OvalBrush - Digital Art Blog

Visit my new design site!

2011-01-21T22:15:00.000-08:00

VISIT MY NEW SITE

www.paintpencilpixels.com

FanArt Sketch

2009-07-17T21:38:00.000-07:00

Jeff Buckley Sketch

2009-07-14T16:02:00.000-07:00

I've decided to either warp the head or jaw on my future portraits... You can see the head is expanded on this one of Jeff.

I used the standard photoshop HARDBRUSH on 9px at 8% opacity using black to sketch this out and then 20px to color in the dark areas and 7 px for the edges which I made dark...

Thanks, Ovalbrush - Neopod.net

inking in photoshop

2009-01-18T19:08:00.000-08:00

A tutorial site:www.farlowstudios.com

Army Bird

2009-01-18T01:31:00.000-08:00

Halo

2009-01-18T01:30:00.000-08:00

Hellboy

2009-01-18T01:27:00.000-08:00

How to sketch a girl

2009-01-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

Fish Painting

2009-01-18T01:13:00.000-08:00

This is a fish done for my other gallery on deviantart.com at http://yipdidoda.deviantart.com

Manga Girls Body

2008-08-14T02:16:00.001-07:00

Hand drawn 6B pencil for 'inks'

sketchbook 01

2008-08-11T06:37:00.000-07:00

Party dude...

2008-08-11T04:55:00.000-07:00

So Serious...

2008-08-09T15:13:00.001-07:00

CHRISTIAN BALE from The Dark Knight.

Artrage Final

2008-08-09T11:52:00.001-07:00

Used the 'squeeze paint' tool in Artrage and then spread it around with the pallate knife to increase color, fix facial details and give real paint look. Then taken back into Photoshop to blend with 30% opacity 30%flow brush at 70% hardness.

Yay ArtRage... An under-rated tool

Artrage Sketch

2008-08-09T10:15:00.001-07:00

Must remember to practice sketching as well as painting... (Artrage sketch) - Chalk sketch - then paints in Photoshop... Then back into ArtRage for pencils

vector style

2008-08-08T17:55:00.001-07:00

Colored with simple vectors on hardlight layer over top.

shadow/highlight filter...

2008-08-08T15:37:00.000-07:00

Copied final image onto new layer as multipy to make very dark and then applied shadow/highlight filter to bring out brushstrokes.... Also applied heavy unsharp mark to bring out strokes further. No Color as I plan on practicing with value more before worrying about adding color.

overlay / multiply colors

2008-08-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

This image was painted mainly in Photoshop using a new method I've found of painting base colors on a overlay layer and then adding simple colors on a multiply layer over the top. Then I paint at 70% opacity on a normal layer to establish my blocks of color.

charcole stick

2008-07-27T06:46:00.000-07:00

Used same style as street artist that painted dewi below... Used a charcole stick and 2b charcole pencil... Photoshop and Painter for colors.

Street artist draws Dewi

2008-07-11T10:38:00.000-07:00

A real media charcole drawing of my gf Dewi by some talented guy named Johnny in my city.... (Oh to be able to draw like this would be grand...)

Multiply/Screen & Painter

2008-07-10T18:06:00.000-07:00

Using a couple of 'water color' multiply layers of color on 100% and a white screen layer in photoshop and smoothing with acrylic brush in Painter can improve your painting.

Just Photoshop

2008-07-10T16:43:00.000-07:00

Just painted in Photoshop, painted in the same way as the 'Bass Fish' with 35% opacity and 35% flow - Gives a nice thick layer of paint.

Digital Painting Tute 01

2008-07-09T21:32:00.002-07:00

Water Paints

2008-07-09T19:23:00.000-07:00

Painted all in Photoshop with around 6 'multiply layers' of paint at 100% opacity to create watercolor effect

Bass Fish

2008-07-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

Painted all in Photoshop with slow blending of color by painting (no smudge)

Fat Thug

2008-07-09T16:57:00.000-07:00

Photoshop Paints/Sketch only - Then smudged - taken into Painter for acrylics and then back to Photoshop for color.

Firm Chin

2008-07-09T06:32:00.000-07:00

Ariel

2008-07-07T17:23:00.001-07:00

Used color burn layer to add color to sketch fast

R2 Droid

2008-07-07T00:35:00.000-07:00

Sketched lines in Flash...

Then background texture added and merged with lines in Photoshop...

Then sketched in dark brown pencil in Alias Sketchbook...

Then painted with acrylic drybrush in Painter...

Final paints done in Photoshop.

(You can find all the above programs for PC and Mac)

R2D2 robot droid.

Leia slips R2-D2 a disc containing a distress message and the plans for the Death Star battle station. Once again on the planet Tatooine, R2 and C-3PO are abducted by Jawas and bought by Owen Lars, adoptive uncle of Luke Skywalker. Luke discovers a part of the hidden message but does not act on it, and R2 escapes on his own to seek out Obi-Wan Kenobi. Soon Luke is forced to leave Tatooine with Obi-Wan, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, and they attempt to deliver R2-D2 to the Rebel Alliance. Along the way, they are captured by the Death Star, but eventually rescue Leia and escape.

Stuart Little 2 Birdy

2008-07-05T06:24:00.000-07:00

Painted in Photoshop with small amount of work done in Painter with acrylic dry brush.

Old Man

2008-07-03T03:52:00.000-07:00

ArtRage

2008-07-02T23:35:00.000-07:00

Sketched in ArtRage... Background added in Photoshop

Ant Love's Flowers

2008-06-30T01:45:00.001-07:00

Photoshop Brush Settings

2008-06-29T20:48:00.001-07:00

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

ArtRage Drawing

2008-06-29T18:27:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-29T15:02:00.001-07:00

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.

Download Sites

2008-06-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.Avun.com

http://www.loadevery.com

http://www.gappon.com

http://www.shareminer.com

http://www.rapidlibary.com

http://www.amaderforum.com

http://www.blogcatalog.com

RapidShare & Netfolder

2008-06-28T08:32:00.000-07:00

If you decide to pay for a Rapidshare.com or Netfolder.in account you can find links on Google by searching for "whatyouwant hostingcode" for example "shareware http://rapidshare.com/files/" - don't include the ""

Here are some more codes for you

http://rapidshare.com/users/

http://rapidshare.com/files/

http://netfolder.in/folder.php?folder_id=

http://netload.in/datei

One Click Downloads

2008-06-28T08:25:00.000-07:00

Rapidshare.com is the best 1 click download site if you are happy to pay the $10 or $12 each month for multiple downloads.

However, if you don't have a RS account you can always use Google to find and download large files (over 500mb) This means you don't have to worry about download limits... yay.

Simply search google for "whatyouwant hostingcode" for example "shareware http://adrive.com/public/" - don't include the ""

adrive.com is new but is growing fast and allows one click multiple downloads for free.

Here are some hosting codes for you

http://sharedzilla.com/en/get?id=

http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=

http://adrive.com/public/

http://www.eatlime.com/

statue study

2008-06-27T12:46:00.000-07:00

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

50s Man

2008-06-27T09:30:00.001-07:00

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

2008-06-27T04:10:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-25T10:01:00.000-07:00

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

Breaking Ice...

2008-06-24T12:05:00.000-07:00

Painter Final

2008-06-24T08:39:00.001-07:00

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

Pretty Face

2008-06-24T07:06:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-06-23T10:20:00.001-07:00

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

Adding Color

2008-06-22T19:42:00.001-07:00

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

2008-06-22T16:58:00.000-07:00

Kung-Fu Panda

2008-06-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-22T07:44:00.000-07:00

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.