art Basics

[Sean McClain]

Art basics:
Mentee: erinel

first assignment:

start out with just a simple black and white strawberry
drawing, If you have photoshop or painter I would prefer you use that.
Have fun:)

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[erinel]

Alrighty! I will try and do this before work tomorrow in el photoshopo.

And to answer your question, right now my skills in digital painting are very basic, little to no skill in any type of lineless art. My goal here is to learn a more efficient style with better results. I'm defiantly more into illustration, but right now I feel like I need to learn "the conceptart style" just as a basic.

Thanks very much for taking me on!

[erinel]

funny story, I did this WIP on Friday like I said, and then promptly forgot to upload it.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a133/lufiamanaelf/strawberries1.png

here's as far as I've got. took a regular round brush with opacity sensativity and starting blocking on shapes

[Sean McClain]

o.k. nice, looks like you could have gone in with some stronger light tones on the strawberries, good work:).

here is a tutorial for the same bowl of strawberries
start out with a dark tone of grey for an undertone
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now on a new layer make sillhouette of the bowl with black
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now on a new layer go in with a middle grey and mark
out those middle grey values
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now on a new layer go in with a light grey
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lastly on a new layer go in with your lightest value
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when you are done flatten all the layers.

btw do you have corel painter I think you might like it, if you have technical
questions feel free to p.m.

when your done with the tutorial post it and i will give you another asignment:)

[burgessboy.]

didnt see your tutorial until now, but whatevs...

not really satisfied with the final version
http://i311.photobucket.com/albums/kk452/mb-08/eww.jpg

[Sean McClain]

Hi Burgessboy,
pretty good, p.s. or painter?
well it looks like you need to start painting with a bigger brush
and use less opasity, the tutorial I have up would be a good Idea
your welcome to participate in art 101 as well,
you need to go in with lighter values , I hope the paintover helps
:)
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[burgessboy.]

Hey,

I used photoshop elements 4, but I have painter as well. I actually used 100% opacity, so I guess I should change that, haha. Thanks, and I'll give it another go :)

[Sean McClain]

cool man