Speed paints

Speed paints are a video of you painting/drawing, just sped up.

They are really easy to make, all you need is a camera (for digital speed paints, i use Hypercam 2 to record mine.) and movie maker (to speed it up).

Here are the steps to making one (for digital art, on the computer):

1. Press start recording on your camera (here is the download link for Hypercam: HYPERCAM DOWNLOAD)

2. Start drawing!

3. Once your done, press stop recording.

4. Open up windows movie maker, or whatever movie maker program you have.

5. Open your recorded video into movie maker.

6. Insert your video into the timeline

7. Right click and select "effects"

8. Scroll down and you should find "Double Speed"

9. Add that and speed it up to your liking.

10. save it! Then PUBLISH it. It wont be accessible as a movie file if you don't.

Then your done!(:

If you want to SEE some speed paints, go on you tube and simply search "speed paint."

Lineart

There are SO many ways you could do line art.

The first way is just black lines! Regular, plain black lines.

The second way is blending them in. This is usually used for realism.

The third way it coloring the lines to mach the color inside. For example, if you drew a blue shirt, you would color those lines blue.

The fourth way is just simply doing the lines, coloring the picture, then erasing them.

The fifth way is using different tools. For example the crayon tool, the airbrush tool, or the brush tool.

These are ways I personally do my line art. I haven't really seen or heard of any other ways, but i bet there is a lot!

Tablets

When it comes to tablets, there are A LOT of questions. Hopefully in this post I can answer them for you!

So the tablet I have is a Bamboo Pen and Touch. A lot of digital artists that I talk to have a Wacom Intuos.

The only REAL difference in tables is usually either how long it lasts, the size, the features (for example in the pen and touch you can press a button so you can use your finger as a mouse), and the pen. Tablets are PEN SENSITIVE. Meaning the pen it comes with is the only thing you can use on that specific tablet.

Some tablets come with a free software bundle (on a CD). The programs usually include Adobe Photoshop Elements (this is NOT a drawing program, its an image editing program), Corel Painter Essentials, Bamboo Dock and Apps (apps for the tablet made by the company).

Here are some pictures of tablets:

Bamboo Pen and Touch:



Wacom Intuos 5:



A Tablet Pen (Wacom):




Hopefully this answered all your questions!