Thank you very much for demonstrating your work, Torp!
You do make it seem so easy!
I have found that, for now, I usually am more comfortable with doing a pencil drawing, inking it, and then scanning it. I will typically do the scan into Painter at 300 dpi for things like SH3, but I've been using 600 dpi for more "serious" work.
I also like the airbrush tool in Painter. It seems to give me cleaner lines and better control more like a real pencil than the actual pencil tool. Sometimes you have to wonder if they even have a real artist on hand during the development of these features.
I'll have to give that Photoshop process a try as it does seem Painter is made more for creating images rather than doing cleanup or finish work with existing images.
My sister has always been a big fan of my artwork. I used to draw and paint posters of her favorite anime characters for her to hang in her room and even did a "mash-up" comic once starring various anime and TV characters that she loved.
I was talking to her on the phone about my struggles with CG art and the graphics tablet when she gave me a fantastic idea. She said, "If you're so comfortable drawing on paper why not tape a piece of paper over your graphics tablet?". I did and it does feel more like using a real pen or pencil. My sis is a genius!
