The Kiwi Coloring Corner - Calling all creative kiwis! Join in a workshop made for those who seek to improve in the arts.

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Good idea. I am in the process of learning how to do that. But whoever I'm learning from mostly deals with traditional art, like with paint, crayons(the fancy pastel ones) and all that. So, I'd like to have a second oppinion on all that. Also, no idea how digital works, further than paintbucket tool and layers.
 
Now that the Christmas season is ending I'm going to have a lot less time to do anything, but I'm in on this whenever I can manage to get something out. I'm going to need to learn to draw eventually for a project I'm working on anyways, so I may as well start on it now rather than later.
 
I will most certainly participate. I had forgotten how much I loved drawing until I saw the reaction to my Secret Santa gifts, but man is it fun. It's incredibly satisfying too. So I look forward to all of the (much needed) practice I'll get from this.
 
CallmeCicada dijo:
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Sounds like fun. Sign me up.
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I shall look fowards to being accepted and participating in the Kiwi Art Academy.

For anyone that is worried if their artsyle may be used to potentially dox you, that doesn't tend to happen unless there is other evidence to link your accounts. But if you are overly paranoid, like myself, just change the materials you usually use to draw or try another style. It's also a good excuse to try something else.
 
Awesome idea, I can’t promise I won’t turn it into shitposting but I’ve been wanting to get back into drawing so I’m excited :)
Generic Anime Girl dijo:
What about FireAlpaca? I highly recommend that program. It's free and has tons of stuff.
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Seconded, I think Procreate is worth the money (very well priced for what it is), but FireAlpaca is a great free alternative. And I’m partial to alpacas and its logo is cute.
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For anybody schizophrenic about OPSEC, I personally recommend ExifTool (https://exiftool.org/)
You can search the forums and see that it gets mentioned a lot of times. It's a command line tool that is popular so if you ever have issues you can just look it up online or ask an AI.
Here's a powershell script that I put together with some chatgpt help, for example. Includes modifying the creation and modification date that the file system uses because I was concerned about that.

Bash: 
# Get folder path from parameter
param(
    [string]$folderPath
)

# Function to generate a random string
function Get-RandomString {
    param(
        [int]$length = 8
    )
    $characters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
    $randomString = -join ((1..$length) | ForEach-Object { $characters[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $characters.Length)] })
    return $randomString
}

if (-not (Test-Path $folderPath)) {
    Write-Host "The specified folder or file path does not exist." -ForegroundColor Red
    exit
}

# If a file is provided, use its directory
if (-not (Test-Path $folderPath -PathType Container)) {
    $folderPath = (Get-Item $folderPath).DirectoryName
}

# Get a list of files in the directory
$fileList = Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -Recurse -File

# Step 1: Remove EXIF data
foreach ($file in $fileList) {
    exiftool -all= $file
}

# Update file list after EXIF removal
# TODO: this will get all backups that exiftool has made of the original files, so, uh, keep that in mind?
$fileList = Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -Recurse -File

# Step 2: Update timestamps
$createDate = "2000-01-01 00:00:00"
$modifyDate = "2000-01-01 00:00:00"

Write-Host "Overwriting creation and modify dates." -ForegroundColor Green
foreach ($file in $fileList) {
    $file.CreationTime = $createDate
    $file.LastWriteTime = $modifyDate
}

# Step 3: Rename files with random strings
# MUST be done last otherwise we need to do Get-ChildItem again and that's annoying
Write-Host "Scrambling file names." -ForegroundColor Green
foreach ($file in $fileList) {
    $randomString = Get-RandomString -length 12
    $newFilename = "$randomString$($file.Extension)"
    Rename-Item -Path $file.FullName -NewName $newFilename
}


Write-Host "File renaming, EXIF removal, and timestamp updates completed for all files in $folderPath" -ForegroundColor Green

I just use this whenever I need to upload something sensitive somewhere by creating a new folder to put content to purge information off from. The file name pattern is always 12 and always garbage, so that might get chased down if someone's autistic enough. Could replace it with something that mimics 4chan / X / whatever filenames as if you've downloaded them off those sites (when you haven't). The same goes for the Creation and LastWriteTime dates, they are just always the same and might be a pointer to chase you down.

Should be noted that exiftool -all nukes all metadata, including possible color profiles / spaces, that's important for your art depending on how you make it or digitalize it as it might make it look different.
ExifTool has docs here (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html)
 
I haven't drawn anything since 2011. An I'm still kicking myself for not joining in on the Secret Santa that just passed. Definitely participating this time.
 
I won’t be able to participate for a couple reasons beyond the scope of this thread, but it’s a great idea. Be advised that GIMP is more for photo editing, and Krita is a heavy program. Firealpaca and Medibang are from the same creators, and free, but a few features like dark mode and liquify are paywalled (more so for Firealpaca). I’d recommend both for beginners.

Good luck to everyone participating!
 
I gave up on drawing years ago to just print line art out for colouring but I think this is the perfect time to give it another proper go. At worst this will help me to let go of my self consciousness around my art. Can't get better if you don't get critiques (hopefully gentle ones lol)
 
I think I’ll have a go too. My skills are low so I doubt I’ll post anything but I look forward to seeing others results!
 
I’m stupidly excited for this.
I haven’t drawn in a while and I need something else to do that gives me ideas and deadlines.
 
It's so nice seeing so many familiar users come here and express their interest in learning to draw for the first time or to sharpen their rusty pen hand as well as lots of users I've never seen before. I am always pleasantly surprised to see kiwis who love to draw.
 
Fantastic, I finally have a good reason to get off my ass and do some drawing with online autists again, can't wait!
 
I draw a lot, but ignore the technical skills in favour of drawing like a five year old. It will be good to learn again, if nothing else than to be able to say I draw badly on purpose. Count me in.
 
I am looking forward to all the submissions by fellow Kiwis. I've done a few drawings on The Farms and excited to do more!
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