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Re: Everybody's First Doodle
Taron, thanks for this brilliant, wonderful program. Though I'm pretty amateur as an artist, I am quite a tinkerer and have gotten deeply into the nuts and bolts of just about every digital painting app out there. There are some that can do pieces of what Verve can do--sort of--but there is none that truly models that 3rd dimensionality and organic feeling of real paint like Verve. Also, once you get used to just holding a key and using the exact same brush to blend as you did to paint, it is downright miserable to go work in other apps with separate painting and blending brushes again. You've got to learn the shortcuts, but once you do working in Verve really allows for creative expression much more than other programs I've used, because of how you've designed the tools to work. Bravo Taron!
I do have a little unsolicited wishlist... just to add my vote for certain features:
(1) I would love, love love to be able to mix paint in a little mixing window or reference scrap, a la Corel Painter or ArtRage (I know many will say this is pointless in the digital realm, but I actually really like doing this to keep a consistent and smooth color palette in my paintings)... and the next thing, related to that...
(2) It would be fantastic if Verve could make its brushes (specifically brush 9 and 10) be loadable with multiple colors, e.g. sampling from a loosely mixed pile of several different paint colors, or maybe even just applying a gradient to their output.
(3) For those of us using a Wacom art pen that senses twist (aka barrel rotation), an option to use either pen tilt, OR barrel rotation instead of pen tilt (it's so much easier twisting than holding the pen over at an awkard angle!)
(4) When using Brush #10 with images, sometimes I want to be able to turn on pressure sensitivity for size, and then tap my stylus to create individual dabs of the #10 images. This works just fine, *except* that it seems to stamp the image down before it can fully register the pressure of the stroke, so I can only get a very small amount of size variability from it with this method. (However, if I just hold the stylus down and scribble around while varying pressure, I can now get the full range of sizes, but then I can't place each individual dab exactly where I want it.)
Anyway, thanks again for sharing this amazing creation with us Taron. Like the others here, I'd happily contribute some cash to support your further development on Verve. I'm an aerospace engineer by trade, so I have a bit of a grasp of the fluid dynamics and math side of things... and what you've pulled off here is truly impressive.