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Head Turn WIP’s In Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 My latest animation works in progress

My Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 Experiment | Miwa Sketch

WOOP!! I finally finished it!! I know it's just blinking and glittering lights but it was a mini milestone in the long learning curve of tradigital animation.

Toon Boom Quick Tip: Customized Hotkeys For Your Drawing Tablet | Miwa Sketch I hope these tips will help out my fellow artists and answer questions for those I have not had the time to answer yet.

Metasequoia Tutorial Coming Soon | Miwa Sketch

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Random Blender Tips: Soft Selection | Miwa Sketch

Starlight Daylight Webcomic | Miwa Sketch

Manga Studio EX 4- How To Adjust Screentone Brightness | Miwa Sketch

3D Manga Studio Tea Cups | Miwa Sketch

3D Manga Studio Tea Cups | Miwa Sketch

Manga Studio EX4 How To Export As A PDF | Miwa Sketch

Tutorial Update | Miwa Sketch

Photoshop Screentone Brush Effect | Miwa Sketch

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Finally a new post!! And yes I am now aware of the spelling mistake XD

1000th Post by DraconianRain on deviantART Well guys I've hit a personal milestone. 1000 posts to deviantart. Unfortunately it counts journals but to be fair quite a few of them are tutorials. Still quite proud of myself since it's the one place I update regularly and archive my art properly on.

Tiara For Himi by DraconianRain on deviantART This mode was created in Blender, Zbrush, Topogun and the texture painted in Clip Studio Paint.

SR2 Boss wip 3 by MiwaSketch on deviantART Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0.02 As you can see I have been into making Saints Row 2 fan art again but with a twist on how I would actually like my character to look with various scars and tattoos. It's been fun and entertaining. I have this displayed on my Fan Art DA account. I have been really enjoying digital painting lately. Something about it is so relaxing sometimes. It's still a work in progress. I have yet to add the person being held by their shirt.

So I've been sick and not up to a lot. I did however do a quick zsketch. Please enjoy until I feel well enough to make another update and elaborate more about this post. Taivore Sculpt by DraconianRain on deviantART

So I had quite a hectic time with this. I had a 1yr subscription that I imported for retas studio. I tried making this animation in it since I learned it and I found that no matter the program or pencil and paper I still had the one issue that keeps coming up. Export, loss of quality and video editing. After spending days to make just this which I changed over to toonboom studio to complete, I realised that I am going to have to learn to use adobe after effects. And it's been so hard. It's been very overwhelming. Unfortunately I don't have the PC power to use it effectively which means both my PC and Laptop will need an upgrade =___=  Still I am pretty determined to get 2D animation to work for me. I just WISH I had the money to buy toon boom animate or animate pro. But I don't so I'll just have to stick to using multiple programs. At the moment I am using Clip Studio Paint, Adobe After Effects, Toon Boom Studio and Flash. Just makes me glad that I can afford ad...

I LOVE screentoing in Clip Studio Paint! Love everything about it. I have found it easier, cleaner and more accurate. It also doesn't hurt my eyes as much as MangaStudioEX4 did.

I haven't got much to post this week. I have been cleaning my house for two visitors that may or may not be coming over. I also recently shampooed the carpet of our bedroom. I used one of those home hero or super hero shampoo machines. The salesman was very honest. He said it wouldn't clean but it would freshen carpet. I have found it to do both adequately. It's not amazing but for new carpet it works well. It's helped with that doggy odour a lot and it did remove quite a lot of dirt and stains. Already I feel healthier and less asthma problems after one use. I would like to try to use it more regularly but one thing outs me off. It's almost as tall as me (I'm 5ft). The handle is practically at nose level and there's no lowering it. It takes a lot of my small body strength to use it and I get a hand cramp trying to use the trigger. But for a cheap machine I won't complain any further. It does it's job so I'm fairly happy. Especially with the ty...

Lately I've been working on an animation and it will be my first time animating special effects with the aid of Adobe After Effects. So far it's been quite hard because I don't know how to use the program very well. But fortunately I can do quite a lot of things in Toon Boom Studio before I need to take it to AE. I am hoping in about a week to a month that I may be able to post a preview. I will update more about what I am up to tomorrow.

I do apologise if it annoys people but money is tight and I will be resorting to Project Wonderful ads. I've used adsense but it's always under performed for me. Also offering digital painting commissions for a short amount of time. It's only for this blog's followers. So make sure you're a follower before you ask. The main reason is so I can contact you later about your order if you make one. The main type of digital painting I am offering at this time is currently Digital Portraits. That means the painting is painted digitally in a program like Photoshop. Manually hand painted using a graphics tablet. Specifically an IntuosPro 5. Two examples from my DA accounts (one is my main art account the other my fan art account) Contact me for a quote. Bow Down by DraconianRain on deviantART Missy Wip 2 by MiwaSketch on deviantART

Now this was quite an experience. For those of you that don't know, Clip Studio Paint is Manga Studio 5. I use Clip Studio Paint (which I may refer to as CSP in this post) because I want to support the company directly instead of through Smith & Micro. Painting this portrait of Missy Elliott was a very pleasant and enlightening experience. I haven't done realism in quite some time and this portrait is still unfinished but I have painted it enough to get my point across. Painting in Clip Studio Paint is one of the best experiences in digital painting that I have had thus far. CSP doesn't lag and for those of you that come to my livestreams, you are aware of how fast I often draw and paint. It's very responsive but most importantly with it's customizable user interface, I have found the tools to be less distracting that Photoshop and easy and hassle free to blend. As you can see on the skin, the blending in CSP is beautiful and lag free which has become extremel...