Ok, so I'm one of those people that always thought "I'm completely crap at art, I'm far better at logical stuff". I've now come to a conclusion that:
A) My logic is crap anyway.
B) I'd really love to be able to do some artistic creative stuff.
I feel somewhat "creatively unfulfilled" so once my dissertation is in on Friday I intend to throw myself at trying to learn much about doing artwork. I've already found
one good site on learning the basics, and the eventual idea is to be able to draw something in this
sort of style (by
Karincoma on Deviantart). I love her artwork and it is exactly the sort of thing I would hope to aspire to, with the drawing of sort of stylised comics. I'm assuming she has drawn a rough sketch, then scanned it and coloured it in Photoshop and Corel Painter X.
I'm wondering if anybody else has any other help, resources, suggestions, or tips that would help. I'm an absolute, absolute beginner and know practically nothing about art, but I'm willing to devote myself to learning it. Once I can draw I intend to do colouring of pictures on the computer, and was interested in knowing if GIMP is a good program or if I need to shell out bucks on the new Photoshop et al. Maybe once I could do that I would stretch to a purchasing a graphics tablet.
I like a lot of the art that some people on AltNation do (sardonyx, Deadboy, displaced, and Bikuki & Shannow's photography to name a few) so any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
