some of my fave inktobers/lost light fests! :}
Got out of my painting funk with sum Arcee :}. and to try something new, it comes in shirt form!
Here’s the process from last night’s stream:
Videos Postponed
Hi everyone!
I figured I’d make an update to this rather than leave you all in the dark. I’ve kind of been in a garbage place creatively for a few months now and feel it may be best to postpone the tutorial videos until I gather my bearings again and get back into the habit of making art I enjoy. I may revisit them when I feel a bit less crappy, I’m not sure.
Regardless, please feel free to ask any questions and I can get to them in text form like I did before. I’ll still see if I can record some time lapses or set up streams in the meantime.
I´m wondering... where do yo start with a design for a transformer? with the alt-mode? or with the robot-mode?
Hi there! I try to nail down the character of the robot mode first, actually!
I generally have a rough idea of what the vehicle is going to be (ie. a jet, a car, etc.), so I know to include wheels or wings or something like that, but the most important thing is making sure their personality shows through.
Re: Transformations, you can also kind of beef it a little as long as the proportions seem right and you have a rough idea of how stuff would fit together.
In the end, Transformers is more of a science fantasy story than hard sci fi, so the mechanics don’t have to be hyper-accurate, just convincing enough so it seems like it can work.
paintin’ more robots
I’m putting together a series of TF-focused painting tip vids for the next upcoming couple of weeks, but I’m curious what people would be most interested in! I’ll be delving into the topics I covered in the Tarn vid but in more detail.
Stuff like Composition, Lighting, and Gesture (posing, expressions) and other things if I can think of them.
What do you think should be explored first or would like to see me cover?
I really appreciate the speedpaint with voiceover, i was actually able to learn something from it! I think some mild criticism i have is that i would rather know some of the specifics towards the end with the rendering (the blur, color dodge, etc) but otherwise really well done, and i cant wait to see more!
I’m really happy to hear it helped out! :)
The stuff at the end was mostly playing around with filters, which would need another few minutes to explain when there are other tutorials pretty readily available that can do that better than me.
The first filter I used was a Gaussian Blur with a Layer Mask (on a separate layer) to try to emulate a camera’s depth of field. With the Layer Mask, I can cut out the parts I wanted to remain sharp, and push back other parts that can remain blurry.
The second technique is called a Chromatic Aberration effect. It emulates a 3-D glasses kind of look which can add interesting colors to a piece. In Photoshop, you duplicate your flattened painting and go into the Layer Styles (by right-clicking the layer), and it allows your to turn off the RGB channels you don’t want. Then just move that layer around around and voila!
This vid covers it in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6eseP25pk
Using filters for final touch ups could probably be a whole video on its own, but if you have any other questions feel free to ask!
Q&A Fridays
GOSH!
all you guys have seriously been awesome to me, and I thought I’d give back a little with some proper Q&A stuff! If you have any art questions on technique, art school, transformers stuff, whatever, feel free to send it my way! I’ll answer them in a Q&A thing at the end of the work week. The responses will be tagged #isotypes
I’ve cleared out my inbox so I’ll be more ontop of things .. I think, let’s see how this works out.
Anonymous asked:
Hello hello! I'm going to start drawing digatal art on sai pain but I need a drawing tablet first. I was just wonder what's the best Wacom tablet I should use that's not over 200$.
Hello there! Hope your art exploration is going well! Sorry for the wait, I’ve been a bit terrible with keeping track of my asks while I was in uni.
To answer your question: Wacom’s Bamboo series is a nice little first perusal into tablets that’s under 200$. It’s the first tablet I got way back in middle school and it served me well for playing around until I knew I wanted to put money into an Intuos (which I still use today!). Bamboos are small so they’re very mobile!
There are other companies you might want to look into (like Monoprice) that also make tablets, but I haven’t used them so I can’t really say much about them.
Hope that helps!