Haven't uploaded anything here or anywhere in three weeks. That's not good. But I haven't really been inspired by much or motivated or whatever. Also had some good friends over for about a week from Boston which was nice. Was reading a book on Lautrec this morning and thought about trying to make PS function in his style of 'cross-hatched' oil paint. Scanning in the back of the drawing pad really helped, I think. Kept the pencil sketch layer in there as he seems to have done a lot of drawing, too. I didn't nail it, partially as I abstracted the form so much and hell, I'm no Lautrec but it was fun to do and I really should be creating more. My goal of having more posts each year in this blog won't happen if I don't make things. So, this.
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I never would have thought this was PS. Your stuff always looks so natural it makes me extra jealous. I have been trying corel paint but couldn't get the hang of it, I know it can give a very "real paint" look and sketchbook pro for drawing and digital ink which I do seem to get the hang of. My photoshop stuff always seems artificial. I have no time for anything.. in fact I delete more photos off flickr than I put on!
There's a guy named Kyle Webster who makes PS brushes. This particular one isn't that special, it's just a lush 'oil' brush. I think what makes it look a lot more 'real' is the fact that I have a real pencil sketch as well as a scanned bit of cardboard underneath the digital painting. Lautrec used very thinned paint to achieve his look so I turned the opacity down on the brush to about 50%. I think PS especially looks more 'real' when paired with some kind of real element is paired with the purely digital side of things. Some programs do have brushes that have built in 'brushstrokes' with their media. I think those might actually work worse. Dunno. I barely use them. I think when I get something that looks 'real,' it's a 'happy accident.' Sorry you have so little time these days. I hear from other friends who do art for a living that when they come home, they generally want to do anything BUT art with their free time, which sucks.
I think I have some of his, or you told me about him before. I am sure it has more to do with your talent and less the brushes. I can never get that brush pressure looking real... despite the claims of Wacom tablet. You just can't get that varying line you can get with a real brush. At least not yet.
Little time, but the new iMac is on the way.. not the new 4k one but a the model before. I am guessing the new 4k screen is lovely, but i need speed over the screen this time. The regular LED screens are pretty sweet as it is.
I can't digital ink to look like real ink, though lots of people can. In this case, I really did nothing special. I seriously think it has a lot to do with the real cardboard background and even the brighter colors used over it. I find it more awkward to paint and ink this way but some folks are masters at it. Practice, I guess.
I have the iMac you're getting and I love it just fine. The new ones look amazing. I can't justify a new one as this one's only a couple years old. Besides, I'm betting I can't even run the new OS with my older Adobe products, so a new machine might really be a deal breaker for me.
I find i can get my style of ink well enough in sketchbook, but not photoshop. So I'm always going back and forth between each. My projects are so random in quality these days... time has a lot to do with it I think. I panic to get things done in the time I have and lose something in the process.
I am getting the 27" 32 gigs of ram with the quad core i7 and the high end graphics card. I can use my current LED monitor as a second screen. It's my hope my rendering times will improve greatly for my 3D work as my old tower was bought in 2009.
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