Liam Brazier illustration and animation. 9 Tips for a Perfect Portrait Background. Flatter your portrait subject with the perfect background, even if you don’t have professional backdrops or lighting.
A little exposure and composition know-how can get you a long way toward a beautiful portrait background. Written by Valerie Robinson This tutorial is a grab-bag of helpful ideas for photographers of any level. I’ve written them with the idea that once you master them all, you will have a bag of tricks at your disposal. Pull out one or combine several, and you’ll be able to quickly adapt to all kinds of lighting and subject situations and walk away with a wonderful portrait. Have you ever looked around you and been disappointed about your subject’s location? One of the most important things you can do to get rid of background distractions is to get in closer to your subject. In the two images below, check out how the image was transformed when I got in close and cropped out the parent. Lighting: Indirect window light. Look around you for solid dark or light walls.
Tips: Workings of nigel palmer. EL Comics - The Invader. My new children’s book THE ROYAL CRANE is out!
Written by me and illustrated by the brilliant Yael Nathan. The story is set during the French revolution. When the king’s beloved bird is taken from the cozy palace to the Paris zoo, a sewer rat decides to free the crane and lead him back to the palace through the dangerous Paris streets. Check out The Royal Crane on the iBook store Check out The Royal Crane on Amazon. Movie Concepts. Minimalist, Modern Re-Imagined Movie Posters By JoE Chiang of Monster Gallery. ShareThis Aside from having great taste in movies, Singapore-based artist Joseph Chiang (aka JoE) is a self-professed one-man sweatshop called MonsterGallery. above: the Dark Knight Rises is his most recent re-imagined movie posterCreating retro-pop-culture-inspired art and prints, he has a series of re-imagined movie posters for films directed many of my personal favorites: Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Quentin Tarantino, Michel Gondry, Mike Nichols and other greats.
Wes Anderson Movie Posters Made Minimal: Hitchcock Classics Re-imagined: Quentin Tarantino Re-imagined Movie Posters: Michel Gondry Re-imagined Movie Posters: Quirky and Wonderful Movies Whose Posters Have Been Re-imagined: Minimalist Movie Posters of Classic Greats (if you haven't seen all of these, start streaming!) "Reimagining these posters are my way of paying tribute to the movies which I love.
The Monster Blog Joseph Chiang's gouache paintings of monsters on wood. I Ching by Holitzka. This 64-card deck is particularly beautiful because the calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the spirit of the east.
Many brush styles are used here, from quick dry strokes to slow thick shapes, from splatters to broad washes of tone. Black is the predominant color, with red used conservatively for accents. Red is also used for the small rectangular seals which bear the numeral of that card’s hexagram. These numerals are important because without them it would be very difficult to identify a card by its hexagram alone. The appropriate hexagram also appears in metallic gold on each card, and is cleverly designed into the composition itself. A hexagram consists of six horizontal lines which are either broken or unbroken; there are 64 hexagrams because that is the total number of such combinations possible.
There are often many similarities found when the Tarot and the I Ching are compared with each other. Star Wars in a minute or two : JOSE MARZAN JR. Posted by on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 I was watching Star Wars and Return of the Jedi with my kids the other day, and while they were enjoying the antics of C3PO and R2D2, I did some quickie sketches on the iPad (with Sketchbook Mobile).
Nothing fancy. Just traditional minute gesture drawings. James Hance - Relentlessly Cheerful Art.