Everybody's First Doodle

Hi Taron,

thanks for your kind words. Well, I have an architectural background, but most of my spare time I spent with Interaction Design and realtime motion graphics. Every copy of months I get urge to resurrect my Wacom-Tablet.

I pasted some thoughts and suggestions here.

Here is my first attempt at being creative.. Be kind Thank you Taron with helping me figure out pressure and size for my tablet.. I look forward to many new creations now that I have a program to work with

Nice start.
Keep it coming Mikejn1.
Doing landscapes with verve is a dream.

Ahh I love this program!

I'm not very good at making art, specially not with programs on the computer. But this program feels so intuitive and easy to use!

First doodle here made with mouse, and it looks like I actually drew something.

[Taron]

Jonte:
You're "what"? "Not so good at making art"??? ...raaaiiiiiiggght!
That's BEAUTIFUL and looks like you know EXACTLY what you're doing! It's gorgeous!
Thanks for joining and WELCOME to the forum!

Mike:
AH, GREAT, you came over! I'm happy you've got that worked out with the tablet! Had me worried there for a moment!
That's totally a proper first doodle! And Welcome to the forum to you, too!

(At some point I need to hook up a drunk smiley to this forum, too!)

Hey, discovered Verve yesterday (Jonte showed it to me)!
While not my first doodle, it's the first one I feel I could share..! With Verve, I could actually accurately follow a tutorial from someone actually painting, and understand pretty much how that would translate in Verve. What? You can even have a layer as a pallette and blend different colors together manually..!
I'm quite blown away by the way this works. It is actual paint! Physics... Thanks for making this program, and for free, too! Would have expected this to be expensive already.

That said, I don't have much experience with painting, and I'm still quite stuck without reference. But the feel of Verve is so credible, I'm sure I'll get motivation to start learning more

A tiny thing I missed, was a way to *dip* my pencil and to sort of let the paint gradually become weaker until I dipped it again Maybe there's already a corresponding feature though, I still haven't discovered everything. On second thought, maybe it would be too realistic, and I would dip my pencil in the glass of water on my desk.

A thought I had, when seeing this could export heightmaps - this could quickly become a very interesting asset to me and other people into game development. When I discovered that there were features to mirror and "tile" the image, I thought of how great it would be if we could paint across the seams of the edges. That way, we could create wonderful repeating textures that would have depth, and export a heightmap.

[Taron]

Boothand, that's a beautiful "first" doodle to show here! I know it's pretty weird that it took until now that a digital painter actually feels like you can paint, right!?
But it really is still just the beginning.
Ahaha, you mean having paint on a brush that runs out, right?! Yeah...I have that in there all along, but didn't hook it up, hahaha. It ends up being far more annoying than you think until I also hook up that paint from the canvas can bleed into the bristles again. Then that will get pretty cool. Definitely part of the plan! Thanks for bringing that up!
At first I thought you were talking about using a pencil with the tablet and having the tilt control the tilting of the pencil tip. That is coming soon, too!
Painting over the edges is not as trivial as one might expect and I'm still having to figure out how best to implement that. I really know how silly that may sound, but the brush technology I came up with requires me to think quite a bit harder about how I could wrap that properly. But it's been part of my agenda for a while...so...stay tuned!

Anyway: WELCOME to the forum, Boothand!

Yes, paint that runs out! Looking forward to that feature, as well as any other coming ones. Great to hear that you have lots of plans!
And as a programming student, no it doesn't sound silly that a feature might not trivially be easy to implement

[Taron]

<sigh of relief>

Jonte> Ha, good work Jonte! I like the mood of your night landscape and colors your used.

Boothand> Very good start with Verve! You caught the light in the good way!