[Ilyo]

I'm sure most of you know Chris-Mayernik's beautiful landscape picture in the speedpainting thread (this one: http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v72/designnrg222/June-8-2004-landscape.jpg )

before I write him a PM and bug him with newbie questions, I thought maybe someone else could answer this, too.
see the red flowers to the left or the yellow ones on the right. I was wondering how on god's earth he managed to create such a brush. I sat in front of my painter for hours and just couldn't figure out how he did it. My brushes always were too round and not fine enough. could somebody help me out? I think his technique really brings life to the picture. these irregularities on the green mountains really add to the picture!

anyone?

[eyewoo]

Nice landscape....

Looks to me like he used a relatively high resolution and a very small brush, probably set to a mid opacity... and then just spent a lot of time dabbling little bits of color onto the picture.... pretty much the same way a painter using oils would do it...

Doesn't really look like he was using a special brush... other than for the underpainting. For that he might simply have used Photoshops resident granite brush... if he used Photoshop.
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[Nausicaa]

In the smaller ones it seems to me that there is a repeating form, like a "V"...that could be a brush. For the rest, I'm pretty on the side of Eyewoo.
Lot's of patient work.


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[cheney]

He most likely created as Eyewoo explained. He could have also, though unlikely, used a noise selection on different layers using blurring and levels to alter the size and dispersment of the dots. Since this is assumed as a speed painting and there are so many dots it seems filters might be practical it time is saved.
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[Ilyo]

so there's obviously no practical easier way. yack!
thanks for the input, guys!