have somewhere on your pc, you can just go back to those at whatever point in time. Alternatively, if you have not done that yet, you can also save them prior to using the basic brushes. I think it might also be possible to sort of 'add' the basic brushes to your existing brush presets. Good luck with it!

Oct '17

@Ardeey, thank you for the advice. I've overlooked but the basic brush pack, which I've gotten from this site, did include all of the brushes Marc had been talking about, well and a couple more. Also I'm using 2018 version of photoshop, brush/preset windows are a little different.

Oct '17

I've managed to work on the 1st assignment again, and got it through to completion. Though these exercises are kind of fun and I'll end up doing them from time to time anyway. Or will just vary different valuable exercises I know of.

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Going to try 2nd assignment now. It seems fun.

14 days later

Nov '17

Your pen pressure control is really well done! You're clearly good at alternating weight on your pen, and it's great to see you practice line work more, I think I'll have to join that discord channel so I can try that myself!

Nov '17

Thank you @keko! Though for some reason bottom tips are lighter even though I'm pressing with nearly full force. Maybe some settings are haywire. I'd have to look em' up.