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Excellent Digital Painting Video Tutorial for Beginners

If you’re a noob in digital painting and struggling to create your first digital masterpiece, you need a very good video tutorial to get you up to speed fast. Otherwise, you will quickly run into problems and get frustrated fast. I have tried many tutorials on the web but a lot of them assume you already know what settings to use for paint brushes in Photoshop, such as what size, shape, opacity and flow, and how to apply colors, textures and blending to your painting. Other video tutorials were recorded several times faster than normal or recorded without sounds so you wouldn’t really learn from them. More »

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An Eye For You

Congratulations to all the winners of the Wacom contest. Although I didn’t get a new Wacom tablet, I feel like a winner myself as I have learned a lot just from joining my first graphic competition.

Today I spent my afternoon painting a human eye. This is my first step towards learning how to draw and paint the human form in general and the human face in particular. This time no more masked figures. The Wacom excersice was a great step to learning basic digital painting using Adobe Photoshop. I learned a lot about blending using a standard brush and the different blend modes, using color schemes, the importance of using multiple layers, saving my work a lot and most of all having the patience to finish my work even though everything looks bad at the beginning.

I thought painting an eye will be “duck soup” compared to my Fiesta Fever piece. Again, patience is a virtue in painting whether traditional or digital. But as long as you love what you’re doing and being passionate about it, then in the end it is indeed duck soup (learned that expression from my boss)!

Thanks to Enalya, one of my favorite CG artists for the great tutorial.

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Airbrushing

Despite finally completing my Fiesta Fever artwork after working on it for a month, I feel that I still have plenty to learn. Now, without any competition to push myself beyond my comfort zone, I began to start taking it easy once again. I was contented on reading and looking at the artworks of other artists online hoping their skills will just rub on me. Of course that’s not the way how things work. Well, the good thing that happened after the storm was that I only got back my internet connection two days after I got back my electricity. No web means no browsing on CG and design sites. It was an opportunity to open Photoshop once again and listen to my Gnomon training videos.

This time I followed the tutorial of Scott Robertson on doing industrial designs particularly on rendering concept bikes. After using a standard hard round brush in Fiesta Fever, now I began using solely the airbrush. Using Scott’s example bike sketch, I began tracing it with the pen tool and rendered it using an airbrush. Although not as detailed as Scott’s example, I completed my work in 2 days, the same time I got my internet connection back.

Hope you like it!

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Almost did not make it!

Finally submitted my Wacom contest entry last Wednesday night. Lucky me! The next day we were hit by the strongest typhoon in 11 years aptly named “Milenyo” or “Millenium”. Power was cut-off in the whole of Luzon area. We were the lucky ones who got our electricity back the next day. Others still do not have power up to today, 4 days after the storm. However I just got back my internet connection an hour ago.

Before that however, I was anxious as I have not received notification from Wacom whether they have received and accepted my entry. The submission deadline was supposed to have ended yesterday. Now after checking Wacom’s website, I finally found my artwork displayed in the gallery with several new ones relegating my piece to the next page. Turns out my fear was unfounded, as displayed prominently next to the last entry is an announcement extending the submission deadline to October 4, 2006!

You can check the contest gallery here: http://www.wacom-asia.com/community/contests/entry.php?action=list&id=7

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This computer graphic artist shows us how proper research and attention to details can create an amazing digital masterpiece!

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