Quote (Moonflow @ Dec 5 2013 05:54pm)
I just mean concepts as things like perspective, rule of thirds, colour theory, values, etc, cuz we learn that stuff at uni. And it's also in a lot of the "beginner" tutorials, so it's pretty much drilled into my head. I'm now trying to copy other people's works and working from photo references. I fully know I'm not capable of putting anything down from my imagination haha
Use a hard round brush, start with value, change the opacity and flow to your liking, make a black canvas, find a nice SIMPLE BNW picture, and just go to town scribbling chit in without worrying tooo too much about making perfect shapes or smooth shading. Youll get the hang of it. Pick something super simple, the first thing I drew was just a BNW frog from national geographic.
I think its important to start with copying a simple graphic image, drawing from life is 10X harder than from picture for newbs, and color is an entirely different beast.
Just sink an hour or two into this assignment and i promise, youll be started
ALSO I must add, if your not good with a pencil, you wont be good with a tablet, tablets got a learning curve like everything else but actually being good has nothing to do with being comfortable using the media.