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. 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 Hues

Nedroid Fun Times, Answers! Part 1 Do it yourself: Head construction, Part 1 | CD Projekt RED's Official Blog The secret to a good character concept is its head. Not to brag about the eyes as the mirrors of the soul or the number of emotions a human face can express let’s just get on with it. Because it’s all in the head – believe me. Any to-be concept artist will sooner or later have to learn how to draw a good face. I decided to take my time and start this little tutorial and share the knowledge which has been gathered by artists and human body experts (scientists to be precise) throughout the ages. In this episode I’ll write a little bit about the first principal which defines the look and character of the head you are designing. The most important element you will need while constructing the head is the middle of the ear. A line crossing this point and perpendicular to the horizon helps us find the beginning of the neck i.e. the place where the neck meets the chest (point A). The model’s character is determined by the so-called facial angle.

Keene Wilson - Page - Painting "Fundamentals" for the Advanced Artist By Keene Wilson Foundation The two most important things in painting are value and design. If the foundation is strong, painting will stand up. Ambivalence in your approach to painting will lead to an ambivalent response in the viewer. Visualize the finished painting, know the color harmony, how the painting is to vibrate. All paintings must have: a sense of space, design (masses must hold together abstractly), and artistic blend of strength and subtlety. Have a general direction in mind, but don’t try to have all the answers Chose to see in a particular way and with a consistent structural unity Follow your feeling while painting, do most thinking beforehand Beginners paint objects, experienced painters paint passages Learn to subdue the natural tendency to see detail and value changes. Relationships Focus on getting the relationships right A color is what it appears to be only because of its relationship to the surrounding colors. Composition “Muddy Alligators” by John Singer Sargent Design Editing

How a Dresden Codak Page is Made Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They'd Teach In Art School - i'm afraid it's very serious How To Draw YouTube Channels - The Complete Directory by Byron It can be hard to keep up with YouTube and it’s ever changing array of How To Draw YouTube channels. Many people have asked me what YouTube channels should they be following for the best How To Draw advice. I’ve wondered the same thing since the day I started my mission to learn how to draw. While I have a large number of channels that I follow I’m sure that I don’t have all of them which is why I wanted to create a directory which would feature all of the channels known to mankind. My quest for help goes out to all the owners of How To Draw YouTube Channels too and that if you want to be listed on this page then just contact me and we’ll be able to add you as soon as possible. So there you have it. 91 channels and I’ve undoubtedly missed many more awesome channels that you or your friends might know about. If you’ve got any ideas on how we can make this directory listing more useful then please let me know in the comments below but for now let me know any channels I’ve missed?

Lackadaisy Flimflam Apollo13 Art :: Art 105: Life Drawing 1 : Lectures Leonardo's universal standards include: eyes at the midpoint between the chin and the top of the head. "And from the chin to the nostrils is a third part of the face. And the same from the nostrils to the eyebrows, and from the eyebrows to the start of the hair." Consider the head as an oval with a tapered end of the chin. Leonardo wsa also interested in the deviance from the universal proportions which he had established. The skull consists of twenty plates locked together except for the moveable jawbone. This diagram illustrates the narrowing of the jawbone (mandible) in comparison to the rest of the skull. This multi-view diagram of the head includes frontal views as well as oblique ones that show the head from increasingly radical perspectives. Leonardo's profile of the dissected skull reveals the inner chamber of the cranium. Kathe Kollwitz' portrait of the child uses subtle highlights on the forehead to give a sense of the structure below the surface of the skin. back to Top

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling Pixel Art Tutorial How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.”—Rosanne Cash“Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.”—Lifehacker.com“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist Cloud tuto I used Photoshop, but any paint program should work. (Left, cropped from a larger image.) I start with a ramp like the one on the right; be careful not to use full saturation here. Up to your preference, if you want to make the background a little more purple. Start painting with max saturation and max value a 'peachy' color on a large default brush (sharp edge, pressure-sensitive opacity). Go down in brush size and do some more detailed strokes. The shadow color is added, a purple so dull it's almost gray. Now the highlight color, a slightly lighter peach. (The best way is to study reference photos, for example this environment textures site has more than 1000 hi res photos in their "Sky" category.) We need to soften the right-hand side edges of all these squiggles, while trying to keep the left sides as sharp as possible. Go back and forth, adding more highlight squiggles, softening some parts, bringing the shadow color in with a finer brush too in some places, etc.