So like there is this program called GIMP. It's a free image editor program originally for linux. People who use it usually say it works well as a replacement for photoshop. Once again found people arguing over this.
So I finally decided to see if you can actually paint with it... you know, to know if I can recommend it to people.
I'll just list things here comparing it to painting in photoshop because I can't write.
The way it doesn't have a unified window and wants to spread every piece around and screwing the order if I decide to switch to another program for a while is really annoying.
Wacom works. But the program imposes its own settings for the thing instead of using the ones I defined in the wacom settings and refuses to let me remap the buttons on my pen, which is annoying.
Creating brushes is alot worse than in photoshop and you can't adjust them on the fly which is annoying.
Adjusting brush size and hardness isn't a click away like in photoshop which is annoying. But brush hardness wasn't in photoshop 7 either and I did fine without it so I guess thats not so bad.
Program seems to instantly crawl to a halt when using bigger brushes which is annoying.
I completely forgot to test layers. Some people don't like the way GIMP does layers.
In conclusion. After using photoshop for so long, GIMP is very annoying. Alot of little things that break my "flow". Probably not impossible to get used to, but there's clear technical problems with it. Overall not a bad replacement for photoshop in terms of painting. "You get what you pay for" is a term I'd probably use here. But trying to convince someone to buy photoshop over this for non-professional use would be crazy.
Didn't try the photo-editing features and such (felt like uninstalling after an hour or so), but you don't need those anyways.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Bitches don't know about my... eh I don't know that meme
People who know blastwave, generally don't know of my blog, tgsa or devart and send me e-mails asking about why I haven't said or done anything in 8 months.
People who have found my deviantart and know blastwave, generally don't know of my blog or tgsa and send me notes asking if I'm ever getting back to comics.
People who accidentally pressed the tgsa link on blastwave generally send e-mails to pulsar asking for more blastwave.
Some people come to my blog and see the slideshow at the top and think "finally hes showing his art!"
The rarest group is people who know tgsa, but nothing else I do.
A while back I tried to find a way to somehow make most of these known to most of the people visiting my sites, but decided it's more fun this way.
People who have found my deviantart and know blastwave, generally don't know of my blog or tgsa and send me notes asking if I'm ever getting back to comics.
People who accidentally pressed the tgsa link on blastwave generally send e-mails to pulsar asking for more blastwave.
Some people come to my blog and see the slideshow at the top and think "finally hes showing his art!"
The rarest group is people who know tgsa, but nothing else I do.
A while back I tried to find a way to somehow make most of these known to most of the people visiting my sites, but decided it's more fun this way.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Drawing is the easy part.
I was looking at my facebook and remembered I linked my old blog into it. While removing the posts there I came across this one. Since it is still basically true and I felt like archiving it here too... so behold! A post from the past:
(edited slightly to not appear insane, and updated a part)
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I have lots of comic ideas. In the past year I have basically buried 3 of them because I’m overthinking.
I like doing comics because I think it’s a very fun way of story-telling. It’s both visual, and in text. I enjoy literature, but don’t have the attention span for it. With comics you get the enjoyment of great writings (in smaller, easier to consume packages) and great art. Unlike movies, the whole thing still works with the readers imagination on some level. Comics can have some very unique moments.
The No Point comic. It was literally started after reading real-life comics, after the “I wanna do a webcomic” -feeling. And pretty soon after I realized there was no real hope for the thing. Instead of trying to make it a comic that… was actually good, I used it to experiment with alot of things, to learn the secrets of comics. A “hell, I started it already, might aswell do somethign with it” -thing. I never had much readers when I was doing it, so I was just doing it to learn what the hell I was doing. Looking back, it is the reason why blastwave was decent in the beginning. Though blastwave became just another experiment for me. I mean hell, it STARTED OFF as a test on how I would do a fully painted comic page. Later on when it got readers it became a social experiment. Now it’s more of a useless project that holds little-to-no interest for me. The thing has been mostly repeating itself since the early days.
added: I don't want to "end" the comic. I don't want to completely close out the possibility of more pages. It is very unlikely at this point, but who knows about the future. Also nowadays I have started thinking of transforming it into an animation project.
Where was I going with this?
Oh yeah.
I wanna move on to the other types of comics now.
I really wanna do comics that have continuous stories in them. But at the same time, I want the stories to have some big meaning in them. A point. Along with lots of stuff I’ve always wanted to see. And more. I want them to make sense. I want them to not be the mass-produced crap we see so much today. I want them to be the best thing ever. I want them to be the single best use for my time. Perfect.
Of course that is an impossible goal. What I want changes by the minute. This causes me to try to include every single idea I ever get into one big pile of stuff. Eventually this pile becomes un-manageable and collapses in on itself. Leading to more projects I put “on hold” and have to rethink.
I am currently in the process of trying to figure out how to get over this. How to settle for less. Or maybe just do something someone else wrote without being overly critical of it (note: TGSA). My standards are too high for me to do anything.
It’s pissing me off.
(edited slightly to not appear insane, and updated a part)
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I have lots of comic ideas. In the past year I have basically buried 3 of them because I’m overthinking.
I like doing comics because I think it’s a very fun way of story-telling. It’s both visual, and in text. I enjoy literature, but don’t have the attention span for it. With comics you get the enjoyment of great writings (in smaller, easier to consume packages) and great art. Unlike movies, the whole thing still works with the readers imagination on some level. Comics can have some very unique moments.
The No Point comic. It was literally started after reading real-life comics, after the “I wanna do a webcomic” -feeling. And pretty soon after I realized there was no real hope for the thing. Instead of trying to make it a comic that… was actually good, I used it to experiment with alot of things, to learn the secrets of comics. A “hell, I started it already, might aswell do somethign with it” -thing. I never had much readers when I was doing it, so I was just doing it to learn what the hell I was doing. Looking back, it is the reason why blastwave was decent in the beginning. Though blastwave became just another experiment for me. I mean hell, it STARTED OFF as a test on how I would do a fully painted comic page. Later on when it got readers it became a social experiment. Now it’s more of a useless project that holds little-to-no interest for me. The thing has been mostly repeating itself since the early days.
added: I don't want to "end" the comic. I don't want to completely close out the possibility of more pages. It is very unlikely at this point, but who knows about the future. Also nowadays I have started thinking of transforming it into an animation project.
Where was I going with this?
Oh yeah.
I wanna move on to the other types of comics now.
I really wanna do comics that have continuous stories in them. But at the same time, I want the stories to have some big meaning in them. A point. Along with lots of stuff I’ve always wanted to see. And more. I want them to make sense. I want them to not be the mass-produced crap we see so much today. I want them to be the best thing ever. I want them to be the single best use for my time. Perfect.
Of course that is an impossible goal. What I want changes by the minute. This causes me to try to include every single idea I ever get into one big pile of stuff. Eventually this pile becomes un-manageable and collapses in on itself. Leading to more projects I put “on hold” and have to rethink.
I am currently in the process of trying to figure out how to get over this. How to settle for less. Or maybe just do something someone else wrote without being overly critical of it (note: TGSA). My standards are too high for me to do anything.
It’s pissing me off.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I can't sleep
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRr
I have school in the morning and gotta work on the school project for most of the day. It would be good to have a good night sleep behind me.
But no. I try to go to bed and I keep thinking of stuff I could be creating instead! I try to stop but it doesn't work. Hours pass and I'm still wide awake. Keep coming up with new things, greater things... Wonderful things.
I get up to listen to DEATH METAL and doodle. I feel it's working. Pretty sure I'll sleep over school.
Here's a 5am doodle.
I have school in the morning and gotta work on the school project for most of the day. It would be good to have a good night sleep behind me.
But no. I try to go to bed and I keep thinking of stuff I could be creating instead! I try to stop but it doesn't work. Hours pass and I'm still wide awake. Keep coming up with new things, greater things... Wonderful things.
I get up to listen to DEATH METAL and doodle. I feel it's working. Pretty sure I'll sleep over school.
Here's a 5am doodle.
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