CMIVFX : Photo-realistic Digital Painting with Kyle Lambert
1 hour 7 mins | Video: AVC (.mp4) h264 1024*576 12fps | Audio: AAC 48Khz 2ch | 181MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Kyle Lambert is an extraordinary artist who has become an advocate for finger painting with the iPad. He focuses on photo-realistic digital painting and illustration.
PAINTING ESSENTIALS
Discover how to set up Adobe Photoshop ready to use as a digital artist. Explore the preferences, settings and various aspects of the applications interface that are crucial when painting. Learn the significance of using a graphics tablet when painting digitally and explore the settings for the paint brushes including those that relate to using the graphics tablet. Learn how to set up your working environment to display the original photograph side by side with a blank canvas of the correct size.
ACCURATE DRAWING
Explore a few new techniques to help you draw more accurately. Lear n how a technique called -negative space- can help you position objects correctly within a painting. Discover some tools within the application that helps to improve accuracy. This will involve the use of a digital grid system and guides to help identify important measurements. Watch at the end as the artist completes the final stages of the drawing so that it is ready to be colored.
ACCURATE COLOR MIXING
Identify ways to simplify the process of mixing color in Adobe Photoshop. Begin by understanding how to use the color selector to discover the shade you need. Then look at using the color panel for making subtle changes to a color. See how to use the swatches panel to save any colors you will need to use again. Finally be guided by the artist as he mixes and paints in the basic colors for the painting project of Kristin Kreuk.
