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Dimension Traveler x La Croix Progress

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:21:09 PDT

Here's the progress for the recent Concept art I did

Hope you all like it!

Also dont forget to support our Facebook team page [link] ^^ we usually post our work in progress there and sometime share something we don't share on DA , See you guys there!

cheers,
magion02

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Fur Tutorial

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:39:50 PDT

A new fur tutorial! Finally remember to take progress shots so I could make this xD There's probably some typos because I didn't edit it but oh well. I'll fix stuff later.

Finished image

New Painting Progress

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:37:18 PST

I wanted to upload the progress pic first, no particular reason lol

Who is this lol

FINAL

Digital Painting Progression

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:14:47 PDT

UPDATE 3/16/13
This progression is now out of date and is not entirely accurate to how I do things now. My most recent progression is posted here:

COMMISSIONS • FAQs • RELATED ART

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UPDATE 7/23/12
I now employ the use a tablet. Tool(s) used are listed in the descriptions of each painting. If none is listed (I didn't bother noting what I used before I got a tablet), it was painted with a mouse.

This is a progression showing how one of my paintings looks as it goes from starting sketch to finished product. Apologies that some of the steps seem to jump forward more than others. At several points during this painting, I realized something along the lines of, "Crap, it's been over an hour since my last screenshot." My apologies.

Starting with upper left image, reading left to right and top to bottom
1) I don't have a tablet and I'm not good enough with a mouse to be able to draw an outline with a mouse. Thus I sketch what I'm doing in pencil and scan it. (The rest is done in Adobe Photoshop.) My sketches are usually not this detailed, but I had this drawing already scanned and decided to color it.
2) I usually paint my backgrounds first and separately. I block in basic colors over the pencil sketch.
3) Background and subject are combined and flattened.
4) A crap ton of blur, smudge, burn, and dodge happens.
5) Rougher details are added using the paintbrush, burn, and dodge.
6) The finest details (stubble, individual hairs, iris texture, etc.) are painted and final adjustments are made.

I tend to deem a painting finished when I'm sick of working on it. Most of the things I post could use more polishing or detail work. However if I waited to submit anything until I was absolutely satisfied with it, I'd probably end up posting next to nothing.

Original pencil drawing [link]
Final Painting [link]

Cotton Fablic

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:20:47 PST

I wanted that kinda heather gray cotton texture of a shirt for something I'm doing but could not find anything meeting that description...

so I scanned one of my shirts...

I loved the way it worked out in my piece so I thought I'd a add it to the resources section.

feel free to use it if you want.

just fave it if you do!

Urban Planet Tutorial

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:57:33 PDT

I made this cause I have been asked how I make my planets. If you find this helpful please fav it so others can see it, recomending it to others helps also

The planet looks kinda bad but that is because I made it inside of an hour. If you spend more time on yours it will look better. If you have any questions dont hesitate to ask me

Update-----------
I am making a series of addon tutorials for this. The first one that I have made is for the clouds.

Clouds: [link]

IRON MAN PROCESS

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:50:45 PDT

Here you have the image process IRON MAN.

Man of Steel in Progress...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:22:08 PDT

Another making of

i hope you guys dont mind X(

the finished image : [link]

:WIP: Night walker

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:23:29 PDT

WIP of this [link]

PAINT TOOL SAI TUTORIAL: CELL SHADING

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:54:13 PDT

[link]
_{DOWNLOAD FOR FULL VIEW
*PLEASE EXCUSE ANY TYPOS, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK, I DON'T BITE ( MUCH ) AND I WILL TRY TO ANSWER AS EXPLCITLY AS I CAN
HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL!! LEAVE COMMENTS AND FAVE PLZ!!}

Landscape Speedpainting Process

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:30:06 PDT

Painting process to... [link]

Walktrough Dark-Beech Forest

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:07:49 PST

Walktrough my illustration painting "Dark-Beech Forest". Please download for fullview.

Final Picture:

"Abseits der Wege" © by Volker Sassenberg;
Published by Universal Family Entertaintment

Illustrations © Jana Wauer
All rights reserved

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Realistic gemstone tutorial - Paint Tool SAI

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:33:14 PST

Warning: Big file.

Pretty shiny sparkly jewels! \o/ I love anything shiny.

I'd like to make some more tutorials because they're fun to do. I want to do an eye tutorial, a hair tutorial, and a skin tutorial. Some people asked me to do some of those things too.

So here's something I've been learning how to do: Gemstones! I used to make them look like anime eyes but they don't really look like gems. Or they do but they're kawaii gems.

The method I've learned how to do isn't the best, but I'll keep trying. I have lots of improvement but I'm pretty happy with the way they come out. It's a lot of trial and error.

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Edit: HOLY CRAP. Daily deviation?! That's like.... beyond the impossible. I don't even know what to say. Thank you so much everyone! And thank you ^Elandria! Now excuse me while I try to wrap my mind around this. NO SERIOUSLY HOW IS THIS HAPPENING

O_______________O

There's an overwhelming amount of comments and it would be redundant to say "thank you" 100 times and it would lose its meaning.... so have a giant thank you!

::Painting Skin Textures::

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:31:01 PDT

The first of, what I hope will be, a series of tutorials focusing on various elements involved with digital painting.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

_{Digital Painting - Black & White Portraits
Paintings featured in this tutorial: Elisha Cuthbert, Bono & Megan Ewing}

How to Paint Fire

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:39:55 PDT

Note: Updated because the silly PDF previewer showed my gradiant-coloured fonts as black (wtf?) -_-' it should look a LOT better now.

Here it is! A short tutorial on how to paint fire, a technique I used when painting this:

Calling it version 1.0 for now I hope this helps!

If there's anything you'd like clarified, let me know. I've got a backlog of over 6,600 messagse to sort through (and I appreciate every one!!), so it may take me a little bit to respond to everyone's comments - rest assured I will read them all, it just takes me a while since I don't get a lot of DA time. But eventually I WILL answer all questions.

If you've got an important question though, please Note me instead.

Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in this tutorial - enjoy!

Tutorial: Painting Skin in PS

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:47 PDT

I figured that a lot of my tutorials were getting a bit out of date for my method of working. =/ I know you guys still use them. I guess they need updating, but people have been asking me for a skin tutorial for AGES, so I did one and I hope it lives up to expectations.
Enjoy

How to colour a digital dragon

Wed, 18 May 2011 06:26:59 PDT

This is not supposed to be a full tutorial. It's just a quick walk through to show the different stages of the process.

This little goldwing is my entry for s dragon contest. The lineart was done by Beast3
The task was to choose one of his beautiful Lineart drawings and colour it.

Brushes used:
[link]
[link]
[link]

Background Texture:
[link]

Tutorial used by [link]

Finished artwork

Tutorial - Digital Portrait

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:40:28 PDT

Sorry, my english is a scrap TT,TT

Done with mouse .___.

See the portrait!! [link]

Tutorial en español:[link]

3ds Max Tutorial - Texturing

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:23:26 PDT

People all over keep asking me how I did the texture work on my Terran Marine. Now the secret is out. This tutorial shows how.

This is a tutorial similar to the one I submitted before but with updated techniques. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to comment. I will not guarantee a reply to every question or comment, though.

Additiona Notes:

You can add up to 4 bump maps in the Utility Bump Combiner for scratches, dents, etc. If you need to add even more bump maps, just put the Bump Combiner inside another Bump Combiner!

Brush air vents

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:29:58 PST

A very old tut i made when i was new to Photoshop. Thought i would post it anyway for some of the new starters.

Painting Professor X

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:55:46 PST

Painting steps to:

EDIT: Because a couple people asked (and I meant to include in the tutorial but had a brain!fail and didn't)... to add colour, the new layers I created were a combination of Overlay and Colorize. After that I flattened them down and painted normally in colour to get more variation and better control over what colours I was laying down.

I was just going to upload some close-ups of Charles, but I thought people might like to see the painting steps as well. I've been trying a new painting technique (like I always do lol). I probably won't be painting like this forever, but it's a good one to try!

I thought it was quite interesting to see the difference between the first and last screenshots, as I refined his face more and more to look like Charles.

I'll warn, I was half asleep as I wrote it (as opposed to the 3/4 asleep I am now) so forgive any typos any questions please feel free to ask

Hope you enjoy Good news is I finished by assignment so now I can paint Erik!!

Initiation - Step by Step

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:21:42 PDT

I do not take requests for tutorials. Just saying, because everytime I load a how-to up the note inbox is filled with requests shortly afterwards. I do them when I want to and on the subject I chose. Ok, now that is said onwards to the important things:

I made a step-by step this time. Sometimes I need a reminder to make actually a screenshot. When I paint I get often into a 'zone' where I forget everything around me, so if some steps are pretty much apart, this is because I forgot to save a screenshot.

For references I used textures and poses from my own stock, shot by me. I used about 10 references for hands, lightning, background from a wooden chapel, texture, feet, pose. The wooden floor was the only thing I matte painted with a texture because I got lazy and wanted to finish it.

Done entirely in Photoshop with a Wacom, some few custom brushes by Falln-Stock and David Nagel. The original artwork is here:

Rita Portrait Process

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:19:31 PDT

heres the process to this piece [link]

-BaaBa

Old Guy Process

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:21:32 PDT

this is the process to this piece [link]

practicing portraits.

-BaaBa

Paiting eye

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:17:40 PDT

Hello everybody ! This is my tutorial about painting the eye. Cause this is my first one so i hope u can understand it

Working over night, about 4 hours ! Now 4:30 AM i have to sleep !

PS : Some people said they couldnt understand my tutorial cause i didnt add text. Well im sorry for that cause im afraid of my bad English, that will make people cant understand more so i tried to explain by pictures. If u cant understand, ask me !

Jack Sparrow 101

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:35:26 PDT

so this will describe process of my work on Capt Jack;
1) sketch manually
2) scan
3) color it with PS CS3

*i'm so poor at writing and explaining things.. (that explains why that i don't have any journals in my page. lol)

Lackadaisy Expressions

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:13:36 PST

Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and I'll make it way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up..."

Um. Sometime a lot more than two days later, I have this messy behemoth and the realization that I haven't a clue how to teach expression drawing. There's just so much material to cover, and so much of it is like intuitive language translation, I can't figure how to put it into tutorial form any more than I could draw a picture of how to speak Russian. I guess that's why expression tutorials are mostly just charts of what happy, sad, and confused look like.

Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. Hopefully that makes for something at least marginally informative.

And if you haven't seen it yet, check out this very illuminating look at expressions by alexds1.
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Lackadaisy Volume 1 is available here

Other Lackadaisy stuff can be found at the web site.

Site updates are announced on Twitter and Facebook now too, usually before they happen here.
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EDIT:
Wow. Thank you to those who suggested this as a DD, and for featuring it. Thanks for all the comments too. I'm both thrilled and honored that this has been deemed helpful or informative by so many!

Lady Gaga- Poker Face Process

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:18:59 PDT

Painting Sam Winchester

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:13:14 PST

Foreword: So, not exactly a tutorial, more like progress shots (when I remembered to take them), plus some closeups. This is the same process I used to paint Dean the first time around, just a bit more refined I think.

Before I begin, here's the reference I used: [link] I don't remember which Jared site I got this from, but it's an 'official episode still' I think.

Anyway, read on to find a bit more about the steps. Not a lot, I think most of it's fairly self explanatory.

1) Okay for some reason I had decided I didn't want to bother with sketching / linearting him first, so to assist me with getting his features right I used Photoshop's grids. They can be switched on / off with Ctrl + ; which is handy.

I picked a dark colour to use as the background, which affects the whole tone of the artwork because bits of it still show through, particularly in shadows. Here is where I also picked my palette. I liked the pose and light direction of the reference photo, but not the colours, so I picked my own. I wanted the tones to be sort of similar to the pic of Dean, though the lighting isn't as harsh and the whole thing is probably a bit warmer.

2) Yay now the fun begins. Just starting to block in colours here, it's a bit rough yet. I used the same brush for this entire painting, a slightly rough-edged round brush, not soft like an airbrush, but not completely hard-edged either. Looks kinda creepy at the moment eh? Like he's been punched in the eye, or his mascara's running x_x Haha!

3) Still more blocking in his features, didn't too much refining at this stage.

4) Flipped the image to get a fresh perspective of it, helps point out mistakes that aren't readily visible, since I'm used to looking at it the other way. I did this alot while painting this it helps!

5) Flipped back around and started to refine his facial features. I also started adding some texture to his face, just by dotting on colour in little brush strokes.

6) Started to block in his clothes now.

7) Finished blocking in the clothes and starting on the hand.

8) Now started with refining the shape of his clothes and hand.

9) Whee the tattoo! Actually more fun than I thought it would be to paint. And it's cool.

10) Started to add detail to his hair.

11) Whew, now painted the shadow his hair casts over his face. I really enjoyed this part too, particularly the finished effect. Also added details now to his clothes.

12) In this step I did actually repaint his eyes a bit so they were looking more at the 'audience' rather than to the side. I also finished the detail on his clothing and hair. Just about finished now, as you can see. However, not quite!

The Final Touches: The final touches are subtle but effective. Firt off, finishing off any bits I missed, tightening up details etc. Then I decided I didn't like how I'd put the lighting up behind his head, so I repainted it in a darker colour so that he stood out more. Finally, I thought the colours could be a little more vivid, so on a new layer I painted some vivid blotches of colour, yellow on the light areas of his face, red on his lips, blue/green in the shadows and on his clothes, then blurred it heaps with Gaussian Blur and set the layer to Overlay with a very low opacity. Just enough to hint at the extra colours XD

And that's it, that's how I did it! lol Then we have some little close-up shots, so you can see up close it's actually a lot messier than it looks zoomed out. The thing that kind of stunned myself and made me realise a funadmental mistake in my previous work was that I was alwas trying to paint every single little detail with perfection, trying to smooth and soften and blend everything, and in the end it just ended up looking less real. With this I didn't even try to overdo it and... well I guess it worked! haha

View the finished artwork here:

Artwork © Imaliea
DO NOT steal this artwork or use it without permission

Painting step by step

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:10:23 PDT

WARNING! THIS WILL PROBABLY NOT HELP AT ALL!
lol now that weve got that out of the way.
the sorta step by step of [link] as asked for by

i hope it helps..somehow, but im sorry if it doesn't, never really done a step by step before

jensen ackles tutorial paint

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:54:16 PDT

supernatural drawing and painting tutorial by ahmetbroge

its for big picture (full hd) :[link]

The hag concept designs

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:11:50 PDT

Process of -

How To Make A Digital Painting

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:18:19 PDT

I hope this helps a few people. I loved making one!

Tags: Tutorial, Digital, Howto, Photoshop, Wacom

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WWW.NORKE.BE

Cheating backgrounds and Props

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:40:12 PDT

I couldn't fit the entire title in.

This is THE method I use for my backgrounds and props for ROUTE 15. [link]

I know its very anti-art of me to prevent people from practicing their own backgrounds. But then again, there are 3d modules that are used professionally in comics and manga. And to speak on behalf of webcomic artists, I'm sure as hell not going to draw going to draw a FedEx truck over...and over...and over again... (the process does get time consuming!)

Some notes:

+ This was made with the Google Sketchup+7 freeware. You can download here [link]

+ You can search any props, buildings, backgrounds here: [link] . Not all the models will have outlines.

+ credit: link to model in question: [link]

+ Special thanks to

+ This is primarily for Low Res use. I know the instructions say 4000 pixels, but sometimes the lineart can be choppy at that ratio.

+ [Edit] Sketchup to Mangastudio import tutorial: [link]

+ [Edit] DD: Thanks for the exposure and hope the tutorials and many other resources on this account will be useful to all you newcomers doing your comic projects.

Tutorial: how to draw eyes

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:14:21 PST

How to draw male eyes that is!

Since there are many differences between to male eye and the female eye, I chose to create a tutorial about the male eye only. I will do the female eye someday as well.

I'm sorry if the image is small and blurry, but I don't want people to steal this. I will publish a book sometime and I will use this tutorial as well (which is a lot bigger and clearer), so yeah... sorry once again!

If anyone still have questions, please ask!

Tutorial: Editing Drawings

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:32:08 PST

Yes, I made a new tutorial! This time it's about how scanners work and how I edit drawings in Photoshop.

I know I said I wouldn't make any more tutorials, but I got soooooooooo many questions about this, and it's something I won't be putting in my artbook anyway, so I've been working on this all day long.

And now I'm tired...

Oh well, hope it's useful

Watch my other tutorials here!
Eye tutorial
Nose tutorial
Hair tutorial
Shading & Blending tutorial
Drawing Progress tutorial
Detailed Hair part 1
Detailed Hair part 2

Tutorial: Drawing Progress

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:40:24 PST

My 5th tutorial's done!!!
Click download to get the larger version.

I know what you're thinking:
'But... oh mighty =Cataclysm-X, why art thou submitting a tutorial which wasn't shown in thy poll?'
lol

Well... like this tutorial says: just 'cause.
Actually, I think it makes more sense if you read this tutorial before you'll see my next (upcoming) tutorials:

Proportions tutorial

Detailed hair tutorial

Besides, I'm looking for my muse. I lost it a week ago. I started with several drawings (actors, Kingdom Hearts...) but none of them look right.

Has anyone seen my muse anywhere? If you'll find it, you'll get a free cookie.

I used the work in progress files of my Jared Leto drawing to get this done.
I knew I could use those WIPs for something useful someday...

Anyway, have fun with this tutorial!! Hope you'll find it useful!!!

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Watch my other tutorials here!
Eye tutorial
Nose tutorial
Hair tutorial
Shading & Blending tutorial

VENOM - TUTORIAL

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:03:43 PDT

Hey guys! So here's the promised VENOM TUTORIAL for: [link]

Was all done in Photoshop, in about 8 hours.

Hope ya dig!

Link to download chalk brush: [link]

Coloring tutorial - 04

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:49:21 PDT

my basic coloring tutorial, part 4 of 4

d/l my custom brush
[link]

In-Progress Dean

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:25:19 PST

I will have something else up really soon. I'm working on a LuffyxNami pic at the moment so hold tight... I'm sure you guys r sick of seeing this pic but I wanted to show the in-progress pics to share the insanity ^_^

thanks, and have a happy new year

Marine 02_Step by Step HD 720p

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:44:07 PST

WIP- Crying

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:11:23 PST

No I wasn't feeling sad this time. XD

I wanted to try using a reference photo. From here [link]

Most of the time, for me, 'WIP' means 'never going to be finished'

I hardly ever go back to old stuff. >.<

Jocarra's CG Fire Tutorial

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:17:35 PDT

Here you guys go! Lemme know if you have any questions

- I use Adobe Photoshop, but you should be able to apply this technique to other programs.
- I use a tablet, but with effort and patience, the same result can be approximated with a mouse.
- Can be done on a single layer, or many.
- Can be done using only three colours.
- Does not require special brushes.

realism steps

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:10:28 PDT

FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK

FINISHED PAINTING

+Blood Tutorial+ Photoshop CS3

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:30:58 PST

Well I promised so here it is! My first tutorial!
I'm not sure how useful/helpful this will be .-.

This was the one people requested the most, so it was the first I've done. Next one will probably be the "Metal" one ^.~

This was done on Photoshop CS3, but pretty much it can be done on any photoshop and a lot of other image editors.

Enjoy! And give me feedback so I can improve on the next one! ^.~

Tutorial: Proportions

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:29:13 PST

As promised, because I love you people:

My proportions tutorial!

Since every drawing is unique, I explained the techniques I used. It's up to you to practice them, yay!

You know... sometimes it makes me wonder why I keep posting tutorials since there are still a couple of people out there who say "I give people false hope" or "everything's fake anyway".

But when I read all the comments of fellow artists, e-mails of art students or people who just happened to come across my gallery and private notes of people who are happy to see my tutorials and find them really useful, I just melt!

And you know what? Even some art teachers are using my tutorials for school assignments after they've asked for my permission, lol!

What a strange world we live in.

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It's a shame I just don't have the time to publish my art book yet, but someday I will...

Have fun everyone and keep up the good work!
If there are any questions left, please feel free to note me about it!

Watch my other tutorials here!
1. Eye tutorial
2. Nose tutorial
3. Hair tutorial
4. Shading & Blending tutorial
5. Drawing Progress tutorial
6. Detailed Hair part 1
7. Detailed Hair part 2
8. Editing Drawings <-- got a Daily Deviation!
9. Drawing Materials
10. Male Lips tutorial
11. Female Lips Tutorial

Drawing a realistic eye

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:41:22 PDT

I know this has been done many times before, but I wanted to practice drawing eyes, and explaining how I do stuff to others always makes me really analyse what I do, which helps.

I hope you find this useful, and that it's not too full of language mistakes.. Feel free to ask if anything is unclear, or if you have any other questions! And I wouldn't mind a link back here so more people can see it if it inspires you or helps you with a painting.

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ArtSquared.co.uk has my permission to edit and publish this tutorial.

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Reference by

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My painting very old people tutorial:

MAGIC bubble tutorial

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:37:19 PDT

yeah, magic ;D

puff! i guess this covers the basic understanding on how to do these magical shiny bubbles :] to add, you can always do this your way and take out of my tutorial whatever fits your approuch... hope its helpful!

bubble progression from (top) left to right.

watch Magic Bubbles LWP VIDEO - [link]

me on TWITTER ... YOUTUBE

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used tools: photoshop, paint tool sai and wacom tablet.

OTHER tutorials :

Aston Martin animated WIP

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:00:13 PDT

Someone asked me tonight if I made "Aston Martin" from scratch.

Actually, I did.
And I remembered that I made a litle WIP during the creation.

So here it is.

Final piece :

Tutorial- LineArt

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:47:02 PDT

Helloo
I finally make one of the 3 parts of the tutorial i've said long time ago ^^

1.Part- LineArt
2.Part- Color
3. Shading

I put here the sketch of that tutorial, if anyone want to practise with it, do it :33

[link]

And, if something that you can't understand, ask me^^.
Also, sorry for my bad english TT,_{i'm spanish and my english sucks x33}

_{Well, i hope this helps x33}

Wentworth Miller

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:23:28 PDT

just thought i would share my coloring process so i just saved it as i was coloring... photo ref was a screen shot i took while watching the show prison break

photoshop 5.5
Tablet

T-Bag walkthrough

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:33:29 PDT

Not really a tutorial, more of a walkthrough...
Photoshop...Tablet...Reference pic..

Complete portrait here>> [link]

Portrait tutorial WIP

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:02:43 PDT

Hi, I put this one together a while back, it shows the stages of how I draw a portrait....mind you I'm not to great at writing what I do but I gave it a good try.

Take care and I hope it's a little bit of help.
~Linda

Painter Portrait Tutorial

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:25:49 PDT

Please be informed, I am turning off comments here solely because I'm moving accounts, and this is one of my most commented on (continues to be) pieces. Thank you for all your comments If you want to continue to follow my work please go here: *doomburg
Thanks!

To new commenters (or rather the snarky ones):

Since you didn't notice yourself, I will direct your attention to the DATE this deviation was submitted. SIX YEARS AGO. If you intend to make comments about how pointless it is to copy a photo like this, I would ask you actually look at my gallery to notice this kind of commentary is absolutely irrelevant now.
I have come to this realization on my own.
There is a reason this is in scraps. I do not delete my old works because it reminds me, and shows others, where I've come from, it's a documentation of my artistic development.
The least you could do before posting a remark such as that is notice your comment would no longer apply.

Furthermore, while I realize the lack of conceptual meaning in my old methods, the information and technical skill I have garnered from doing this for so long I find extremely valuable now. So obviously there is some kind of information to be learned from this process, and I would remind you sometimes practicing solely technical methods can aid you in more personal artistic endeavors.

***THE FULL SIZE FILE IS VERY LARGE, SO PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE YOU WAIT, OR JUST DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR COMPUTER

oh, and sorry bout the watermarks, been having trouble with art thiefs lately...

okay everybody! welcome to my first attempt at a full scale digital portrait tutorial. it covers everything i do when i work with portraits digitally. this picture was done in Corel Painter Essentials, the half-assed version that came with my tablet, sooooo some things may be different then in full scale Painter, but it still works the same. anyway, LEAVE ME A LINK TO DEVIATIONS YOU USE THIS FOR!!!! I WANNA SEE THEM!!!!!

and now, on to the tutorial!!!!

first off, im gonna tell you guys some things i DONT do, that WONT be covered in this tutorial.
1. i dont use blenders, i dont like the digital ones i just use the pen pressure to regulate the color and blend everything, go back over things and such.
2. i dont TRACE anything! its way too easy i think, to trace the original picture when working digitally. dont do that! its your artwork, make it all your own^_^
3. i dont use a mouse for any of this, this is all done with a tablet.
4. i dont do single layers! i use a bunch of layers to make a more natural effect, if you wanna do all one layer, go for it^_^

now that thats out of the way.....
on to the tutorial!!!
the sketch:
1. okay, i didnt really put my original sketch of this in the tutorial picture, sorry about that, if you must see it ask me for it and ill show you or you can check it out in my scraps section! submitted it a while back^_^. but some basic tips with the sketching, if you're doing it on the computer, like i did with this one, then i would open the original file as the same size as the original picture, or exactly twice or three times the size, this way measuring things up will be easier.
2. start off in a place you feel comfortable, i personally usually start out with the outline of the face, then go from there. try to use other parts of the face to measure the features. like lining up the eyes with the ear, or the eyebrows with the nose. here are some general rules to remember, the top of the ears line up with the eyebrows, and the bottom of the ears line up with the tip of the nose. this is just a general rule, in most cases. try to line up the corresponding features too, like left ear to left eye, right ear to right nostril, etc. also, the inner part of the eybrow often lines up fairly well with the outside of the nostril. unless its a person with a unibrow, then well, it just doesnt work, lol.
3. when doing this on the computer, if you're gonna have a background, i suggest doing that first before you do anything! that way, you can just add layers and draw right on top of it
4. my sketches for portraits on the computer tend to be kinda messy, and thats fine, just keep in mind that if youre only doing one layer for everything, you gotta cover up ALL your sketch lines to make it really realistic. if you do it on multiple layers, you can just erase strategically, lol.

the eyes: my favorite part^_^
1. I usually start out with the eyes first and work my way around, but you start wherever you feel comfortable.
2. my personal feeling, is that the eyes are the one place you can see a person's true emotion, their soul (sounds so hokey, im sorry, lol) so i try to put a lot of effort into working them and making them look really alive.
3. to start off, i usually color in the general area of the white of the eyes and the iris with a flat color, use one thats in the actual picture, then go off and start around the eye, coloring in the skin. this way, your colors will look better when you start on the actual eye. im gonna explain my blending now to get it out of the way. no blenders. just pick a color, paint it where it is, then pick the color after it, maybe the lighter or darker color, and paint into the other color softly (use teh pen pressure) just keep going back and forth with the colors till you get the desired softness any questions? leave a comment, ill get to you asap!
4. be sure to add in wrinkles and such around them, it gives them character^_^ if the person has dark circles around their eyes, put them there! flaws are part of what makes that person look the way they do. for example, if you look at dan's eyes, i mean really look, youll notice one of them is bigger then the other one! bet you wouldnt've noticed if i didnt tell ya
5. after you finish with coloring in the skin, start working on the iris. MAKE SURE to include the lines and shading in the iris in really tedious detail. add in the different colors too, like, a lot of people who have green eyes, have brown laced in them, so add that in. add in all the colors you see. all those lines and thing are actually like little muscles to open and close up to regulate the amount of light that comes into the eye^_^ and everybody's is differtent, theyre just like fingerprints, unique to each person!
6. after you shade in the iris, go to the white part of the eye, id give you a technical name, but i cant remember it, lol. use assorted colors to get it to look right, browns and mahoganys are very often in the eye, but are overlooked. the eye is not completely white, and just using greys to shade it wont work very well, itll look kinda fake. also pay attention to reflections now, you can add an extra layer for the reflections so you can work on them independantly of the rest of the eye.
7. with the eyes, i tend to overexaggerrate some of the reflection, sometimes it can help to really bring a picture to life, but dont overdo it. when you add in the lense reflections in the iris (like little very faint light circles in the iris) i tend to bring them out a bit more, and you can see an example of that in dan's left eye.

the nose:
1. the nose can be really hard to do, because no matter what, because it is actually attached to the face, it is COMPLETELY un-outlineable, lol. the shadowing and all when done wrong, can make it look like it's completely detached from the face, not good. to avoid this, make sure to match your colors really well, if you want to use the eyedropper tool, go ahead. i use it often when working with the skin, and tweak it a lot if i dont like the color.
2. to start of the nose, i tend to start with the tip first. place shadows first, then midtones, and lights. then later after you're finished you can darken or lighten to your liking.
3. make sure, if you're making your own colors, to be really careful about the shadow under the nose. it doesnt always look as dark as it is! in this picture, though it may look black, i first went with a dark wine color, and it worked. skin tones are always reddish, or yellowish browns, lightened or darkened. unless of course, the lighting in your picture is odd and is blue, purple or green, lol. but even then skin tones show through!
4. when you finish working with the tip of the nose, go ahead and start on the bridge. the bridge is, i think, the hardest to get right, especially in pictures like this. the lighting is often tricky. use other parts of the face to measure and make sure everything is right. for example, use the size of the bridge in comparison with the eye, and see if its right in your picture. or, you could just make a new layer, draw a line from one side to the other, and move the layer to a part of the face that lines up right, and see if it works in your picture as well.
5. make sure the bridge fans out and blends nicely with the cheeks, or else it'll look out of place

lips:
1. okay, unfortuneately in this picture, there really is not that much to the lips, so im just gonna give a few pointers. first of all, when you draw guys, always draw what you see, if they have big red lips, give 'em big red lips. a lot of people tend to shy away from big lips on boys.
2. when you start to color the lips, fade the edge of them into the skin! thats a big mistake people tend to make, at some point, the lips transition into the skin and the color should fade along with it. it should be a very soft natural transition^_^
3. always put in the wrinkles and cracks, makes them more realitic, nobody has perfectly smooth lips! add shine and all too, shadows and highlights always! dont just leave kinda plain or theyll look flat
4. not everybody has perfectly even lips, or perfectly even features for that matter, always remember that! the cupid's bow shape (common shape for the upper lip) is not always gonna be there, some people have rounder lips, or longer lips etc. just really watch out for detail and really pay attention to the overall general shape of the lips. the tiniest details can make a person's face look off!

eyebrows:
1 always use singular hairs to make up the eyebrows and always put down a shadow color underneath of them before you start. in this case it was a light mahogany color.
2. after you put down the base color, you can add another layer to start off the hairs of the brows. make sure to put in little straggly hairs if they're there.
3. make sure not to make all the hairs the same, change color a bit where you see it. make sure to keep your color palette open so you can change from light to dark without dragging out the eyedropper tool.
4. fill in dark spots, and continue to use the 1 pixel brush for this.
5. when you're finished, as long as you were patient and not crazy with your brushstrokes, you should get a nicely shaped eyebrow!!

the neck/skin:
1. first put down a base color, preferably a color that is common in the area you're about to work on.
2. use that color to shape up other parts of skin, in this case, the chin and outline of the face.
3. after youre finished with that, make a new layer overtop of that one, and start to shade in the skin. use the eyedropper tool if you need to, to get the right tones, but sometimes you just gotta work with the colors yourself^_^ dont worry about covering up parts of the chin and such for now, it'll make the shading look more natural underneath the chin, it can easily be erased later (seeing as its on a new layer)
4. make sure to add in those little wrinkles, they're there, so dont just leave them out!
5. always remember that in a portrait like this, the feature of the face are completely defined by shadow and color, outlining them is only gonna make it look terribly fake>.<

hair:
woo, my FAVORITE part (sarcasm)
1. start out with some base colors, mostly the darkest and midtone colors, use a big brush and just fill it all in.
2. make a new layer, then pick a section to work on and zoom in. use your smallest brush (1 pixel!!!) to start drawing in the individual hairs, and pick a color.
3 use varying pressure (only works with tablet) to get different shades of that color, only start out with one color at first. just to get where everything is.if you lose your place, its perfectly fine. dont erase and start all over again or anything, getting the hair the exact same way as in the picture, is rather boring and extremely annoying, so i wouldnt even worry too much about it.
4. if you need to, making different layers for the hair would be a good idea. a lot of times you have some parts that lay over eachother (like the bangs) and its much easier to just work under or over, then around some individual hairs^_^
5. if you get tired of working on a section, there's nothing wrong with abandonning it for a bit and going to another section, for those of us with short attention spans (waves arm wildly), makes it a bit easier to concentrate for longer. also, you could distract yourself by doing other things for a bit, then coming back! which is what im doing at this very moment, by typing up this tutorial!
6. i find it easiest to start out with all the darker colors, then work up to the lighter ones.
7. for this particular picture, i did the layers in a certain way. since there were a lot of hairs that were lighter underneath darker ones, i use one layer to do the dark hairs, then used another layer underneath to do underlayin light hairs, then a layer overtop to do the hairs that were, obviously, on the top. try to think in 3D terms when placing your layers, whats on top of what etc, everything will look more natural that way^_^
8. the great thing about hair is that its so random, you can play around with it a bit. one mistake often made is just draw individual strands, or making the hair too uniform. personally, i do use individual strands, but those strands are bunch together to form one solid shadow. if i leanred anything from anyone, it was to treat the hair like a solid object, and also as singular hairs. sort of condradicting, but live with it, and your hair will much improve!
9. work your way across the hair, doesnt matter the direction, whatever suits you^_^ but remember, if you use layers, think 3D with them. add as many layers as you need, i often add new under/overlayers as i go across because im too lazy to use the ones i already have, lol.
10. always include tiny hairs wherever you see them, they may be looked over by the viewer, but it still adds a whole lot to the detail of the picture!!!!!!
11. if youve got a picture in which the hair frames the face, you can use it to properly shape the face to your liking, just make sure to conceal if there's an odd line outlining his face. if you cover up any hairs draw them back in to make it look more natural.

clothing:
okay, so not much to say here! clothing is annoying ill admit, but i can at least give some tips on it, seeing as there really isnt much to the clothing in this picture.
1. dont shy away from texture! i like the chalk brush personally, when drawing clothing, and if that doesnt work for you, you can always add texture with a filter or somethin later^_^
2. dont shy away from the wrinkles in the fabric either, but make sure not to make them too uniform, uniformity (is that a word???) is a bad bad thing in relaism, lol.
3. dont be too excessive with the wrinkles and folds, too many is bad. draw as many as you see, no more or less. im nto saying site there and count how many folds there are, just do a general eye check and DRAW WHAT YOU SEE!!!

accessories!
1. not much of a pictoral representation up there, but the glasses were quick, so ill just explain. i started off the the black first, seeing as the darkest color of them was black. i zoomed in really close on the frames to catch the reflection on them. yes, there is reflection on them! i made up some of my own colors for this, as some of the shading was so miniscule.
2. after i finished with the black, i went to the bridge and other shiney parts, and went from dark, to midtone, to light, adding the brightest colors last and in small amounts. i exaggerated a bit with this, but only a bit, just to bring some of the shine out more^_^

OTHER THINGS TO REMEMBER:
this tutorial is based mostly on the fact that you want to replicate a picture completely, but adding in other things (like changing the background and adding that waterdroplet) make the art work stand away from the picture, so play with it a little bit^_^ if you dont liek something about the picture, then leave it out or change it a little. if you're still going for realism and complete replication, dont change it too much, lol. practice a lot to get into your comfort zone when working with artwork like this. it can be tedious, and really frustrating, so find something that makes you concentrate longer. for me, angry music, haha. anyway, i hope this tutorial helped you!!!!! please feel free to show me anything you've done using it

Celshading Walkthrough

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:05:10 PDT

I was asked quite a few times if I could give some hints on how I do my celshading (CEL! shading. Not cell. Its CEL!. One L). So i decided to do a little walkthrough on how i did Evaedeni, since she was easiest to do a walkthrough to.

I'm not sure wether I actually achived to give a decent explaination, since I lack ability to explain, not only in german but also in english Also, somehow when I reread it now, it sounds a bit like i was in a rush, heh. So if there's any questions, dont hesitate to ask I'll do my best to explain better then.

Sorry for all the spelling errors. If you find any you may keep them, i'm too lazy to corret them all DX...

Nevertheless, i wont give a Walkthrough of how I color background or non celshaded work for now, since im a lazy ass... Hope this somehow helps some of you out there

Finished work:

Replica Painting Tutorial

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:04:52 PST

Ok,This is my first tutorial.It's a conceptual tutorial and will take you through the steps of creating a rather simple replica of `arcipello 's Holding back the flood

It's completely free and downloadable in PDF format (click the Download button on the left).The file is 11 MB big so if you're having trouble downloading,you should right click on download -> "save target as" (or "save link as" in firefox).

The tutorial has been done in Photoshop CS3 but the procedure is appliable to prior versions such as CS2,7.0,6.0 and probably even 5.0 since I'm using only the very basic features in this tutorial

The picture replica itself took me about 1 and a half hour but compiling and writing the tutorial took me almost 5 hours ergo: writing tutorials is hard work....

If you find this useful,please support me and enable me to make more free tutorials by donating a one-time donation

Digital Painting Tutorial

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:57:27 PST

ENGLISH VERSION FULLY REDONE.
FRENCH VERSION COMING SOON

Just for the record, this tutorial has already been online for two years.

Updated version now includes :

- tips about blending,
- a detailed schema about facial proportions,
- screenshots of the tools used and tips about these tools
- I fixed some typos.

About blending : NO, there's no specific tool used, I just used the paintbrush as mentionned clearly in the tutorial.
Pretty please guys, READ the tutorial before asking.
I've already received 4 notes about blending yesterday some seconds right after I reposed the tutorial, I know that part was somehow missing in the previous tutorial since I had not explained it in a very detailed way with painted examples (I thought that was clear enough but it apparently wasn't) but it's now fully explained.
Thank you!

I won't reply to any question about things already explained here unless someone has got real trouble figuring them out as I've got way too many other things to do so please read the tut carefully

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USEFUL STUFF

VIDEOS

Screen Capture Video Part 1

Screen Capture Video Part 2

Screen Capture Video Part 3

Screen Capture Video Part 4

Screen Capture Video Part 5

Screen Capture Video Part 6

Screen Capture Video Part 7

Screen Capture Video Part 8

PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

FINISHED ARTWORK

Please take a look at it, there is a huge closeup showing all details on the skin, fan and hair!!!

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TECHNICAL STUFF

I've used Photoshop CS3 to paint this, you can download a free trial version on Adobe's website if you don't have it yet! Older versions will work too of course. I'm not sure you can find the Liquify tool in versions older than Photoshop CS though....

Original painting resolution : 9000 x 6714px, 300 dpi. No need to paint such a big image though... I just wanted to be able to print it on a very large size

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CREDITS

I would appreciate if you fav/credit it if you found it useful so it can reach more people. Thank you! I'd love to see what you can do with it, so don't hesitate to link me your creations, I'll take a look at them

You may translate it to share it if you want but PLEASE don't change it adding or removing things. Translation must be as accurate as possible to avoid things being hard to understand for the reader. THANK YOU

©Diane Özdamar - 2008/2010
Not for commercial use.

Masking Tutorial

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:22:16 PDT

WATCH VIDEO HERE---> [link]

This is an overview of what masking is and how to use it. There are a lot of intricacies that I don't go over because I don't want to confuse people, but this should get you on your way towards stronger, faster and more effect use of Photoshop.

Though it sounds like minutia, I use these techniques constantly.

Te pic featured in this tutorial is Dumah - Angel of Dreams. Still a work in progress.

Enjoy!

How to color a middle-aged man

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:48:01 PDT

There're some other tuts written by me (and also translated by Maeve, thanks to her ) about hair, skin tone, nose ... that you may need: [link]

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Final artwork: [link]
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Special thanks to Maeve: [link]

Mini Painting Tutorial

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:02:39 PDT

Oh my gosh, it's a dopey coloring tutorial! As if there weren't enough already on dA. If anyone is curious, this is pretty much how I've been working lately. I would have uploaded this sooner, but for some silly reason I chose to use a commission image and had to wait a bit before I posted it publicly.

Oh! And this was done in Photoshop. But you can do the same thing in Painter, too.

The actual image was made for Dungeon magazine, issue 148, I believe.

EDIT: Some additional notes:

*You can use this method with full scale illustrations, not just portaits. It can be a little tricky figuring out what colors to use in the Overlay layer, but it's still a good quick way to get your overall color scheme worked out and (most importantly) unified.

*You don't have to start with green. Any darkish color works well. And if you don't like it, you can always change it very easily. Think of the Multiply layer as just your underpainting. Whatever color you choose, it's going to look weird until you start painting on top and bringing out the midtones and highlights. But that rich underpainting will help make the colors on top pop out that much more and saves you some time as far as figuring out your midtones and shadows.

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