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Release Date: 2009-01
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Make a wish
I started this piece by looking at my reference picture and making a really rough digital line drawing. My initial drawing is always rough because I know that with digital painting it isn’t a problem to move or adjust anything. Changing things around isn’t a problem because everything is so flexible with digital art. The beauty of digital painting, for me, is that it knows no boundaries and is always so flexible. It’s a wonderful medium to work with.
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Bad Hair Day
In this tutorial, we will transform a simple portrait into a surreal illustration. I will show you some useful tricks so you will be able to adapt them to any work without an advanced knowledge of Illustrator.
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Kanji girl – from bitmap to vectors
Accessing special fonts, especially asian ones, is sometimes very difficult or impossible. Another barrier in using them is lack of existing font sets of asian symbols. However there are methods of solving these problems. One of them is converting bitmaps to vectors. In this tutorial we will be working on ready made forms, our main goal is to prepare kanji symbols.
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Autumn Painting
Autumn Painting is complete digital painting done using Wacom Tablet and Adobe Photoshop. In this tutorial I would like to teach you how to create a scenery using all the available digital tools. In order to create a believable scenery, it’s important to think about compositing the elements, lighting and materials. In this step by step process, I will show you how this painting was created from scratch.
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From Photo to Canvas
You might say this tutorial isn’t an earth-shattering concept, and you’d actually be right. Looking at it from a realistic point of view, however, when it comes to the transition from a photo to, in this case, an oil painting, there’s a lot to be desired in regards to the hordes of filters we find in today’s major design software packages. I decided to experiment in order to see if I could actually do in cyberspace what I can do on a real canvas. Join me as we plunge headlong into this tutorial, our digital paintbrushes eager as we attempt to attain satisfactory results on our cyber canvases.
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Painting a Portrait Digitally
Painting is always an intimidating activity specially painting a portrait. Anyone that may try to paint a portrait might always be discourage because they might not be able to draw the face correctly . With this tutorial, drawing skill is not a must but patience will be a big factor. You just need to know how to use Pen and Brush tools, have a good pen tablet and we’re ready to go. Let’s try it and have some fun.
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Samoyed Drawing
Have you ever wanted to turn your pet’s picture into a painting? In this tutorial we will show you how to do this using digital tools. It has never been so easy!
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Painitng picture
This step-by-step approach to digital portrait painting using Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter highlights how to paint realistic flesh tones, soulful eyes, hair, and background. I start with a 1500×2300 pixel canvas at 300 dpi. I use the Pantone Solid Coated set of swatches, a couple of layers, and the airbrush using the brush option bar throughout the painting process.
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Michael Jackson painting
This particular painting was the result of many requests from a lot of fans after the sadly loss of the King of Pop. Therefore, I decided to do it as a tribute, and with my “speed painting” way. You can check the whole process at my webpage nicodimattia.com as well as youtube.com/macpulenta
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Goddess of the Evening Star
When beginning a painting, I like to start thinking out a small story for it. This does not need to be a complex story that has a beginning, middle or end, but it needs to have a sense of something being told. A theme, perhaps, which is what was used in this case. Here, a goddess has something she watches over and protects, which is a familiar idea for many people. Wishing on the first star of the evening, she is the one that collects and listens to everyone’s wishes.
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Golden green – rich colors in asian illustration
In this tutorial I will guide you through the process of painting one of my favorite works, Golden green. It started as rough pencil sketch but eventually I left it because I didn’t feel it was best I could do for the theme I imagined – mystical person, neither man, neither woman, in subtly defined bamboo forest, with a flute. This image I had in mind for couple of weeks and it was forming slowly but led me to the concept I now want to share with you. So take your sits, grab your tablets and let’s start.
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Asana
Asana is a relatively fast portrait that took me about two hours to create. In the beginning, I wanted to created a portrait of a fairy that was characteristically thin and intense, which meant creating big eyes, small lips, a nice nose, and blonde hair.
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Something Like Glass
In this tutorial I am going to show you how I created this character in a little manga style. My character is sort of warrior – as you can see by the weapon – but also a sorcerer. I’ll show you how to make image more dynamic than just a simple portrait and also you will learn how to create interesting textures the easy way.
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The City Slicker
I have been working on my newest artwork for almost two years. The complexity of the subject matter coupled with my attention to detail has turned this piece into a massive undertaking. Imagine a one hundred and eighty degree view of New York’s Time Square at night.
Brett Gordon
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