Hi everyone! How are you?
As you may guess today's speedpaint is a Voice Over. I felt like talking to you all for a bit :)
You can also see that today I'm not using Paint Tool SAI as I usually do
For this one I decided to try a program called Medibang Paint Pro.
So today I'll explain you some things about this program for you to know it a little better.
Medibang is a totally free drawing software
You can also use it on your phone/tablet.
I'll leave you the link of the official website in the description box
and you can check it later and read the instructions to download, install and use it.
It's a very light program, installation was really fast and easy.
To take full advantage of it you should create an account on their website
that way you'll be able to download lots of materials, brushes
or creating your own custom ones and then uploading them to the Internet
so other people can download and use them. That way we can share our knowledge with other artists.
I've tested Medibang using my old but loyal Wacom Bamboo Pen
and pressure worked perfecly fine. It doesn't seem to have big compatibility issues with graphic tablets.
Let's talk a bit about the brushes.
At first sight they may look a bit limited but as I said you can download more by creating an account.
And you can actually customize them a lot to fit your own taste and needs.
Brushes aren't located all over the left side of the screen (like in Photoshop)
You can find them by clicking on the Pen/Brush icon at the top, and then moving to the bottom box.
Okay, let's start by comenting the bad things I've found.
There were a few things I found uncomfortable from the beggining.
You can open several files at the same time but it won't let you move them along the workspace
so you can see more than 1 file at the same time.
So I couldn't have the reference of the character and my illustration open side by side at the same time.
However there's this very interesting window at the top left
It is literally a window where you can open any picture to have them as a reference
Hence the name... "Reference"
It still felt a bit weird for me to use it, but I must admit it is a nice thing that not every program has (like SAI).
And that way the lack of visualizing more than 1 file at the same time is less noticeable.
What more?... uhm...
Ah! It lacks of a... how could I say it? ...
Rotating Wheel?
Meaning it does have a button to rotate to the left and another one to rotate to the right
but it doesn't have a button to do both things at the same time.
(Maybe it does have it but I really couldn't find it or even configure it to my liking)
Again that is almost no noticeable because you can do it by using a bar that appears there
when you pass with your mouse over it.
Basically you just need to drag the bar to one side or another to rotate the canvas.
It's really easy.
But since I'm used to do it with the R on my keyboard it felt a bit uncomfortable having to do it on the screen.
The few options to edit colors, such as Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation
also work slighlty different than they do on SAI.
They also felt a bit weird at first.
I think we can finally move to the positive things! ♥
The program is very light but that doesn't mean it is too simple!
It has Text tools, Ruler tools for perspective,
it can also save files in psd (photoshop) format
which is really handy if you need to export it to other programs
because nowadays most of the drawing programs can save and load .psd files
Stabilizer works well too, is very similar to the SAI one.
Both the Bucket Tool and the Magic Wand can recognize what's drawn on the picture right now
and use those parameters to select or fill certain parts of the drawing easily.
It's a similar option to the Selection Source that SAI has.
Comes with Shape Tools to make circles, polygons (SAI doesn't have any of these yet).
So it's a plus :)
There's also a tool to make Gradients like in Photoshop.
there's no such a thing on SAI for the time being.
On SAI you have to make them manually.
The brushes can achieve really big sizes.
Comes with 3 options for layers: one is to block the layer's limit which would be Preserve Opacity on SAI.
A clipping group option too.
and the third one allows you to block the layer totally to prevent you from modifying it by mistake.
Photoshop has this kind of option but SAI doesn't yet.
Comes with some Blending Modes for layers as well.
The usual ones like Multiply, Screen, Overlay, etc.
Don't expect it to have a huge list of modes xD
And also comes with a Gaussian Blur option. Again this feature is available on Photoshop but not SAI.
And what I like a LOT from Medibang is that is has an Auto-Save option!
You can set it to your liking so it auto-saves the file every 5, 10, 20 minutes...
Yeah some programs may do like temporary save files
to prevent you from loosing everything in case the program crashes.
But this is the first time I've ever seen a program that actually saves your file automatically.
Just like when you do it by yourself, but with this option the program does it for you.
I'm not saying we should forget about saving manually with this!
But I think it's very nice that there's an auto-save option
because I'm sure many of you have lost at least one or two drawings
just because one day you forgot to save for about 2 hours, the program crashed suddenly
and the drawing got destroyed uwu
At this point I had to switch to Paint Tool SAI to finish this piece.
Not because the program wasn't working well
but because I was getting tired of not knowing where everything was placed
and this was also a commission so I chose finishing it in a program I knew and work comfortably
rather than risking for the picture to be of a lower quality
because I didn't have enough experience to manage this program or because of the stress I was getting
by this lack of experience xD
So, let's sum things up!
Overall I think Medibang is a really good program.
It's pretty complete.
I'd say it's something in the middle of the simple, yet effective, Paint Tool SAI
and more complex drawing program like Clip Studio Paint or the well know Photoshop.
It's totally free which is really kind from them, specially for begginers that
are still learning how to use digital tools and don't want to spend too much money on certain things.
I know it also comes with tools and options to make Comics
but I haven't tried any of those so I can't say a thing about it.
But I wanted to let you know that it has some tools for that, which is already more than what SAI has currently.
The few bad things I've pointed out about the program
are all because of my personal preferences.
It's not like the program doesn't work well or the tools are bad or anything like that
I'm just used to work in a certain way, with certain tools and settings
so when changing to a new program things will be placed in a different way or work differently
and it's hard to get used to those changes at the beggining.
But overall I'd give Medibang a high grade!
Being a free program I did NOT expect it to be of any good.
but it met my expectations in the end.
And as you can see you can make great quality illustrations with Medibang.
If you're looking for your first digital drawing program
I'd totally recommend Medibang.
Or if you're looking for an alternative to the one you're currently using, I'd recommend it too.
By testing different programs you'll eventually find the one where you work more comfortably.
We're finished with the Medibang talk, but since I see there's still some time left
would you like for me to try to explain you my coloring method for a bit?
(since I get that requested a lot on my social media)
As I said, I will TRY. You know I'm not the best at explaining certain things uwu
As you may have noticed, lately I started to color my illustrations like this:
I make a preliminary shadow over each color layer.
It's kind of a simple shadow, sometimes imprecise too
and the color may not be the final one neither.
The function of this preliminary shadow
is that once everything is colored
I could tell if everything looks like I wanted or if something must be fixed.
If I don't like a certain part, I change it.
So once everything look good, I go back to every shadow layer
Click on the Preserve Opacity of that said layer.
So I can paint on the shadow layer without going farther than its limits
and then I add more color, darkness...
I try to give it more expressiveness or depth to each shadow.
It's not necessary to use a darker color
you can also use a more saturated color
or quite the opposite, a brighter color so it gives the picture kind of an unrealistic or magic feeling.
Trust me, it can work very well.
Like I did on the upper part of the legs
the tips of the hair (which you'll see later)
or some clothing folds.
While I work on each shadow I also make use of some Blending Modes
such as Overlay, Luminosity, Lumi&Shade...
I don't have a specific rule to use them
I just use them when I think I need them to create certain effects I want to achieve.
If you need a further explanation about those Blending Modes
you may want to check this other video.
Last I add some lights on a new layer if I think I need them
and we're done! :)
Once the illustration is basically finished
I go up to the lineart layer (or group of layers)
I create a new layer, clip it to the lineart
and I start coloring on it to change the lineart colors to something softer.
If you already like how your black lines look (or whatever color you use for your lines)
you don't have to change them.
But I dislike how black lines look on my illustrations that's why I change them at the end.
I think that way I can give the picture a softer or sweeter look.
Lately I've also been adding some white lines on my illustrations.
I do that in order to create more depth or separate some parts of the picture.
To do that I just merge all the layers into one.
I make a new layer and clip it to where the drawing is.
And draw some white lines with whatever random brush.
It's also an optional step.
Some months ago I didn't do that, so many in the future I'll stop doing it
and then I'll go back to using that method and so on...
It's just a little detail to make your illustrations funnier.
Lastly we move to Photoshop
and fight with it for a while until a good background comes out xD
I'll show you how to make backgrounds and the color correction and effects I use
in another video, okay? ^w^
If you're looking for more tutorials about coloring
you may also check this one.
There I explain some tricks that you may find useful.
That's it for today! :)
I hope this kind of quick "review" about Medibang was useful for you guys.
And I hope you've enjoyed this video as well.
See you on the next one! Bye ♥
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