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Photoshop Brush Settings

These are the brush settings I always use in Photoshop with my Wacom tablet... Yep, I use an oval shaped brush.^_^

ArtRage Drawing

ArtRage drawing based on a sketch by my friend 'Joel Carlo' who's sketchbook was featured in 2DArtist Magazine. You can download his sketchbook from his awesome site: joelcarlo.net

As you can see the 'chalk' tool is selected and was used for this sketch. You can download the ArtRage file if you like the colors... Here:ArtRage File Download

Horton cleans his ears

Bit of a different method this time... started with a normal brush on 0% softness on 14% opacity and then moved to 48% pretty much for the rest of the painting... Also instead of layering strokes I blocked out the image... adding darker areas and then building up to lighter values. 

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RapidShare & Netfolder

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One Click Downloads

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Or

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statue study

Blocked out ref with cutout filter to help conceptualise values... Cleaned up with conte crayon in Painter

50s Man

found my self switching between the conte crayon and artist oils alot in Painter on this one... Also alot of color adustments/corrections done during the process in both Photoshop and Painter

A Hawaiian Rainbow

When your drawing or painting it's important to feel relaxed... 'A Hawaiian Rainbow' is a free streaming radio station in your itunes radio>international section. Just click the stream and float away to peaceful images of Hawaii.

custom swatches

Custom colors I put together to use for painting skin tones...

Breaking Ice...

Painter Final

Completed painting with conte crayon and broad acrylic brush stokes in Painter X... color correction also applied.

Pretty Face

Read a book on digital painting today with explained that using a mid color 'pattern' with the 'healing brush tool' can be helpful for blending... more effective than the smudge tool.

Anyway I had never used the healing brush tool (a band-aid icon in photoshop) and it worked really nicely.

Also I used the airbrush tool which I never used to use and then redrew the face with color... that worked okay too. (Note to self: Remember 'highlight shadows' selection.)

... Visited city gallery too... Busy day.

Scary...

Modeled in Zbrush in the land of 2 and 1/2 D space and then painted in photoshop.

Adding Color

I used a hard oval brush set to 25% opacity and 45% flow (not using airbrush) on a normal layer of 80% opacity to add color. I used the forbidden smudge tool to spread the paint and make minor fixes.

panda painted

Kung-Fu Panda

This was drawn all in photoshop... shape of panda was changed during sketch process by placing a few guides on both the ref pic and the canvas I was using to create a grid.

Black on white

This method of simply using black on white is one I like more and will stick with in the future... As you can see here (with the colored homer) color is no problem with this style.