dpaint: do they paint on it?

[rednova]

Dear amigos:

I can make beautiful pencil drawings.
Recently I started using deluxe paint IV aga
to try drawing on it. Even though I am making
progress, is much harder to draw on it than my
pencil drawings.
Is very hard but I know if I keep trying I will
eventually get good at.
My question is:
those great pics that come with dpaint:
did they drew them on dpaint originally
or did they draw on paper then scan ?
did they paint on dpaint or scan every pic?
Pls give me your answers,

Thank you !!!

Rednova

[Karlos]

Dear amigos:

I can make beautiful pencil drawings.
Recently I started using deluxe paint IV aga
to try drawing on it. Even though I am making
progress, is much harder to draw on it than my
pencil drawings.
Is very hard but I know if I keep trying I will
eventually get good at.
My question is:
those great pics that come with dpaint:
did they drew them on dpaint originally
or did they draw on paper then scan ?
did they paint on dpaint or scan every pic?
Pls give me your answers,

Thank you !!!

Rednova

I've seen some fantastic artwork created using the mouse, magnify tool and a lot of patience.

However, the mouse isn't the only input device. Graphics tablets were supported in quite a few amiga art packages.

[Heiroglyph]

If you're talking about old limited palette apps, I call that being a pixel artist.

Much like making sprites or icons, you work like it's a tile mosaic more so than painting like in Art Effect, TVPaint, etc.

You also have to keep in mind how the monitor blurs the colors.  It's similar to distance on a mosaic, but monitors (at least CRT's) have a very specific blur that you try to take advantage of.  That's one reason old games don't look nearly as good on new LCDs, the artists made the CRT flaws work for them.

I worked with the mouse to sketch things out, then spent 95% of the time extremely magnified cleaning up the pixels individually.  I don't like my pencil or paint work at all, but pixels I can do given enough time.

I think I was pretty decent at it and had some pictures published in print mags way back in the day.  I believe I would have had more published, but they actually thought I had scanned them.  They even stated "scanned" in the description

I don't think they published my best ones because they thought it was just a straight scan with no skill involved, sort of a backhanded compliment when you think about it but it still pissed me off.

So it's doable, it's just that it's a different skill.

[rvo_nl]

please check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art
http://www.exotica.org.uk/mirrors/gfxzone/frames.html
http://amiga.lychesis.net/
http://c64pixels.com/main.php

you will find your answers somewhere in there

in short, especially in the eighties and early nineties, most of this artwork is plain pixel art. later on people started 'experimenting' more with scanned pictures, photoshop etc. its amazing to see what early amiga demosceners could produce, just by using dpaint. that sort of.. devotion is quite uncommon these days, unfortunately.

[Khephren]

Pixel joint has good examples, and tutorials. Your probably better asking in a dedicated pixel artist forum.

http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

[Ami_GFX]

Old serial port Wacom Tablets work on Amigas. I have an ArtPad hooked up to mine. There are free drivers available on Aminet. Pressure sensitivity doesn't seem to work with them too well. There is also a commercial driver called Tableau that turns up occasionally for sale for not very much money. It works a little better with pressure but not nearly as well as the drivers for Macs and PCs of the same vintage.

[utri007]

You need also realize that using deluxepain is not like using pen and paper.

Biggest diffrence is techinque used, you can't just start to painting like it is pen and paper. You need to learn to use advantages of it and they are not anything like pen and paper

For example, you can make really beatifull and natural looking sky less than 30 seconds.

[Khephren]

Thinking about it, if you want to paint as you would in Painter, or Photoshop, then rather than a pixel tool like Dpaint or PPaint, you'd probably be better off with Photogenics or Art Effect.