Q&A // May 2023
Added 2023-05-29 14:33:51 +0000 UTCHey flame patrons! Here is this month’s Q&A session!
Topics covered in this session are:
- Brushes I like (more info here)
- Balance between studying a subject and drawing it
- How realistic / detailed to make a drawing
- How to deal with issues around merging multiply layers
- How to assess your own drawing to make sure it's going well
- Necessity of making completed illustrations
- Mucha vs Leyendecker
- Having doubts about yourself as an artist
- Rediscovering joy in art
- Client work: how to not get too attached to the designs, how to present your work, how I go from first sketches to final design
- How I record my process (more info here)
- My dream project
- Theme parks :')
Hope you enjoyed this one! For the next session, feel free to drop any questions you might have into the #ask-loish channel on discord, or post it below - I'll go through them and try to answer as many of them as I can during next month's Q&A session! Thanks to everyone who joined in the chat ❤
Comments
I was finally able to catch up on this, thank you so much for answering my question Lois <3
Kat Craig
2023-06-01 16:51:27 +0000 UTCThat is amazing loish, thank you so so much for your help and explaining this so well. ❤️
Julianne Kennelly
2023-06-01 14:23:44 +0000 UTCThat is amazing loish, thank you so so much for help and explaining this so well. ❤️
Julianne Kennelly
2023-06-01 14:22:12 +0000 UTCi think if research sparks your creativity, that's great! i think anything that helps your creativity is a good thing :)
Loish
2023-06-01 14:08:48 +0000 UTChey Julianne! It would probably be best to resize the image to something smaller and then save that as a PDF. but I generally stick to image formats for images, like PNG and JPG! make sure you keep your large psb file as a backup though!
Loish
2023-06-01 13:58:00 +0000 UTCScanned in at pdf at 1200 resolution. Only saving as psb. Cant save as pdf even if I flatten the image. If I flatten the image can save as jpeg.. Do I just go with this? Thanks julianne
Julianne Kennelly
2023-05-31 16:06:30 +0000 UTCThanks loish for your explaining your brushes😊 . I'm scanning an image at moment at it will only save as psd. I thought it would save as pdf for me. How do I save files for working with and as final documents. I think you have mentioned this before. So grateful for your patreon. It's brings so much learning. Julianne
Julianne Kennelly
2023-05-31 13:32:58 +0000 UTCappreciate these sessions a lot, thank you Lois! I like to learn about the technical part about art, but the mindset discoveries and life experiences are one of my things to hear as well 🙏
Laura
2023-05-30 15:10:42 +0000 UTCSo helpful. "research==stifling" was what I needed to hear. It's fun to research sometimes and I understand creativity is the canon. Thank you, Lois! Cool.
Rob Callicotte
2023-05-29 21:16:23 +0000 UTCThank you ! And looking forward to the next tutorial that sounds great ! :)
ArtG
2023-05-29 17:35:18 +0000 UTCThank you so much for your helpful answer to my question. I really appreciated it😊
Dom Bronico
2023-05-29 15:37:36 +0000 UTC
