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Artist // Hobbyist // Digital Art
  • Nov 11
  • Netherlands
  • Deviant for 10 years
  • She / Her
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I'm a Brit that lives abroad in Holland. I've always dabbled with designing and painting on and off during my life. I never considered myself any good at it but I really enjoyed doing whatever I was doing. It's a fantastic hobby.

In 2012 I took the plunge to indulge in a life long ambition to learn Illustration Airbrushing. I am self taught mostly from the internet and really love it. I have also just started to teach myself to Digital Airbrush. It is different, but the skills do cross over and I am very excited about the possibilities of trying projects that I wouldn't dare approach yet with a real airbrush.

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SiFi and Fantasy
Yesterday my Wacom Airbrush was delivered so I'm all set with a my Intuos Pro tablet, a Grip Pen and a Wacom Airbrush. I'm still unsure about which software I'm going to use but I'll keep trying a few till I find myself going back to the same one. My first impressions of the Wacom Airbrush are, it feels nice and light in my hand but I need to play around with the settings in the software more before I can really comment. I read a couple of very good articles which helped me adjust some of the settings so the Wheel would work on the W.Airbrush and also not to expect too much. The benefits are subtle apparently and I probably won't appreciate t
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Today I finally started my first digital airbrush portrait painting (not photo re-touch). I have spent the last month researching tablets and painting software. I've also spent hours watching and reading digital art tutorials. I like to give a very big thanks a lot to everyone that makes these videos and publishes the literature. I bought a Wacom Intuos Pro Small mainly because I wanted all the features and have ordered a Wacom Airbrush which works with this tablet. I haven't got the digital airbrush yet so I am attempting this portrait with the Grip Pen that came with the tablet.
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Welcome to DA...can´t wait to see more digital airbrush here on DA :) !!!!

Hi Douxpixart,

Thanks for the welcome. Well first I have to learn how to do it Ha Ha Ha!! But I'm really looking forward to the new possibilities digital airbrushing with give me over my actual airbrushing. Mostly I will try things I wouldn't normally want to try because it would be too complicated, like using layers instead of frisket because I'm too dammed lazy to do all that frisket cutting, sticking, painting, re-sticking, lifting, painting etc. etc. :)

My Wacom Airbrush was delivered yesterday so I'm all set and ready to go. Still trying out different software but have narrowed things down to a few and then I'll need to modify some airbrushes to my liking.

I'm hoping to keep it minimal though and simply use an HP-CS and Micron equivalent, same as I'd use when I airbrush.

Did you go from Airbrushing to Digital Airbrushing too? Are there more of us on here?

Cheers Mel

Hello,
Sorry for the late answer...I start with traditionell drawing (learn this on an artschool). Later I start with digital art and in the first time everything goes wrong. I went from PS over Painter and Artrage to Manga Studio. And Manga Studio was the first software wich works really fine for me. Then I saw the soft-airbrush videos from WeiWorks on YouTube and...:) love this stuff. And now I use only the airbrush-tools for my pictures. You can find many, many, many.........digital work. Most of them are photomanipultions or mixed media. Pure airbrushing you can find not so often. :)

Andy
Hi Andy,
I too have looked at a lot of software and the one I like the most is Manga Studio 5, I think its great and really suits my workflow. The problem is that Manga doesn't support the Wacom Airbrush I bought and that is very annoying. It seems the only software that really supports the Wacom Airbrush is Photoshop and Painter so I don't know what to do!! Stick to Manga which I really like, use my Pen and forget I spent €105 on the Wacom Airbrush OR do I forget Manga and get used to working in Photoshop or Painter. I want to get very good in ONE program and not use different ones as I find it too confusing to keep changing.

I also liked ArtRage but I have horrible lag problems, I like to work on a 30x40cm canvas at 300dpi and the lag is terrible with brushes over 100%. I can't work with that limitation which is a shame.

Do you still work in Manga with the Airbrush tools? Or do you now use Photoshop like WeiWorks?

Yes I noticed that most airbrushing seems to be photo related. So it looks like we pure digital Airbrushers are in a minority, I like that, we can see ourselves as ground breakers :)
Cheers Mel