Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch (first art)
Hey all,
i just bought few weeks ago the Bamboo Wacom Pen & Touch and had some beginning Problems with the Ubuntu 11.10 USB Drivers . after solving this Problems, i started to draw some circles to handle the pen in my hand, then i searched at youtube for some drawing tutorials
i found this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9PUDtVcWhY and this is the result
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/mangaxk.jpg/
i wish i would have some more free time to play around with drawing.
Next what i want to draw, is some Gladiators. i thought about a scene.
2 Gladiators, one is kneeing other stands behind him and hold his sword on enemys neck. he is watching at the Organizer to the Podium. and the Organizer has his thumb down.
(sorry for my bad english but i hope you can understand a bit what i mean:D)
this image i want to use as a landing page for an open source gladiator browsergame "Legends of Rome",
my Problem is, iam just a Programmer with 7 years of Programming experience but not with Drawing.
So my Question is, how can i begin with those kind of images? i dont want to colorize it(well not now) the software iam using is Gimp and MyPaint.
Hope i can get some advise from experience drawer here.
Best regards blackscorp
It takes time to learn to draw.
I do recomend you to start from Betty Edwards' book (The New Drawing on The Right Side of the Brain), though is is not about drawing complex scenes, like you want, but about general principles of drawing. I believe it is a very good book for beginner.
It takes time to learn to draw.
I do recomend to start from Betty Edwards' book (The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain), though it's not about drawing complex scenes, like you want, but about general principles of drawing.
I believe it is a very good book for beginner.
As for your question: start from some sketch to get composition and basic proportions right and then add details you want. It usually helps to have a reference image.
Could you please tell me how you solved the problem? I have a Wacom Bamboo (Pen, no touch), but it won't work for me using Linux Mint. Note that it's the newest generation.
i have the newest version of Wacom too, the problem on it is, that USB drivers are not in the main repository of Ubuntu (Mint is based on Ubuntu)
take a look at this forum post
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
you just need to follow step I others are not required since the newest wacom config gui is working fine. if you have the newest version of linux Mint, follow the stuffs with Oneiric. but the problem is, that you have to run this again if linux mint get linux-headers update or if you use another USB port. in the Ubuntu 12.04(which is coming out in mid of the year) it will works out of the box
I failed getting it to work with Linux Mint 12 :/
I'm going to wait until the wacom driver for my OS gets an update which supports the third generation.
Anyway, thank you for your help.
if you wish , we can meet and i install it on your Linux over Teamviewer
No, but thank you.
Hi BlackScorp, I think that you could take a look at this DVD course: http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122
It's done by David Revoy, one of my favourite artist. The DVD is inteded for beginners (there are infact some lessons about light behaviour, human proportions...) It focus mainly on the human figure, so it can be what you was searching for.
Also it focus on digital painting using Gimp, MyPaint, and Alchemy.
Personally I have bought it some time ago, when I have bought my first wacom tablet, and it was very usefull to start drawing... so I recomend it.