This was my first recording of myself painting but I highly suggest it to everyone. I originally wanted to film how I paint so I could voice over my work to help new users learn how to use Photoshop, but now I realized this practice really helped me as well! I was able to see my work flow and how I could improve! This video doesn't have a voice over because, like I said, this was my first one. However, I hope you like it, and maybe learn something from it non-the-less.
Enjoy
-Savvy
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Mimic Challenge - Up Comming
Over a few weeks, Illusion Illustrations will hold our Mimic Challenge. In the Mimic Challenge, we will be using movies and television shows as our guide to characters, background environments, and props. Each challenge will cover the span of about 4 weeks and a will have specified requirements. During the Mimic Challenge four things will always be needed, such as, a good guy, a bad guy, an environment, and a prop of some type that would be specified each challenge.
For our first challenge we will be exploring the world of Avatar the Last Airbender.
CHARACTERS: Must have a unique bending ability. Either a bending ability such as metal bending, or swamp bending can be applied or you can create a new one if you feel so inclined. Either way they’re needs to be an obvious bad and good character.
ENVIRONMENT: Temple or village that the unique bending group would have created.
PROP: A specific environmental prop that can be used with in the initial environment of the temple or village. A 3 point turn of this would be required and must illustrate a use for the unique bending group.
Since this is our first challenge, we will do a piece of the challenge, a week at a time. First week character 1, second week character 2, third week environment, and fourth week we’ll do a prop. As for now that’s the plan
Our main purpose of the Mimic Challenge is to practice adapting our style to another artist style as well as learning different types of styles. If anyone else is interested please participate or please give us input. We’ll be posting our progress as the week’s progress and we’d love for others critiques as well. This should be fun guys and the more who’d like to join the more fun we’ll have. Stay tuned for announcement on when the challenge will begin.
For our first challenge we will be exploring the world of Avatar the Last Airbender.
CHARACTERS: Must have a unique bending ability. Either a bending ability such as metal bending, or swamp bending can be applied or you can create a new one if you feel so inclined. Either way they’re needs to be an obvious bad and good character.
ENVIRONMENT: Temple or village that the unique bending group would have created.
PROP: A specific environmental prop that can be used with in the initial environment of the temple or village. A 3 point turn of this would be required and must illustrate a use for the unique bending group.
Since this is our first challenge, we will do a piece of the challenge, a week at a time. First week character 1, second week character 2, third week environment, and fourth week we’ll do a prop. As for now that’s the plan
Our main purpose of the Mimic Challenge is to practice adapting our style to another artist style as well as learning different types of styles. If anyone else is interested please participate or please give us input. We’ll be posting our progress as the week’s progress and we’d love for others critiques as well. This should be fun guys and the more who’d like to join the more fun we’ll have. Stay tuned for announcement on when the challenge will begin.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Black and What?
Salutations fellow artists.
What I've posted is an intermediate demonstration for those who are getting used to applying color to their paintings. One of the most important things to remember are sticking to values and basic black and whites. In this five step speed demonstration I made sure to find the key values in shades of black and white before going anywhere near color.
I for one prefer obtaining where my light, high lights, shadows, rim lights and core shadows will be before even considering adding any form of hue to the piece. In a traditional meets digital sense after finding those values I create a new layer and select its property to be "Soft Light" and find a middle tone for my painting, this technique is is what many of the traditional masters used.
I for one prefer obtaining where my light, high lights, shadows, rim lights and core shadows will be before even considering adding any form of hue to the piece. In a traditional meets digital sense after finding those values I create a new layer and select its property to be "Soft Light" and find a middle tone for my painting, this technique is is what many of the traditional masters used.
Afterwards I start to have a fair idea of where my colors will go and not have a grey scale image to i-drop a either too saturated or too desaturated color from. there on out it's time and patience and constantly checking proportions, color and reference (which is one of the laws I did not follow for this demo unfortunately!)
Panel 1- Obtaining a black and white value for your painting so that you understand where the light is coming from, where your shadows are located and means of making the form "pop" or appear as if it existed outside of a two dimensional surface.
Panel 2- Creating a secondary layer and setting it to "Soft Light" (There are other properties that work for various different situations, I would encourage you to try not just one) to obtain an over all color to your piece so that you're not working or pulling color from a black and white value.
Panel 3- Seeking the correct color for your subject, be it skin, hair, texture or anything between. Starting with a foundation color and after applying a lighter or darker shade.
Panel 4- Detailing such as pores in the skin, freckles, fine hairs and just going over your work while progressively thinking "Is there anything that might enhance my image as far as expression, detail or facets that I might have missed."
Pane 5- Sitting back and studying what you've accomplished so far and pushing it one step further I like to call this the "Having fun" stage. Personally this for me results in flattening the image to one layer, duplicating it twice or thrice over and adjusting separate nob's and "doodad's" in Photoshop, such as Levels, Layer Options, Curves, Hue and Saturation. Over all trying to add or subtract just enough from the image itself until you feel satisfied with what you have done.
I have that you've enjoyed this demonstration and that it's been helpful to you. Should you have any further questions feel free to e-mail me at -
JosephMcFarlaneYoung@Gmail.com
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