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How to Create Action Paintings

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• Creating Sport Paintings

  This is a Sports Painting of my son Tom on the Vernon TWSP NJ football field, created from Photoshop CS and Corel Painter X. using a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet. My process has many small adjustments, too many to list, so I’ll generalize a bit, you’ll get my drift as you go along.

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  - Arlene Higginson

• Mickey Mantle

  American artist Brian Roll takes a little of the old, a little of the new and mixes them together to get this classic Mickey Mantle digital portrait. Based on some of the timeless techniques of comic artists and developed from traditional marker sketching, this tutorial will take you step by step through the process. Cut down on the expenses of traditional techniques and gain the freedom of working digitally. Give your work a different spin and make it stand out from the mainstream digital paintings.

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  - Brian Roll

• The Takedown

  Digital illustration is a less messy and hassle free way to enjoy the leisure’s of traditional illustrations. If you can paint traditionally, the transitioning towards digital media is fairly simple. These are just a few pointers that provides a guide for you in digital painting.

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  - Nicholas Hon You Onn

• Lance Armstrong

  We could simply use Illustrator’s fantastic LiveTrace tool, which mechanically creates vector art from rasterized bitmap images, but I have always received mixed results with that method, and it is better for making quick vectorized background noise rather than actual vector art.

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  - John Peterson

• The Smart Sharpen

  In this tutorial we are going to show you how to take a picture and make it look like it has been painted. You have probably seen this around. I have actually seen this for years and finally decided I wanted to see exactly how it was done. I looked around and found a few different tutorials online, but none of them really satisfied me. So, I kept looking and playing with Photoshop and came up with this way of doing it.

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  - Krist Adams

• Commercial leasing in tough economic times

  The picture you are about to see in the making is an editorial illustration commissioned by Canadian Lawyer magazine about the business of commercial space renting in tough economic times. I wanted to give some kind of ‘gloomy’ mood to the image (deliberately setting it at night) keeping although a colorful side to it, suggesting overall hope and collaboration. This is pretty much a demonstration of my usual working process. I always start with an idea more or less clear at the beginning and all along the creative process refine my concept and experiment as much as possible.

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  - Pierre-Paul Pariseau

• Geisha – a little asia in illustration

  I fell in love with Asian culture and creating illustrations with a little feel of Asia is great pleasure to me. Being mainly digital painter doesn’t mean I don’t like to make images in a little different style and this tutorial is going to show my other method. I’ll show you how to blend different images to get the result of seamless texture, how to use blending modes, how to color clean linearts and generally how to achieve this bright, calm image that will make the viewer look at it with pleasure.
  Tools used – Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop 7.0 and Genius PenSketch A4 tablet.

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  - Olga Dąbrowska

• Painting Photoshop Hair with Style

  Many people believe painting hair is one of the most difficult things to achieve on a character. On the contrary, hair can be quite easy with the right techniques. This tutorial is one of many ways to create hair with style and speed, giving your character motion and elegance. Once you build a foundation, you will be able to develop your own style and adjust the realism or style of the hair or even character you just painted.

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  - Amir Salehi

• Vincent

  As much as I enjoy painting characters straight from my head, I feel the need to pay tribute to my favorite games, films and from time-to-time, I make fan art. This one, a portrait of Final Fantasy VII character, Vincent Valentine (Square Enix) is such an example of a painting for sheer pleasure, not thinking of the composition as it is shown in the movie screen shot, colors – as they are similar to original character’s and in fact it is simple and fun to practice digital painting techniques.

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  - Olga Dąbrowska

• Heroes and Villains

  I began working on the project initially as a brief set by a client. It was very simple – to create a comic book type style poster to advertise a companies annual event. The client wanted a strong, dynamic composition with space allocated for the event information.

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  - Ian Thompson

• Rhino painting

  The purpose of this quick step-by-step tutorial is to shows you that with four or five tools in Photoshop, you can make cool paintings – almost 3D like. I am going to use some layers, two default brushes, three basic scales of the gray, the gradient tool and some easy layer effects. Let’s start by making a new project, at 300 dpi, 29cm x 20cm in size.

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  - Nico Di Mattita

• Retro Wrap!

  Using gift wrap to enhance a retro flavor snap shot and the soft round brush to create a polished airbrush commercial appeal reminiscent of the sixties. Have you ever sat and stared at the snap shot on your computer and knew you had something worthy of creating a great portrait with but there was something missing? Sometimes it is something as simple as the background that can make or break the portrait that you are wondering what to do with. Not every photographer has a vast array of expensive back drops and backgrounds in their studio and perhaps you don’t even have a studio. Well, this is where Photoshop comes to the rescue once again! If you look around your house you will be surprised at the many patterns and designs you will find just begging to be used in your next digital art creation! Walk around and check out your curtains, shower curtain, gift bags and gift wrap. The design I will be using for the background in “Retro Wrap” is from a sheet of gift wrap found at my local dollar store. (please keep in mind when using purchased designs that the non de-script ‘generic’ patterns are ok to use, but stay away from unique artist renditions that may carry a copyright) Now that you know what you need, lets get started!

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  - Susi Lawson

• Painting picture

  In this tutorial we will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin.

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  - Mariusz Karasiewicz

• Tips & Tricks from Bert Monroy

  The addition of powerful 3D features to Photoshop CS4 has opened the door to an entire new world that most Photoshop Users did not venture into before. True, 3D applications have been around for a while, but they usually are accompanied by a high cost and a steep learning curve. Though not as powerful as some of these apps may be, the 3D functions in Photoshop offer enough power and flexibility to turn any casual user into a 3D expert.

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  - Bert Monroy