[Mon]

Hey guys,

I did a speedpainting and recorded it with time compression:



You can check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRs0cSymOUg
or if you go to my website:
http://www.mattiassnygg.com/tutorials/tut4.htm

Hope you like it!

Also, a couple of recent sketches:









Hope you like them
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[Tomasis]

Wow I like them all much. it is real art show here. so you use photoshop now? interesting.. it must be some reasons for using this. I wanna hear about them.

thanks for sharing the painting demo. very appreciated!

[Tinusch]

I've been itching to see your process for a long time now.. Awesome video, it's pretty incredible to see your work develop. Although I'm still wondering how the hell you do it.

[Sampster]

Thanks a million, that's a really cool video.

I also liked how you flipped it multiple times (I don't know if you did that because of personal preference but I'm assuming it was to help you pick out weird spots and/or mistakes), I might incorporate that into my stuff.

I have a question though, about the texture stuff. I only have Painter IX so I can't paint into texture with photoshop, but if I took a photo of texture and were to paste it in and turn the opacity way down would that give me the same effect?

That's not cheating is it?....

But thanks for this video, I love getting windows into people's painting process.

[the_insider]

that was boody awesome...thanks for that...at first glance it looked like lots of painter was used
what were those sudden celery green big airbrushes that appeared?
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[Max]

Great video Mon, I really enjoyed watching it. Nice paintings too! - very inspiring!

[Ranath]

wow, very nice work man...

[jmarkey77]

Holy cow, the painting video shows me just how far I have to go! Very nice indeed.

[Nag]

Very nice video Mon.. Always fun to see how others work.

[Lunatique]

Great use of textures on these! I used to think using custom brushes is the "right" way to do it, but in reality, no custom brush(s) will give you the organic intricacies of a photo texture, with all the color variations.

[jfrancis]

really cool

[notic]

i really like this new style of yours, the light looks very convincing(as in real)
is it a mix of photos and paint?

gonna watch that video as well, slow connection at work unfortunately..

[Mon]

Cheers you guys.

Tomasis, thanks man. I kind of difted off toward more Photoshop through work actually.. It just makes more sense from a practical standpoint to use PS for all its nifty functionality, speeds up the process to use "shortcuts" with textures, layers, effects etc. I still use Painter (that portrait is both PS and Painter), but now it's mostly for getting the piece started. It usually end up in PS after a while

Sampster, go here for free and awesome textures: http://mayang.com/textures/ Cheating? That word is meaningless to me. You can be dishonest with your methods, if for example you take a picture of a pretty girl, smudge on top of it and add a couple of butterflies and call it "painting". That's lying, and it's dishonest. It's not cheating tho. In the end it's only the picture that matters, and if you get something out of it or not. Thanks for raising the question

the_insider, that's the Quickmask (i set mine to green, because the default red doesn't show up that well on my (often) very warm-toned pieces). Quickmask saves my life every day.

Lunatique, I think you're right. It can add a level of chaos to a piece that let you take it one step further. Unpredictability is something you have to introduce yourself on the computer

Thanks,
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[neff]

hehe, and i thought i'm the only one who'S cheating arround with thousands of layers and textures
good to see you're using the same tools
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[Max]

I am definately with Mon concerning this "cheating" thing. Everything is allowed, you just have to be honest about your progress.
Some textures won't make a bad pic better anyway...

Hope to see more from you Mon! Your recent stuff is really cool!

[Naeem]

yep. i agree with mon. and awesome post by the way. thanks for sharing!

as for the cheating. i dont think it's cheating. if it helps ya- great. but i do believe that if you're still a beginning learner, who's learning how to work with color and values... that you do not try all that just now, as that will hinder your actual ability to be independent of all that.
i dont find it cheating for the pros at all, or the experienced people, as they've done their basic learning, and now they can implement new things to form it into a technique.

just my two cents.

nice work again, Mon. thanks for posting!

[Mon]

Valentine's day special:



Cheating, all of it
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[Novacaptain]

snyggt gjort, snygg
I love this, the stone material is there, so believably! I really dig the focal effect too.
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[kalakal]

I like them all, but the pigmen really hits me groin.
I agree with you all about 'the cheating'. It all comes down to ho is behind the stairing wheel..
Cant you do a demo when you do one of those character illustrations?

[Sampster]

Wow!

Thanks for that texture website, it's amazing.

Nice valentines paint too

[daryl]

hey man, really nice stuff. I see a lot more texture work going on in the PS stuff you do, and I can see in a production where time is money that PS work better. And I know you're experimenting and all, but have you in a sense abandoned your "let paint be paint" attitude now? I can't see much of the painterly style you have had up until now (aside from the face- suggesting painting) and I miss it, because it rocked. Don't get me wrong, they look great. But as with a lot of art heavy on textures I don't feel the warmth I usually do from work with trace/mark/print from the artist.
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[Mon]

kalakal, I'll see if i get around to it =) Thanks.

Sampster, hey no problem, have fun with it!

DARYL, thanks. That's a very valid objection that you bring up here, and I coudn't agree more with you. This treatment tends to drift toward the academic and "cold" (tho that's saying nothing about the subject matter, which still can be anything). I'm not abandoning the old way of working! In fact I have a couple of pictures in the works right now that go more into that than much of my previous stuff. Hopefully these methods will feed off of eachother and something new (and better?) will emerge.

Cheers guys!
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[octavian]

really awesome mon, thanks.

I was wondering if there was a way to have the actual video in another format so I could download it and play it at a bit slower speed. Kind of hard to see what your doing at times. For instance I wasn't sure what you did at that part where you can see multiple "hued" versions of your painting, like one said "green version" or something....then you selected it? it might be a valuable trick in ps that I don't know yet....

well anyway, thanks a bunch!

[Misc]

Thanks for posting this, very helpful! It's interesting to see how much you intentionally vary your brushes and pretty much everything else that can be varied, and what great results can come out of it. Keep up the experimenting!

[daryl]

Mon, sounds comforting enough. looking forward to it!
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[retro]

octavian:

i guess this is what you're looking for?

http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=academy&article=033103

[octavian]

Retro: that IS what I was looking for. Thanks!