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This is a set of close-up/detail shots from "I Dreamt I Was a Sailor".
This is basically my first digital "painting". I also have little experience with traditional painting. It was done entirely in Photoshop CS2 save for the line drawing. All critique is welcome, technical and otherwise. If you have a favorite resource, be it a website, book, artist, anything that has helped you mature as a digital painter/artist with tips, tricks, or tutorials, free or for sale, please let me know. I hunger to learn more. One thing I am especially interested in is learning to customize/create brushes.
Concept:
On the surface level, it is an illustration of a dream. A child sets sail for the high seas and encounters a giant foe. The confrontation is heroic, daunting, and exhilarating.
On a little deeper level, it is about the conflict between youth and adulthood. Our youthful idealism, dreams, and perceptions versus the many armed beast that is reality and the future. Relationships, careers, education, peers, society, doubt, struggle, and pessimism by nature and by force change the qualities of youth as we grow. Many of these changes are beautiful and can better us as individuals. However, they can also make us lose sight of, undermine, and weaken the things we hold dear. There is more, but I will leave the rest up to you.
Full image is here: [link]
Wallpaper is here: [link]
This is basically my first digital "painting". I also have little experience with traditional painting. It was done entirely in Photoshop CS2 save for the line drawing. All critique is welcome, technical and otherwise. If you have a favorite resource, be it a website, book, artist, anything that has helped you mature as a digital painter/artist with tips, tricks, or tutorials, free or for sale, please let me know. I hunger to learn more. One thing I am especially interested in is learning to customize/create brushes.
Concept:
On the surface level, it is an illustration of a dream. A child sets sail for the high seas and encounters a giant foe. The confrontation is heroic, daunting, and exhilarating.
On a little deeper level, it is about the conflict between youth and adulthood. Our youthful idealism, dreams, and perceptions versus the many armed beast that is reality and the future. Relationships, careers, education, peers, society, doubt, struggle, and pessimism by nature and by force change the qualities of youth as we grow. Many of these changes are beautiful and can better us as individuals. However, they can also make us lose sight of, undermine, and weaken the things we hold dear. There is more, but I will leave the rest up to you.
Full image is here: [link]
Wallpaper is here: [link]
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720x1901px 1.17 MB
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I like this a lot, both the concept and the use of colors. It's very well done for someone who claims to not have a lot of experience painting.
The only tips I'd really have is to never think of the program as anything more than a tool, a different kind of pen or brush. Don't ever rely on the program itself to do anything you envision. Also feel free to use more than one program. I used Photoshop for a long time before realizing that Illustrator was a better program given my techniques.
One tip to giving digital paintings a real "wow" factor is to try to imitate traditional media and that includes the colors. Also make sure you're using "legal" colors (hit ctrl+Y to check the colors). Sometimes at the end I add a layer of all white set to "Color" with an opacity of about 10-25% to desaturate the colors and make them more harmonious. Just make sure that layer is above everything but the border.
As for sites there're a lot. I'll list them:
Conceptart.org (Amazing inspiration)
Bittbox.com (great tips and tricks for Illustrator and a few for PS)
Good-Tutorials.com (good for tuts but don't rely on them too much)
Spectrum (You'll find the Spectrum books in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy oversized books section of your bookstore. There's a new one each year, it's the best fantastical illustration of the year)
Google.com (to find anything else you may need)
Hope that helps, feel free to ask me anymore questions, either on DA or e-mail me at UndeniableLogic@gmail.com
Good job!
The only tips I'd really have is to never think of the program as anything more than a tool, a different kind of pen or brush. Don't ever rely on the program itself to do anything you envision. Also feel free to use more than one program. I used Photoshop for a long time before realizing that Illustrator was a better program given my techniques.
One tip to giving digital paintings a real "wow" factor is to try to imitate traditional media and that includes the colors. Also make sure you're using "legal" colors (hit ctrl+Y to check the colors). Sometimes at the end I add a layer of all white set to "Color" with an opacity of about 10-25% to desaturate the colors and make them more harmonious. Just make sure that layer is above everything but the border.
As for sites there're a lot. I'll list them:
Conceptart.org (Amazing inspiration)
Bittbox.com (great tips and tricks for Illustrator and a few for PS)
Good-Tutorials.com (good for tuts but don't rely on them too much)
Spectrum (You'll find the Spectrum books in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy oversized books section of your bookstore. There's a new one each year, it's the best fantastical illustration of the year)
Google.com (to find anything else you may need)
Hope that helps, feel free to ask me anymore questions, either on DA or e-mail me at UndeniableLogic@gmail.com
Good job!