Post #332887 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Sep 16, 2007 8:47 PM

suburbanpagan~ Thanks for posting the "Swamp Fire" rough sketch, and the early progress shots! That's what always gets me excited! Really cool looking colors, as always! I love that Gene Rains episode of Vegas Vics too!

The poor traits look GREAT! I love your fast expressive style!

Digital painting, I'm like the total opposite. I started painting digitally, and only now have taken up the physical brush and canvas. I used to "paint" in photoshop with a mouse in the 80s. Sort of like drawing with a bar of soap while looking in a mirror. My problem with digital paint was always, I was never sure if the colors I was using were even going to be close to what I was seeing on the screen. Screen colors and printable colors are two very different things. I would paint a huge illo, it'd look killer on the screen. Then I'd print it out and it's look like doo doo.

AND, I also could never get the idea of screen resolution to real resolution figured out. Meaning, I could zoom in to the screen to work on detail, but I wasn't always aware how much detail I was really putting in till it was printed out. You can't step back from a digital painting and look at it across the room and tell what it will really look like printed out. Right? If you "zoom" out of a digital painting on screen, you resolution crunches down the detail, and you don't get a true idea of the image. You know what I mean?

So how do you figure out the printable color vs screen color, and the resolution problems?