Christina Brooks
Ninja
I am a college student, attending ITT Tech for Digital Entertainment and Game Design. I found out about Project Dogwaffle while browsing on an animation discussion forum. I now use Project Dogwaffle Pro (PD Pro Digital Painter 3) and as of mid July 2005 have used it about 3 weeks now and still learning
I do consider myself as an artist at heart, I’m mostly an traditional artist who likes to sketch and do some painting, or color with color pencils, but I prefer sketching and drawing pencil drawings because I don’t like to color or paint, even through my colored artwork always turn out looking nice. I enjoy making up character designs, and drawing them in different poses and emotions, most of my artwork I do is in anime/manga style. For my 3D modeling class we used 3D studio max, which is my first 3D modeling/animation program, I looking forward to taking animation classes soon.
What do you
like most about Dogwaffle?
I don’t have to buy paint and paper like I use because Dogwaffle is all
digital!
What needs
improvement?
My knowledge of
Dogwaffle, I’m still learning how to use to it, also I need to work on
my anatomy when drawing.
How I work:
Usually
when I draw or color I lock myself in my room and only focus on
drawing or coloring and I can go hours without eating anything!!!
I really don’t time myself when I draw or color, I just do it. I have
often drawn from sun rise to sun-set only to take a couple of breaks.
As for my
images I have:
Dragon
Armor, I was trying to design the coolest armor design that I
have never design before! Can’t wait to color it in Dogwaffle!
Ninja, one
of my favorite pics I wanted it to look professional, like it came
straight from one of those game instruction booklet! I had the most fun
with this pic.
Evil
minion, I was inspired by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and its
cel shaded cartoon style.
Elf
warrior, I drew this while waiting for the bus and later colored in
Dogwaffle, I was inspired by The Legend of Zelda videogame series.
Most of my
art, I draw with a no# 2 mechanical pencil. (I prefer using mech
pencils, because they always stay sharpened.) I start off drawing real
light, so it will be easier for me to erase mistakes later on, and then
I darken the lines, and usually draw details last. Before I scan my
drawings, I erase most of the unwanted marks. I use a Dell photo Aio
printer 922, which is an all in one printer/scanner, to scan into
Dogwaffle, after I scan a drawing into Dogwaffle; I use the color key
filter to adjust the value, brightness, contrast and gamma.
For coloring,( I will use the ninja picture for example) I mostly played around with color mixer, smear tool, and paint smear mode to blend in colors to give it that pastel colored look. I also played around with the filters, using apply-current-paper to give it a paper like texture, which you barely can see, after I used the Gaussian blur to give it a glossary like blur look. The sky background which I used as the second layer, (I prefer using layers) I used the “Painting sky and Clouds” tutorial on – http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/index.html website, that tutorial really came in handy. I am very glad that I discover Dogwaffle, now I can do things I always dreamed of.