I want a tribe, too.
PSG Art tutorial
2014 foreword added 2018 Is it possible to write a general tutorial on painting pretty pictures or is this art-thing too complex and magical to ever be understood, a thing for human intuition only? No human is alike, but we live in the same environment and train our brains together. I believe this creates certain shared structures which can be analysed and understood, at least on a sufficiently useful superficial level. I think anyone who practices a trade a lot will begin to formalise the relevant structures, many of them subconsciously. A musician becomes aware of the structures of a song. Getting started from nowhere It has been claimed that you need to put ten thousand hours into a skill to "master" it, whatever that means. So, anyways. Self-critique ghost Sometimes, often, an image just feels wrong somehow. Fix that thing! On studies I seldom do studies, but when I do I notice improvement very quickly. End 2014/2018 Updates Table of contents Licence I guess this licence comes pretty close:
CG Education
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary ShapesBy Neil BlevinsCreated On: Sept 28th 2006Updated On: Nov 30th 2013 Go here to read this tutorial in Indonesian. This theory in composition comes in many names. Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Shapes Big, Medium, Small 1st Read, 2nd Read, 3rd Read (as in, the 3rd time I read (looked at) this image I saw these shapes) Whatever the name, the idea is the same, if your image has a nice distribution of big (primary), medium (secondary) and small (tertiary) shapes, the resulting image will tend to be more pleasing to the eye. First, a definition. Secondary shapes are the smaller shapes that either sit ontop of, or help make up the primary shapes. Tertiary shapes are again smaller than the secondary shapes. Here's three 2D diagrams showing primary, secondary and tertiary shapes in a fake composition. First off, what should the size of these details be? So these could be primary, secondary and tertiary shapes.... But so can these... And these... Looking better.
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.
CAE'S COLOUR TUTORIAL - everything is going to be daijobu
David Chelsea - Perspective for Comic Book Artists
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Thumb War - Design Iteration Combat Simulation
THUMB WAR : Design Iteration Combat Simulation by Paul Richards Updated 07/04/09 Ten-hut, fellow concept grunts! The following text is a condensed adaptation of some recent workshops I've spoken at on the theory/practice of thumbnailing, and is not a verbatim transcript. Oorah! If you've ever been in the military, you know advertisements only show half the picture. It's the glamorous half, the one depicting acts of extreme heroism, glossing over much of the arduous and mundane aspects of military life. In the military, you serve your country. War is hell, and so, in its own way, is design. In a perfect world, there would be no war. But this isn't a perfect world. Our abilities give us some control over the outcome, but like generals in their tents on the mountain, the client is calling the shots. We win wars by coming face to face with our enemies. Internal Uncertainty // The artist's lament of "I don't know where to begin!" External This is akin to marksmanship. Layout // Use the page!
HOW TO: Market yourself as a designer
In order to attract great clients and interesting projects, grow your business or land that job you’ve always dreamed of, you need to show the world your value and make yourself stand out from the crowd. The design arena is a very competitive field, so chances are you should be spending some time and effort on making yourself noticed and putting your name out there. Or, in other words, you need to start thinking about marketing yourself as a designer! If you have no idea where to begin, here’s 5 simple steps you can try right now. 1. In order to market yourself, you first need to define yourself and your brand. A great place to start is to create a nice personal website. Look at the personal websites of other designers for some inspiration and create something that neatly expresses who you are and what you are passionate about. 2. In order to market yourself, you need to put yourself out there. You don’t have any projects to show off yet? 3. 4. How can you do this? 5. Not enough?
Drawing Realistic Hair with Pencil Part One » OnlyPencil Drawing Tutorials
This will be an introduction on how i draw hair and the tools that i use. I will split this tutorial into sections because i want you to have time to practice and for you to understand the technique. In this tutorial i will explain how understanding hair and fur will help in developing realistic textures and hair. Like ive mentioned before drawing hair/fur is not about actually drawing each and every hair. Something else that you will notice is that hair is not all pointing in the same direction. So how do i draw hair. Negative Drawing is a big part of drawing hair and i recommend that you first understand what im talking about before going on. The tools that use are a pen with no ink and a pen with a needle inserted on the tip. Ok, you now have your pen and your needle, now were ready to test it out. Now take the pen and do the same but this time cross hatch them. Remember i mentioned that hair clumps up. Look at the image below and draw it using what i just showed you.
Building Harmonious Color »
Building Harmonious Color By Howard Lyon - Last updated: Monday, September 24, 2012 - 30 Comments “One more step, Mr. Hands,” said I, “and I’ll blow your brains out!” by N.C. I struggled early in my career with the application of color. The reality was that I had no clue how to put a palette together for a painting. I do feel I have come a long way in my understanding of color, but I also know that it is something that will provide a deep and satisfying challenge for the rest of my life. Cymon and Iphigenia by Lord Frederick Leighton Creating Harmony Let’s start with a color wheel. The color of the light in your scene limits the colors in the spectrum available for you to paint with. The image above is simulating a scene as if you placed a 50% red filter over your eyes, or as if your scene were lit with light the color of the circle in the middle of the color wheel. Look at how the red light has limited the colors. Below is a more extreme version, with the red light at 90%. – see fig. 2a
