Week 4 - Working with textures (part 2)

This week was applying textures to enhance an existing painting. Overall the technique was ok, and there were a few tips that were really good. The results turned out well, and the overall integration of the lessons so far is coming together well.

Off to start the next lesson!

Week 3 - Working with Textures

This week we worked with a single texture to create the value's on the provided sketch.
After a misstep in the process (and a late night to start over and recover) I think this turned out pretty well. The technique shown was something I had never heard of before, which is really saying something with my extensive photoshop experience!

Week 2 - Colorizing Black and White

Week 2 has come and gone. Things are flying and I'm learning a lot of useful information.

This week takes a black and white painting to a finished colored state. Though the technique sounds easy using some built in photoshop goodness (but not what you'd think), it actually ended up being a lot more involved than I though it would. However, the technique presented also gave far better results than any technique I tried before this class.

On a side note, the work coming out of schoolism's caricature class is amazing, and I think I will end up enrolling in that class as well.

Week 1 - Visualizing through darkness

Week 1 - Visualizing through darkness

This was an assignment where we painted over one of Bobby's drawings starting with a very dark base, and slowly layering in light and shadow.

I had trouble with the settings at first, but once I became comfortable I started having a lot more fun.

Overall, I think I did well.

schoolism.com

In my never-ending list of things I want to do, I have finally forced myself to get back into digital art. To jumpstart the learning process, I have enrolled in Bobby Chiu's 9-week digital painting course at schoolism.com.

I wanted to get some kind of blog going to show the work I'm doing, and chronicle my progress in the class.

So far, I really enjoy it, and am feeling some real progress (after a frustrating start)

I'm turning in the first assignment tomorrow, and should have it up here soon with my thoughts on how it went.