How To Draw Forest Landscape Background for storyboard or comics This quick conceptual sketch tutorial. How To draw forest landscape background. Draw and paint environmental sketch conceptual art using digital media photoshop. This one has a bit more color than my usual work...for the change trying things out and stuff. It's more vibrant and saturate, could it be the Spring weather? No, it's not even sunny here in Seattle, sadly I am actually trying to do more panel as a tutorial along with the Manga comics...hopefully it will work out and I won't get bored creating the same genre and element. We'll see. Here is final environmental sketch tutorial Forest Escape: Here are step by step still images: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Called it done, :P Watch Video tutorial: Draw and paint Forest New Drawing Video tutorials: - Environmental Concept Granite Beach - Transformers 2 Meagan Fox Speedpainting - Drawing Watchmen Character Silk Spectre - Learn how to draw Watchmen character : Nit...

I just found a really good article today. I thought about it accumulate some thinking write some stuff and thought I would share it with you guys. The line often blur half of the time between being a Concept artist and an illustrator. Good illustration doesn't make it a good concept art piece to solve the puzzle. Likewise, great concept art piece doesn't make it a decent illustration either. So what make them differ? What define concept art? What define Illustration? Concept Artist vs. Illustrator Concept Art define: Concept art is a form of (rough or detail) illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product. Concept art is also referred to as visual development and/or concept design. A concept artist is an individual who generates a visual design for an item, character, or area that does not yet exist. This includes, but is not l...

Kapow Express Chapter 2 page 2.2 :) Sorry, guys. I've been sick on and off for a couple weeks. The weather in Seattle can't decide whether or not it will be Winter, Spring, or Summer...it's been chaotic. And my body can't decide if it's well or not...but I do try to run about 2 miles every morning...that doesn't really help recently with all the flu going around. Apparently I found out the hard way that I am not invincible :) I know it's a bit confusing and it's long been await but I am trying to find the way to compromise between making the tutorial and comics. I've been thinking about making better panel art and make tutorial along with it...which is an interest idea, but then sometimes I feel like doing environment and the panel is about character according to the script...so it get confuse with myself because I usually do the tutorial however I wanted and it's what I feel like doing at the moment. Anyway, I am going to give the idea a sh...

Environmental concept granite beach and light in the sky. Here is a quick environmental concept sketch tutorial I did last night. Like always it's easier to scribble out values sketch before deciding on color, digital or traditional. But digital has more flexibility because when you mess up, you can always go back and do some tweak or paint over. Here is a concept sketch of a beach with some kind of black crystal granite and if you notice closely on the final image, you will see a warlock on top of the big black crystal granite. Here is a final sketch of the environmental concept: Black Crystal Granite Black and white Here are step by step process: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Quick concept sketch Done Watch video tutorial: Environmental concept: Black Crystal Granite **Video is in Process, coming soon*** New Drawing Video tutorials: - Transformers 2 Meagan Fox Speedpainting - Drawing Watchmen Character Silk Spectre - Learn how to draw Watchmen character : Nite Owl - Concept art tutorial Hover...

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Colors vs Value compare for artists .   Artist's tip and technique in digital illustration Here is the definition of value from Munsell Value, or lightness, varies vertically along the color solid, from black (value 0) at the bottom, to white (value 10) at the top. Neutral grays lie along the vertical axis between black and white. Here's an excerpt from what Craig Mullins (Master Painter) says on the matter of values: "Decide what is in light and what is in shadow and don’t mix them up. Think like a comic artist. Two values, but if they are well thought out and designed and drawn they can look totally real. Think like that, but instead of making the light white and the shadow black, make the light a 7 and the shadow a 3. Then go ahead and use 5-10 in the light and 1-3 in the shadow to pull out sub forms. DO NOT use 1-5 in any part of the light, or use 5-10 in any areas of the dark. Keep you edges a little softer in the shadows, a little sharper in the light, yo...

How to draw Wolverine Basic sketch comics style. How to draw sketch this video is very basic construction from start to finish how to for mostly beginners and novices. This process is pretty much how I usually start my sketch to drawing and then could possibly progress into painting over. So this video is very good for beginners if you want to know the easy way to start construct a character, body, face. Here is a final quick basic sketch Wolverine: Here is a step by step still image process: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Here is a video process: Drawing Wolverine New Drawing Video tutorials: - Transformers 2 Meagan Fox Speedpainting - Drawing Watchmen Character Silk Spectre - Learn how to draw Watchmen character : Nite Owl - Concept art tutorial Hovercraft - How to draw man's head basic - Drawing Male Face Swordman - Character Design Face Male Merchant Character Art Tips - Painterly approach in digital painting FEATURE TUTORIALS: - Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I : Female Manga Fusion I - ...

Transition from drawing to painting . A lot of people having a hard time transitioning from drawing into painting. I can really understand because drawing and painting to me use different mentality to execute. * Drawing (verb) is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create an image, form or shape. Mostly using define lines. * The produced image is also called a drawing (noun). A quick, unrefined drawing may be defined as a sketch . In simplistic terms, drawing is distinct from painting, perhaps more so in the Western view. Drawing is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper. The term drawing suggests a process and intent that is distinct from the traditional act of painting. While there are drawings that are finished artworks, drawing is often exploratory, with considerable emphasis on observation, problem solving and composition, often as a means of preparation for a painting. In contrast, traditional painting is often a means of...

Kapow Express Chapter 2 is slowly revealing. :) Here I have the rest of page one and the first two panels of page 2. As you might know these guys are up north in Jilin Province, Mei and the gang are in city of HangZhou (ZheJiang Province). It would probably take a good few days on good row of horses to get there (might be up to almost a week sometimes). Well, enjoy the comics PEACE!!! Here is your Manga Online Kapow Express chapter 2 page 2 Previously: Kapow Express Chapter 2 page 1 Or read them all at kapowexpress.com New Drawing Video tutorials: - Transformers 2 Meagan Fox Speedpainting - Drawing Watchmen Character Silk Spectre - Learn how to draw Watchmen character : Nite Owl - Concept art tutorial Hovercraft - How to draw man's head basic - Drawing Male Face Swordman - Character Design Face Male Merchant Character Art Tips - Painterly approach in digital painting FEATURE TUTORIALS: - Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I : Female Manga Fusion I - Draw and Paint Women Body T...

Painterly approach in painting, illustration, and digital painting Virgil writes: The "painterly" approach was originally an incidental effect most common in sketches and studies, the sole purpose of which was to help the artist solve some of the problems in the execution of a more refined painting. Titian and Rembrandt became more "painterly" in their later years, when deteriorating eyesight may have hidden the irregularities from them (one hypothesis). Franz Hals painted a number of paintings in the sketch style, probably for his own amusement and/or to cover his bar tab or whatever. He was capable of more refined painting, as is evident in most of his more important commissioned portraits, but employed the faster "alla prima" approach for painting more light-hearted subjects; probably his friends or interesting subjects encountered at the tavern, where no one was likely to pose for very long. Bouguereau has been falsely characterized as disguising his b...