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14 years ago
Hello all,
I streamed myself while painting that commission I did for
kravn and made a video of it for you guys.
I added music to the video cause, honestly, it'd be WAY fucking boring without it.
Here is the video. IT IS BEST VIEWED AT FULL-SCREEN!
I apologize for the poor quality. I didn't realize that the quality of the livestream procaster was that bad. You can still see what's going on, but it's still kinda lame. And I'm definitely not going to pay for a premium account there if all I'm going to use it for is stuff like this.
The music credits are as follows:
Storm - Time to Burn
GMS - Juice
MFG - Positive Energy
1200 Micrograms - E=mc2
Juno Reactor - Mona Lisa Overdrive
BK - Revolution (Alphazone Remix)
MFG - Life is A Strange Journey
There are some breaks in the video as I didn't paint it all in one sitting XD I only painted for about an hour each time and saved the videos then spliced them together. So where it noticeably splices? that's why, and that's about an hour real time. The video is sped up to 8x normal speed. It's 46 minutes long.
Um, technicalz?
I used THIS brush. Nothing fancy, really, just a textured brush. I used this for the entire thing, no joke. The only time I used anything else was if I needed really really crisp lines (i.e. whiskers) I'd use the basic round with no feathered edge brush that's right at the top of the brush screen. And I used the line tool for the background lines. Yup.
I mostly painted with the brush set manually to 20 or 30% opacity, and 100% fill, but would sometimes up the opacity to 100%. And I just eyedroped and painted eyedrop paint etc. I didn't use pen pressure, nor any smudge tools or the like.
My livestream crashed once while painting this so that's why there is a section missing. But all that was really was me painting the towel and sketching/drawing the background, not too interesting.
I didn't bother recording the very last stuff, which is basically me making minor color adjustments to the background layer, adding a halftone to the background, rounding the corners and signing it. Bam. Hope people find this useful/interesting. I know I wouldn't have the patience to watch it, but hey, if someone wants to, why not, right?
The first 14 and a half minutes are me getting most of the body defined.
From 14 and a half minutes to 30 minutes I'm working on the face and head.
Then I go to the neck area and finish up the figure.
At 35 min I start making rather finishing touches on the figure.
At 39 min I start doing the background (except for that which crashed T.T)
At 44 min-ish I go put the white into his body fur where there needs to be white haha.
Yep.
At like 27min-ish there is a flash of my iTunes screen haha, whoops sorry. DAMN ALT+TAB haha
-Cheers
I streamed myself while painting that commission I did for
kravn and made a video of it for you guys. I added music to the video cause, honestly, it'd be WAY fucking boring without it.
Here is the video. IT IS BEST VIEWED AT FULL-SCREEN!
I apologize for the poor quality. I didn't realize that the quality of the livestream procaster was that bad. You can still see what's going on, but it's still kinda lame. And I'm definitely not going to pay for a premium account there if all I'm going to use it for is stuff like this.
The music credits are as follows:
Storm - Time to Burn
GMS - Juice
MFG - Positive Energy
1200 Micrograms - E=mc2
Juno Reactor - Mona Lisa Overdrive
BK - Revolution (Alphazone Remix)
MFG - Life is A Strange Journey
There are some breaks in the video as I didn't paint it all in one sitting XD I only painted for about an hour each time and saved the videos then spliced them together. So where it noticeably splices? that's why, and that's about an hour real time. The video is sped up to 8x normal speed. It's 46 minutes long.
Um, technicalz?
I used THIS brush. Nothing fancy, really, just a textured brush. I used this for the entire thing, no joke. The only time I used anything else was if I needed really really crisp lines (i.e. whiskers) I'd use the basic round with no feathered edge brush that's right at the top of the brush screen. And I used the line tool for the background lines. Yup.
I mostly painted with the brush set manually to 20 or 30% opacity, and 100% fill, but would sometimes up the opacity to 100%. And I just eyedroped and painted eyedrop paint etc. I didn't use pen pressure, nor any smudge tools or the like.
My livestream crashed once while painting this so that's why there is a section missing. But all that was really was me painting the towel and sketching/drawing the background, not too interesting.
I didn't bother recording the very last stuff, which is basically me making minor color adjustments to the background layer, adding a halftone to the background, rounding the corners and signing it. Bam. Hope people find this useful/interesting. I know I wouldn't have the patience to watch it, but hey, if someone wants to, why not, right?
The first 14 and a half minutes are me getting most of the body defined.
From 14 and a half minutes to 30 minutes I'm working on the face and head.
Then I go to the neck area and finish up the figure.
At 35 min I start making rather finishing touches on the figure.
At 39 min I start doing the background (except for that which crashed T.T)
At 44 min-ish I go put the white into his body fur where there needs to be white haha.
Yep.
At like 27min-ish there is a flash of my iTunes screen haha, whoops sorry. DAMN ALT+TAB haha
-Cheers
I kinda just wanted to be like all the cool kids that stream things o.O I'm not very tech-savvy when it comes to TV and recording programs and stuff like that, so I also wanted to do it so I could just learn how to do it.
Now I can do it again in the future if I want to.
as I already said, your art is so worth every single dollar :D really love it
The second song is Juice by GMS....?
They're pretty nazi about this stuff. :/
It doesn't even have to be pornographic but even showing arousal like that runs a solid risk of getting your account flagged. That or I'm just paranoid about losing access to such a helpful aid from you.
You're one of my favorite artists. And this would be more helpful to me if I didn't hate Photoshop with a fiery passion of the soul when it comes to complete work. But even now I'm gleaning a lot from this first watch. I'd hate to not be able to come back to it more since I know I'll need to. X3
It's megaupload (and large, like 400 megabytes), hope that's okay.
Sorry for like...liveblogging all over you journal here but I love it when artists do this kinda thing. it helps me get a grip on techniques and methods I'm dying to get into.
The only real problem I have with PS now is the fact that it's such a resource hog. I don't have the best computer and I've gotten so much love from Paint Tool SAI that I can't see myself using anything else to do art from start to finish.
But then there's folks like you that are doing things in PS that I can't grasp well enough in itself, let alone trying to translating it to a different program. Frustrating to say the least, y'know?
I've actually tried sai out and didn't like it that well. It auto-blends kinda, and I like having more control over my manual settings. But it's also just weird like what you're saying, 'cause it's a different program that I'm not used it.
I usually just use it for lines, cause....um...yeah, Photoshop sucks dicks at lines.....
I think the hardest program to use/get used to is painter o.O oh man, anytime I've tried it it's just ended in woeful frustration and poor results, so kudos to people that use it.
I mainly like photoshop cause I can paint in it, control everything and it's also inherently a photo-manipulation program. So I can do so many things in it all in one place. Like curves and levels and channels and stuff, in addition to a mix of vector and bitmap tools. I can put halftones in, etc. I like that I can do all that without having to use six different programs o.O
The amount of time I spend fiddling with sliders and stuff in the program actually causes me these problems and breaks my stride. It just ruins my flow and it bothers me.
Here's the thing though. Back when I first started I was a wiz at PS. I knew where everything was and how most of it worked. But this was back in the days of 7 and CS. Nowadays it's so glorified I can't keep up with all it can do and I'm stuck trying to wade through all the new shit it's trying to do to get to what I want. It just became more trouble than it was worth.
I tried Corel once. Never again. |D
I get this vibe that you might know what you're doing with actual paint and such things. Since you can handle all this shape and value work, I have a feeling you're just well-verse in the stricter methods of actual "painting" more than linework based things. I've been a fan of digital painting for a large portion of my life but I can't seem to pin down anything that works well enough for me. I have a decent grasp of value and lighting but when I take lines out of the equation things get lost and my direction is scatter all over the picture and I end up petting so many little things death. It's just hell. |D But I wanna do it sooooo baaaaaaad.
It works pretty well for me, though I haven't looked for a better system XD
I would suggest just keep trying. I do actually have a fine art (not a digital) background, which helps probably, but there are a lot of awesome painters out there that only paint digitally,
Actual paint is a very different beast, and isn't nearly as forgiving. Man, haha when you're painting with watercolor you WISH there was a CTRL-Z XD
Lines can be a great aesthetic if that's the look you're going for, and I like pictures and paintings with linework but being able to paint without them is pretty helpful 'cause in that way they can be kind of a crutch as some images work better lineless and if you can only paint with lines you'll be more limited in your tools available to you for artistic output.
The trouble is lines are safe, we grew up coloring inside them so it's very natural to 'see' lines where they don't actually exist. Lines don't exist in value. So, it's helpful to just practice not using them sometimes as to build up a better understanding of value. Lines can be 'suggested' where areas of value meet together, usually in high contrast.
It may be helpful to do what I did in this video, where I started with a sketch, then, I set it at a really low opacity on it's on layer, and once I got enough information down I started erasing the linework and building up in value instead.
I personally don't think working with acutal paint or know how to paint traditionally is the 'secret' to knowing how to paint digitally. As I said, there are artists who paint exculsively digitally and produce fantastic work. If you push you're self to really hone down on understand value, lighting and color it won't matter what medium you're using. Photographers that learn how to draw take better photos because they learn these things. All mediums build off the same concepts and just implement them with different tools and marks. So, I'd suggest focusing on the underlying concepts rather than worrying too much about what medium you're using.
Wow, that was a bit verbose (I talk too much) SORRY XD
I see your point. Maybe I should just buckle down on some projects when I get the freedom to. Thanks again for all this advice. You're a great inspiration to me and I appreciate it.
And no problem, man! Glad I could help!
CTRL-Z - undo
b - brush
e - eraser
x - toggles the fore and background colors
g - paint bucket
v - mouse cursor
CRTL-S - FUKKEN SAVED
w - WAND *3* (insert a hp joke here)
Ya.....I can be kinda slow jumping on tehnology bandwagons :/