Digital Arts, the emerging drawing method. Under the recent trend of rapid development of computers, through many computer synthesis methods, many different drawing methods can be realized on the screen without spending lots of money on equipment, which brings the best antidote that ever made many people afraid to try painting - ctrl+z undo! (well, maybe only me) However, layers, brushes and undo, even 3D modeling and so on make electric drawing can create the combination that we could never imagine. The work efficiency are also greatly improved. More importantly, there are almost no thresholds. As long as you have electronic equipments, you can be an artist.
Although having talent is important in painting, just like many other hobbies, talent will have an impact, but hard work is the most fundamental factor in determining your ability. However, the most different thing about electronic painting is that it can be aided by many tools to achieve things that required a high technical threshold in the past. As the saying goes, "Modern problems must be solved in modern ways." With the assistance of many computer tools, the difficulty of painting can be greatly reduced, such as stablization makes drawing a straight line easier, various brushes make many things to be easily presented with a few strokes. Last but not least, we have 3D modeling. If you want to draw a city background, you can directly use the modeling to have a nice effect.
This picture demonstrates how to use photos to assist in composition. You can see that by using photos in real life as inspiration and assistance, digital art can complete a very powerful work.
From: banishment
And I'm no exception. Although I didn't have any talent, and I've never thought about drawing by myself since I really didn't have much confidence after I took art classes when I was young. However, the appearance of digital art makes me experience the fun of painting. Although I'm still bad at painting, but its simplicity and aboundant resources and communities makes us able to learn various things at an unprecedented speed. Finding references from others' painting and imitating others painting style to learn has also become much easier. Maybe it still takes a lot of time to become a pro, but when my interest changes from being out of reach to having a clear direction, everything becomes different.
"Emilia"
This is a Q version of the character who showed up in animation "Re:0 - Starting life in another world" as the reference of imitation when I first started to learn electronic painting.
"Happy New Year"
This is a celebration painting drawn during the 2021 Chinese New Year. Since everyone was under the atomsphere of celebration, I wanted to add some element about Chinese New Year into the character, so I used the pattern of cows as the pattern on the kimono.
"Hatsune Miku"
This picture is my first attempt to use grayscale coloring, but my shadow details are not done very well and the layering is not enough. It is a good lesson for me, and the entire workflow is indeed much faster.
"Amelia Waston"
This one is one of the imitating exercises. At that time, I learned a new hair highlight coloring method and wanted to try it out, so I used it on this one. At this time, the details are not enough, so it will look plain.
"Yuigahama"
This one was the one with the best level of detail in my paintings at the time. Although it was obvious that the transition of the shadow looks weird, it was still the one having the greatest improvement at that time, and it was of great significance.
"Gray"
This is a recent drawing, which has a new record in the number of layers. I think that it seems to be richer in details, but I think the presentation of the picture is not as good as the previous one. This is a painting which teached me the composition is important.