Vectips | Adobe Illustrator® Tutorials, tips, tricks, and resources Resin the Barbarian PSG Art tutorial Foreword I believe there is logic behind why a picture works or not. I also believe that humans are meat machines, and that one day computers will be able to emulate humans and what we do. Note that I have just empirically deduced the theories I present here, and that I'm a highly fallible meat machine. Many rules also play against each other and may cancel each other out, or become invalidated because of a stylistic approach . The far most useful critique I can give developing artist is: Practice. Updates 2012 May02: Clarified stuff in the Terminology section. Table of contents Licence This tutorial is, in its current form, free to translate and 'mirror' in that form. Because I may be updating it and new versions are generally better, I'd rather not have it mirrored too much. I guess this licence comes pretty close: If you have translated it, or have seen a transated version, please let me know so I can link it here. Terminology (Upd. 2012) I'll try to stay away from complicated words. Hues
AUSTIN KLEON : BLOG WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists MIGHTY ART DEMOS and TUTORIALS perkelate (Dan Perkel) on deviantART Fannish Inquisition | News, convention info, interviews and more Digital Painting 101: Mixing Paint @mihai.birsan Yes, Photoshop CS5 do have this feature, but its now really that easy to use comprare to ArtRage, Corel Painter or Paint Tool SAI etc. The article above are the most essential way to do color mixing/ Blending by yourself, and useable across many painting application too. Sometimes it is good to get away from the gradient tool and selections. I find that when I am using the brush tool I get a rougher/gritty feel. It adds to some of my projects. Also small imperfections can work for you when you are aiming for certain styles. Just because your medium is a computer screen does not mean things are cut and dry or 0's and 1's. Also I would add to this article to combine this technique with the dodge and burn tools.
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