aug 17 DEMO

[Android]

here is a short demo on the portrait I made last night. it was based on Manleys help. I broke it down to 7 simple steps. i used painter 7 . I made all the strokes with the dry ink brush. this was my first attempt at this technique and I will be practicing it more in the future. hope you get something out of it

anDREW

http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/images/grasaille_demo.jpg

[motorowl]

i thought today about asking you for something like this. and here it is. thank you :) it made things a bit clearer for me.

[Wizard of KOZ]

Thank you... a thousand times thank you :D This will help me so much....Uh one qustion...what brushes do you perfer to use when painting you sp's?

[leroy]

hey! really comprehensive tutorial, i already have ideas to improve my coloring.

it's actually the most important thing i'm studying now.
i hope to learn more as i start art school in september, but this is enough to practice with now.

thanx

[stephen]

awesome, thanks

[stalecracker]

silhouette

proportion


Very cool demo Andrew. Thanks!

[el coro]

reminds me of daniel maffia's work.

[Ryaken]

Another piece of GOLD delivered by none other than.... Andriod!

Thanx my brotha..:D

[Oblio]

:bow:

Thank you friend!
Oblio

P.S. - My brother is walking again! :chug:

[Android]

i hope this helps some of you experiment more with color. My spelling is really bad. I apologize. try to keep the instructions simple and brief so its easier to understand. Jason can go into it with volumes of more depth, this was definately the condensed version. I used this technique for todays portrait as well and I learned alot more the second time through. keep practicing and if it works for you please post your results.

good luck
Android

[taff]

Intresting method, thanks for sharing it with us! :)

[gekitsu]

thank you so much!

ahhh... canned knowledge... this is why i love the internet. where else would i have the chance to get this condensed version by none fewer than andrew jones with the note of asking none fewer than jason manley for indepth information?
awesome!

[keyth]

i'm trying this right now. beginning to loose it. i've never worked this way before so...i guess that's where the frustration is coming from.

[stephen]

post them here?
well i'll just link mine here (http://www.seriks.com/images/umberport2.jpg)

[Smeagol71]

I, like everyone else who visits your posts, am amazed every time I visit. Thanks so much for taking the time to break one of your works down for us. It is truly helpful and gives a lot of us the "nudge out of the door" that we need to progress.

Much appreciated!!

[prismacolor]

Thanks for doing this demo! The condensed versions are the best. Outline form...
You also mentioned trying other colors...which of course got me thinking about what some of the masters did with underpainting... I'm sure Jason has an opinion on this, but to oversimplify -- I was just reminded that El Greco painted flesh tones over black, Van Gogh over white, Rembrandt over brown, Michelangelo over green, David over red, and so on. Having that "underpainting" color show through can be very beautiful. Also, the possibilities of color choices for mood and personal style are infinite (um...I guess I need to get out of the burnt umber underpainting rut.)

(I'd just happened to be reading through Thomas Buechner's great book "How I Paint" where he gets into this... so I'm paraphrasing him above - good stuff. A very worthwhile book)

[velderia]

This is great. I think I know my problem. I add too many values too early.

Thanks so much. I know this is a really old thread but it helps. :)

[Quike Garcia]

Thanks a lot.. I'll try soon :)

[danlucas]

Nice and short, I like that its easy to follow.
Yeah, spelling was really bad, hard to understand
some words. Anyways thanks.