@SheldonRandoms That's good too, but I meant the exact same picture, so we could mess with people's heads.

@Ketchupcat People's heads will now be messed.

Excellent. All is going according to plan. Now we must go to the Comment on the Avatar of the Person Above you thread, , where they will be messed the most. You go first.

Way ahead of you Fred Rechid.

Hey there! I drew some stuff on Colors.

A quick Kirby!

And a character of mine.

(See here for a shading mini-tutorial)

I just finished this half-coloured sketch of my character, Tiamat. Her design is actually based on a design of an old character based on a design of an old character. I don't know if I'll finish this- I want to, though.

Decided to resurrect one of my earliest OC's from the 90's. Back then he was a simple red Bot with a 5 on his chest plate. Looking at this again, I really need to work on my Background design.

@Waann Those certainly are impressive. Seeing that you also use Art Academy, what can it offer besides tutorials? I am considering getting it once the free game promo starts.

@Nibelilt I like her design!
@Onitako Cute bot, and I like his pose.

Hmm, Art Academy. It emulates natural media really well, which makes it more intuitive and more comfortable to use for small sessions/sketching (an Art Academy painting doesn't need as much refining to look good). You can also blend colours in a rather realistic way (not like... in Photoshop or Gimp, more like in Painter).

Other than that, the Spotpass features are pretty cool. Custom lessons are the big highlight IMO (of course, you can also make lessons in Colors! 3D using the playback, but it's not as easy to use for the "students"). There are three ways to share your paintings: as Free Paint saves (that way, the one who receives it can modify it), as portfolio pictures (can be hung in the receiver's gallery) or as camera pictures. The paintings are sent at full resolution, so it's much better than using Swapnote in that regard (I just hate what Swapnote does to pictures ).

As for what it doesn't do as well: no 3D, smaller paintings (640x480 instead of 1600x960 for Colors), no layers, no worldwide gallery. It doesn't work as well as Colors! for cartoony drawings in my opinion.

Here are a few NAA galleries if you'd like to see what you can do with it. NOE - Pixiv - rie36 - Facebook group

A new painting of Fabulous Ghirahim.

(Playback and 3D version here)

The Eeveelutions of my customized Eevee character (the one i posted earlier, or check my gallery for her!)

Originally did this for some project to get me into some art school. My first time attempting this kinda work

Another Miiko request by the same friend. Added Meowth becoz why not

Digimon. My fav character along with her entire Digimon evo line

More!

Wow those are great! Were the watermelons also done in Colors?

I'm trying to decide whether I should go and get a $20 nintendo eshop card to buy this app ($7) or save for Art Academy which would be $10 more. I have quite a bit of experience with drawing and painting, though I'm a little out of touch. I've got a feeling I could use some refresher art lessons before diving straight in. It will be my first time trying digital artwork too.

If I mainly plan on painting portraits and the like, do you think it's better if I save up for Art Academy first? then experiment with Colors after?

@Fiv3Score yea i did the watermelons in colours. It doesn't look perfect, because honestly i've never painted such a thing in my life before. Nobody taught me, no experience or anything, i just straight "did it"
I'd suggest just getting Colors!3D. Personally i think it's more versatile and fun. Granted, i've never purchased or seen how Art Academy works, but i heard it's more specialized for drawing colour painting or realistic painting like the watermelons (which i could already do spontaneously with what were offered by the cheaper app anyway..)

Hmmm, thanks for the advice. I might pick both up when I have the chance. Right now I'm a little busy with studies, but I should have plenty of time for painting in the summer! can't wait to try this out

The watermelon looks exactly like a photo!

Animal Crossing Fan Art/Colors 3D! Drawing:

The above picture/drawing is from my DS game: AC:WW - DS.

Happy Gaming! (^_^)

@Waann @Nibelilt @Onikato @KU-Ri-Boh and @Barbiegurl777 Nice drawings.

I really got to draw more, so........uh, here you go, it's Kirby, those dots on him are stars, this drawing is best viewed on a 3DS

I wonder what I should draw next, any suggestions?

@SheldomRandoms

Suggestions:

Spongebob
Patrick
Tom Nook
Suzie Carmichael (Rugrats)
BeetleJuice
Phineas
Ferb
Max (Goof Troop)
PJ (Goof Troop)
Babs & Buster (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Happy Gaming! (^_^)

Just bought colors! 3d... so excited to try it out! downloading ...

Here's my first painting:

876882-NduTKxfJqafzuYYs by Fiv3Score

Anyone know why I can't save the final version on my 3DS? it shows up properly in the gallery, but when I try to export to SD card, it shows the incomplete drawing.. maybe I took too long to complete the painting? I also could not use the 'undo/redo' function after that point

@Fiv3Score whoa dude, that's awesome! Also, have you tried replaying your own painting in the gallery? It's possible that the playback might have become corrupt at some point while you were drawing - I hear that happens every now and then

anyway here's something I whipped up last night. Still getting the hang of shading, but it's getting better

@Fiv3Score There's a playback limit (I run into it all the time). The app can only record up to 2MB of strokes, which should take around 6 hours to reach. The next update will allow one-step undo when you get there. (See here for more info)