DON'T BE AFRAID TO PAINT WITH WATERCOLORS Try this exercize. Twelve years ago I decided to get a grip and TRY to paint with watercolors.As usual I tensed up, by stomach got knots in it and I felt this sinking feeling. Well it's hard to master. We are afraid of making a mistake, of doing something foolish, of looking ridiculous and we are afraid of FAILURE. I told myself I was afraid of wasting time, wasting paper, wasting paint and wasting my mind with worry but really I was afraid of failing. Somehow I got through it, and painted this very neat, careful, pinched, teeny, restricted and very lame little safe watercolor of a white and yellow bowl with teeny, weeny little yellow flowers. In this article I'm going to give you an exercize that if you have never painted with water colors, will give you confidence to forge on, so stay with me. Anyway here’s how you get started. Here is a simple approach. When you feel a little more comfortable with the paint, water and yourself, treat yourself to a watercolor pad of paper and find yourself a big flower.
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Fuck-ton of Anatomy References: Reborn • A mind-blowing fuck-ton of gun pose references. ... surface fragments: How the Old Masters created the look of Gold in Painting The detail (above) from Van Loo's painting, Marie Leszczinska Queen of France, is fascinating to me. I've been trying to figure out why I think his rendering of the gold table is unsuccessful. Though he's obviously a meticulous craftsman and clearly spent ages with a magnifying glass in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, there's something overwrought about the brushwork. Local color and value are notoriously hard to read, so I took color samples from the sword handle, (a) through (e) above, and then de-saturated them to get their values. The values are all gathered tightly around the bottom of the spectrum, between Value 1 and 3. I knew that medieval painters, when planning to include gilding in a painting (say, on a halo), would map out their value composition as if the gold leaf was a dark element. I tried the same experiment on another sample, this time a much brighter 'gold', taken from Le Brun's Hall of Mirrors painting in Versailles... Yikes! Let's look at it more closely.
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bodies-in-motion 30 second sequences from BiM Not long ago, I had twelve artists from Natural Motion (of Morpheme and Clumsy Ninja fame) into Somerset House, my home away from home, for a four day anatomy workshop. At the end of each day we would take about 20 minutes to draw from the Bodies in Motion library. sketching from BiM We made extensive use of the timer for gesture drawing. timelapse of a sequence of 30 second poses
15 fantasy portrait tips Fantasy portraiture is my favourite subject. Bringing an original character to life is exciting, but can be difficult to achieve. To avoid mistakes and save time I try to follow a few rules. The most important thing to bear in mind is to take your time. Take your time – nothing good comes from rushing a painting. There's more to portraits than knowing how to draw a face. The main challenge in a portrait painting is to make the character stand out. 01. Before starting an illustration, I always do some quick pencil drawings to lay down my ideas. 02. It's important to be aware of the proportions of a human face. 03. Usually the biggest mistake in a portrait painting is the skin's colour: it's never either beige or black. 04. The composition and placement of the character in the illustration is essential for introducing dynamism to the painting. 05. The background can also help give more impact to the portrait. 06. 07. 08. 09. Lips are an important facial feature. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Draw with Photoshop Elements 10 Pencil Tool Drawing with the Pencil tool in Photoshop Elements 10 creates hard edges. You can’t get the soft, feathery edges that you can with the Brush tool. In fact, the edges of a pencil stroke can’t even be anti-aliased. Keep in mind that if you draw anything other than vertical or horizontal lines, your lines will have some jaggies when they’re viewed up close. Follow these steps to become familiar with the Pencil tool: Select the Pencil tool from the Tools panel.You can also press the N key. Digital Photography Glossary adapter Device used to attach certain lenses or filters to your digital camera. Adobe Photoshop The leading professional image-editing program for your computer. Adobe Photoshop Album A program that enables you to view one or several of your images at the same time, all in one easily navigated workspace. Adobe Photoshop Elements A less expensive version of Photoshop with fewer of the ultra-high-end features the professional version includes. anti-aliasing aperture Auto mode auto shut-off
How to use reference images correctly: 8 essential tips If you are an artist learning how to draw and paint in a representational style, chances are that you have used a reference image in your work at some point. Having a photo reference can be a powerful tool. However, it can also hinder you if you don’t know how to compensate for the photo’s inadequacies and distortions. Every project is different, but these are the key principles you should follow to use references correctly. 01. The temptation to copy every pixel of a photo reference is always there for an artist. 02. This may seem like a simple question, but it’s important to ask yourself this up-front. 03. When possible, you want to take the reference photos yourself. 04. When we see something strange in a photo, we readily accept it. 05. I often see artists utilising references from fashion photographers and other focused fields of photography. 06. The lighting in a reference photo should be the most important consideration for an artist. 07. 08. Related articles:
The 10 laws of Photoshop etiquette | Photoshop Designers, freelancers, lend me your ears. Whether you work as the former or the latter, at some point in your career you will have a job where end goal is to to pass your Photoshop files onto someone else. Many of us have been on the receiving end of that relationship. And there's come a time when we've opened up that PSD file and thought "What the hell?". I've personally experienced an instance in which a creative agency's contract for a particularly large design job was terminated due to the fact that they had supplied messy PSD files that no one could make head or tail of. Want to avoid damaging client relationships and getting yourself a bad rep within the design community? 01. As boring and mundane as it sounds: name your layers. Once labelled, organise these layers into group folders; allowing you to move and show/hide various large sections with ease. 02. Establish a simple naming convention that not only works for you, but would also work if your granny had to read it. 03. 04.