I would very much appreciate if you post a screencast video of a painting. Timelapse and fullframe. I'm always interesting in seeing how people work and video is the best way to see.

Oh...well, tha'ts a bit beyond what I know how to do. I ustream sometimes, but that's about it. Creating and editing a video? Gosh, I don't know how, and I barely have time to make a little 10 step how-to write up. XD

I can help if you're interested :)

how do you define shadows and lights in the fur? It´s something that always was hard to me

How many layers do you normally use, do you work with transparency of them? What does an artist have to know about eyes to paint them well in choice of colours for the iris and especially putting lights into them?
Where did you start to put the fur being fluffy? In the background working forwards ending on the nose or viceversa? And working from dark to light or changing it all the time like working in layers of paint (not the digital layers)? <.<

I would very much like to know about lighting techinques and how to apply those to color.

First you do thiiis... spin around, STOP! Double take three times... then PELVIC THRUST!

1. how do you shade fur?
2. why ur so awesome ;A;? *cannot comprehend the power of ur awesomeness*

The questions I had were already posted, so I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to help us improve :) I really love watching you work and appreciate you sharing technique.

I would love any tips for backgrounds, painting things like clouds, trees rocks, ground, the whole deal, they always give me so much trouble

Oo look forward to seeing that tutorial. Personally I always want to know how people create that fur texture and still make it look like fur and not just streaky lines like when I do it. For example if you use a brush what kind of brush would you use for it.

I lack it?

I am very curious about your favorite tool settings in Painter, and why they work for you so well as to be your favorites. Also, if you have any general advice for a Painter newbie I would love to hear it. It's a big program. o__o

I find realistic style and painting in general to be pretty difficult so I really have no detailed questions. X3
Anything you'd like to toss out is sure to help~

One problem that I have with digital painting is getting a nice texture. Any advice about that would be greatly appreciated!

I have SO MANY QUESTIONS
Like a) how do you plan your composition? (do you just see it in your mind, or do you put more technical thought into it than that)
b) how do you pick colors? How do you plan lighting?
c) Lots of painter specific questions like what brushes and settings you use, what you put on different layers, if you use that "pick up colors from other layers" option, etc...

Oh man, everything! lol. Well, I always have problems with the retardedly huge brush selection in painter, and I just dont know which ones are good for underpainting, for example, and details. Also, whats the process of the underpainting? Isnt it just regular colour in a different layer or something? When it comes to mimicking traditional painting into digital, my brain wants to explode! I just cant translate it lol.

Also, ive noticed theres a bunch of menus with settings for different things. For example theres a menu for underpainting. I really dont know what to do with that type of thing. Im too used to photoshop also, so I open painter and see all these newer things, that i just dont know how to even start!

And another tiny thing... Does the paint stay "wet" for a certain time? or do you have to tell the program to dry it or what? I havent been able to figure it out :/

Thanks a bunch for this! I was about to man up and send you a note asking for painter help, lol. I thrive to do stuff like yours, and your work is definately a great inspiration for me. But, with photoshop, its extremely easy to make the piece look way too realistic, you know with fancy effects and such. I just want to paint it, ya know? I dont want to cheat :P

Thanks again!

I can answer some of this in what I am sure is a disappointing reply:

I can make an entire painting using only the round oil pastel brush, and I often do. One brush is sufficient! I use a couple others but 95% of my work is just that one tool. In the tutorial I will specify the settings, but honestly I fuss around with them all the time because I am not entirely certain what the different settings are for.

I dont know about Underpaintings! I only just found the menu myself a few weeks ago and it left me wondering what the heck it's for.

The watercolors stay wet or something, but it confuses me. I rarely use them other than for some added texture. Everything else, nope. It just is!

Mmmm some other things I will talk about in the tutorial ma jiggy that will hopefully be a bit more informative!

Hahaha, thats awesome! The beauty of it being digital, is that you dont really need to be switching between brushes! You just resize :3 I dont blame you tho, i kinda just bombarded you with questions, but thanks! It helped clear out all the confusions I had with the menus. I guess I should just mess around with it, and start by taking the same steps I take in photoshop.

Ill be looking forward to seeing the tutorial! And maybe, once im done with college and have an actual income, ill get a subscription to painter magazine :) Thanks alot for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it!

I have the feeling that your tutorial would answer most, if not all, of any questions I could think of, so I'll just wait anxiously. c:

almost absolutely perfect,.. the lower stomach to the left seems a little smudgy... fix that and you got a really believable thing goin

I've been experimenting in digital rendering technique and I was wondering based on your personal experience, Is it more efficient (time, process & result) to work directly in color like Oil, or starting out with a chiaroscuro underpainting first? I've been doing the underpainting technique for a while now and I've seen considerably better turn out & quality with my digital. But I still see artists that can work directly in color. Any thoughts on that?

yeah most of my questions have been commented here i think. I'd mostly like to know about how to get the fur and shading looking so good/realistic. i don't currently do digital, but once i have the money i'd love to buy painter and a decent graphics tablet so i can do digital =)

If you could explain a little bit about hue, saturation, and how to shade I would really appreciate that. I've learned about it in school, but I always have troubles with it. I just keep feeling like there's something I'm missing.
Thank you! I can't wait to see the tutorial.
-Teshia

I'm a bit scared when doing colour, but I assume I need to start with the underpainting, right?

Anyway, my question is as follows: How best to determine the higlight and shade to use for the tone?

I sincerely thank you for your time.

I'll try and figure out how to use your painter 10 painting in paint tool Sai which cost 5200 yen in comparison to the $600 corel wants for painter X (I have no previous version on my existing machine so I get to pay full price). Unless you'd perhaps like to show how to create the same painting in Sai, of course

I love your work, and I appreciate that you are taking the time to do this. I enjoy seeing what you come up with next. I would just like to know mostly what has already been asked. Lighting and shadowing in the fur, and how you make it look so real. Plus your work looks as if you painted them on canvas, and I would like to know how that works. :) Thank you for your time!

Well for the canvas texture, that is just a paper grain. Any tool that has the Grain option, you fuss with that and that makes the paper show up more or less. Window>Library Palettes>Show Papers brings up the papers and mess around with the menus there.

Cool :) I will have to get the program you have. Im sure it's expensive, so I will save for it. Again, I appreciate it!

I would just love to see the different major steps of your painting process and how you get from one step to the next. I just really like to see how artists approach different steps of coloring, especially the beginning (and often messier) steps ^^