Draw Your Cataclysms

[FoobyDude]

[TheNineRings]

Cracks his fingers

Well the, I hear that people are talking about the art software they use without me! Well, this is simply unacceptable. I’ve used a very large amount of different pieces of art software, so I think I could be pretty helpful with this.

Free Pressure Sensitive Software
This software is best used with a pressure sensitive art tablet, and is generally a fairly awesome experience to work with. If you don’t have a pressure sensitive art tablet but you want one? If you want cheap, Huion and Monoprice are who you want, and if you want name brand you want Wacom.

Fire Alpaca: http://firealpaca.com/en Fire Alpaca is a program that is often described as being like Easy Paint Tool Sai, but without as many features. This program is good if you want something quick and lightweight, and is generally best for linework. Don’t use if you dislike seeing an ad before you draw, though. This is the one I am currently using, due to how lightweight it is, and the fact that I lost my license for Sketchbook Pro 7.

Pixia: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/ This ones interface is kinda… terrible, but apparently its fairly popular in Japan, so I’m linking it here, anyways. There’s a chance somebody here would like it.

Mypaint: http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ Mypaint is a pretty nice open source art program. It hasn’t been updated on Windows in a while, now, but it is still worth checking out if you like lightweight software.

Krita: https://krita.org/ Krita is a very nice program to draw with, made using Mypaint’s brush engine. Great interface and overall design, but it is rather heavy in comparison to the others that I’ve linked. Still, worth checking out.

Smoothdraw: http://smoothdraw.com/ Smoothdraw is one that I really, really want to be able to recommend. It feels excellent to work in. However, the amount of options you have while drawing are very, very minimal, so I can’t really recommend it for anything but sketching.

Free Pixel Art Software
I’ve noticed that a number of people enjoy working with pixels, here, so here’s a few toys for you to play around with.

Aseprite: http://www.aseprite.org/ This one is on the list on a bit of a technicality. It is free if you compile it yourself, paid if you don’t want to do that. This is the pixel art program I, personally, enjoy using the most. A good interface, animation capability, the ability to export animations in multiple formats… has it all, IMO. It also has a bunch of prebundled palettes, if you’re too lazy/inexperienced to design your own. So handy.

GrafX2: http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 This one seems to be fairly popular, but I’ve never been able to get into it, due to the interface. I imagine that others will like it, though, if they can get past that. I’m aware that not everybody is as much a stickler for a good interface as I.

Graphics Gale: http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/ This program is quite popular, and has a very large number of features for pixel art software. I don’t really know much more about it, though, other than that I loathe its interface.

I’ll probably update this a bit later, maybe post it as a thread elsewhere for easier reference, if people find it handy. I’d keep updating it now, but I grow tired of writing this. I’ve got zombies to slay.

[FoobyDude]

And now…

Spooky Scary… Muscle face?

Explanation?
These people are already dead, you can’t kill people that are dead, unless they’re a zombie.
But this is “The Loop” so attempting to killing people is scary, and impossible to do.

[Chaz]

Fire Alpaca: http://firealpaca.com/en Fire Alpaca is a program that is often described as being like Easy Paint Tool Sai, but without as many features. This program is good if you want something quick and lightweight, and is generally best for linework. Don’t use if you dislike seeing an ad before you draw, though. This is the one I am currently using, due to how lightweight it is, and the fact that I lost my license for Sketchbook Pro 7.

I can vouch for FireAlpaca, myself - the ad at the start is no big deal (And in fact it lets you know if there’s been a version update, which is nice!). FireAlpaca actually has a couple of features that SAI doesn’t (At least when compared SAI v1, not sure about v2 yet since that’s still in beta). For instance, FireAlpaca actually lets you draw to constraints, like perspectives, isometric angles, stuff like that! It even has text boxes, which is also nice!

That said, right now I’m using FireAlpaca in conjunction with a piece of paid software called LazyNezumi, which is basically a standalone pen stabilizer that also has a large variety of constraint options for when you want to draw angled lines or perfect circles or perspectives, stuff like that. However, FireAlpaca does just fine on its own, so I’d definitely recommend it!

[Jakers]

[quote=“FoobyDude, post:3323, topic:441”]And now…

-snippy scary skeletons-

Spooky Scary… Muscle face?

Explanation?
These people are already dead, you can’t kill people that are dead, unless they’re a zombie.
But this is “The Loop” so killing people is scary, and impossible to do.[/quote]

Lol. The bike helmet man seems pretty pathetic for a psychopathic murderer; I’d give him a little sympathy. And by a little, I mean that I’d probably fire 500 bullets instead of 1000.

Then hug him afterwards~ payback complete and all! No hard feelings.

I’ve been meaning to draw some things recently, but I’ve been more focused on work and recording playthroughs and such! My next project might be to try and draw a goo girl character I had going, or some shenanigans with Jodi again. I dunno haha, keep up the good work peoples

[TheNineRings]

Ooo, that LazyNezumi program looks like Sketchbook Pro’s smoothdraw, which I keep missing when I’m not drawing in it. Nice find!

[FoobyDude]

[quote=“Jakers, post:3325, topic:441”][quote=“FoobyDude, post:3323, topic:441”]And now…

-snippy scary skeletons-

Spooky Scary… Muscle face?

Explanation?
These people are already dead, you can’t kill people that are dead, unless they’re a zombie.
But this is “The Loop” so killing people is scary, and impossible to do.[/quote]

Lol. The bike helmet man seems pretty pathetic for a psychopathic murderer; I’d give him a little sympathy. And by a little, I mean that I’d probably fire 500 bullets instead of 1000.

Then hug him afterwards~ payback complete and all![/quote]

I was having similar thoughts.
Now that Snow’s given him around 1000 reasons not to mess with her or Foxy, he might just change… maybe.
yeah he’s gonna be a character now, time to think up a good backstory.

[FoobyDude]

My brother wanted me to put this here, so here it is I guess…

too goot.

Edit: man this place is dead today.

[Rhodri]

[quote=“FoobyDude, post:3328, topic:441”]My brother wanted me to put this here, so here it is I guess…

too goot.

Edit: man this place is dead today.[/quote]
10/10 IGN

[StopSignal]

IMMA REVIVE IT.
When I can.

[FoobyDude]

[quote=“StopSignal, post:3330, topic:441”]IMMA REVIVE IT.
When I can.[/quote]

Alright. Countin’ on you m8.

[StopSignal]

Big!
Later I’ll tell his story!

[FoobyDude]

[quote=“StopSignal, post:3332, topic:441”]

Big!
Later I’ll tell his story![/quote]

Interesting, wonder who that is…
Also, holy cow that picture’s big!

[Aluminumfoil]

That’s pretty cool, Stop.

Image thumbnailing is easy with imgur, by the way.

Base image: http://i.imgur.com/lPXT86z.jpg
Thumbnail image: http://i.imgur.com/lPXT86zl.jpg

Linked thumbnail image:

makes

[FoobyDude]

[quote=“Aluminumfoil, post:3334, topic:441”]That’s pretty cool, Stop.

Image thumbnailing is easy with imgur, by the way.

-smart imgur thumbnail babble-[/quote]

At first I was confused; With what StopSignal’s name is, Shortening it to just Stop makes it sound like you’re telling him to do so. A little dilemma I’ve faced and solved by just using his full name. XD

Also, That would come in handy for people who always make massive things like Phtalocy’s last work. (don’t take that the wrong way pls).

[StopSignal]

[quote=“Aluminumfoil, post:3334, topic:441”]That’s pretty cool, Stop.

Image thumbnailing is easy with imgur, by the way.

Base image: http://i.imgur.com/lPXT86z.jpg
Thumbnail image: http://i.imgur.com/lPXT86zl.jpg

Linked thumbnail image:

makes
[/quote]

Actually you can just use image width and stuff, and i know all that. It’s just that putting all those codes in the phone is a pain. And thanks!

[Pthalocy]

Imgur thumbnails are useful as heck. I’ve been doing linked thumbnails on another forum, so you just click it to see the fullsize if you want to regardless. I am quite enjoying the forum-friendlyness and no loss of quality. I just didn’t resize the last thing I posted since it seemed like less steps between Stopsignal getting a copy of it for collaborative purposes.

[StopSignal]

So this is Will Neighbourhoods AKA me with a real bad name translation. He had a good base and he was pretty happy! The house was amazing and really comfortable. That was until the sounds.

Noises interrupted his reading time, wich was something he did not like. But he was not an idiot, no. Who would leave the safety of home to check that sound? Yep, me. So i went, and i saw that wold. It’s only one! i thought. But when i am going to go after it, i see three zombies in the north. I leave it alone and go to stop them, because if not they would bother me and my house and no one bothers me or my house. So there i go! Hitting left and right, with all the strenght, killing zombies with my nailed bat. Until WOOSH! The wolf leaps after me, going for the head, ripping my neck and opening a big wound. After the wolf is reduced to blood and an smashed body, i notice the bleeding. The pain is unbearable, and i slowly rush home, but each step is slower, and slower. Not even my rags can stop the bleeding, so i have to cut my t-shirt, in a desperate attempt to keep breathing. Finally, the bleeding stops. It’s alright, everything is alright. The zombies on my back, advancing more each time, but they are not the only ones. Another wolf appears to avenge its fallen brother, running and passing through the zombies. Just a few more steps… the door, the open door, inviting, telling me to go to the safety of my base. But it’s too late.
The wolf finished the work of it’s brother.

[Aluminumfoil]

Some people can’t draw hands, some people can’t draw feet… I can’t draw people in profile.

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And why do we suck, Bruce? So that we can learn to suck less.

Meh.

Neither one strictly cataclysm-related, although the first one is apocalypse-related and the second one is Alice-related, so they sort of count. Anyway, the thread gods demand a sacrifice of pictures after Friday and Saturday have made people be go out instead of staying in and sketching.

[StopSignal]

It’s the eye. It’s like it was looking to the front, while it’s actually being seen from the side! It’s just that, and everything else should fix itself!