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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 16, 2014 23:22:32 GMT
That would seem to be the solution, but I can't find any image browsers that do! I'll do some more research on this topic. Surely somebody knows how to make it work!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 16, 2014 23:12:43 GMT
The Google Play Music app is pretty good and the Amazon MP3 app is good too, but without the barriers that itunes has. They will play any music that you load on your tablet, even from your PC.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 16, 2014 4:54:09 GMT
Any book by Burne Hogarth is worth getting for anatomy studies and his "Dynamic Anatomy" book is available on Kindle. I have all of his books in paperback and they are definitely a must have if you are interested in learning anatomy. As for a better app than QuickPic, I found an app called Photo Gallery which is kind of neat, but I don't think it is any better. I don't know much about music apps, but there are some really fancy ones for your android tablet. FL Studio Mobile and n-Track Studio Pro Multitrack are the most popular apps for recording and editing your own music. I don't know if they are what you had in mind.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 16, 2014 4:30:59 GMT
Hi, welcome to our forum! We're so glad you joined! The import PSD function for Clover Paint may only be available if you purchase the advanced UI. I can't remember for sure. However, if you have the advanced UI, you press tools,file, import, image, PSD. That will bring up a list of apps like Gallery, Quickpic, and SketchBook. Supposedly it will then import your file. I say supposedly because I can't get it to find a PSD file, but maybe you'll have better luck.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 15, 2014 0:22:34 GMT
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 14, 2014 19:14:45 GMT
One thing I've noticed so far is a bug on my Note 8. The undo button won't work on it, but it works on my Note 10.1. I have emailed the developers and told them about it. So if I mess up, I just have to paint over the mistake like you do on a real canvas. I can live with it, lol.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 12, 2014 19:23:10 GMT
I am going to attempt to make a finished painting using the Serious Paint app. So far I have found that the top canvas size in this app is 1400 x 1400. You can adjust the settings on the individual brushes, but I have found that if you tweek them too much you get a serious lag problem. So I think I will use the brushes mostly on their original settings with small tweeks. I like the responsiveness of the brushes when they are on original settings. I will let everyone know how well it goes.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 8, 2014 2:15:29 GMT
Nightmares from the Deep, Enigmatis, Clockwork Tales, and several others are hidden object games by a company called Artifex Mundi. They have some amazing graphics in these games. The backgrounds are beautiful works of art and the colors are very pretty. These games are fun to play and are usually stories of supernatural mysteries. Most of their games are available on android, ipad or for PCs. BoomZap is also another company that makes beautiful hidden object games and their most popular games are the Awakenings series. The graphics are in a painterly style and the story line is loosely based on Sleeping Beauty, but has a lot more to the story. These are also available on android, ipad or PCs.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 6, 2014 4:19:42 GMT
Amazon.com has reduced the price of the Note Pro 12.2 by a hundred dollars. The 64 GB sells at $749 and the 32 GB at $649. If you buy them refurbished or used they sell in the $600 or $500 range. I think I will wait a little longer and see if the price will drop some more. Samsung has announced that their Galaxy Tab S series with high definition AMOLED screens will come out later this year. That might drive the price down even more.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 5, 2014 6:20:57 GMT
CGHub was a website that showcased digital artwork from professionals in the movie, gaming, and comic book industries. They had an app for android that would show the latest posts and creations for these very talented artists. This is where I discovered the Wormworld Series, which is a beautifully illustrated digital comic book written by Daniel Lieske. You can download his comic book in the Google Play Store in an app. I am sorry to see CGHub go because it had a great format and hosted some wonderful artists. There are other websites that these artists can go to, but none of these sites has an app.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 4, 2014 17:27:03 GMT
I just found a nice sketching app called Skez.li. It has a very clean simple UI with all the contols on the left side. There are 4 choices, a pencil, pen, marker, and eraser. It has two controls on the side for opacity and size, undo and redo, and a simple color palette. I am very impressed with the smoothness of the drawing tools and I like how the marker acts like a real one. When you draw over a stroke it makes your stroke darker just like a real marker. It costs 99 cents in the Google Play Store. Here's what it looks like.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 30, 2014 16:35:49 GMT
Wow! Good luck! Hope it works!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 28, 2014 5:33:54 GMT
I 'm always on the lookout for new painting apps for android and I ran across this app called Ravioli Paint. It has potential to be a decent painting app. It has layer support, a customizable UI with floating windows for color, layers, and commands. It doesn't have a wide selection of drawing tools, just the basics like pen, brush, and a few more, but these can be customized. The app can supposedly support canvas size up to 2048 by 2048 pixels depending on your device. It has a select tool and shape tools as well, along with a smudge, blur, and mixer tool. It's sort of like a very scaled down version of Clover Paint. Also, the price is right, it's free so it doesn't cost anything to check out.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 25, 2014 16:08:24 GMT
I put in a white background on a bottom layer because I don't like the checkerboard look, so that may have slowed it down. I did tweek the flat brush again so that the paint flow increased and looked less like a paintbrush and that helped with the lag a little. I do have quite a few windows open like the color picker, the navigator, and the brush size, but that's why I bought the upgrade. If you have to shut down all the windows, there is no point in buying the upgrade. I also shut off the animation ripple effect because I figured it slowed things down. I have given up trying to use the large setting on the brushes and have just made do with the medium size. I have also collapsed the layers into just two, but you have to do that with a lot of PC programs anyway.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 23, 2014 16:09:14 GMT
I was able to make an excellent spatter brush out of the airbrush settings and it works beautifully for making stars or snow. (Now if I can just remember how I did it, haha!) I'll just have to play around some more with the program. The best way to do that is to do a big project in Clover Paint. I'm doing a night scene so we'll see how it turns out.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 23, 2014 15:54:56 GMT
I watched some of Gavin's videos, but I guess I forgot what he said. Block color was what I was trying to do, but I wanted a brush stroke look so I had a custom designed flat brush. I guess the settings were too much for the program. I don't have the hand shake correction on so that's not causing it. I think you are right, it is a hardware issue. I have Clean Master which shuts down running background apps, too. If I use the brushes on medium size that works better.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 22, 2014 20:25:20 GMT
I've been working with Clover Paint and I've noticed the brushes have a big lag problem when you make a paper size 2,000 pixels and up. It's not too bad if the brush size is medium, but when it is large the lag is really bad. Not sure if this can be fixed, it may just be because tablets are limited. I'm pretty sure SketchBook Pro doesn't lag this bad, but Infinite Painter crashes if you get over 2, 000 pixels and ArtFlow also lags on blending, so Clover Paint is not the only program to have trouble with big files.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 18, 2014 16:32:08 GMT
Those are some good drawings! I think probably a bigger tablet is the answer. A 10.1 inch is closer to real paper size and you don't have to zoom in and out as much. When I upgraded from my 7 inch tablet to a 9.7 inch and then to a 10.1 inch, it got easier to draw the human form. The main reason I got my Note 8 was for quick sketches out in the field. For more detailed work the 10.1 is better. I have found that once you get used to working digitally on a bigger tablet then it is easier to go back to the smaller tablet. Another thing you might want to try is practice drawing on paper with a ballpoint pen. To me drawing with an s pen feels like drawing with a ballpoint pen. When you draw with pencil it catches on the tooth of your paper, but the computer screen is smooth so you don't get that surface resistance and that's why it's more like a ballpoint pen.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 18, 2014 6:24:39 GMT
Here's a quick example of how you can work zooming in and out. First draw the overall shape of your subject. Then zoom in to add details. Zoom out again to check how the image is looking. Repeat those steps until you are finished. Below are some screenshots of a shoe sketch. I didn't finish it , but you get the idea.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 17, 2014 22:47:16 GMT
Drawing a serious sketch on the Galaxy Note 8 is harder than on a 10.1 inch. I think you probably need at least a 10.1 inch tablet. The price on the 1st edition Galaxy note 10.1 has gone down a lot. It's the one I use and it works fine. Also, although Clover Paint is a high powered program, it is not the best user friendly program for simple drawing. I would suggest SketchBook Pro to start off with. It's much more user friendly. Yes, it gets easier. Part of the process is learning how to make an overall sketch of your subject and then zooming in for details. However, you have to zoom out to keep your proportions. The zoom function is where you add the final details. It just takes practice. Don't be discouraged if things don't come out right at first. I had a terrible time at first when I tried drawing with the big rubber tipped styluses, but when I discovered the s pen it was like drawing on paper after what I'd been using. Artflow is also more user friendly program. It's hard enough to concentrate on drawing without trying to use a complex program. I hope this helps.
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