help me with prompts please!

[badbastion]

Long story short, my old tablet+computer+graphics program are no longer useable, so i'm on a WHOLE NEW SYSTEM with a newer tablet that i'm not familiar with, and a graphics program i'm even less familiar with.

Sooooo, I need to practice hardcore to get good enough to draw things I can actually share with people.

Please give me some prompts! I promise that I will at least try to do each one of them. Nothing too complicated, please, I'm just trying to get used to the new tablet & program.

Alsoooo, does anyone know of any cheap or free graphics programs? Now all I have is photoshop CS4, and I don't love it. I really don't like GIMP, and I can't get Paint Tool Sai (my program of choice) to work on my laptop.

Thanks a bunch!

Comments

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'd love to help with prompts. Are you looking for anything specific, like people, or places, landscapes, animals...? And how specific within those categories? Lol. Like, do you want "man fishing from a dock" or "Dean Winchester pretending to fish on a dock when really he's hunting the Loch Ness monster"? Because I can go either way ;)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Nothing too specific, places, people, things, situations, though something like "Dean Winchester fishing from a dock" or "man fishing from a dock" would be better than the extra added layer of "really hunting the Loch Ness monster," if that makes sense : )

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

Lol, well you're welcome to disregard anything, and the whole point is to just give you direction/inspiration, right? Hmm. *ponders*

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

So. Random prompts. (Feel free to tell me "thanks but no thanks" if you think they suck, lol. Otherwise I could probably go on...For a very long time.)

Man fishing from a dock. (Can be Dean Winchester, if you prefer, lol)
The woman in red.
The Winchesters at the beach.
Spaghetti dinner.
Dogs playing at the park.
A maple tree in its fall colors.
A dragon.
A famous landmark you've visited or want to visit.
Umbrella and rain boots.
A reflection (mirror, water, other shiny surface).
A pig. (Or a pug, per my phone's suggestion XP)
Baby on the wide open road.
Bouquet of flowers.
Your favorite fictional character.

(I have no personal attachment to any of these -except for maybe the beach!Winchesters and Baby ;) - but I hope they are maybe helpful to you despite their utter randomness)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will see what I can make of these : )

[lady-simoriah.livejournal.com]

How about Sam researching? Gives you a familiar model to work with and leaves the surroundings open to interpretation.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will see what I can make of this : )

[sleepypercy.livejournal.com]

Star holding

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Awww cute! I love it

[laughablelament]

How about weapons training? Make of that whatever you want, or ignore it hard. ;)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, guns are so hard to draw! but maybe i can draw some other weapons. I will try, thank you!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I think there might be a free version of Art Rage out there somewhere, and I've heard good things about it! (Though I've never used it myself.) If I think of any other programs, I'll ping you.

Prompt: rain :D

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find a free version, but I might try the trial version. Thanks for pointing me in that direction! : D

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Sam and castiel kissing maybe .
Or Dean sleeping , hope you get inspired him so glad to see you on my miss you

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I will try this!

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

awe thank you

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Try drawing the Impala, she's got enough curves for it to be interesting but also enough straight lines for it to be uniform and get you used to the technical side of the tablet :) Good luck with it bb, so sorry your system screwed up!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea, thank you!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Welcome, feel free to show us how you do, I'm so nosey you have no idea! :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! You've lost PaintTool Sai too! I miss it SO MUCH! I can't find any app that seems to do the beautiful blending Sai did - I've tried CS6, GIMP and Corel Paint. If you do find anything, let me know!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I knoooow, I miss Sai so much! TT____TT FireAlpaca seems like it might do something close, blending-wise - if it does, I'll let you know. I plan to try it out tonight.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I've just downloaded the trial version of ArtRage yesterday and had a play - it looks like it might work quite well once one had practiced with it. It is supposed to be designed to emulate real paint... The paid for version is just under $50.

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

I used to draw in Sai but after I got used to PS I don't think I'll ever need another program to do a better job. Maybe what you need is a set of good brushes. You can search online, I guess there's a lot of brush sharing out there.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I dunno, PS just doesn't "feel" right to me. I'll keep on trying, and I'll try to find some more brushes, but I really miss PTS's intuitive feel.

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried it myself, but I hear FireAlpaca is very similar to Paint Tool SAI. It's free, I think.

As for a prompt, how about Worn Out. ;)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the program and the prompt! FireAlpaca looks promising, I plan to give it a spin tonight : )

[cherry916.livejournal.com]

Prompt: smiles

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you!

[glovered.livejournal.com]

Fire Alpaca is fun to cokor in but in not an artist so maybe its not a useful program.

Prompt: princess sam

[glovered.livejournal.com]

*COLOR IN

[glovered.livejournal.com]

Ignore all my crazy typos. In short: Fire alpaca maybe!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I tried sketching in it last night and it felt pretty good, but I was a little worried about how it would feel to color in. I'm looking forward to it more now : ) Thank you for the prompt and the input!