Quick sketch digital painting drawing on a Wacom

Quick sketch digital painting using a Wacom and Photoshop 6. The thumbnail links to a transparent GIF version. There's a link to a PNG version below that...



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Please only post images directly in the forum if they are under 25k. We still have quite a few people on dial-up.

Beautiful work though. Do you do traditional paint and canvas painting as well?

Eyewoo.. You're featured on my site...

Like i said at SomethingLeet. Your sketches are the best i've seen

VERY good work eyewoo. I am humbled.

Thanks for the comments...

deker... your wish is my command... (sidebar -- 25k is not a lot for a graphics section... :/ )

sidefx... hey thanks for the feature... that's cool my man!!!

mrbogus... :D

No, 25k isn't a lot, but you have to think that people also have to download all of the signatures that people have, and most of those are 20k, plus the HTML, and the forum graphics, so the average page is already well over 100k. So adding in an 80k image is just going to make that even slower... If you link to it, then the dial-up users can load the page faster, read your message and description, then decide if they want to view the image. If you embed it in the page, they are forced to download it, and it might take too long, they'll press the back button, and never see your image anyway! That's the reason we have that rule...

deker... I understand the reason for the rule. I'm a website designer for about 8 years now. I try to keep all my pages under 35k... unless a site is specifically a graphics oriented site. Then my frames of mind are... #1 - people who have slow connections will know not to come here. #2 - hopefully I'm doing my little bit to push the slowpokes to faster connectivity.

I spend some time on the Wet Canvas forum which is primarily run for traditional artists, many of which know little about computers and are on slow connections... They have a rule stating that no image can be wider or higher than 600 pixels. Why not modify your rule similar to that, but for say 450 pixels. Then those that can could simply link the smaller image to a larger image... if they wanted to.

There are so many times when it is useful to embed an image into text to illustrate a point or show a diagram or whatever. That's really not possible with a 25k limit.

For example, I mentioned my use of Wacom tablets on the WC forum and got several replys from people asking what a tablet was... Showing a picture off my hand holding the pen on a tablet with a monitor behind it totally told the story. A link to the picture would have been significantly less effective...

My 2 cents...

Yeah, that's a good point. We usually let it slide when say someone asked a question about photoshop, and then the person answering embeds an illustration of the button they need to push... that type of thing. It's really not that big of a deal, just a courtesy to our dial-up users. The final decision would come from pank though, if he wanted to allow more images in the forum. But we've had some people post wallpaper images embedded in the forum... so it just kind of gets automatically edited.

wow.... this is absolutely amazing.... are there different kinds of wacom tablets? that are better or worse than others?? I have saw a few artworks that wacom tablets have been used. The first time a few months ago, and then I just sort of forgot about it. Then Czak's, if you have saw his in the Pixel Wars section? And now yours, this really makes me want to get one of these baby's.. lol
So with this man, did you draw it first, and then trace it with a wacom tablet? I'm not exactly sure how they work..

lovablelemon,

Yeah... if you're doing digital painting, you have to have a tablet... Here's the picture I wrote about in a message above. It's larger than the legal limit, but since it's a demonstration I'm led to believe it's OK... (BTW - that's a self portrait)



There are different tablet manufacturers and different sizes. The current most popular maker is Wacom: http://www.wacom.com/

The tablet I use is a 9" x 12" . You can see more artwork at my site: http://www.eyewoo.com and... also check out Craig Mullen's site at http://www.goodbrush.com or Don Seegmiller's at: http://www.seegmiller-art.com/index.htm ... lot'a really good digital painting going on, pretty much all of it being done using a tablet.