Sijun Forums :: View topic - How the heck are those brilliant pics are made???

Sebastian Fischer · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 2:03 am

hi there!
oh man, i just looked through the finished work gallery and i was REALLY impressed what jewels there are!!!

But because i�m a real newbie, I implore for help!

does anybody of you can give my general tips about drawing, e.g. what I do first when I want to make a cool picture or so? Or some tutorials where I can be teached the real cool way of digipainting

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Sebastian

StrangeFate · member Member # Joined: 20 Feb 2000 Posts: 199

Wrong forum.

Look for tuts here http://www.sumaleth.com/links/

Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:39 am

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mannela · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:41 am

I think the key for learning is definitely practise, including studying techniques and such.
I know there are lots of tutorials for digital painting but here's a couple of sites I think are nice for a beginner: http://www.ice.org - a few nice painting tutorials http://www.portrait-artist.org - a must for someone interested in drawing portraits

AndyT · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:58 am

I did already reply in that other tread

Unfortunately there are no tutorials that explain the creation of eye candy all the way

Right, you asked for tutorials...
Wetcanvas Tutorial

Fafnir · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:45 pm

real cool way of digipainting? hmm.
draw, experiment, and you'll have a real cool way sooner or later.

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

its all genetic. if you can't do it already, you'll never be able to.

Daniel Chou · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:16 pm

Oh OH! His falling into the trap of digital painting.
Hey don't ever start painting in digital untill you have moderate knowledge of painting in traditional medium. Such as oil and acrylics, even charcole would help.
best to start drawing stuff from life. TO begin to draw good you need to practice to "see". NEVER EVER copy line art of others, by doing that you just reproduce the drawing, you will never get good at inventing your own character or figure.
Take life reference, or even draw someone from real life. This will practice your brain at trasnfering real life 3d image into 2d on paper, good luck!

faB · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 1:46 pm

Buy a scanner, any cheap scanner should be good enough to get started. Learn and improve your drawing skills with pencil and paper. Check out the Loomis books at fineart.sk

Every once in a while whenever you made a pencil sketch that isnt too bad and you like, then 'allow' yourself some fun and try some digital painting : scan the pencils, touch/clean them up in photoshop or painter and learn different ways of coloring them.

The easiest way to get started with digital painting I bet is to color the comic way. Make your lines dark, keep them and just 'color'. Experiment with gradients, lasso selections etc. When you are more experienced try to paint over the lines. Learn about shadows, highlights, values, and finally color..

You want to create a good pencil to paint it, and the reverse is also true, while painting you sometimes wish you were more skilled to create something better for painting.

I think it's a great way to aim for digital artwork skills. I mean you improve your skills with the pencil, the 'traditional way' and you can improve your digital painting skills along the way.

Give it a year or 2 or 3...

It's all motivation and hard work

bearsclover · member Member # Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 274

quote:
Originally posted by edible snowman:
its all genetic. if you can't do it already, you'll never be able to.

That is SO not true.

Sure, talent helps, talent is important. But to be really good at something, you have to work hard and practice. I've never encountered someone who was just "genetically" good at art, without having put some great effort into it. I'm sure such people exist, but they are rare.

I was not "genetically" good at pottery (I was the worst in my class) but I decided I'd compensate for my lack of talent by practicing much harder than anyone else. And sure enough, I got better. So much better, in fact, that my pottery got into galleries and art shows. People see my pottery now and cannot imagine that I sucked at pottery SO bad when I first started. I ended up being better than some of the people who showed more "talent" than me in the beginning, because I worked at improving my pottery, and they didn't. They kicked back and did nothing, because they figured that being "talented" was enough.

The same thing applies for art, or for many other things. Talent is important in its own way, but sometimes it is buried deep inside you, and only through struggle and hard work do you bring it out.

Hey! Mannela! Thanks for mentioning my portrait art site!

I always appreciate links!