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Zetabi
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[2016-01-20 14:46:19 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 1309; Deviations: 44; Watchers: 16
Watching: 108; Pageviews: 3101; Comments Made: 82; Friends: 108
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: I'm the type of person who forgets the actors despite seeing them over 100 times, so in few words manyFavorite TV shows: Gintama, Pokemon, Overlord
Favorite games: Skyrim, Pokemon series, Hollow Knight, Rain World
Favorite gaming platform: Ds and Pc (the only ones)
Other Interests: Dragons, like, DRAGONS.
# Social Links
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# Comments
Comments: 34
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Thank you for the watch!
I hope you'll continue enjoy and support my art! <3
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Thanks for the fave and watch 
But I should probably warn you that while all the tools in Paintstorm are easy to learn, the exception is the brush engine, the brush engine is incredibly hard to fully learn (in the sense of making your own custom brushes) so if you use Paintstorm as an early entry point into digital painting, I would highly recommend that for now you try to learn all the other things in the program first and save learning how to make your own brushes till last. Until then you can use the default brushes (in paintstorm those are exceptionally good compared to most programs) and you can also download other peoples brushes, Paintstorm also seems to have the capability of importing photoshop brushes, I don't know how good it is since I never use it (I just make my own brushes) but if you see a photoshop brush that you would like, know that you can probably use it in paintstorm
Making your own brushes is an advanced feature and the hardest thing to learn in most painting software. But don't put it off for too long, all the best digital artists tend to do it. It has to start with wanting a brush that you don't have, if you want a brush that doesn't exist yet but you know what sort of behavior it needs to have, then you can try making it and that's how you learn to use the brush engine.
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You're welcome and thanks for the tip
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Well it's just that all the other tools are simpler (if we're talking about paintstorm anyways), you can learn how to use the move tool in an instant, the selection tools too, the crop tool even the magic wand/quick selection tool, the bucket, the gradient, you just click your way down the tools list until you've learned all of it (make sure to check the tool settings at the top of the screen for each tool, most tools will have them) then go to the upper menu and try the brush mirroring, perspective guide (it can make a full blown perspective grid with just 2 button clicks 
I actually don't even use the tools menu in paintstorm, I know all the tools I will use by heart so I bound them all to their own keys and just turned off the tool menu entirely, I don't need it 
As I said you should save it for last if you're using paintstorm since the brush engine is complicated, krita on the other hand, you should do it first instead because the brush engine in krita is actually pretty simple. But thanks to the extra complexity paintstorm's brush engine has the capacity to create much much much much more diverse brushes than even if you were to combine a handful of the brush engines that krita does have, it's a tradeoff but it's well worth it, and as I said in my journal I am very unhappy with the soft brush behavior in krita.
The brush engine you should try to learn it but don't take it all in one gulp (like idiot me) just use some of the pre-existing brushes and when you feel the need or desire to, tweak some of the settings, I mean they're always right in front of your face Β and it can get pretty fun to play with them, and bam, you're halfway towards creating your own brush already
An example of a complicated brush would be the one I used to draw this
(if you see it in full size) Looks kinda like a traditional paintbrush on a canvas doesn't it?
And I spent two hours trying to figure out how to re-create it and just as I got bored of tweaking all the settings I finally realized that this brush was created by setting about 5 settings into a sweet spot relative to one another. Set just one of them too high or too low and it doesn't work, set them just right and it works so well it's like you can feel the paint while you're painting with itΒ Β
(I know it's pretty ugly, but ugly was my intended effect 
That's what I meant when I said to truly learn to make brushes you have to have a specific goal in mind.
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Bad news: can't download Paintstorm because my computer doesn't meet the system requirments D:
Oh well, I can manage with what I have already
And thanks again for the tips
Now excuse me while I train myself with Krita
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which part of the requirements do you not meet? Do you not have a dedicated graphics card? 
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Oh that is indeed a barrier of entry 
It's a shame I guess. You can still use it but it wouldn't be fast, it'd be slow, maybe even slower than krita. But yeah I think might be best to stick with krita if that's the case, although if you want to change software I hear a lot of good things about SAI.
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I actually have tried the trial version of SAI and it's easy to use, but my trial expired long time ago and I won't be buying it anytime soon (costs 40 euros more or less). But I read that there is a SAI 2 version (which is free) but it's still under development and also has more stuff than the first one.
Link Β if you want to try the free trial if you haven't.
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Thank you for watching, you will not be disappointedΒ Β
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np your art is beautifull
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Thank you again for the watch!Β Β
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