I’ve always had this problem about distraction when I work. I always need some kind of distraction when I am getting something done, be it essay, drawing, website, etc. Every few minutes I’d need something else to spend my attention on so I don’t get deathly bored of what I am currently doing. (Does that count as ADD?) My distraction had always been, of course, browsing; chatting doesn’t count cus it’s an integral part of being on the computer TEHEHEHEH. But DA only has something new and interesting in intervals of like a day, youtube takes up too much attention, and bash.org… well… I ‘ve read like almost all of the good quotes out of the database so nothing new there. So in the end, I end up spending a lot of time in between work trying to look for interesting stuff, a lot more than I could spend working, and most of the time I don’t find anything good.
However, after watching the talk-videos on youtube recently, I’ve noticed that I like to listen to people talk. It doesn’t really matter if it’s boring BS or news and whatnot, as long as it doesn’t aggravate me, it serves my attention pretty well. So I’ve been listening to the talk radios online while doing my pics and manga and stuff for the past few days, and something that’d normally take me like 3 days to do was done in 1. So I guess I shall be doing that from now on now. (well, except when I’m doing essays lolol) It also brings a little bit of the outer world to my presence from under the well, so 2 birds with 1 stone…!?!?
K I’m done.
Oh wait I’m not. Here’s a cut, from a new version of the RO pic from weeks ago *restrains from laughter*
It kinda makes me feel like I traced someone’s style there. second attempt to colour from sketch; hopefully it will go well and reduce the amount of time it takes me to CG…hopefully. Drawing line art makes everything easier, but it takes more time to do that than colour, and it limits the amount of depth I can put into a drawing if I don’t do special treatments to the lines afterwards.
{ zs }
Heheh, I don`t draw lightning fast strokes with indian ink either. I draw lines slowly, but I work faster than digital that way because the tablet`s sensitivity is very different from a pen`s feel[it`s a hell lot more sensitive, for one]. I have to draw a thick line, then shave off all the parts not needed with an eraser and repeat this for the entire picture ;p
And regarding mistakes, I think everyone makes them. I make them almost everytime I ink, ranging from a big drop of ink splatting down, or a line gone off. You either restart or work around it, wing it to make it look like it was planned ;D
{ Shilin }
zs: hahaha, I take so long to ink digitally because I can’t draw perfect lines fast; and if I can’t even do it with an undo option, I don’t believe I can handle traditional LOL;; not to mention the lines will look all crooky and need fixing after I scan, which would take up even more time LOL
{ zs }
Apparently it`s not just an isolated case in me ;p
I have very short attention span and I cannot continue working on something without alt-tabbing out to see something after more than[at most 15] minutes.
And maybe you might want to try inking your drawings by hand? I can never ink digitally[it just doesn`t get in and takes so much longer]. Might get faster heheheh
{ Krost }
It’s a good thing that yoru sketches are so neat and tidy, they can double up as lineart.
When I paint, I don’t use lineart and it takes forever to come up with stuff like this.http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/hezame/?action=view¤t=double.jpg
It hurt my eyes a lot in the process.
{ `dry ice }
Hey, you’re not the only one. I usually look for minor distractions too, while drawing. Usually I read scans, but sometimes I look for something else… like right now. 8D; I hardly chat, though — that’s just too time-consuming for me.
Oowie, that WIP is looking gorgeous! o___o Absolutely.
{ Shilin }
kian: yeah maybe I should try that….
ice: you’d think LOL. well I guess normally people do speed up like that, but I just couldn’t do it about the line art. they’re just… a kind of excessive detail that aren’t of much use (or is it)
jelo: you threw me into the advanced hell of nerds ””orz
{ Kian }
If you actually pay attention and retain the knowledge of what you’re listening to, mayhaps you should try listening to books on tape. A few people I know do that while driving and walking, but maybe you should try it while working.
{ icesplendor }
Wow…so it takes you a long time to digitally line your drawings? I just thought you had gotten used to it over the years, so you could ink your pictures incredibly well in a short amount of time (a skill gained through excessive practice?). But now that you say that your lines take longer than your coloring…it makes you seem a bit more human. =O
Sorry if that was a weird thing to say. ^^; I still worship you, though!
{ Jelobee }
*searches for ADD on wiki and finds Advanced Dungeons and Dragons*
YES! DEFINITELY ADD!
Your WIP looks purtypurty~~~ *drools* Though drawing lines feels more… stable? *has bad vocab* Anyway, CGing this way does allow a lot more flexibility, though sometimes that’s probably not a good thing. ^^;;
But YESH! FINISH IT LIKE FAST SO I CAN MOLEST HIM. YESH.