well, i'm starting to get my feet wet and try digital painting. My first target = a landscape. I'm probaly going to chose a photo (probaly one i've taken) and then paint it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

however, I have a few questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- how do you guys like to start your paintings? i'm not sure if i wanna sketch outlines, fill in the scene with the basic colors, or what.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- i'm betting you guys use texture brushes as well, but i'm going to ask it anyways, do you? and if so, any tips on which would be a nice one to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways, I feel kinda funny asking such basic questions, but i'm mostly just currious on how you start your paintings. Like I said , i'm not sure if I want to just blob everything and go from there, or what. :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanks for your time. :)

ah yes same question im very interested in starting digital painting.

Is it possible to digipaint in paint shop pro 8? I'm interested as well.

Is it possible to digipaint in paint shop pro 8? I'm interested as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes, very possible. you could digi-paint in about any program that has different ranges of brushes.

Wewt! Still don't know how, but its a start.

where is ttttia when you need him, aye? :)

well im prolly not the best person to say this but the two paintings that i did i just started out with a basic sketch and used the polygonal lasso tool to select an area to paint and started. after doing two i kinda decided that the lasso tool wasnt the best idea, so on my next i plan just to paint and then erase the parts outside of the sketch or maybe just delete the lines layer once im done. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also DA has LOTS of tutorials for digital painting. also ashwings has a tutorial which i used.

DUH! i compleatly forgot about deviantart, i'll go have a look at that right no w :oops:

I don't use outlines in my paintings much anymore. I just work in patches of color. It is more natural for painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for texture brushes...I use standard corel photopaint brushes, or in painter I use a downloaded set called fine art 2 from http://www.pixelalley.com or I just make my own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine Art 2 has brushes that emulate more closely regular media brushes than the default ones. So they are not meant for a specific texture, they are just made to work like different oil brushes. (they have fan brushes, o brushes, etc. )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check this tutorial...yes I know it is for faces and you have seen it before. But the basics are still the same. I use harder brushes now, but the essentials are still there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=201522

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a landscape you still map out the general values first and then fill in the details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck!

ok i think i'm getting it :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the help tttia.

currently looking at stock.xching for something to lean me into digital painting. I.E a stock photo to paint that won't be too difficult, but teach me as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=250506

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

leaning towards that one right now. It's a stormy sea, which could very well be a nice start. :)

Oekaki animations are a good way to see how others do it if you're shy. I mostly blotch in colors and make vague shapes, then refine, refine, and refine untill im complete. Even though it sounds messy, in digital art it actually tends to turn cleaner as opposed to sketching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brushes? Since I have a decent tablet I tend to use mostly hard, simple brushes. If I find I need to make an odd texture i'd usually just make a new brush out of the basic APS set and tweak the brush dynamics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Tips ( 1 cent per tip )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) Instead of making something serious your first times through, like I -tried-, try making some just out of plain fun.. like making a straberry banana with a BDSM fettish, or making one helluvah funky looking coat-rack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Study your subject. Give it a reason to exist, and explain how it exists through visual representation. This is generally what that "something missing" turns out to be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for the replies guys. They're helping me too ;).

You just pile colors. And more colors. Practice makes perfect, don't expect your first to be great.... Just keep piling colors and adding more detail... that's all there is to it...

You just pile colors. And more colors. Practice makes perfect, don't expect your first to be great.... Just keep piling colors and adding more detail... that's all there is to it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yeah, i've been working little on little on this ocean. it's turning out to be a fairly difficult task, but should realy get me into the swing of things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the record, i'm just doing it 300x150. kind of a practice sig :P

well, i'm starting to get my feet wet and try digital painting. My first target = a landscape. I'm probaly going to chose a photo (probaly one i've taken) and then paint it.

 

 

 

http://www.epilogue.net/art/tech/pat_landscape/ Might be helpful...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- how do you guys like to start your paintings? i'm not sure if i wanna sketch outlines, fill in the scene with the basic colors, or what.

 

 

 

I sometimes draw something and then scan it in. If you are drawing cartoons or manga, most people prefer using inks after (or instead of) the pencil sketch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although lately I've been drawing it right from photoshop, and I rarely ever use the outlines (its hard to get photorealism if you outline everything) so it works out and saves me a lot of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- i'm betting you guys use texture brushes as well, but i'm going to ask it anyways, do you? and if so, any tips on which would be a nice one to use.

 

 

 

If you reset your brushes, there should be a very good selection of grungey texture ones. The spatter ones are nice, and the charcol ones are also good. You can also find nice textures (rocky/etc.) off of google and load them as brushes to give them a gritty look.

I have a very helpful tip, it's done digitally!

thanks for that link ven, what i've been looking for :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and thanks for the tips.