Vectips | Adobe Illustrator® Tutorials, tips, tricks, and resources Resin the Barbarian 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. 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. To see the complete picture faster, and to give you something to hold on to, you can put down blobs and reference marks. End 2014/2018 Updates 2018 June25: Changed foreword (+ stuff above) to something I wrote mostly in 2014. Table of contents Licence This tutorial is, in its current form, free to translate and 'mirror' in that form. I guess this licence comes pretty close: Terminology (Upd. 2012) 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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