Yeah, I mean, painting in Photoshop and using paint on canvas are the same exact thing and all your knowledge on from Photoshop would transfer over perfectly. Honestly, you'd have the same quality of execution, Honk.
Haha yeah I wish.
For you who wondered I haven't touched a physical paintbrush since the very beginning of the 21st century. :P Now might be a bad time to try again, considering I'm on the clock for this.
Does anyone know a good place to sell art gear? I have piles of illustration board and a wacom tablet that need to get gone but craiglist is just not coming through for me!
Does anyone know a good place to sell art gear? I have piles of illustration board and a wacom tablet that need to get gone but craiglist is just not coming through for me!
Does anyone know a good place to sell art gear? I have piles of illustration board and a wacom tablet that need to get gone but craiglist is just not coming through for me!
what sort of Wacom tablet is it? I ask because if it's an Intuos3 6x8, 6x11, or better and you're selling for 250 USD or less, I might buy it.
Ugh, while i'm trying to learn everything in photoshop, does anyone know how to change the pressure sensitivity on the tablet to opacity from hardness? If you just have a site that would explain that and a lot of possible questions I would have that would be great to.
Ugh, while i'm trying to learn everything in photoshop, does anyone know how to change the pressure sensitivity on the tablet to opacity from hardness? If you just have a site that would explain that and a lot of possible questions I would have that would be great to.
I don't really know any good site with gathered tutorials on learning Photoshop. But in that option box there's most of what you'll need regarding brush options/presets.
yeah, I see it in the panel on the left of your screen shot, i just didn't know where to assign it to pen pressure for control.
You can't. Actually I can't imagine wanting to. What kind of effect are you trying to achieve that requires altering the hardness of your stroke mid-stroke?
Yeah, I mean, painting in Photoshop and using paint on canvas are the same exact thing and all your knowledge on from Photoshop would transfer over perfectly. Honestly, you'd have the same quality of execution, Honk.
Honestly, and this doesn't happen too often....I agree with Shizu. I actually did this exact same thing for my sister when she graduated from college and it came out so lame. It sounded cool in my head but giving somebody a print of a digital painting for a gift just felt bad to me afterwards. It's actually part of why I so want to be a traditional painter now.
If you are going to pick up digital painting instead of traditional painting for the purpose of speed....you need to understand that it also loses most of it's sentimentality as a trade off. Everyone just sees it as a 'computer thing'.
If he does do it, I want to see how Honk's print comes out before I make the judgement that he'd have been better off executing it in a medium he doesn't know nearly as well.
how do you make the boxes (panels) for a comic strip? I'm making a comic called cosmo the alien and need a little help.
I usually do mine in Illustrator and export, but in photoshop, you can use the rectangle selection tool, cut on grid and snap to grid to keep them aligned. You can also draw them and scan them, etc.
ManonvonSuperock on
0
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
It sounded cool in my head but giving somebody a print of a digital painting for a gift just felt bad to me afterwards.
I've given a print as a gift and didn't have a problem with it, I think it's just a question of perception. There is certainly a physicality that gets lost, but the effort and skill involved is more or less the same. I think it's just one of those new things where people are afraid to embrace new movements, "Cubism isn't real art", "Jazz isn't real music" etc, there's thousands of examples. As I said it's all in how you percieve it. Some see digital at the forefront of modern art, and some see it as heresy.
I'm not saying you're in the later group cake, but I'd say you're somewhere in the middle.
hey people, does anyone know of a website for good male anatomy photos? I'm getting back into the studies these holidays. Most of the websites ive found for males, has poor lighting and the dudes are all smiling at me, which really puts me off drawing. I need references that are direct straight to the point. Just the figure, blank faces and non of this smiley shit. This might sound like a weird question, but its the same for trying to draw females. If you have an image of a hot chick, who is looking right at you. Its hard to really focus on the drawing. Ive tried deviant art, but we all know the dangers of that sight(site)...
winter_combat_knight on
0
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
edited June 2009
I was just about to suggest devart, sure there is a woeful amount of shit there, but if you filter your search you should be able to get a few really good quality male anatomy pics.
Of course there is posemaniacs, but I've really gone off that place. It's good for quick figure sketches but that's about it.
It sounded cool in my head but giving somebody a print of a digital painting for a gift just felt bad to me afterwards.
I've given a print as a gift and didn't have a problem with it, I think it's just a question of perception. There is certainly a physicality that gets lost, but the effort and skill involved is more or less the same. I think it's just one of those new things where people are afraid to embrace new movements, "Cubism isn't real art", "Jazz isn't real music" etc, there's thousands of examples. As I said it's all in how you percieve it. Some see digital at the forefront of modern art, and some see it as heresy.
I'm not saying you're in the later group cake, but I'd say you're somewhere in the middle.
The one problem with this argument.. is that even though you can do an original digital piece.. and you print it.. to me, its like.. 'oh hey, nice photo'..No matter how good or nice it is. It will never have the impact of a real, physical painting. Never. And for some, there's really no sense of ownership, as with most other things, the piece can be reprinted over and over and over.. there's no 'one off' effect of a painting.. In my very honest opinion(and I'm most definitely probably in the minority) digital will always be something left for production art.. I could not imagine a collector take something digital with any degree of seriousness..
hey people, does anyone know of a website for good male anatomy photos? I'm getting back into the studies these holidays. Most of the websites ive found for males, has poor lighting and the dudes are all smiling at me, which really puts me off drawing. I need references that are direct straight to the point. Just the figure, blank faces and non of this smiley shit. This might sound like a weird question, but its the same for trying to draw females. If you have an image of a hot chick, who is looking right at you. Its hard to really focus on the drawing. Ive tried deviant art, but we all know the dangers of that sight(site)...
I have trawled through the depths of Deviantart seeking stock figure models for both men and women. 99% of it is total garbage that is either just people taking pictures of their own bits, or is trash by virtue of bad photography.
Anyway, in terms of finding male reference, Ben Miller is the best one I have found on deviantart. He does good lighting and has a wide variety of poses and actions.
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
edited June 2009
Oh I 100% agree, it'll never be collector art, but I would never produce art for the collector crowd.
Call it a generalisation, but I find most of them pretentious and annoying and not the type of people I would never set out to please. Anyway, that's getting off-topic, but I love the fact that digital can be enjoyed by the masses free of charge.
Oh I 100% agree, it'll never be collector art, but I would never produce art for the collector crowd.
Call it a generalisation, but I find most of them pretentious and annoying and not the type of people I would never set out to please. Anyway, that's getting off-topic, but I love the fact that digital can be enjoyed by the masses free of charge.
Well hopefully we're all doing art to please ourselves first and foremost, and we're getting the ideas out of our heads into some sort of tangible picture.. That said, I'm the opposite. I could never do work for an art director, and/or company.. done it, hated it.. as far as collectors go.. some fall under that stereo-type and some don't.. I think the kinda people that buy your work are the ones that ultimately enjoy the subjects you choose to portray. In end, there's something for everyone.. but as artists.. lets get PAID.
Shizumaru on
0
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
Tip: I wouldn't rely on the internet for every superb resource material available. Hopefully you have a library in your vicinity somewhere, which's a much more reliable source of information. Try finding Sarah Simblet's "Anatomy For the Artist", it's a fantastic book with magnificent references,drawings and texts to help you out.
guys, for most of my work, i illustrate in photoshop using the greyscale technique and applying colour filters over the top. I like to think ive got a fairly good understanding of values, so my greyscales normally turn out fine. But when i filter colour through, it doesnt turn out right. I have a hard time understanding the technique of doing this. A really dull colour, when filtered, comes out really vibrant. yet when i filter through a really vibrant colour, it comes out EXTREMELY saturated. if i want a dark blue in a dark area of the canvas, i need to select a light blue for it to look right. Bcause of this, once ive filtered through some base colours, i end up totally re-painting over the entire scene, defeating the purpose of doing the greyscale method. have any of you guys ran into these issues? Any advice? Or is it just something that naturally works out with practice. is there a certain colour range that i need to stick to when filtering colour?
here are examples of what i mean
I believe your problem is that you're thinking of how the layers merge differently than they actually do. I'd suggest you play with the different methods of mixing the layers (multiply vs burn vs etc.).
errr.. hey. photoshop is refusing to do anything saying my.. scratch disks are full? and i have no idea what that means ;-; d--does anyone know how to fix this dilemma
I have been looking at this tutorial by Mike K and trying to figure out how he is doing his text bubbles.
Obviously he is drawing them with the brush and then filling them somehow, but i cant seem to make out how hes doing it exactly as the tutorial is rather small and blurry.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
The tutorial is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1498227
He starts the bubbles at around 4:45 and colors them in at 8:06. It seems as if he is doing some sort of fill, but mine isnt quite coming out the same.
A few step by step instructions on this would be great!
Thanks!!
*sorry, thought I posted this in tutorials. If a mod could move it, that would be great. Thanks again.*
You probably need to clear some space on your hard drive then reset. Or, if you have a secondary, less full hard drive, set the scratch disks to that through properties.
errr.. hey. photoshop is refusing to do anything saying my.. scratch disks are full? and i have no idea what that means ;-; d--does anyone know how to fix this dilemma
It means you RAM is full i think. It happens to me a lot. Especially after working with 700+ meg files. I usually need to save my work, then close and re-boot photoshop, or most times i just re-start my computer.
Posts
Haha yeah I wish.
For you who wondered I haven't touched a physical paintbrush since the very beginning of the 21st century. :P Now might be a bad time to try again, considering I'm on the clock for this.
Well, for the wacom tablet you could try ebay.
what sort of Wacom tablet is it? I ask because if it's an Intuos3 6x8, 6x11, or better and you're selling for 250 USD or less, I might buy it.
EDIT: Nevermind, dude. I don't know. All I saw were size/opacity/flow, etc.
Then again, I don't use a tablet, so I'm not the best person to be answering anyway.
I don't really know any good site with gathered tutorials on learning Photoshop. But in that option box there's most of what you'll need regarding brush options/presets.
...nevermind, I apparently can't read.
I blame it on an overcompensation for LoomSpeak.
You can't. Actually I can't imagine wanting to. What kind of effect are you trying to achieve that requires altering the hardness of your stroke mid-stroke?
Honestly, and this doesn't happen too often....I agree with Shizu. I actually did this exact same thing for my sister when she graduated from college and it came out so lame. It sounded cool in my head but giving somebody a print of a digital painting for a gift just felt bad to me afterwards. It's actually part of why I so want to be a traditional painter now.
If you are going to pick up digital painting instead of traditional painting for the purpose of speed....you need to understand that it also loses most of it's sentimentality as a trade off. Everyone just sees it as a 'computer thing'.
I usually do mine in Illustrator and export, but in photoshop, you can use the rectangle selection tool, cut on grid and snap to grid to keep them aligned. You can also draw them and scan them, etc.
I've given a print as a gift and didn't have a problem with it, I think it's just a question of perception. There is certainly a physicality that gets lost, but the effort and skill involved is more or less the same. I think it's just one of those new things where people are afraid to embrace new movements, "Cubism isn't real art", "Jazz isn't real music" etc, there's thousands of examples. As I said it's all in how you percieve it. Some see digital at the forefront of modern art, and some see it as heresy.
I'm not saying you're in the later group cake, but I'd say you're somewhere in the middle.
Of course there is posemaniacs, but I've really gone off that place. It's good for quick figure sketches but that's about it.
As such.
WARNING MAJOR SAUSAGE FEST
http://www.deviantart.com/#catpath=photography&order=9&q=male+reference
The one problem with this argument.. is that even though you can do an original digital piece.. and you print it.. to me, its like.. 'oh hey, nice photo'..No matter how good or nice it is. It will never have the impact of a real, physical painting. Never. And for some, there's really no sense of ownership, as with most other things, the piece can be reprinted over and over and over.. there's no 'one off' effect of a painting.. In my very honest opinion(and I'm most definitely probably in the minority) digital will always be something left for production art.. I could not imagine a collector take something digital with any degree of seriousness..
I have trawled through the depths of Deviantart seeking stock figure models for both men and women. 99% of it is total garbage that is either just people taking pictures of their own bits, or is trash by virtue of bad photography.
Anyway, in terms of finding male reference, Ben Miller is the best one I have found on deviantart. He does good lighting and has a wide variety of poses and actions.
NSFW OBVIOUSLY, DONGS AHOY: http://justmeina.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse
Call it a generalisation, but I find most of them pretentious and annoying and not the type of people I would never set out to please. Anyway, that's getting off-topic, but I love the fact that digital can be enjoyed by the masses free of charge.
Well hopefully we're all doing art to please ourselves first and foremost, and we're getting the ideas out of our heads into some sort of tangible picture.. That said, I'm the opposite. I could never do work for an art director, and/or company.. done it, hated it.. as far as collectors go.. some fall under that stereo-type and some don't.. I think the kinda people that buy your work are the ones that ultimately enjoy the subjects you choose to portray. In end, there's something for everyone.. but as artists.. lets get PAID.
Not the type of people I would never set out to please? Mustang, you're a fucking idiot!
Also I'm a firm supporter of getting paid.
here are examples of what i mean
What ive got at the moment
Obviously he is drawing them with the brush and then filling them somehow, but i cant seem to make out how hes doing it exactly as the tutorial is rather small and blurry.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
The tutorial is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1498227
He starts the bubbles at around 4:45 and colors them in at 8:06. It seems as if he is doing some sort of fill, but mine isnt quite coming out the same.
A few step by step instructions on this would be great!
Thanks!!
*sorry, thought I posted this in tutorials. If a mod could move it, that would be great. Thanks again.*
okay, well, uh, i guess that's a problem! i think i have gig gremlins
It means you RAM is full i think. It happens to me a lot. Especially after working with 700+ meg files. I usually need to save my work, then close and re-boot photoshop, or most times i just re-start my computer.