[Klovese]

Hey y'all......erm.....here's a question for ya:
I've been surfing around the net...and lookin' at different artists' sites (Especially Julie Dillon's works...bafflingly good!). I've noticed that alot of these smashing artists are using Photoshop and making compositions that look more like something out of painter...i've currently got a copy of Photoshop7 and a Wacom Graphix tablet (one of the small ones: a Graphire2 i think)...I was just curious...do any of you know how exactly you can do stuff like that in Photoshop!? I figured that since Julie sometimes visits these forums (or so i've heard), she might be so kind as to lend me some help...i would VERY MUCH appreciate any! thanks!
PS- JULIE (if you DO read this post) Sorry to single you out...YOUR WORKS ARE JUST SO DAZZLINGLY AMAZINGLY GOOD! Just using your artowrk as an example..........i'm just too chicken to actually email you and ask for help...cause i'm stupid like that.... Meh...what can I say...i'm just a 16 year old fanboy....

Thanks all!
Klovese

[ October 27, 2002: Message edited by: Klovese ]

[Light]

Thanks for the link. Nice artworks. But what you are asking is very simple in one respect and very difficult to accomplish in another.

You must first realize there is only light and dark. The arrangement and qualities of this creates what we see.

More practically the computer can only display pixels which are colored dots.

Now, if you were to paint on a canvas then you might get a type of pattern of lights and darks that you might then call texture.

And, this is created by the way the material collects paints and possibly the light and shade of that material.

But, still it is just lights and darks.

The question is how to create this pattern of lights and darks?

One option is to use a real media program like painter which trys to mimick the 3d qualities of real art materials (and fails in my opinion).

The benefit of using this option is that textures can be created very quickly if one knows what one is doing.

Or one can use a program like Photoshop. Photoshop is nice for painting in that it is very simple to create some basic shades and patterns. Also it possible to achieve anything photoshop because one has a high degree of control.

Basically, most mediums can accomplish what any other medium or technique can accomplish but some are more suited to certain styles.

For example, it is possible to make an oil painting look like a 3d computer rendered scene. Likewise it is possible for a rendering to look like an oil painting and for a digital painting to look like a real painting etc etc etc. The digital medium is the most versatile.

Btw most artist use Photoshop because it is easier to get what one desires most of the time and painter is better at sketching. But the newest improvement in Photoshop help in this area too.

If you want more help then you need to be more specific. There are many techniques for achieving good results and many tutorials. But basically painting is a process of laying down lights and darks and refining this until you have what you want..